"National Shutdown" Protests Held Across The Country Over Trump Administration's Aggressive ICE Enforcement Activity - In an aerial view, demonstrators spell out an SOS signal of distress on a FROZEN Lake Bde Maka Ska on January 30, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Protesters marched through downtown to protest the deaths of Renee Good on January 7, and Alex Pretti on January 24 by federal immigration agents. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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LESS THAN ZERO DEP'T.
Cold Comfort
FOR MORE THAN one reason, this has been a brutal winter. Now February has arrived, after what felt like nine or 10 weeks' worth of January, but last month's snow remains thick on the ground and as hard as concrete. In honor of the changing month and the unchanging season, and to get full use out of our subscription to Getty Images, Indignity presents our monthly gallery of fully paid-for photographs, this time on the theme of FROZEN.
People attend an outdoor party on a side of the FROZEN Dnipro River in a residential neighbourhood of Kyiv, on January 31, 2026, to lift spirits during mass power outages amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Genya SAVILOV / AFP via Getty Images)Map of the Arctic, 1595. This map speculates that the Arctic consisted of a circular landmass with a lake at its centre, out of which four large rivers flowed. It was not until 1896 that the Arctic was in fact determined to consist of a FROZEN ocean, when Fridtjof Nansen's ship, the Fram, drifted across the Arctic locked in the ice, proving that no continent existed. Creator: Gerardus Mercator. (Photo by Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images)MELROSE, MN. 11/15/2001: Ed Petermeier, 86, made his first snowmobile more than 40 years ago. It was a small, 3-ski contraption that had a top speed of 18 miles per hour. Twenty years later, more than 150 manufacturers vied to sell their own versions of motorized sleds that revolutionized travelling on snow. Today, snowmobiles go faster than many cars. But Petermeier has retained his love for those simple machines. He and sons Ralph and Germain have 40 vintage machines - and a snow plane- that they restore and use. IN THIS PHOTO: Ed Petermeier and son Ralph push their 1960 Mohawk Air Sleigh back into a machine shed. The 3-ski aluminum "plane" (the plane-like body has no wings) was one of five built by Pete Fuchs, who lived in nearby Avon. The 4-seater craft has a 120 hp engine and has been clocked at 90 mph. It's designed for use in wide open, flat spaces, like a snow covered and FROZEN lake.(Photo By DARLENE PFISTER/Star Tribune via Getty Images)Niagara - Ice Mountain and American Fall, late 19th century. [Icicles and FROZEN waterfall along the Canada-United States border]. Albumen print, stereocard. Artist George Barker. (Photo by by Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images)Dog Sledding - A woman leaps from the FROZEN water of a river in the Boundary Waters of Northern Minnesota. December 14, 2001. (Photo by Tim Tadder/Corbis via Getty Images)CIRCA 1754: Capture of the Dutch fleet, FROZEN in at Den Helder, by the French Hussars under General Jean-Charles Pichegru (1761–1804) in January 1795. Engraving. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)WEISCHUETZ, GERMANY: (FILES) Photograph dated 10 December 2002 showing a German worker picking FROZEN grapes to make Eiswein (Ice Wine), in Weischuetz. Eiswein, originated in Franconia, Germany in 1794. Grapes are left on the vines until the first deep frost, and the freeze/thaw cycles that occur concentrates both the sugars and flavors of the grapes. Yearly production does not exceed several hundred liters, with a bottle of Eiswein selling for over 25 Euros. (Photo by SEBASTIAN WILLNOW/DDP/AFP via Getty Images)UNITED KINGDOM - MARCH 09: Painting. Comets are made up of a mixture of FROZEN water and gases and dust, and are relics left over from the formation of the Solar System. Most have highly elliptical orbits which periodically bring them in close to the Sun. When this occurs solar radiation causes material on the surface of a comet's nucleus to evaporate, forming the distinctive tail of material, often millions of kilometers long, which always points away from the Sun. The tail of the comet of 1680 was estimated to be 30,000,000 miles in length. Knowledge of comets dates back to antiquity, and their appearance was often regarded as heralding momentous events. By the late 17th century this was beginning to give way to rational scientific enquiry regarding their origin and behavior. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)DAY TRIPPER : A skater loses his balance on Hohai Lake in Beijing while another man sledges confidently by. Thousands of people flock to Beijing's FROZEN lakes on weekends to enjoy a wide range of winter sports such as ice fishing, skating, to the more unusual kite flying on ice. (Photo by Mark Ralston/South China Morning Post via Getty Images)BOSTON, UNITED STATES: Fans at Fenway Park react to comments made during a tribute to the late Ted WIlliams concerning the battle raging over preserving the body of the baseball great 22 July, 2002 in Boston, Massachusetts. The Williams family is disputing the player's last wishes in his will, some contending that he wanted to be FROZEN after death. Cryonics is the process of freezing the body of a recently deceased person so that in the future the person might be brought back to life upon development of new medical cures. (Photo by JOHN MOTTERN/AFP via Getty Images)
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WE PRESENT INSTRUCTIONS for the assembly of sandwiches selected from Catering for special occasions, with menus & recipes, by Fannie Merrit Farmer, published in 1911and available at archive.org for the delectation of all.
FAIRMONT SANDWICHES
Cut white bread in one-fourth inch slices and spread two of the slices sparingly on both sides with butter worked until creamy; spread remaining two slices on but one side. Put between slices layers of finely chopped red or green peppers (wrung in cheese-cloth to remove all possible moisture) moistened with Mayonnaise dressing. There should be two layers of green peppers and one of red, or just the reverse. Repeat until a sufficient quantity are prepared. Fold in cheese-cloth and press under a light weight. Cut in one-fourth inch slices and arrange overlapping one another, in two or three rows, on a plate covered with a doiley.
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Tom Scocca
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