The Miracle of 1511

Lindsay and Madison discuss The Miracle of 1511, as well as how snowmen became a form of protest, that scat has apparently always been funny, and how random the progression of snowmen really was.

Information pulled from the following sources:

• 2021 History of Yesteryear article by Tim Gebhart
• 2020 Grunge article by Richard Milner
• 2018 Atlas Obscura article by Bob Eckstein
• 2018 Cultura Colectiva article by Oliver G. Alvar
• 2017 All That’s Interesting article by Annie Garau
• 2017 PBS article by Gene Tempest
• 2016 blog post by author Amanda Foreman
• 1990 article “Urban Elites in Search of a Culture: The Brussels Snow Festival of 1511” by Herman Pleij
• Alpha History
• Your Holiday Lights blog post
• Wikipedia (1)

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