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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