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The Miracle of 1511 took place during six weeks of subzero temperatures called the Winter of Death. The city of Brussels was covered in snowmen—a spectacular tableaux that told stories on every ...
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“The Miracle of 1511” was a retaliatory protest conducted by the peasants of Brussels against ... 110 lewd and satirical ...
Bob Eckstein of New York City ... with the Snowman whose history is filled with dark secrets. And there's all different crazy events that happened in his past, such as the miracle of 1511, which ...
Those bland, anodyne cultural moments obscured the snowman’s colorful history of sex and violence, including scandalous happenings like the Miracle of 1511, in Brussels, where snowmen and ...
It was stinking cold in Brussels during 1511’s Winter ... that were downright pornographic. “These snowmen were rock stars and the Miracle of 1511 was Woodstock,” Eckstein wrote in Atlas ...