It links the Ice Palace, a grotto of ice sculptures, with the Sphinx Hall observatory.

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The Grove Hotel, which is attached to the Ice Palace, is spare to say the least, but is just seconds from the beach or the harbour.

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Moriah began sending crews to help build the ice palace in 2009, after the closing of a prison closer to Saranac Lake that had sent workers since 1984.

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The costumes are remarkable, but at the end of the day Bond is a man of action -- which is why the exhibition's grand finale culminates in the Ice Palace from "Die Another Day, " where visitors are surrounded with footage of 007's many chase scenes in the snow.

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To hold on to subscribers and advertisers, the Times has taken aggressive and costly steps, such as launching a free daily tabloid and acquiring the naming rights to the former Ice Palace in Tampa, a major concert venue and home of the Tampa Bay Lightning hockey team.

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Inside the hot and dusty Bolshoi Ice Palace, workmen atop a mechanical arm installed wiring in a scoreboard above the hockey rink.

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The festival's theme this year is "under the sea, " and the organizers planned nautical touches to the palace, such as an octopus ice sculpture and a throne shaped like a scallop shell.

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The footlocker-size ice cubes are plucked from the water by crane and fitted into the walk-in palace on the shore.

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Festival organizers say the palace tradition stems from the days when ice from local lakes was harvested for refrigeration.

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Mr Harrer, a champion skier and, since his village boyhood, happiest on snow and ice, built a skating rink below the palace.

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