Jun 30, 2014
World Cup 2014 #43
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The Ground staff are ready for France v Nigeria!
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Jun 30, 2014
World Cup 2014 #43
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The Ground staff are ready for France v Nigeria!
Jun 30, 2014
World Cup 2014 #44
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Jul 1, 2014
World Cup 2014 #45
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Jul 1, 2014
World Cup 2014 #46
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Jul 1, 2014
World Cup 2014 #47
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Jul 4, 2014
World Cup 2014 #48
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Jul 4, 2014
World Cup 2014 #50
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Jul 9, 2014
Argentina Independence Day 2014
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Besides many of the pasta, sausage and dessert dishes common to continental Europe, Argentines enjoy a wide variety of Indigenous and Criollo creations, including empanadas [a small stuffed pastry], locro [a mixture of corn, beans, meat, bacon, onion, and gourd], humita and mate.
The country has the highest consumption of red meat in the world, traditionally prepared as asado, the Argentine barbecue. It is made with various types of meats, often including chorizo, sweetbread, chitterlings, and blood sausage.
Common desserts include facturas [Viennese-style pastry], cakes and pancakes filled with dulce de leche [a sort of milk caramel jam], alfajores [shortbread cookies sandwiched together with chocolate, dulce de leche or a fruit paste], and tortas fritas [fried cakes].
Argentine wine, one of the world's finest, is an integral part of the local menu. Malbec, Torrontés, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah and Chardonnay are some of the most sought-after varieties.
Aug 1, 2014
Swiss National Day 2014
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For this year's August 1 celebration, everyone is invited to a festival in the woods by guest artist Jürg Lindenberger. Many of your favorite Swiss friends will be there—Cervelat and mustard, the August 1 roll, and a happy St. Bernard. It should be a great party.
Aug 4, 2014
Maria Zankovetska's 160th Birthday
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Happy 160th birthday to Ukrainian actress Maria Zankovetska! Despite the fame she attained throughout her career, Zankovetska never forgot her roots. She paid homage to the village she was born in [Zankiv] by using it as the basis for her stage name.
Aug 6, 2014
Anna Castelli Ferrieri's 94th Birthday
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Our homepage in Italy today celebrates pioneering architect Anna Castelli Ferrieri, born this day in 1918. Ferrieri found success using alternative materials like metal and plastic in her designs.
Aug 12, 2014
Awa Odori
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Our doodle in Japan celebrates “Awa Odori,” the country’s largest traditional dance festival. The event brings in 1.3 million tourists to Japan every year and dancers learn choreography that hasn’t changed in more than 400 years— guess there’s no reason to reinvent the wheel… er, dance?
Aug 13, 2014
Ivan Sechenov's 185th Birthday
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Our doodle in Russia celebrates the father of objective physiological psychology, Ivan Sechenov. Sechenov theorized that all human actions, conscious and unconscious, are conditioned responses to external stimuli.
Aug 14, 2014
Pakistan Independence Day 2014
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The Pakistan National Monument in all its glory is the subject of our doodle for Pakistani Independence Day. The monument takes the shape of a blooming flower to represent the country’s progress and growth.
Aug 16, 2014
Diana Wynne Jones' 80th Birthday
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Diana Wynne Jones [16 August 1934 – 26 March 2011] was an English novelist, poet, academic, literary critic, and short story writer. She principally wrote fantasy and speculative fiction novels for children and young adults. Although usually described as fantasy, some of her work also incorporates science fiction themes and elements of realism. Jones' work often explores themes of time travel and parallel or multiple universes. Some of her better-known works are the Chrestomanci series, the Dalemark series, the three Moving Castle novels, Dark Lord of Derkholm, and The Tough Guide to Fantasyland.
Aug 23, 2014
25th Anniversary of the Baltic Way
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On August 23, 1989, 2 million people held hands and formed a human chain that stretched 370 miles across the three Baltic states, proving that the call for independence from the Soviet Union was a matter of peace, not violence. Today, we mark the 25th anniversary of the Baltic Way on our homepages in Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia.
Aug 24, 2014
Ukraine Independence Day 2014
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This bountiful harvest scene was illustrated by Ukrainian guest artist, Vladyslav Yerkoto celebrate this year's independence day.
Aug 25, 2014
Uruguay Independence Day 2014
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Uruguay is most known for its “fútbol” history and its summer beaches when it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere. Less widely known is the local dish shown in today’s doodle commemorating Uruguay’s declaration of independence. The “Chivito” is made with churrasco beef plus lots of tasty treats served either in a sandwich [called “al pan”] or without bread [called “al plato”].
Aug 26, 2014
Julio Cortázar's 100th Birthday
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“We went around without looking for each other, but knowing we went around to find each other,” wrote Argentine novelist and intellectual Julio Cortázar in his stream-of-consciousness novel, “Rayuela” [[“Hopscotch”.) We mark Cortázar’s 100th birthday on our homepages throughout Latin America today.
Aug 28, 2014
Sheridan Le Fanu's 200th Birthday
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Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction. He was a leading ghost story writer of his time, central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. M. R. James described Le Fanu as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories". Three of his best-known works are the locked-room mystery Uncle Silas, the lesbian vampire novella Carmilla, and the historical novel The House by the Churchyard.
"Imagine" is a song by English rock musician John Lennon from his 1971 album of the same name. The best-selling single of his solo career, its lyrics encourage listeners to imagine a world at peace without the barriers of borders or the divisions of religion and nationality and to consider the possibility that the whole of humanity would live unattached to material possessions. Shortly before his death, Lennon said that much of the song's lyrics and content came from his wife, Yoko Ono, and in 2017 she received co-writing credit.
Oct 28, 2013
Edith Head's 116th Birthday
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"You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it." -- Edith Head
Edith Head was an American costume designer during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Throughout the course of her incredibly prolific career, she won eight Academy Awards -- more than any other woman -- and designed some of the most iconic dresses of the 20th century.
When the opportunity arose for us to celebrate Miss Edith's birthday, I snatched it up. It seemed like a dream doodle for me -- it perfectly combined my interests in clothing design and classic Hollywood cinema and also provided the ultimate test for my amateurish forays into fashion illustration!
For this doodle, I wanted to depict Edith standing tall and strong amongst a gallery of six of her drawings, which were chosen based on how iconic they were and how well they fit in with the colors of the Google logo. Recreating her drawings was great fun and incredibly inspiring.
Edith's costume designs were worn by countless celebrities and seen by millions of movie-watchers, but she herself stayed relatively behind-the-scenes. This strange balance of high-profile artwork with personal anonymity shares some interesting parallels to our work as Google Doodlers, so I am happy to have been able to pay tribute to a kindred spirit.
Sep 15, 2013
Nicaragua Independence Day 2013
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Sep 15, 2013
Honduras Independence Day 2013
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Sep 15, 2013
Guatemala Independence Day 2013
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Sep 15, 2013
El Salvador Independence Day 2013
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Sep 15, 2013
Costa Rica Independence Day 2013
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Sep 7, 2013
Brazil Independence Day 2013
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Aug 31, 2013
Hari Merdeka/Malaysia Independence Day 2013
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The Hari Merdeka Parade [Independence Day Parade] is an annual parade held every 31 August in commemoration of Malaya's independence. Since independence, the event has been usually held at Merdeka Square, Kuala Lumpur in commemoration of it being the original site of the first independence parade, which was held on 1 September 1957.
However, since 1985, there has been a general consensus by the federal government to bring the celebrations to other parts of the nation, therefore the national parade has also been held in Malacca Town, Johor Bahru, Kuching, Kota Kinabalu, George Town, Shah Alam, Putrajaya and Kuantan. Lately, the federal government has favoured holding it at Putrajaya, since it is the administrative centre of the government, with parades held there four times.
Aug 26, 2013
Rufino Tamayo's 114th Birthday
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Rufino del Carmen Arellanes Tamayo was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York, painting figurative abstraction with surrealist influences.
Aug 27, 2013
First Day of School 2013
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Nov 7, 2013
Rafael Pombo's 180th Birthday
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José Rafael de Pombo y Rebolledo was a Colombian poet born in Bogotá. Trained as a mathematician and an engineer in a military school, Rafael Pombo served in the army and he traveled to the United States of America as Secretary of the Legation in Washington. After completing his diplomatic assignment, he was hired by D. Appleton & Company in New York to translate into Spanish nursery rhymes from the Anglo-Saxon oral tradition. The product of this work, more than a translation, was a transformative adaptation published in two books under the titles Cuentos pintados para nińos and Cuentos morales para nińos formales.
In spite of his extensive and diverse literary works, Rafael Pombo is mostly remembered for this contribution to children's literature. Among his most popular children's fables are Michín, Juan Chunguero, Pastorcita, La Pobre Viejecita, Simón el Bobito, El Gato Bandido, and El Renacuajo paseador.
Jan 2, 2011
Večerníček's 46th Anniversary
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Večerníček [meaning "little bedtime story" Czech and Slovak] is a television program for children in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It has been broadcast regularly for over 50 years. Before the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993, two versions – one in Czech and one in Slovak – were aired in the respective parts of Czechoslovakia. Similar shows in other European countries include Sandmännchen in Germany and Esti mese in Hungary.
Currently, Večerníček is aired in the Czech Republic at 18:45 every day, when children are expected to go to sleep. The show [opening theme, tale, closing theme] lasts maximally ten minutes. Every tale takes 5–8 minutes. A full Večerníček series typically contains 10 – 20 episodes.
The format of the program has been unchanged for decades, making it part of the Czech and Slovak culture.
Jan 10, 2011
Coming of Age Day 2011
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Jan 6, 2011
Khalil Gibran's Birthday
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Gibran Khalil Gibran , usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist, also considered a philosopher although he himself rejected the title.nHe is best known as the author of The Prophet, which was first published in the United States in 1923 and has since become one of the best-selling books of all time, having been translated into more than 100 languages.
Jan 11, 2011
Laba Rice Porridge Festival 2011
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Falling on the eighth day of the 12th lunar month, Laba Festival was originally an occasion for people to give sacrifices to their ancestors, and to pray to heaven and earth for a good harvest and good luck for the family. Many years later, it has become a Laba Congee eating event - a porridge that contains different types of rice, beans, dried nuts, bean curd, and meat.
The custom first originated in the Song Dynasty [960 - 1279] and became popular in the Qing Dynasty [1644 - 1911]. Now it has been over one thousand years that the Chinese people eat Laba Congee on Laba Festival day. As is known to all, since ancient times Chinese people have attached great importance to growing crops, so when the land bears a good harvest after years of hard work, the farmers will show great appreciation by sacrificing to the ancestors, and heaven and earth. Boiling Laba Congee is one way people celebrate their harvest.
Jan 14, 2011
Festival of Kites 2011
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Jan 17, 2011
Dr. Martin Luther King Day 2011
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Dr. Martin Luther King, one of the most significant figures for equal rights in America, envisioned a day where children will "not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." This famous line from his address at the Lincoln Memorial was the spark that inspired this year's celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.
Jan 19, 2011
Cezanne's 172nd Birthday
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Paul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century.
Cézanne is said to have formed the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism. Cézanne's often repetitive, exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. He used planes of colour and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields. The paintings convey Cézanne's intense study of his subjects. Both Matisse and Picasso are said to have remarked that Cézanne "is the father of us all".
Jan 20, 2011
Birthday of Takayanagi Kenjiro
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Kenjiro Takayanagi was a Japanese engineer and a pioneer in the development of television. Although he failed to gain much recognition in the West, he built the world's first all-electronic television receiver, and is referred to as "the father of Japanese television".