Jul 9, 2011
Argentina Independence Day 2011
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Jul 9, 2011
Argentina Independence Day 2011
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Jul 12, 2011
450th Anniversary of St. Basil's Cathedral
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The Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed, commonly known as Saint Basil's Cathedral, is an Orthodox church in Red Square of Moscow, and is one of the most popular cultural symbols of Russia. The building, now a museum, is officially known as the Cathedral of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat, or Pokrovsky Cathedral. It was built from 1555 to 1561 on orders from Ivan the Terrible and commemorates the capture of Kazan and Astrakhan. It was the city's tallest building until the completion of the Ivan the Great Bell Tower in 1600.
The cathedral has nine domes [each one corresponding to a different church] and is shaped like the flame of a bonfire rising into the sky, a design that has no parallel in Russian architecture.
Jul 14, 2011
Bastille Day 2011
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Jul 18, 2011
Marine Day 2011
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Jul 19, 2011
Xu Beihong's 116th Birthday
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Xu Beihong , also known asJu Péon, was a Chinese painter.
He was primarily known for his Chinese ink paintings of horses and birds and was one of the first Chinese artists to articulate the need for artistic expressions that reflected a modern China at the beginning of the 20th century. He was also regarded as one of the first to create monumental oil paintings with epic Chinese themes – a show of his high proficiency in an essential Western art technique. He was one of the four pioneers of Chinese modern art who earned the title of "The Four Great Academy Presidents
Jul 20, 2011
Colombian Independence Day 2011 by Claudia Rueda
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July 14, 2018
Bastille Day 2018
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Although La Fête Nationale — or Bastille Day as it’s known in English-speaking countries — hearkens back to the dawn of the French Revolution, it’s fundamentally a celebration of culture. At this time each year, French people around the globe, from Nice to New Orleans, honor their heritage and pay homage to those who fought for the principles of Liberté, Egalité, and Fraternité [liberty, equality, fraternity].
In Paris, crowds gather along the Avenue des Champs-Élysées to enjoy parades, heading to the Eiffel Tower for fireworks and live music later on. In Marseille, the Vieux Port plays host to two days of festivities. Wherever the celebration takes place, you’ll surely hear the French national anthem, “La Marseillaise,” resounding throughout the streets.
Seen on church bell towers since the Middle Ages, the French rooster, or Coq Gaulois,also appeared on French flags during the revolution of 1789. The bird that crows at dawn has come to symbolize vigilance as well as the people of France. In today’s Doodle a procession of blue, white, and red hens and roosters enjoy a Bastille Day parade.
Jul 23, 2011
Amália Rodrigues' 91st Birthday
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Amália da Piedade Rebordão Rodrigues, better known as Amália Rodrigues or popularly as Amália, was a Portuguese fadista [fado singer] and actress.
Known as the 'Rainha do Fado' ["Queen of Fado"], Rodrigues was instrumental in popularising fado worldwide and travelled internationally throughout her career. Amália remains the best-selling Portuguese artist in history.
Jul 24, 2011
100th Anniversary of the rediscovery of Machu Picchu
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Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel, located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru, on a 2,430-metre [7,970 ft] mountain ridge. It is located in the Machupicchu District within Urubamba Province above the Sacred Valley, which is 80 kilometres [50 mi] northwest of Cuzco. The Urubamba River flows past it, cutting through the Cordillera and creating a canyon with a tropical mountain climate
Jul 27, 2011
Enrique Granados' 144th Birthday
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Pantaleón Enrique Joaquín Granados Campiña [27 July 1867 – 24 March 1916], commonly known as Enrique Granados, was a Spanish pianist and composer of classical music. His most well known works include Goyescas, the Spanish Dances, and María del Carme
Jul 29, 2011
Medellin Flower Festival 2011
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The Flowers Festival [Spanish: Feria de las Flores] is a festival that takes place in Medellín, Colombia. The festival is the most important social event for the city and includes a pageant, automobiles, a Paso Fino horse parade and many musical concerts.
Jul 5, 2011
Venezuela Independence Day 2011
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Flor de Mayo [Cattleya mossiae], the Venezuelan national flower.
Jul 1, 2011
Doodle 4 Google 2011 - Poland by Martyna Króliszewska
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Jul 1, 2011
Cabotage and Turkish Maritime Festival
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Cabotage Day [Turkish: Kabotaj Bayramı] also called Marine & Cabotage Feast is an annual festival related to merchant marine rights of Turkey held on 1 July in Turkey.
Jun 30, 2011
Czeslaw Milosz's 100th Birthday
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Czesław Miłosz was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, the Swedish Academy called Miłosz a writer who "voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts"
Jun 26, 2011
Women's World Cup Opening
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Jun 16, 2011
Doodle 4 Google 2011 - Ghana Winner [ages 12 -14]
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Jun 15, 2011
Doodle 4 Google 2011 - Hungary Winner
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Jun 15, 2011
Total Lunar Eclipse. Live imagery provided by Slooh.
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We’re always fascinated by the unique wonders of space and the world—what can we say, it’s the geek in us! Naturally, when we learned that part of the world will be treated to a rare 100-minute long total lunar eclipse starting at 11:20am PDT today, we were both excited and disappointed that this rare occasion wouldn’t be visible from our Mountain View campus like last year’s eclipse. We suspect we aren’t alone, so you’ll be glad to know that we’ve worked with Slooh Space Camera to let you experience the spectacle wherever you are in the world, in real time.
Slooh will host a live mission interface using Google App Engine that lets anyone not lucky enough to live in certain areas [South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia] take part in this rare astronomical event. It’s equipped with audio narrations from real-life astronomers so you can hear a firsthand, expert account of the event. You can also watch the live stream on the Google YouTube Channel or from the Sky layer in Google Earth [download this kml], while exploring the fascinating world that exists in our galaxy. Finally, those of you on the go can download the Slooh Space Camera Android app to view the images right on your phone.
Jun 2, 2011
Republic Day Italy 2011
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May 25, 2011
Jordan Independence Day 2011
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May 24, 2011
Day of Slavonic Alphabet, Bulgarian Enlightenment and Culture
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May 10, 2011
Zhang Daqian's 112th Birthday
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Chang Dai-chien or Zhang Daqianwas one of the best-known and most prodigious Chinese artists of the twentieth century. Originally known as a guohua [traditionalist] painter, by the 1960s he was also renowned as a modern impressionist and expressionist painter. In addition, he is regarded as one of the most gifted master forgers of the twentieth century.
May 9, 2011
76th Birthday of Roger Hargreaves
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Charles Roger Hargreaves [9 May 1935 – 11 September 1988] was an English author and illustrator of children's books, best remembered for the Mr. Men and Little Miss series, intended for young readers. The simple and humorous stories, with brightly coloured, boldly drawn illustrations, have been part of popular culture since 1971, with sales of over 85 million copies worldwide in 20 languages.
May 1, 2011
160th Anniversary of the first World's Fair
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See the interactive version here!
An event that housed the latest and greatest inventions and cultural treasures of its time, the first World's Fair at the Crystal Palace in London was packed with thousands of wonders. This doodle is a sampling of what the visitors saw when they stepped into the glass building. Amongst the trove are the world's largest diamond, a steam engine, high fashion dresses, textiles, indoor trees, and a gigantic fountain. Users can roll over the doodle to zoom in on the scene and catch hidden animations.
Apr 30, 2011
Queen's Day Netherlands 2011
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Apr 26, 2011
Vallenato Festival 2011
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The Vallenato Legend Festival is one of the most important musical festivals in Colombia. The festival features a vallenato music contests for best performer of accordion, caja vallenata and guacharaca, as well as piqueria [battle of lyrics] and best song. It's celebrated every year in April in the city of Valledupar, Department of Cesar.
April 25, 2010
ANZAC Day 2010 - Australia
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Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand that broadly commemorates all Australians and New Zealanders "who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations" and "the contribution and suffering of all those who have served". Observed on 25 April each year, Anzac Day was originally devised to honour the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps [ANZAC] who served in the Gallipoli Campaign, their first engagement in the First World War [1914–1918].
April 25, 2003
ANZAC Day 2003 - Australia
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Apr 21, 2003
Earth Day 2003
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Oct 25, 2002
Pablo Picasso's 121st Birthday
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Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon [1907], and Guernica [1937], a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War.
March 2, 2018
Lantern Festival 2018
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May 20, 2002
Dilbert Google Doodle 2002 - 1
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May 21, 2002
Dilbert Google Doodle 2002 - 2
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May 22, 2002
Dilbert Google Doodle 2002 - 3
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May 23, 2002
Dilbert Google Doodle 2002 - 4
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May 24, 2002
Dilbert Google Doodle 2002 - 5
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Mar 6, 2002
Piet Mondrian's 130th Birthday
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Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the great artists of the 20th century. He is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th-century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements.
Mondrian's art was highly utopian and was concerned with a search for universal values and aesthetics. He proclaimed in 1914: "Art is higher than reality and has no direct relation to reality. To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual. We find ourselves in the presence of an abstract art. Art should be above reality, otherwise it would have no value for man." His art, however, always remained rooted in nature.
Nov 14, 2001
Claude Monet's 161st Birthday
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Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter, a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant [Impression, Sunrise], which was exhibited in 1874 in the first Salon des Refusés [exhibition of rejects] mounted by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris.
Monet's ambition of documenting the French countryside led him to adopt a method of painting the same scene many times in order to capture the changing of light and the passing of the seasons. From 1883, Monet lived in Giverny, where he purchased a house and property and began a vast landscaping project which included lily ponds that would become the subjects of his best-known works. He began painting the water lilies in 1899, first in vertical views with a Japanese bridge as a central feature, and later in the series of large-scale paintings that occupied him continuously for the next 20 years of his life.
April 17, 2021
Celebrating Laura Bassi
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Newton’s second law of motion states that an object’s acceleration is dependent on two variables: the force acting on the o bject and its mass. Apply this law to the momentum of women in science, and Italian physicist and professor—Laura Bassi—arises as a primary force for propelling scientific progress forward. On this day in 1732, Bassi successfully defended 49 theses to become one of the first women in Europe to receive a PhD.
Today’s Doodle celebrates Laura Maria Catarina Bassi, who was born in Bologna, Papal States [modern-day Italy] in 1711. A child prodigy, she was debating top academics on the history of philosophy and physics by 20; a rare achievement at a time in which women were largely excluded from higher education.
By 1732, Bassi was a household name in Bologna, and following her thesis defense, she became the first female member of the Bologna Academy of Sciences, one of Italy’s foremost scientific institutions. Due to gender discrimination, her position at the Academy was limited, yet she persisted. Bassi apprenticed under eminent Bologna professors to learn calculus and Newtonian physics, a discipline she spread across Italy for almost 50 years. A lifelong teacher of physics and philosophy, she complemented her education with innovative research and experiments on subjects ranging from electricity to hydraulics.
Bassi continually fought for gender equality in education throughout her trailblazing career; efforts that culminated in 1776 when the Bologna Academy of Sciences appointed her a professor of experimental physics—making Bassi the first woman offered an official teaching position at a European university.