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Sheriff Roland:
Nicolas Steno's 374th anniversary
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/google-doodle/9006549/Nicolas-Steno-remembered-with-a-Google-doodle.html
Steno was a Danish anatomist and geologist famous for his "principle of original horizontality", the theory that layers of rock are formed horizontally.
He also devised the "law of superposition", the basic idea that the oldest layers of the earth are at the bottom unless they have been disturbed.
His work on geological layers meant he was also seen as a pioneer of stratigraphy, the study of strata or layers.
Steno's research on fossils included his exploration of how solid objects could be found inside one another, which was published in his 1669 dissertation Prodromus.
He died in 1686 aged 48.
Sheriff Roland:
125th anniversary of the largest snowflake
minor animation; as the large snowflake falls, the cow raises it's head and a couple of birds fly off the 'e' Also, the 'ground' shakes when the snowflake lands.
Aloysius J. Gleek:
Charles John Huffam Dickens
7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870
Sheriff Roland:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qXcSw0YHjo[/youtube]
Happy Valentine's Day
(includes a boy/boy image at the 1:08 minute mark and a girl/girl image moments later)
http://gadgets.ndtv.com/shownews.aspx?id=GADEN20120194428&Sec=NEWS&nid=176143
This year's Valentine's Day Google Doodle is very different from the straightforward one that Google usually puts up. Last year, Google put an artwork doodle - inspired by a work of art 'LOVE' by American artist Robert Indiana.
This time, it's a music video doodle in the form of a short animated love story of a boy trying to capture a girl's heart - the music set to Tony Bennett's rendition of Hank Williams' classic song 'Cold, Cold Heart'.
The default image is of a boy holding up a Valentine, with the Google logo in the background - clicking the 'play' icon on the Valentine, plays the video.
With brazen bravado the boy initially sees no flaw in his plan. He attempts to gain her love through every possible present! Furiously Googling away to glory he finds gifts to woo her with - roses, a dinosaur sweater, a teddy bear, a scuba helmet, balloons, a rabbit but alas, to no avail! She is not impressed. Finally, with a big sigh... the boy realizes that showering her with gifts isn't going to work at all. He takes up his own skipping rope, and as Google gives us all a lesson in what true love really means, he begins skipping alongside her.
She doesn't want fancy dinosaur sweaters! She wants a man to stand beside her. And jump rope. It's quite cute that Google seems to deign to the fact that one can't Google one's way into others hearts; that love cannot be bought - one needs just, to be genuine.
Sheriff Roland:
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