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Offline Sheriff Roland

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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #390 on: July 23, 2011, 08:02:43 am »
he had more than one birthday??? This one is pretty I like it!

hardy har har!

No, silly. They were saying that there would be more images to follow, but instead, there is currently nothing showing - just the boring regular google image.

Also, strangely enough, that image appeared only for a few hours yesterday evening.
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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #391 on: July 23, 2011, 09:14:45 am »
hardy har har!

No, silly. They were saying that there would be more images to follow, but instead, there is currently nothing showing - just the boring regular google image.

Also, strangely enough, that image appeared only for a few hours yesterday evening.

Heh no I was honestly confused! Yes, I only saw this one yesterday too.
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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #392 on: August 06, 2011, 11:32:27 am »
Google celebrates what would have been Lucille Ball's 100th birthday:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oE1PrQP09E[/youtube]

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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #393 on: August 06, 2011, 12:40:56 pm »
Wonderful Lucy!  Happy Birthday!  8)
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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #394 on: August 06, 2011, 12:48:09 pm »
Thanks to my fellow Google doodlers, who share the doodles I can't see in this (*#~*grmpf##!*) country. :)

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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #395 on: August 06, 2011, 04:55:09 pm »
fantastic google doodle today.


Tell him when l come up to him and ask to play the record, l'm gonna say: ''Voulez-vous jouer ce disque?''
'Voulez-vous, will you kiss my dick?'
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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #396 on: August 17, 2011, 04:46:09 pm »

410th anniversary of the birth of Pierre de Ferma

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/google-doodle/8706390/Pierre-de-Fermats-birthday-celebrated-in-Google-Doodle.html

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Pierre de Fermat, was born on 17 August 1601, 410 years ago. A lawyer at the Parlement of Toulouse and a gifted amateur mathematician, he made breakthroughs in several fields of calculus, probability, geometry and number theory, but is best known for a brief note he made in the margin of a book of arithmetic.

His enigmatic aside set the scene for perhaps the greatest mathematical mystery of all time.

It had been known for centuries that it is possible to find numbers a, b and c in which: a2+ b2 = c2. That is, some "square" numbers - the product of a number multiplied by itself - added to certain other squares, created a third square. Examples of these so-called "Pythagorean triples" include 32+ 42 = 52, or 9+16 =25. Another example is 52+ 122 = 132.

However, it had been the subject of argument whether that held true for any other power: or, as mathematicians would put it, whether there was any whole number n for which an + bn = cn. Many believed it was not, but no-one could prove it mathematically.



Around 1637, Fermat wrote of this problem, in the margin of Arithmetica by the Greek mathematician Diophantus: "I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain." However, he never wrote out what that proof was, despite living for another 30 years. This led many people to believe that he had never, in fact, proved it.

In 1993, more than 300 years after Fermat's death, Andrew Wiles, a professor of mathematics at Oxford University who had been obsessed with the 'Last Theorem' since he was 10 years old, put forward a proof of the conjecture. However, it was shown to be incomplete. It was not until 1995 that he finally managed to finalise the proof, and show that as Fermat said, an + bn = cn was only true when n=2. Far from being a simple proof, his paper was more than 100 pages long: certainly too long for a margin.

The story of Fermat's Last Theorem, the centuries spent trying to find a proof and Professor - now Sir - Andrew Wiles's final victory, is recounted in a book by Simon Singh, a physicist and author also famous for his battle to change the libel laws after he was sued for calling pseudoscientific medical treatments "bogus".

Previous 'geeky' Google Doodles have celebrated Gregor Mendel, recognised as the founder of genetic theory, Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, and the 25th anniversary of the discovery of buckminster-fullerene or Buckyballs, a strange and useful carbon molecule.
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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #397 on: August 24, 2011, 04:31:06 am »

112th anniversary of Jorge Luis Borges
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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #398 on: August 24, 2011, 05:10:30 pm »

112th anniversary of Jorge Luis Borges

Had to google him! Cool pic!
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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #399 on: September 05, 2011, 05:36:33 am »

Freddie Mercury (front man of the band Queen) would have been 65 today

The Google, when clicked on, is a mini video.
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