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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #410 on: October 03, 2011, 06:32:49 am »



German Unity Day

Our national holiday is today, and we enjoy a long weekend.
The band consists of the flags of the 16 federal countries.

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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #411 on: October 03, 2011, 07:11:48 am »


German Unity Day

Our national holiday is today, and we enjoy a long weekend.
The band consists of the flags of the 16 federal countries.
Happy Gemany Day (Can we Say that?)

!6 federal countries? You mean withing Germany the united 'states' are called countries?
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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #412 on: October 03, 2011, 07:22:53 am »
Happy Gemany Day (Can we Say that?)

I know what you mean with it, so of course you can say it. Thank you! But we don't say it. We really say the long form Tag der deutschen Einheit (Day of German Unity).



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!6 federal countries? You mean withing Germany the united 'states' are called countries?

Yes. Bundesländer is the word (in plural)

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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #413 on: October 12, 2011, 04:27:53 am »
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJNKSUpywNc[/youtube]
Art Clokey's 90th anniversary

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/gumby-and-friends-pay-tribute-to-art-clokey-in-interactive-google-doodle/192195-11.html

A set of five Google-coloured clay balls spring to life on Google's home page as a tribute to Arthur 'Art' Clokey, a pioneer in the art of stop motion clay animation.

October 12 is Art Clokey's 90th birth anniversary. Born on October 12, 1921 Clokey's birth name was Arthur C Farrington. After his parents divorced and his mother remarried, his step-father sent him to an orphanage. He was later adopted by Joseph W Clokey, a musician who introduced him to the world of arts.

After graduating from University of Southern California, Clokey experimented with short clay animation films including the three minute short Gumbasia (1953), that featured his most famous character Gumby. The interest generated by his short films led to the The Gumby Show.

In 1995 Clokey, along with Dallas McKennon, released a feature film Gumby: The Movie, but it could not match the success of the TV series. Art Clokey died at the age of 88 on January 8, 2010.

Wednesday's Google Doodle features some of Art Clokey's most famous characters including Gumby (the original clayboy), Pokey (Gumby's best friend and sidekick), the Blockheads ('J' and 'G' - the mischievous troublemakers), Tara (Gumby's girlfriend) and Prickle (Gumby's good friend).
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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #414 on: October 12, 2011, 06:39:01 am »
I like today's!
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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #415 on: October 21, 2011, 05:24:04 am »

Mary Blair's 100th anniversary
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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #416 on: October 31, 2011, 12:07:27 am »
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPAa7BqgSbw[/youtube]

Happy Halloween 2011!


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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #417 on: November 07, 2011, 01:29:36 am »

Marie Curie's 144th birthday

note: I thought it too small so I enlarged the image. the sheriff

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/nov/07/marie-curie-birth-google-doodle?newsfeed=true

The birth of Nobel prize-winning scientist Marie Curie has being marked by Google with a picture of her at her work bench on the search engine's home page. The Polish-born physicist and chemist is renowned for her pioneering work on radioactivity and for her important contribution to the fight against cancer.

Curie was born in Warsaw on 7 November 1867, but moved to Paris in 1891 to pursue her studies in mathematics and physics at the Sorbonne. Working alongside her husband Pierre, she is credited with discovering polonium and radium, the former named after the country of her birth. The couple were awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 1903, jointly with Henri Becquerel, the discoverer of radioactivity.

Curie also promoted the use of radium for therapeutic purposes. During the first world war she helped develop small, mobile X-ray units that could be used to diagnose injuries close to the battlefront. As director of the Red Cross radiological service, she toured Paris gathering money, supplies and vehicles. In October 1914 she set off to the front. She worked there with her daughter Irene, then aged 17, at casualty clearing stations, X-raying wounded soldiers to locate fractures, bullets and shrapnel. She also held training courses in the new techniques for medical orderlies and doctors.

Curie went on to receive a second Nobel prize, this time for chemistry, in 1911.

Curie was a victim of the element she used to help others, dying on 4 July 1934 of pernicious anaemia, developed through years of exposure to radiation. She was the first woman to be interred in the Pantheon in Paris for her own achievements, and was arguably the first woman to make such a significant contribution to science.
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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #418 on: November 07, 2011, 10:01:50 am »
Great doodle, sheriff! An article appearing today in PC Magazine tells about the doodle as well as Google's history of doodles, including a slide show. Did you know they've applied for a patent on it?
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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #419 on: November 18, 2011, 05:03:01 am »
Weird doodle today ...


Louis Daguerre's 224th birthday

The search engine's home page honours the French physicist, who developed the process for transferring photographs onto silver-coated copper plates.

His discovery was made by an accident, according to the writer Robert Leggat, who said Daguerre put an exposed plate in a chemical cupboard in 1835 only to later find it had developed a latent image.

The daguerreotype process was unveiled at the French Academy of Sciences in Paris in 1839.

It became the first commercially successful way of getting permanent images from a camera.

The Google doodle, marking Daguerre's birthday on November 18 1787, features a traditional image of an early family photograph with the heads of the figures in the image replaced with the letters that spell out Google.
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