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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #80 on: March 03, 2009, 12:35:53 am »
I saw a neat one today...honoring Dr. Seuss:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Seuss

He was born on March 2, 1904, according to Wikipedia.

My favorite is the star-bellied sneetches book.
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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #81 on: March 14, 2009, 10:14:43 am »
Today's doodle marks the 174th birthday of Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli:


From The Columbia Encyclopedia:

Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio (jōvän'nē vērjē'nyō skyäpärĕl'lē), 1835–1910, Italian astronomer. He was director (1862–1900) of the Brera Observatory, Milan. He is especially noted for having detected (1877) on the surface of the planet Mars the markings that he called canali (channels), later misinterpreted as canals. He showed that meteor swarms travel through space in cometary orbits and suggested that Mercury and Venus rotate on their axes. He discovered the asteroid Hesperia (1861) and several double stars.

I saw a neat one today...honoring Dr. Seuss:


Now how cool is that!?!

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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #82 on: March 17, 2009, 09:28:32 am »
Happy St. Patrick's Day!


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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #83 on: March 20, 2009, 05:28:40 am »
        Happy beginning of spring! :D



I love The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #84 on: March 20, 2009, 07:41:13 pm »
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/5021384/Google-celebrates-Eric-Carles-Very-Hungry-Caterpillar.html

Google celebrates Eric Carle's Very Hungry Caterpillar

The book, published in 1969, still sells one copy every 30 seconds in the world, 40 years after it was originally published.
Written and illustrated by Eric Carle (a graphic designer who later became art director of an advertising agency before moving into book illustration), it has sold more than 29 million copies, and is published in 47 languages.
 
Mr Carle, who turns 80 this year, said he got the idea from a hole puncher.

"One day I was punching holes with a hole puncher into a stack of paper, and I thought of a bookworm and so I created a story called "A Week with Willi the Worm". Then my editor suggested a caterpillar instead and I said "Butterfly!" That's how it began," he said.

"I think The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a hopeful story, because it says 'you too little caterpillar can grow up, spread your wings and fly'. I think it is this message of hope that resonates for many readers."

Mr Carle has written and illustrated more than 70 picture books.

He said his childhood – he moved from the United States to Germany at the age of six – has been influential in his work.
"When I was a boy, my father would take me on walks across meadows and through woods. He would lift a stone or peel back the bark of a tree and show me the living things that lived underneath. These were very magical times and I think in my books I honour my father by writing about small creatures and the natural world. And in a way I recapture those happy times we had together."

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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #85 on: April 22, 2009, 08:10:00 am »


Earth Day
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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #86 on: April 23, 2009, 02:10:19 am »



Girls' Day

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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #87 on: April 23, 2009, 06:09:33 am »
That's cute! We must not have Girls' Day here. It's just plain ol' google for us.  8)
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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #88 on: May 10, 2009, 01:00:48 am »
Mother's Day

How lovely!

The modern Mother’s Day holiday was created by Anna Jarvis as a day for each family to honor their mother, and it’s now celebrated on various days in many places around the world.

-- Wikipedia

AOL is remembering "Mom," too:  :)


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Re: Google Doodles
« Reply #89 on: May 10, 2009, 07:04:02 am »
Bah! Mothers day was 2 months ago!  ;D
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