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Sheriff Roland:
For Remembrance Day here in Canada Google merely added a small poppy in the centre of their home page:
A few years ago, John McDermott recorded this touching tribute to the men & women remembered today.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PSv4cE-dhw[/youtube]
Bringing Buddy Home
The Vimy Ridge monument portrayed in this amateur video is featured on the new Canadian 20$ bill.
Sason:
That's what they did here in England too.
(where I happen to be right now)
Fran:
Auguste Rodin's 172nd Birthday
From India Today:
Auguste Rodin's 'The Thinker' on Google doodle
Google doodle on Monday celebrates the 172nd birth anniversary of French sculptor Francois-Auguste-Rene Rodin, better known as Auguste Rodin. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past.
Born into a working-class family in Paris on November 12, 1840, Rodin had an inclination towards art from his early age and pursued drawing and painting at the Petite Ecole, a school specializing in art and mathematics.
Rodin, who is appreciated for his manner of dealing with the subject and muse, emphasized to capture the intellectual force of his subject. The google doodle commemorates the sculpture The Thinker (1879-1889) which is among the most recognized creation of his works. It is a marble and bronze sculpture and is now in the Musee Rodin in Paris.
Among his various works, the best known included The Thinker and The Kiss. 'The Thinker' depicts a man in sober meditation and often interpreted as philosophy.
Rodin, considered to be the father of modern sculpture, rebelled against the established rules of the time. His work was criticised during his lifetime and it wasn't until after his death that his work came to be fully appreciated.
Rodin's most original work departed from traditional themes of mythology and allegory, modeled the human body with realism, and celebrated individual character and physicality. Rodin was sensitive to the controversy surrounding his work, but refused to change his style.
During his lifetime, he developed a fan following and by the time he was 60, he was well known around the world. While his popularity suffered a dip right after his death in 1917, his legacy became stronger a few years later.
His famous works include The Age of Bronze (L'age d'airain) 1877, The Walking Man (L'homme qui marche) 1877-78, The Burghers of Calais (Les Bourgeois de Calais) 1889, The Kiss 1889 and The Thinker (Le Penseur), 1902.
Sheriff Roland:
31st anniversary of the first use of the Canadarm in space
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/11/13/tec-google-doodle-canadarm31.html
The image on Google Canada's home page depicts an astronaut floating in space and manipulating the Canadarm to spell out the L and E in Google.
Google's chief doodler Ryan Germick says the suggestion for the image came from the company's Canadian offices a few months back.
He says his team chooses from "hundreds and hundreds" of doodle ideas to work with and is on track to have completed about 300 by the end of 2012.
Germick says the Canadarm doodle took "several tens of hours" to complete.
The Canadarm had its first mission on Nov. 13, 1981 on the U.S. space shuttle Columbia.
"For doodles, we really try to sort of celebrate things that are exciting to Google as a culture and we think will be exciting for our users," says Germick.
"We're big proponents of technology and innovation and knowing this is one of the really cool things that Canada has done for space technology we thought it would be the perfect thing to celebrate."
The Canadarm is 15 metres long with a 33-centimetre diameter and a weight of about 410 kilograms.
The dexterous robotic arm was used to move and retrieve satellites and provide support for astronauts during spacewalks, among other tasks.
Its final mission with shuttle Endeavour ended June 1.
Sheriff Roland:
Children's Day 2012
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