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World Cup Google Doodle – France
Illustration: Barbara Szpirglas Appeared on Google France Children from 17 countries have designed the Google logo around the theme “I Love Football”, for the Doodle 4 Google competition. Each country chose one national winner to be shown on their local Google homepage.
Continue reading...World Cup Google Doodle – Korea
11. June 2010
Illustration: Nikisha Lalloo Appeared on Google South Africa Children from 17 countries have designed the Google logo around the theme “I Love Football”, for the Doodle 4 Google competition. Each country chose one national winner to be shown on their local Google homepage.
Continue reading...Jacques-Yves Cousteau 100th anniversary
11. June 2010
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (French pronunciation: [ʒak iv kusto]; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-developed the aqua-lung, pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Académie française. He was commonly known as “le Commandant Cousteau” [...]
Continue reading...New Google look – Add a background image to your Google homepage
10. June 2010
Make your Google homepage feel more like, well, home! Choose your own image or photo to appear as the background to your Google homepage. You can choose an image from your Picasa Web photos, your computer or a Google public gallery. This feature is distinct from iGoogle, which allows you to further customize your Google homepage with [...]
Continue reading...Robert Schumann’s 200th Birthday
8. June 2010
Appeared on Google Germany Robert Schumann (June 8, 1810 – July 29, 1856) was the arch-Romantic composer, thoroughly committed intellectually and emotionally to the idea of music being composed to register the feelings, thoughts and impressions garnered by a sensitive spirit on its journey through life.
Continue reading...Sweden’s National Day 2010
6. June 2010
Appeared on Google Sweden National Day of Sweden (Sveriges nationaldag) is a national holiday observed in Sweden on June 6 every year. The day was made into a national day by Riksdagen, the Swedish parliament, in 1983. Previously it was commemorated as svenska flaggans dag, Swedish flag day.
Continue reading...Dennis Gabor’s 110th birthday
6. June 2010
Dennis Gabor (original Hungarian name: Gábor Dénes; 5 June 1900 – 8 February 1979) was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and inventor, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Continue reading...Italian Republic Day – 2010
2. June 2010
Appeared on Google Italy The Festa della Repubblica is celebrated on the second day of June, and it commemorates the institutional referendum of 1946 when the Italian population was called to decide what form of government (monarchy or republic) to give to the country after World War II and the fall of Fascism. After 85 years of monarchy, with 12,717,923 votes [...]
Continue reading...International Children’s Day 2010
1. June 2010
The World Conference for the Well-being of Children in Geneva, Switzerland proclaimed June 1 to be International Children’s Day in 1925. It is not clear as to why June 1 was chosen as the International Children’s Day: one theory has it that the Chinese consul-general in San Francisco (USA) gathered a number of Chinese orphans [...]
Continue reading...Memorial Day 2010
31. May 2010
In honor of the soldiers who have given their lives for U.S. Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May (May 31 in 2010). Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. soldiers who died while in the military service. First enacted to honor Union soldiers of the American Civil War (it is celebrated [...]
Continue reading...Children’s Day – Hungary – 2010
30. May 2010
Appeared on Google Hungary In 1931, Children’s day started although then it was called Children’s Week, but since 1950 it has only been a day, the last Sunday in May.
Continue reading...Mother’s Day 2010
30. May 2010
Appeared on Google France, Sweden and Dominican Republic.
Continue reading...Isaac Albeniz’s 150th birthday
29. May 2010
Appeared on Google Spain Isaac Albéniz y Pascual (Spanish pronunciation: [iˈsak alˈβeniθ]) (29 May 1860, Camprodon – 18 May 1909, Cambo-les-Bains ) was a Spanish pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music idioms (many of which have been transcribed by others for guitar).
Continue reading...Counters
11. June 2010
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