Google Logo Tributes

[Hasmukh]

Happy Teachers' Day | September 5, 2014

[amey katkar]

The Norwegian 'ethnographer and adventurer' Thor Heyerdahl was most famous for his 8,000km 'Kon-Tiki' voyage across the Pacific Ocean.

Born on October 6 1914, the subject of Monday's Google doodle Thor Heyerdahl as an ethnographer was trained in biology, botany, zoology and geography at the University of Oslo. Ethnography, is the systematic study of people and cultures where the researcher observes a society from the point of view of the subject of the study.

Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki expedition is the best known of his distinguished career, with the ethnographer showing just why the appellation 'adventurer' was appropriate for him. Sailing 8,000km in a handmade raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands, Thor Heyerdahl aimed to demonstrate that ancient cultures could have made contact with each other across vast geographical distances with long sea voyages.

The Kon-Tiki expedition was later used as basis for the diffusionist model of cultural development, also known as 'trans-cultural diffusion', where language, ideas, religions, and technologies spread from one culture to another. Monday's Google doodle on Thor Heyerdahl features tribal motifs, and also depicts 2 of the adventurer's most famous expeditions - with the raft on the left probably meant to represent the one used on the Kon-Tiki expedition, whilst on the right is a 'moai', an ancient monumental statue of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) that appears to be in the process of excavation.

[Paramvir]

October 10, 2014. RK Naraya's 108th birthday.

[Saumya]

Mangalyaan complete one month in Mars Orbit. October 24, 2014.

[Paramvir]

Jonas Salk's 100th Birthday. An amazing gentleman and a doctor!

[amey katkar]

Today's Google

Philae is a robotic European Space Agency lander that accompanied the Rosetta spacecraft until its designated landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, more than ten years after departing Earth. On 12 November 2014, the lander achieved the first-ever controlled touchdown on a comet nucleus. Its instruments are expected to obtain the first images from a comet's surface and make the first in situ analysis to determine its composition.

The lander is named after Philae Island in the Nile, where an obelisk was found and used, along with the Rosetta Stone, to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics.

[amey katkar]

Doodle for Google Contest

National Winner
Natural and Cultural Paradise - Assam

Vaidehi Reddy, Army Public School, Pune

"I want to go to Assam because it is rich in both, natural beauty and culture. Its music and rich folk arts are also very good."

[Saumya]

Art could have been better in the Assam one. Looks amateur.

[Saumya]

Raj Kapoor's 90th Birthday, December 14, 2014

[Ek Kanya]

Happy New Year 2015

[Shahrukh Khan]

Inspired by all of these Google Logos placed here, I add the Happy Holi Google Doodle from March 06, 2015

[Ek Kanya]

Women's Day March 8, 2015

[Saumya]

Anna Atkins' Birthday. March 16, 2015.

Anna Atkins (née Children; 16 March 1799 – 9 June 1871[1]) was an English botanist and photographer. She is often considered the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images.Some sources claim that she was the first woman to create a photograph.

[Paramvir]

Navroz Mubarak (Parsi New Year): March 21, 2015

[Saumya]

MArch 31, 2015: 126th Anniversary of the public opening of the Eiffel Tower, Paris.