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Google is celebrating Shakuntala Devi’s 84th birthday with a new animated calculator doodle on its homepage.

Shakuntala Devi (November 4, 1929 – April 21, 2013), popularly known as the “Human Computer”, was a child prodigy and mental calculator.Her talents earned her a place in the 1982 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records.Shakuntala Devi was born in Bangalore, India, to an orthodox Kannada Brahmin family.she married to santosh anand ratanparke who is a maharastrian and settle in hyderabad.
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Google is celebrating Halloween with a new interactive Halloween witch doodle on its homepage.

Halloween or Hallowe’en also known as All Hallows’ Eve, is a yearly celebration observed in a number of countries on October 31, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows’ Day. It initiates the triduum of Hallowmas, the time in the liturgical year dedicated to
remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed believers.
According to many scholars, All Hallows’ Eve is a Christianized feast initially influenced by Celtic harvest festivals, with possible pagan roots, particularly the Gaelic Samhain.Other academics maintain that it originated independently of Samhain and has solely Christian roots.
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Today (27th September) the search engine giant google celebrates its 15th birthday with a new interactive google doodle on its homepage.The doodle is a game that asks you to get as many candies as you can from a piñata.The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997 and the company was incorporated on September 4, 1998.

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Google is celebrating Léon Foucault’s 194th birthday with a new interactive digital version of the Foucault pendulum doodle on its homepage.

Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (18 September 1819 – 11 February 1868) was a French physicist best known for his demonstration of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of the Earth’s rotation. He also made an early measurement of the speed of light, discovered eddy currents, and although he did not invent it, is credited with naming the gyroscope.
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Google is celebrating John Wisden’s 187th birthday with a new a google doodle on its homepage.

John Wisden (5 September 1826 – 5 April 1884) was an English cricketer who played 187 first-class cricket matches for three English county cricket teams, Kent, Middlesex and Sussex. He is now best known for launching the eponymous Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack in 1864, the year after he retired from first-class cricket.
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Google is celebrating Claude Debussy’s 151st birthday with a new animated set to one of his best-known pieces, Clair de lune (Moonlight) google doodle on its homepage.

Achille-Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures associated with Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions.
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Google is celebrating 67th indian Independence Day with a new doodle on its homepage. Independence Day, observed annually on 15 August, is a national holiday in India commemorating the nation’s independence from British rule on 15 August 1947.The flagship event in Independence Day celebrations takes place in Delhi, where the prime minister hoists the national flag at the Red Fort and delivers from its ramparts a speech.
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Google is celebrating Rosalind Franklin’s 93rd birthday with a new google doodle on its homepage.Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958) was a British biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer who made critical contributions to the understanding of the fine molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite.Franklin was born in Notting Hill, London,into an affluent and influential British Jewish family. Her father was Ellis Arthur Franklin (1894–1964), a London merchant banker, and her mother was Muriel Frances Waley (1894–1976).

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Google is celebrating Rembrandt van Rijn’s 407th birthday with a The self portrait or ‘Self-Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar’ google doodle on its homepage.

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn ( 15 July 1606[1] – 4 October 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher.RembrandtHarmenszoon van Rijn was born on 15 July 1606 in Leiden,in the Dutch Republic, nowadays the Netherlands. He was the ninth child born to Harmen Gerritszoon van Rijn and Neeltgen Willemsdochter van Zuytbrouck. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history.
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Google is celebrating Antoni Gaudi’s 161st birthday with a new google doodle on its homepage.

Antoni Gaudí i Cornet (25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) was a Catalan architect born in Reus, in the Catalonia region of Spain and figurehead of Catalan Modernism. Gaudí’s works reflect his highly individual and distinctive style and are largely concentrated in the Catalan capital of Barcelona, notably his magnum opus, the Sagrada Família.
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