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Google doodle celebrates Turkish professor and scientist Dr. Remziye Hisar

Posted on December 13, 2021 by Priyanka Patil |

Today’s Doodle honours Turkish academic and scientist Dr. Remziye Hisar, the country’s first female chemist. On this day in 1991, the Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council presented Hisar with…

Lionel Rose: Google doodle honors first Indigenous Australian to win world championship

Posted on December 10, 2021 by Priyanka Patil |

Today’s Doodle, created by guest artist Mark Munk Ross of Sydney, Australia, honours Indigenous Australian world champion bantamweight boxer Lionel Rose. Rose was inducted into the Sport Australian Hall of…

Google doodle celebrates Tanzania’s Independence Day

Posted on December 9, 2021 by Priyanka Patil |

Today’s Doodle honours Tanzania’s Independence Day, which commemorates the day Tanganyika, Tanzania’s mainland province, declared independence in 1961. Climbers brought a torch to the summit of Tanganyika’s Mount Kilimanjaro–highest Africa’s…

Google doodle celebrates Finland’s Independence Day

Posted on December 6, 2021 by Priyanka Patil |

Today’s Doodle honours Finland’s Independence Day, also known as itsenäisyyspäivä in Finnish. The Finnish Parliament formally declared independence on this day in 1917. The Finnish flag’s national colours of blue…

Google celebrates pizza today, one of the world’s most popular dishes with interactive doodle

Posted on December 6, 2021 by Priyanka Patil |

Today’s interactive Doodle honours pizza, one of the world’s most popular foods. In this day in 2007, the Neapolitan “Pizzaiuolo” culinary art was inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of…

Biden reveals the COVID-19 plan as Omicron comes ahead of winter

Posted on December 3, 2021 by Priyanka Patil |

President Biden warned that COVID-19 caseloads are expected to rise this winter, and that “we need to be ready” as he unveiled his plan to stop the virus from spreading.…

Google doodle celebrates UAE National Day

Posted on December 2, 2021 by Priyanka Patil |

Leaders from the six Emirates of Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Umm Al Quwain, Fujairah, and Ajman met in Dubai on this day 50 years ago to form the world’s first…

Google doodle celebrates 162nd birthday of French painter ‘Georges Seurat’

Posted on December 2, 2021 by Priyanka Patil |

Today’s Doodle honours French painter Georges Seurat, who used his hallmark painting styles of Pointillism and Divisionism to highlight the natural aspects of light in scenes of contemporary Parisian life.…

Great Union Day 2021: Google doodle celebrates Romania’s national holiday

Posted on December 1, 2021 by Priyanka Patil |

More than 100,000 Romanians gathered in Alba Iulia on this day in 1918 to witness a vote by the Great Assembly that joined Transylvania, Crișana, Maramureș, and Banat with the…