Events
Little Nemo In Slumberland
2012
Today on October 15th, 2012, Google is celebrating the 107th anniversary of American cartoonist and animator, Winsor McCay’s comic strip Little Nemo In Slumberland by featuring an awesome animated Doodle on their homepage
International Day of Rural Women
The United Nations’ (UN) International Day of Rural Women celebrates and honors the role of rural women on October 15 each year. It recognizes rural women’s importance in enhancing agricultural and rural development worldwide. The first International Day of Rural Women was observed on 15 October 2008
Birthdays
1920
Mario Puzo (October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999), Italian American author and screenwriter, known for his novels about the Mafia, including 'The Godfather' (1969), which he later co-adapted into a film by Francis Ford Coppola
1900
Mervyn LeRoy (October 15, 1900 - September 13, 1987) was an American film director, film producer and sometime actor
1829
Asaph Hall III (October 15, 1829 – November 22, 1907) was an American astronomer who is most famous for having discovered the moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos, in 1877. He determined the orbits of satellites of other planets and of double stars, the rotation of Saturn, and the mass of Mars
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ReplyDeleteLittle Nemo In Slumberland is one of the most impressive Google Doodle I've ever seen, I really like it.
check it out;)
ReplyDelete"Empowering rural women is crucial for ending hunger and poverty. By denying women rights and opportunities, we deny their children and societies a better future. This is why the United Nations recently launched a programme to empower rural women and enhance food security."
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Message for the International Day of Rural Women
Rural women play a critical role in the rural economies of both developed and developing countries. In most parts of the developing world they participate in crop production and livestock care, provide food, water and fuel for their families, and engage in off-farm activities to diversify their families’ livelihoods. In addition, they carry out vital functions in caring for children, older persons and the sick.
The 2012 International Day of Rural Women takes on an added significance because it coincides with the inception of an inter-agency UN programme on accelerating progress towards the economic empowerment of rural women.
Google has recreated the adventures of Little Nemo in Slumberland for the 107th anniversary of Winsor McCay's comic strip's first publication.
ReplyDeleteRegarded as a comic-strip art masterpiece, the weekly strip first appeared on October 15, 1905 in the New York Herald as Little Nemo in Slumberland and later in New York American as In the Land of Wonderful Dreams.
The interactive and animated Google doodle celebrating the nightly dreams of the little boy called Nemo begins with Nemo dreaming about falling from his bed into a hole and being rescued by Princess Camille. After a series of little adventures, through Google-land (the interactive doodle strip is titled Little Nemo in Google Land) Nemo, as in the actual comic strip, falls out of his bed.
n the different panels of the Winsor McCay Little Nemo Google doodle the letters of the Google logo - G-O-O-G-L-E - appear in a chronological order.
Winsor McCay was not only a newspaper cartoonist, but also a pioneer of animated films. He started off as a poster and hoardings artist and later moved to newspaper cartooning.
Quotes by Mario Puzo:
ReplyDelete“A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.”
(The Godfather)
“Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.”
(The Godfather)
“The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.”
“What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.”
“Even the strongest man needs friends.”
“Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.”
(The Godfather)
“Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .”
(The Godfather)
“You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.”
(The Godfather)
“A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.”
“It's just business nothing personal...”
(The Godfather)
Asaphv Hall won the Lalande Prize of the French Academy of Sciences in 1878, the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1879, the Arago Medal in 1893, and was made a Chevalier in the Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur (French Legion of Honor) in 1896. Hall crater on the Moon as well as Hall crater on the Martian moon Phobos are named in his honor. Asteroid 3299 Hall is also named in his honor.
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