Google Doodle Honors 'Human Computer' Shakuntala Devi

Google Doodle Honors 'Human Computer' Shakuntala Devi
Today's Google doodle pays tribute to an Indian woman who could perform superhuman mathematical feats, such as finding the 23rd root of a 201-digit number in just 50 seconds. Shakuntala Devi, nicknamed the "Human Computer," died earlier this year at …
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Google's Interactive Game Celebrates the First Parachute Jump
It's hard to associate parachutes with anything but people skydiving from airplanes. But the first modern parachute was actually invented over a century before the Wright brothers conducted their first successful flight. Today's Google Doodle pays …
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Edith Head Google Doodle Honors Oscar-Winning Designer
Google has a very fashionable homepage doodle today, which pays tribute to award-winning costume designer Edith Head. The image features Head in her signature round glasses standing in front of six well-dressed models whose shadows spell out the …
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Google doodle honours India's 'human computer' Shakuntala Devi
India's mathematical prodigy Shakuntala Devi who passed away in April this year, has been paid tribute by Google, which has made her the subject of its doodle today. Had she been alive, Devi would have turned 81 today. Visitors to the search page of …
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Google doodle celebrates 84th birthday of Shakuntala Devi
Google doodle on Monday celebrates the 84th birth anniversary of mathematical genius Shakuntala Devi. Popularly known as the Human Computer, Shakuntala Devi was included in The Guinness Book of World Records in 1982. With a calculator font and …
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Celia Cruz, queen of Salsa, gets Google Doodle
Celia Cruz, a Cuban-American salsa performer often described as 'la Reina de Salsa' or 'the Queen of Salsa', was honored with a Google Doodle on Monday, Oct. 21, 2013. Her birthday is Oct. 21, 1925. Cruz died in 2003 at age 77.
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