Doodle 4 Google: February 2011

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Li Bai's birthday

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Li Bai (Chinese: 李白, Lǐ Bái or Lǐ Bó; lived 701 – 762), also known in the West by various other transliterations, especially Li Po, is a major Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty poetry period. He has been regarded as one of the greatest poets in China's Tang period, which is often called China's "golden age" of poetry. Around a thousand existing poems are attributed to him, but the authenticity of many of these is uncertain. Thirty-four of his poems are included in the popular anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems. [Read more on Wikipedia]

Dominican Republic's Independence Day

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148 Joaquin Sorolla's birthday

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Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (27 February 1863 – 10 August 1923) was a Spanish painter. Sorolla excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes, and monumental works of social and historical themes. His most typical works are characterized by a dexterous representation of the people and landscape under the sunlight of his native land. [Read more on Wikipedia]

Platinum print of Sorolla by Gertrude Käsebier, c1908

100th Okamoto Taro's birthday

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Tarō Okamoto (February 26, 1911 – January 7, 1996) was a Japanese artist noted for his abstract and avant-garde paintings and sculpture. [Read more on Wikipedia]

Ibn Battuta's Birthday

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Hajji Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد ابن بطوطة‎), or simply Ibn Battuta (February 25, 1304–1368 or 1369), was a Moroccan Berber Islamic scholar and traveller who is known for the account of his travels and excursions called the Rihla. His journeys lasted for a period of nearly thirty years and covered almost the entirety of the known Islamic world and beyond, extending from North Africa, West Africa, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in the West, to the Middle East, Indian subcontinent, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China in the East, a distance readily surpassing that of his predecessors and his near-contemporary Marco Polo. With this extensive account of his journey, Ibn Battuta is often considered one of the greatest travellers ever. [Read more on Wikipedia]

The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 will take place from 23 February to 6 March 2011 in Oslo, Norway, at the Holmenkollen National Arena. This is the fifth time these championships have been hosted in Holmenkollen, having been done previously in 1930, the 1952 Winter Olympics, 1966, and 1982. On 25 May 2006, the 45th FIS Congress in Vilamoura, Portugal selected the Holmenkollen area over both Val di Fiemme, Italy and Zakopane, Poland with a vote of 12 to 4 to 0. These games will coincide with the Holmenkollen Ski Festival as they have previously in 1930, 1952, 1966, and 1982. [Read more on Wikipedia]

Official logo for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011.

Munkácsy Mihály's 167 birthday

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Mihály Munkácsy (originally Michael von Lieb;; February 20, 1844 – May 1, 1900) was a Hungarian painter, who lived in Paris and earned international reputation with his genre pictures and large scale biblical paintings. [Read more on Wikipedia]

Munkácsy Mihály

2011 Cricket World Cup

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The 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup is the tenth Cricket World Cup and is being played in Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka. It is Bangladesh's first time co-hosting a World Cup. All matches in the World Cup will be accorded One Day International status, with all matches being played over 50 overs. Fourteen national cricket teams will compete in the tournament, including ten full members and four associate members. The World Cup will take place between February and early April 2011, with the first match played on 19 February 2011 with co-hosts India and Bangladesh facing off at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur, Dhaka. The opening ceremony was held on 17 February 2011 at Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka, two days before the start of the tournament, with the final on 2 April 2011 at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.

Official Logo of the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup.

Constantin Brâncuşi's 135 birthday

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Constantin Brâncuşi (Romanian pronunciation: [konstanˈtin brɨnˈkuʃʲ]; February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957) was a Romanian sculptor.

Brâncuşi grew up in the village of Hobiţa Romania, Gorj, near Târgu Jiu, near Romania's Carpathian Mountains, an area known for its rich tradition of folk crafts, particularly woodcarving. Geometric patterns of the region are seen in his later works. [Read more on Wikipedia]

Constantin Brâncuşi; Photograph taken by Edward Steichen in 1922.

Guillermo González Camarena's birthday

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Guillermo González Camarena (February 17, 1917 – April 18, 1965) (aged 48), was a Mexican engineer who was the inventor of color television. [Read more on wikipedia]

Lantern Festival

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Doodle 4 Google

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Miriam Ruth's birthday

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Ernest Shackleton's birthday

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Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, CVO, OBE (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish explorer who was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. His first experience of the polar regions was as third officer on Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, from which he was sent home early on health grounds. Determined to make amends for this perceived personal failure, he returned to Antarctica in 1907 as leader of the Nimrod Expedition. In January 1909 he and three companions made a southern march which established a record Farthest South latitude at 88°23'S, 97 geographical miles (114 statute miles, 190 km) from the South Pole, by far the closest convergence in exploration history up to that time. For this achievement, Shackleton was knighted by King Edward VII on his return home. [Read more on Wikipedia]