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Birthday of Katsushika Hokusai
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2500 years from the first Marathon
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The marathon was one of the original modern Olympic events in 1896, though the distance did not become standardized until 1921. More than 500 marathons are contested throughout the world each year, with the vast majority of competitors being recreational athletes. Larger marathons can have tens of thousands of participants.
The name Marathon comes from the legend of Pheidippides, a Greek messenger. The legend states that he was sent from the battlefield of Marathon to Athens to announce that the Persians had been defeated in the Battle of Marathon (in which he had just fought), which took place in August or September, 490 BC. It is said that he ran the entire distance without stopping and burst into the assembly, exclaiming "Νενικήκαμεν" (Nenikékamen, 'We have won.') before collapsing and dying. The account of the run from Marathon to Athens first appears in Plutarch's On the Glory of Athens in the 1st century AD which quotes from Heraclides Ponticus's lost work, giving the runner's name as either Thersipus of Erchius or Eucles. Lucian of Samosata (2nd century AD) also gives the story but names the runner Philippides (not Pheidippides). [Read more on Wikipedia]
1 billion subscriptions
It’s been a week of milestones for YouTube — first, Lady Gaga’s videos hit 1 billion views, then the Promoted Videos program hit half a billion views. Now, YouTube is reporting that it has seen 1 billion subscriptions. That’s a lot of billions in seven days.
According to the YouTube blog, the channel that raked in the billionth hit was MachinimaSports, and a ton of its channels have crossed the 1 million subscriber mark, including fred, failblog and universalmusicgroup.
In celebration of the site’s ever-burgeoning following, YouTube is also rolling out a widget that video-makers can embed in their sites, which will allow people to subscribe to channels even outside of the video-sharing site. The code for the widget can be found on YouTube’s blog.
According to the YouTube blog, the channel that raked in the billionth hit was MachinimaSports, and a ton of its channels have crossed the 1 million subscriber mark, including fred, failblog and universalmusicgroup.
In celebration of the site’s ever-burgeoning following, YouTube is also rolling out a widget that video-makers can embed in their sites, which will allow people to subscribe to channels even outside of the video-sharing site. The code for the widget can be found on YouTube’s blog.
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Austrian National Holiday/Declaration of Neutrality
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Formally, the declaration was promulgated voluntarily by the Republic of Austria. Politically, it was the direct consequence of the allied occupation by the Soviet Union, the United States, the United Kingdom and France between 1945 and 1955, from which the country was freed by the Austrian State Treaty of 15 May the same year. The Soviet Union would not have agreed to the State Treaty if Austria had not committed itself to declare its neutrality after the allied forces had left the country.
Since 1955, neutrality has become a deeply ingrained element of Austrian identity. Austria's national holiday on 26 October commemorates the declaration. Legally, Austrian neutrality is both part of the Austrian constitution and of international law. There is an ongoing debate among legal scholars whether Austria could change this neutral status on its own account. This is a moot point, however, since there is no political or popular support for doing so.
However the opinion of Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen is that his country is no longer neutral due to EU membership and its Common Foreign and Security Policy. It is unknown to what extent other EU states such as Austria agree with this analysis
Menino Maluquinho's Birthday
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Presents the stories and inventions of a lively and impish child, "Silly." Cartoons and activities that are lyrically describe the taste of childhood.
The book became a success, having sold up to December 2006 over two and a half million copies, and is known for countless children, serving as inspiration for a piece of theater , movies , comic books and a series of TV of the same name. It is also used by some schools to encourage reading.
On October 24, 2010, the character turns 30, the same day as the birthday of its creator, Ziraldo.
Hungary National Day
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Dizzy Gillespie's Birthday
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| Gillespie in concert, Deauville, Normandy, France |
YouTube Doodle Guggenheim
As with any user-generated content site with a vast audience, YouTube has seen its fair share of critics questioning the value, or rather the quality, of most videos on the site. Granted, with millions of videos and more uploaded each day, most of the stuff is not exactly Oscar level. But YouTube and the Guggenheim Museum have teamed up to show that real art does have a home on YouTube and, what’s more, the site can be the driving force behind a new way of experimenting with video as an art form.
“In five years, YouTube has redefined media culture by changing the way the world creates, distributes and watches video. Online video is exploding not just as a medium, but as an art form, and we’re proud of the originality and innovation that YouTube has fostered among our users,” an announcement on the YouTube blog read.
“We want to celebrate phenomenal video-makers and recognize the creative potential of the medium. So today we’re collaborating with the Guggenheim Museum to discover the most creative video in the world, and showcase exceptional talent working in the ever-expanding realm of digital media: YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video,” the announcement added.
The first edition of YouTube Play is now underway. Creative people from around the world are encouraged to submit their creations by July 31st. With a month and a half at their disposal, video creators should be coming up with some interesting pieces.
There is no particular theme or style that is encouraged, anything goes. This is true for the subject matter and it is true for the technique used. From music videos to stop-motion animation, every video will have a chance to be picked.
After the submission period is over, a jury of experts in art, design, film and video will choose a number of videos, 20 to 25, which will then be presented at the Guggenheim Museum in New York on October 21, and at the same time at Guggenheim museums across the world at Bilbao, Venice and Berlin.
“In five years, YouTube has redefined media culture by changing the way the world creates, distributes and watches video. Online video is exploding not just as a medium, but as an art form, and we’re proud of the originality and innovation that YouTube has fostered among our users,” an announcement on the YouTube blog read.
“We want to celebrate phenomenal video-makers and recognize the creative potential of the medium. So today we’re collaborating with the Guggenheim Museum to discover the most creative video in the world, and showcase exceptional talent working in the ever-expanding realm of digital media: YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video,” the announcement added.
The first edition of YouTube Play is now underway. Creative people from around the world are encouraged to submit their creations by July 31st. With a month and a half at their disposal, video creators should be coming up with some interesting pieces.
There is no particular theme or style that is encouraged, anything goes. This is true for the subject matter and it is true for the technique used. From music videos to stop-motion animation, every video will have a chance to be picked.
After the submission period is over, a jury of experts in art, design, film and video will choose a number of videos, 20 to 25, which will then be presented at the Guggenheim Museum in New York on October 21, and at the same time at Guggenheim museums across the world at Bilbao, Venice and Berlin.
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Double Ninth Festival
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According to the I Ching, nine is the yang number; the ninth day of the ninth lunar month (or double nine) has too much yang (a traditional Chinese spiritual concept) and is thus a potentially dangerous date. Hence, the day is also called "Double Yang Festival" (重陽節). To protect against the danger, it is customary to climb a high mountain, drink chrysanthemum wine, and wear the zhuyu (茱萸) plant, Cornus officinalis. (Both chrysanthemum and zhuyu are considered to have cleansing qualities and are used on other occasions to air out houses and cure illnesses.) Also on this holiday, some Chinese also visit the graves of their ancestors to pay their respects. [Read more on Wikipedia]
Ahmad Shawqi's Birthday
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Oscar Wilde's Birthday
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| Photograph taken in 1882 by Napoleon Sarony |
Cahit Arf's 100th Birthday
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John Lennon's 70th Birthday
It's an ode to John Lennon -- Google style. On his 70th birthday, Google doodle has a very special John Lennon video doodle with the famous Beatles song Imagine playing on Google's homepage logo. It is also, in our knowledge, the very first video Google doodle to replace Google's corporate logo on Google's homepage worldwide.
Here is another one:
YouTube logo:
Just log on to Google.com and click on the play button to play a 32-second audio clip from John Lennon's Imagine song on today's Google doodle on Google's homepage.
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who achieved worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. Lennon and Paul McCartney formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.
Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved in the skiffle craze as a teenager, his first band, The Quarrymen, evolved into The Beatles in 1960. As the group began to undergo the disintegration that led to their break-up at the end of that decade, Lennon launched a solo career that would span the next, punctuated by critically acclaimed albums, including John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine".
Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, his writing, his drawings, on film, and in interviews, and he became controversial through his work as a peace activist. He moved to New York City in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by Richard Nixon's administration to deport him. His songs were adapted as anthems by the anti-war movement. He took a sabbatical from the music business in 1975 to devote time to his family but reemerged in 1980 with a comeback album, Double Fantasy, but was murdered three weeks after its release.
Lennon's solo album sales in the United States exceed 14 million units, and as performer, writer, or co-writer he is responsible for 27 number one singles on the US Hot 100 chart.a In 2002, a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted him eighth, and in 2008, Rolling Stone ranked him the fifth greatest singer of all time. He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. [Read more on Wikipedia]
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| Courtesy of Yoko Ono Lennon/Bag One Arts, Inc. Source: http://www.google.com/logos/2010/lennon10-hp.gif |
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John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who achieved worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. Lennon and Paul McCartney formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.
Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved in the skiffle craze as a teenager, his first band, The Quarrymen, evolved into The Beatles in 1960. As the group began to undergo the disintegration that led to their break-up at the end of that decade, Lennon launched a solo career that would span the next, punctuated by critically acclaimed albums, including John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine".
Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, his writing, his drawings, on film, and in interviews, and he became controversial through his work as a peace activist. He moved to New York City in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by Richard Nixon's administration to deport him. His songs were adapted as anthems by the anti-war movement. He took a sabbatical from the music business in 1975 to devote time to his family but reemerged in 1980 with a comeback album, Double Fantasy, but was murdered three weeks after its release.
Lennon's solo album sales in the United States exceed 14 million units, and as performer, writer, or co-writer he is responsible for 27 number one singles on the US Hot 100 chart.a In 2002, a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted him eighth, and in 2008, Rolling Stone ranked him the fifth greatest singer of all time. He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. [Read more on Wikipedia]
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| Lennon rehearsing "Give Peace a Chance" in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1969 |
César Milstein's Birthday
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| Source: http://www.google.com/logos/2010/cesarmilstein2010-hp.jpg |
Nachum Gutman Birthday
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| Nachum Gutman in Vienna, 1920 |
Nigeria's Independence Day
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| Source: http://www.google.com/logos/2010/nigeriaindependence2010-hp.jpg |
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