The Count’s Google Image

In honor of Sesame Street’s 40th anniversary, here is  Google’s image for today:

Today’s Google image from Sesame Street

In honor of Sesame Street’s 40th anniversary, here is Google’s image for today-

Happy Birthday Hans Christian Ørsted

Hans Christian Ørsted (b. 14 August 1777 in Rudkøbing, Denmark, d. 9 March 1851 in Copenhagen) was a Danish physicist and chemist who is best known for discovering that electric currents can induce magnetic fields, which is an important part of electromagnetism. He shaped post-Kantian philosophy and advances in science throughout the late 19th century.^[1]

Ørsted founded Selskabet for Naturlærens Udbredelse (SNU), a society to disseminate knowledge of the natural sciences. He was also the founder of predecessor organizations that eventually became the Danish Meteorological Institute and the Danish Patent and Trademark Office. Ørsted was the first modern thinker to explicitly describe and name the thought experiment.

A leader of the so-called Danish Golden Age, Ørsted was a close friend of Hans Christian Andersen and the brother of politician and jurist Anders Sandøe Ørsted, who eventually served as Danish prime minister (1853-54).

Alexander Puskin, a Russian author

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (June 6 [O.S. May 26] 1799–February 10 [O.S. January 29] 1837) was a Russian author of the Romantic erawho is considered to be the greatest Russian poetand the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin pioneered the use of vernacular speech in his poems and plays, creating a style of storytelling—mixing drama, romance, and satire—associated with Russian literature ever since and greatly influencing later Russian writers.

Here is Google Russia’s logo for the day

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It’s National Day in Sweden

Here is Google Sweden’s Logo-

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Celebrating 25 years of Tetris

This is Google’s log for today-

To find out more, click Tetris

Happy Independence Day!

Today in 1776, the United States declared its independence from Great Britain.

From Wikipedia-

In the United States, Independence Day, commonly known as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. Congress approved the wording of the Declaration on July 4 and then sent it to the printer. Whether John Hancock, as the elected President of the Second Continental Congress, or anyone else signed the document that day is unknown, because that document has been lost — presumably destroyed in the printing process.^[1] Hancock’s name and that of a witness do appear on the typeset broadside that was published within a few days. On August 2 in the following month, an engrossed document in script form^[2] was signed by Hancock and other delegates.

Independence Day is commonly associated with fireworks, parades, barbecues, carnivals, picnics, baseball games, and various other public and private events celebrating the history, government, and traditions of the United States, but is often also viewed as simply a summer festival, apart from its patriotic overtones.

This is also from Wikipedia- a picture of fireworks in Miami-

Summer Solstice 2008

Today is the first day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Information from calendar-updates.com -

In the United States and the rest of the northern hemisphere, the first day of the summer season is the day of the year when the Sun is farthest north (on June 20th or 21st). This day is known as the Summer Solstice.

The declination of the Sun on the Summer Solstice is known as the tropic of cancer (23° 27′).  In the southern hemisphere, winter and summer solstices are exchanged so that the Summer Solstice is the day on which the Sun is farthest south.

A common misconception is that the earth is further from the sun in winter than in summer. Actually, the Earth is closest to the sun in December which is winter in the Northern hemisphere.

Here is Google US’s logo for the date-

100th Anniversary of Japanese Immigration in Brazil

June 18th, 2008 marks the one-hundredth anniversary of Japanese immigration in Brazil.

According to the Portuguese language Wikipedia-

The Kasato Maru is considered the first ship to arrive in Brazil with Japanese immigrants, on June 18, 1908. It arrived in the Port of Santos bringing 165 families that came to work on the coffee plantations in the state of Sao Paulo.

The following picture is of the Liberdade neighborhood in downtown Sao Paulo. It is the Japan-town of Sao Paulo.

The following is the image on Google Brasil’s site:

Today is the National Holiday of Sweden

National Day of Sweden, or Swedish Flag Day (Sveriges nationaldag or svenska flaggans dag) is observed in Sweden on June 6 every year. The day was made into a national day by the Riksdag (Swedish parliament) in 1983, before which it was just honored as “the Swedish flag day“.

From Wikipedia

Click picture to amplify the picture of a Swedish flag being flown on a home.

Here is Google Sweden’s logo for the day-