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Earth Day
Earth Day is an annual event, celebrated on April 22, on which events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection.
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Earth Day is an annual event, celebrated on April 22, on which events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection.
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Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was not a British but Belgain actress and humanitarian. Recognized as a film and fashion icon, Hepburn was active during Hollywood's Golden Age. She was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third greatest female screen legend in the history of American cinema and has been placed in the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame. She is also regarded by some to be the most naturally beautiful woman of all time.[1][2][3][4]
Born in Ixelles, a district of Brussels, Hepburn spent her childhood between Belgium, England and the Netherlands, including German-occupied Arnhem during the Second World War. In Amsterdam, she studied ballet with Sonia Gaskell before moving to London in 1948 to continue her ballet training with Marie Rambert and perform as a chorus girl in West End musical theatre productions. She spoke several languages including English, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, and German.
Dorothy Mary Hodgkin, OM, FRS (12 May 1910 – 29 July 1994), née Crowfoot, was a British biochemist, credited with the development of protein crystallography.
She advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography, a method used to determine the three-dimensional structures of biomolecules. Among her most influential discoveries are the confirmation of the structure of penicillin that Ernst Boris Chain and Edward Abraham had previously surmised, and then the structure of vitamin B12, for which she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. She was the third woman to win the prestigious Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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New Delhi: As political parties brace for India's verdict on who will form the next government, an inked finger marks Google's 16th Lok Sabha Elections result doodle.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies are seen as favourites to win the maximum seats when results are announced today. NDTV's exit poll shows the BJP's national alliance winning majority and Congress' seat share dropping to double digits.
The BJP and its allies need 272 of the 543 seats in the Lok Sabha to form the next government.
The marathon six-week parliamentary election saw a 66 per cent voter turnout, a new record; 55.16 crore people voted.
The counting of votes in the nine-phase polls will start at 8 am and the first trends will start coming in by 9-9:30 am, Chief Electoral Officer VS Sampath told NDTV.
The BJP's best showing so far was in elections in 1998 and 1999 when it won 182 seats and ran the country until a shock defeat at the hands of the Congress in 2004. NDTV's exit polls say this time the party alone could get 235 seats.
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Google doodle celebrates 215th birthday of Mary Anning
Mary Anning (21 May 1799 – 9 March 1847) was a British fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist who became known around the world for important findings she made in the Jurassic marine fossil beds at Lyme Regis in Dorset.
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Mary Anning (21 May 1799 – 9 March 1847) was a British fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist who became known around the world for important findings she made in the Jurassic marine fossil beds at Lyme Regis in Dorset.
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Rachel Louise Carson's 107th Birthday
Google dedicates the doodle for the day to Rachel Louise Carson, an American marine biologist and conservationist. Her book, Silent Spring was noted and credited with advancing the global movement on environment.
Google celebrates her life, achievements and contributions to marine biology and ecology with the Google doodle showing Rachel Louise Carson with a pair of binoculars around her neck and a notebook in her hand, standing at a water-front surrounded by various species of birds and marine life.
The Google doodle marks Rachel Louise Carson's 107th Birthday. Her contributions to environmental studies were greatly appreciated by scholars and scientists. The marine biologists book 'Silent Spring' had a major impact on the environment and social movement in the mid twentieth century.
Ms Carson's most significant work was the campaign against the use of DDT (Dichloro Diphenyl Trichloroethane), a common insecticide, in the United States of America. She had questioned the logic of releasing large amounts of chemicals into the environment without a sufficient understanding of their effects on ecology and human health. This eventually led to the ban on agricultural use of DDT in America in 1972.
Carson was born to an insurance salesman in Springdale, Pennsylvania. She studied English, before changing her major to Biology.
She wrote her first essay, 'The World of Waters' for a brochure at the US fisheries bureau, where she had started her career as an aquatic biologist. The essay however, wasn't published as her supervisor had deemed it 'too good' for that purpose. The Atlantic Monthly, an American magazine, published a revised version of the essay in July 1937.
Her book, 'The Sea Around Us' was made into a documentary film. Carson was unhappy about the final version of the script by writer Irwin Allen, but discovered that her right to review the script did not have any control over its content. The documentary went on to win the Oscar for the 'Best Documentary' in 1953. Carson however, was so embittered by the experience of not having any control over her own content, that she never sold film rights to her work ever again.
Some of her most notable work includes:
- Silent Spring (1962)
- The Sea Around Us (1951)
- The Edge of the Sea (1955)
- Under the Sea Wind (1941)
Rachel Louise Carson suffered from liver and breast cancer, and died of a heart attack in April 1964, in her home in Silver Spring, Maryland. Carson was awarded the 'Presidential Medal of Freedom', the highest civilian honour in the United States of America. Her home in Pennsylvania was renamed as 'Rachel Carson Homestead' and became a National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
Google dedicates the doodle for the day to Rachel Louise Carson, an American marine biologist and conservationist. Her book, Silent Spring was noted and credited with advancing the global movement on environment.
Google celebrates her life, achievements and contributions to marine biology and ecology with the Google doodle showing Rachel Louise Carson with a pair of binoculars around her neck and a notebook in her hand, standing at a water-front surrounded by various species of birds and marine life.
The Google doodle marks Rachel Louise Carson's 107th Birthday. Her contributions to environmental studies were greatly appreciated by scholars and scientists. The marine biologists book 'Silent Spring' had a major impact on the environment and social movement in the mid twentieth century.
Ms Carson's most significant work was the campaign against the use of DDT (Dichloro Diphenyl Trichloroethane), a common insecticide, in the United States of America. She had questioned the logic of releasing large amounts of chemicals into the environment without a sufficient understanding of their effects on ecology and human health. This eventually led to the ban on agricultural use of DDT in America in 1972.
Carson was born to an insurance salesman in Springdale, Pennsylvania. She studied English, before changing her major to Biology.
She wrote her first essay, 'The World of Waters' for a brochure at the US fisheries bureau, where she had started her career as an aquatic biologist. The essay however, wasn't published as her supervisor had deemed it 'too good' for that purpose. The Atlantic Monthly, an American magazine, published a revised version of the essay in July 1937.
Her book, 'The Sea Around Us' was made into a documentary film. Carson was unhappy about the final version of the script by writer Irwin Allen, but discovered that her right to review the script did not have any control over its content. The documentary went on to win the Oscar for the 'Best Documentary' in 1953. Carson however, was so embittered by the experience of not having any control over her own content, that she never sold film rights to her work ever again.
Some of her most notable work includes:
- Silent Spring (1962)
- The Sea Around Us (1951)
- The Edge of the Sea (1955)
- Under the Sea Wind (1941)
Rachel Louise Carson suffered from liver and breast cancer, and died of a heart attack in April 1964, in her home in Silver Spring, Maryland. Carson was awarded the 'Presidential Medal of Freedom', the highest civilian honour in the United States of America. Her home in Pennsylvania was renamed as 'Rachel Carson Homestead' and became a National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
