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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Gioachino Rossini's 220th Birthday / Leap Year
Gioachino Antonio Rossini and Leap year 2012 Google Doodle is a bit funny with four frogs having fun and enjoying. One is playing orchestra, second is singing, third one is sitting on the chair while the fourth one is showing him his hairs after a haircut. Below is the little detail about Gioachino Antonio Rossini as well as Leap years for you guys.
Gioachino Antonio Rossini:
Gioachino Antonio Rossini wrote 39 operas as well as holy music, chamber music, songs, and a number of instrumental and piano pieces. He was born on 29 February 1792 and died on 13 November 1868. Italian comedies Il barbiere di Siviglia and La Cenerentola and the French-language epics Moïse et Pharaon and Guillaume Tell are his best-known operas.Leap Year:
February 29, called a leap day, is a date that comes in the years that are equally divisible by 4, for example 2004, 2008, 2012 as well as 2016. Years that are equally divisible by 100 are not leap years, but those years which are divisible by 400 are the leap years. For example 1900 was not a leap year while 2000 was. February 29 is the 60th day of the Gregorian calendar in such a year, with 306 days left over until the conclusion of that year.Happy Birthday Gioachino Rossini and Happy Leap Year to all of you!
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz's 155th Birthday
Hertz was the first to broadcast and receive radio waves. His pioneering work laid the way for the development of radio, television and radar.
The unit of frequency of a radio wave - one cycle per second - is named the hertz, in honour of Heinrich Hertz.
Hertz proved the existence of radio waves in the late 1880s. He used two rods to serve as a receiver and a spark gap as the receiving antennae. Where the waves were picked up, a spark would jump. Hertz showed in his experiments that these signals possessed all of the properties of electromagnetic waves.
With this oscillator, Hertz solved two problems. First, timing English scientis James Clerk Maxwell's waves. He had demonstrated, in the concrete, what Maxwell had only theorised - that the velocity of radio waves was equal to the velocity of light. (This proved that radio waves were a form of light).
Second, Hertz found out how to make the electric and magnetic fields detach themselves from wires and go free as Maxwell's waves.
Hertz died at the young age of 36 on New Year's Day 1894. There is a lunar crater on the dark side of the Moon named after him.
Unlike recent Google doodles that used complex JavaScript for animated doodles, the Hertz Google doodle is a relatively simpler animated GIF image.
Google has, till the Hertz doodle, posted 1308 doodles on its home page since the first ever Google doodle back on August 30, 1998.
Source : http://ibnlive.in.co
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Google Locals - Google's Workplace ScreenShot
If you observe carefully the above picture, that's the way Google treats its employees. Google really wanted to provide a comfortable working atmosphere and fun. Google principle: employees will be all out if the company was treating them with a very decent.
For example, in photo number 2 & 3, it is the atmosphere in the Google cafeteria. There employees are free to take food and drinks are provided and the type is very diverse (all you can eat anyway). Games center is also available. There are also slides from the second floor to first floor, and many others.
Employees feel saturated? There is no term in the Google employee 'dictionary'!