Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa’s 113th Birthday Google Doodle

Kuppalli Venkatappa Puttappa popularly known by the nickname Kuvempu or by K. V. Puttappa, was an Indian Novelist, Poet, Playwright, Critic and Thinker.

He is widely regarded as the greatest Kannada Poet of the 20th century. He is the first among Kannada writers to be decorated with the prestigious Jnanapith Award.

The Search Engine Google is showing Doodle in India for Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa’s 113th Birthday on Dec 29, 2017.

Kuvempu studied at Mysore University in 1920’s, taught there for nearly 3 decades and rose to be Vice-Chancellor of the University (1956-60). He initiated Teaching in Kannada Medium.

For his contributions to Kannada Literature, the Government of Karnataka decorated him with the honorific Rashtrakavi (“National Poet”) in 1958 and Karnataka Ratna (“Gem of Karnataka”) in 1992.

His epic narrative Sri Ramayana Darshanam, a modern rendering of the Indian Hindu epic Ramayana is regarded as the revival of the era of Mahakavya (“Great Epic poetry”) in contemporary form and charm. His writings and his contribution to “Universal Humanism” (in his own words, “Vishwa maanavataa Vaada”) gives him a unique place in modern Indian literature.

He was conferred the Padma Vibhushan by Government of India in 1988. He penned the Karnataka State Anthem Jaya Bharata Jananiya Tanujate.

Read more at http://www.rtoz.org/2017/12/29/kuppali-venkatappa-puttappas-113th-birthday-google-doodle/

December global festivities | Holidays 2017

The Search Engine Google is showing a slideshow doodle in many countries for the December global festivities. It is the Day 1 Doodle from the series of Doodles to be shown for the Holidays 2017.

Google are beginning the countdown to Christmas with a festive series of Doodles, beginning on Monday, December 18.

Interactive, animated images feature penguins and parrots arranging to spend the big day together.

In the comic strip, a pair of 'slippery-footed siblings' are gearing up for the holidays as they can be seen talking to their 'warm weather relative' over phone.

In the next image, the penguins are seen packing their bags inside their icy igloo. The final panel hint at the series' next installments - Dec. 25, Christmas Day, Dec. 31, New Year's Eve, and finally, Jan. 1, New Year's Day.

Solar Eclipse Science Google Doodle

A solar eclipse (as seen from the planet Earth) is a type of eclipse that occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, and when the Moon fully or partially blocks (“occults”) the Sun. 

This can happen only at new moon when the Sun and the Moon are in conjunction as seen from Earth in an alignment referred to as syzygy. In a total eclipse, the disk of the Sun is fully obscured by the Moon. In partial and annular eclipses, only part of the Sun is obscured

There are two kinds of eclipses. lunar and solar. In a solar eclipse, the moon comes between Earth and the Sun, casting a shadow on the surface of Earth.A lunar eclipse occurs when Earth comes between the sun and a full moon, blocking light from the sun and casting a shadow on the surface of the moon.

Eclipses affect animals too: the sudden darkness and resulting drop in temperature during a total solar eclipse can cause critters to behave as it it were dusk.

The Search Engine Google is showing an animated Doodle in United States for the Great American Eclipse 2017

Skywatchers on the American continent today are in for a special astronomical treat: front row seats to a total solar eclipse. An eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the sun and the earth, blocking the light of the sun from reaching us. 

While eclipses aren’t rare, a total eclipse, when viewers from Earth are at the very center of the moon’s shadow, only happens once every 18 months. To see one requires you to be in just the right place on earth, and a total eclipse in the same location only happens every 375 years on average.

Read more about solar eclipse at http://www.rtoz.org/2017/08/21/solar-eclipse-2017-google-doodle/

Marshall McLuhan 106th Birthday

Herbert Marshall McLuhan was born on July 21, 1911 in Edmonton, Alberta, the son of Elsie Naomi (née Hall) and Herbert Ernest McLuhan. 

The Search Engine Google is showing this Doodle in many Countries for the Marshall McLuhan’s 106th Birthday on 21st July 2017.

He was a Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual. His mother was a Baptist school teacher who later became an actress; his father was a Methodist and had a real estate business in Edmonton. 

His work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory, as well as having practical applications in the advertising and television industries. 

He was educated at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge; he began his teaching career as a Professor of English at several universities in the U.S. and Canada before moving to the University of Toronto, where he remained for the rest of his life.

Marshall McLuhan is known for coining the expression "the medium is the message" and the term global village, and for predicting the World Wide Web almost thirty years before it was invented

He was a fixture in media discourse in the late 1960s, though his influence began to wane in the early 1970s

McLuhan's 1942 Cambridge University doctoral dissertation surveys the history of the verbal arts (grammar, logic, and rhetoric—collectively known as the trivium) from the time of Cicero down to the time of Thomas Nashe.

McLuhan also started the journal Explorations with anthropologist Edmund "Ted" Carpenter

He never fully recovered from the stroke and died in his sleep on December 31, 1980.

Eva Ekeblad Google Doodle. Eva Ekeblad’s 293rd birthday

Eva De la Gardie was born to statesman count Magnus Julius De la Gardie (1668–1741) and the amateur politiciany and salonist Hedvig Catharina Lilje: sister of Captain Carl Julius De la Gardie and Hedvig Catharina De la Gardie and the aunt of Axel von Fersen the Younger.

She  was a Swedish agronomist, scientist, Salonist and noble (Countess)

The Search Engine Google is showing this Doodle in many countries for Eva Ekeblad’s 293rd Birthday on 10th july 2017.

In 1746, Ekeblad wrote to the Royal Swedish Academy, of Sciences on her discoveries of how to make flour and alcohol out of potatoes

In 1740, at the age of 16, Eva married the riksråd count Claes Claesson Ekeblad, and became the mother of seven children: one son and six daughters.

She also discovered a method of bleaching cotton textile and yarn with soap in 1751,and of replacing the dangerous ingredients in cosmetics of the time by using potato flour (1752);

she is said to have advertised the plant by using its flowers as hair ornaments.

In 1748, Eva Ekeblad became the first woman elected to Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

In 1751, the Academy came to refer to her as an honorary rather than a full member, as the statutes confined membership to men

After the death of her spouse in 1771, she retired to the countryside. She was died on 15 May 1786

Ferdinand Monoyer Google Doodle

Ferdinand Monoyer was born in   France on May 9, 1836

Ferdinand Monoyer was a French ophthalmologist, known for introducing the dioptre in 1872.

The Search Engine Google is showing this animated Doodle in few Counrties for the Ferdinand Monoyer’s 181st Birthday

He also invented the Monoyer chart, used to test visual acuity.

The visual acuity chart, also known as Monoyer chart, is also his creation.

Monoyer’s Father Was a Military Doctor Who Died When Monoyer Was 5 Years Old

Monoyer grew up in Lyon in France before moving to the University of Strasbourg in 1871.

he was director of the Ophthalmic Clinic of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Nancy from 1872 to 1877.

He was also Professor of medical physics at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Lyon from 1877 to 1909

Monoyer passed away on July 11, 1912.

Cassini Spacecraft Dives Between Saturn and its Rings in Today's Google Doodle

Cassini–Huygens is an unmanned spacecraft sent to the planet Saturn. It is a Flagship-class NASA–ESA–ASI robotic spacecraft.

Cassini is the fourth space probe to visit Saturn and the first to enter orbit, and its mission is ongoing as of April 2017.

It has studied the planet and its many natural satellites since arriving there in 2004

Google celebrate Cassini Spacecraft Dives Between Saturn and its Rings! with doodle

Cassini is currently planned to be destroyed by diving into the planet's atmosphere on September 15, 2017, when it will beam its last batch of images.

Cassini was developed simultaneously with the Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby (CRAF) spacecraft, but budget cuts and project rescopings forced NASA to terminate CRAF development to save Cassini. 

Cassini Size: 6.7 metres high by 4.0 metres wide and Weight: 5712 kilograms

Powered by: Nuclear thermoelectric generators, packed with 30 kilograms of plutonium

Launched on: 15 October 1997

Distance travelled on journey to Saturn: 3.5 billion kilometres

The Cassini space probe performed two gravitational-assist flybys of Venus on April 26, 1998, and June 24, 1999. 

These flybys provided the space probe with enough momentum to travel all the way out to the asteroid belt. At that point, the Sun's gravity pulled the space probe back into the inner Solar System

Earth Day tips - Google's Doodle for Earth Day 2017 shows some Tips for Earth Day

The Search Engine Google is showing this Slide show Doodle globally for the Earth Day to spread the Earth Day Tips to its users.

Earth Day is an annual event celebrated on April 22. Worldwide, various events are held to demonstrate support for environmental protection. 

First celebrated in 1970, Earth Day events in more than 193 countries are now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network. 

At an estimated 4.543 billion years of age, the Earth is still the only known object in the Universe known to harbor life. It’s also the densest planet in the Solar System and the largest of the four terrestrial planets.

Earth Day was founded by Senator Gaylord Nelson on April 22, 1970.

20 million people participated in the first Earth Day.

More than 100 billion pieces of junk mail are delivered in the United States each year.

Every year on April 22, men, women, and children collect garbage, plant trees, clean up coral reefs, show movies, sign petitions, and plan for a better future for our planet.

Earth Day Slogans
It’s our world, take care of it

Keep our Earth Clean and Green

Save water, it will save you later!

Lets go green to get our globe clean.

Read more earthday slogans at http://www.thequotes.net/2013/04/earth-day-slogans/

Earth Day Quotes
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.–Barry Commoner

He that plants trees loves others beside himself.– Thomas Fuller

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.– Ralph Nader

The earth is what we all have in common. – Wendell Berry

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. ~Marshall McLuhan

Read more earth day quotes at http://www.thequotes.net/2012/04/earth-day-quotes/

Google doodle honors Ghanaian entrepreneur Esther Afua Ocloo

Esther Afua Ocloo (April 18, 1919, Peki Dzake - February 8, 2002) was a Ghanaian entrepreneur and pioneer of microlending. She was born Esther Afua Nkulenu.

She was one of the founders of Women's World Banking in 1976, with Michaela Walsh and Ela Bhatt, and served as its first chair of trustees. She received the 1990 Africa Prize for Leadership.

April 18, 2017 the search engine Google shows a Doodle for 98th Birthday of Esther Afua Ocloo, in few countries. The Google Doodle shows Esther Afua Ocloo empowering the women of Ghana with the tools to improve their lives and communities.

As both an entrepreneur and an advocate for microlending, “Auntie Ocloo” worked tirelessly to help others like her succeed. Esther Afua Ocloo had only six shillings to her name — less than a dollar — when she made and then sold her first jar of marmalade as a teenager in the 1930s.

Esther was determined to expand her livelihood of making marmalade and orange juice, but she needed a loan to increase production, and credit was hard to come by for poor women. It took persistence and a supply contract to secure the money to start her company, Nkulenu Industries.

After traveling to England to learn the latest techniques in food processing, Esther returned home and shared those skills with other Ghanaian women. Perhaps more importantly, she taught them everything she knew about starting and running a business, which put more money in their pockets. She made such an impact that in 1975 she was invited to the first U.N. World Conference on Women.

Esther and other advisors knew that lending money to women could have a ripple effect, improving the prosperity and health of the women as well as their communities. But because they lacked collateral, low-income women were often ignored by banks. So in 1979, Esther helped found and became Chairman of the Board of Directors of Women’s World Banking, which provides millions of low-income women with the small loans needed to reach their financial goals.

Afua Nkulenu was born in the Volta Region to George Nkulenu, a blacksmith, and his wife Georgina, a potter and farmer

She was a founding member of religious groups such as the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Madina (a suburb of Accra) and the Unity Group of Practical Christianity (Ghana). She also assisted in forming a women’s group in the E.P Church known as Bible Class with the aim of studying the bible and home management.

She served on the synod committee of the E.P Church for 12 years.

Mary Pickford Google Doodle

The Search Engine Google is showing this Doodle in Canada and U.S for Mary Pickford’s 125th Birthday.

Gladys Louise Smith, known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian-American film actress, writer, director, and producer.

She was a co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Facts about Mary Pickford:
She was known as "America’s sweetheart."She was the first star of American cinema.

Mary Pickford was born on April 8, 1892, in Toronto. She died on May 29, 1979, in Santa Monica, California.

In 1929, Pickford starred in her first talkie Coquette, which explored the dark side of a wealthy family.

She won an Academy Award for her work on the film. Her last film was 1933’s Secrets.

Pickford was also a savvy businesswoman and the first female movie mogul.

She served as a vice president at United Artists from 1935 until 1937

The American Film Institute named her as the 24th greatest female stars of all time.

She started acting very young and traveled across America with her mother and 2 siblings performing in low-budget local productions.

Pickford and Charlie Chaplin were by far cinemas biggest stars during the 1910s

Her handprints and footprints are displayed at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California.

Fazlur Rahman Khan Google Doodle

The Search Engine Google is showing this Doodle in few Countries for the Fazlur Rahman Khan’s 88th Birthday

Fazlur Rahman Khan was a Bangladeshi-American structural engineer and architect who initiated important structural systems for skyscrapers.

Considered the "father of tubular designs" for high-rises, Khan was also a pioneer in computer-aided design (CAD). He was the designer of the Sears Tower (now Willis Tower), the tallest building in the world until 1998 and the 100-story John Hancock Center.

Khan has been called the "Einstein of structural engineering" and the "Greatest Structural Engineer of the 20th Century" for his innovative use of structural systems that remain fundamental to modern skyscraper construction.

Khan Worked for the World-Famous Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Architectural Firm

He Took a Major Role in Fundraising for the Bengali People During the Bangladesh Liberation War

He was married to Liselotte Khan until his death in 1982. They had a daughter, Yasmin. Khan died during a road trip on March 27, 1982 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, aged 52. His body is buried in Chicago, Illinois.

Khan's central innovation in skyscraper design and construction was the idea of the "tube" structural system for tall buildings, including the "framed tube", "trussed tube" and "bundled tube" variations. His "tube concept," using all the exterior wall perimeter structure of a building to simulate a thin-walled tube, revolutionized tall building design.


Khan's initial projects were the 43-story DeWitt-Chestnut (1964) and the 35-story Brunswick Building (1965). His most important projects were the John Hancock Center and the Willis Tower.

Google celebrate Sergei Diaghilev 145th Birthday with Doodle

The Search Engine Google is showing this Doodle in few countries for celebrating Sergei Diaghilev’s 145th Birthday

Sergei Diaghilev was a Russian art critic, visionary, patron, ballet organizer and founder of the Ballets Russes, a trailblazing dance company that united talents from the disciplines of art, fashion, dance, choreography, and music, and vaulted them to dizzying creative heights.

From 1909-1929, the Ballet Russes performed on stages around the globe, mesmerizing, even scandalizing, audiences with its unprecedented costumes, stage sets, compositions, and choreography.

In 1905 he organized a huge exhibition of Russian portrait painting at the Tauride Palace in St. Petersburg, having travelled widely through Russia for a year discovering many previously unknown masterpieces of Russian portrait art.

In 1907 he presented five concerts of Russian music in Paris, and in 1908 mounted a production of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, starring Feodor Chaliapin, at the Paris Opéra.

Diaghilev died as he had lived, on credit. His last days were spent in Venice, and after his death, friends had to pay his hotel bill.

Diaghilev was known as a hard, demanding, even frightening taskmaster.

Diaghilev was a pioneer in adapting these new musical styles to modern ballet.

An Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy's 117th Birthday Google Doodle

Today's Google Doodle celebrates Hassan Fathy, an Egyptian architect known for pioneering new methods, respecting tradition, and valuing all walks of life. Fathy is known to be a poet, musician, and inventor, but he spent his life's work in architecture, after training in Cairo.

At the beginning of his career, Fathy focused on teaching architecture to others, but soon began to take on architectural projects of his own. He was convinced that Egypt could look to its past to create a valuable future. He researched ancient methods of building, and began working with traditional materials like mud and earth.

Beyond preserving Egypt's architectural legacy, Fathy trusted in the power of community to look after itself. He trained community members to create their own materials from scratch and build their own structures, so that they would be able to sustain their homes long after Fathy was gone. In this way, he was invested in more than building homes - he was building communities

He built diverse homes with the understanding that different families would have different needs. He also built a theater, school, market, and mosque, since a community is based on more than houses. His work in Egypt and beyond inspired others all over the world to find innovative ways to respect their local traditions and resources.

Today’s Google Doodle honors Fathy’s legacy on what would have been his 117th birthday.

Nowruz 2017 Google Doodle

The search Engine Google is showing this animated Doodle in few countries for celebrating Nowruz 2017.

For more than 3,000 years, people of Persian ancestry have been celebrating Nowruz, the return of spring and the start of a new year. A combination of the Persian words “now” for new and “ruz” for day, it is often celebrated at the exact moment of the vernal (spring) equinox, when the days start getting longer, and the celebrations can continue for up to two weeks.

Nowruz is a time of joyous renewal. Visits with friends and family, a clean house and new clothes, and special spring foods are traditional ways to celebrate the holiday. Perhaps the most enduring image of Nowruz is gathering together with friends and family around a bonfire

It has been celebrated for over 3,000 years in Western Asia, Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Black Sea Basin and the Balkans.

It is the name of the Iranian New Year, also known as the Persian New Year,which is celebrated worldwide by the Iranians, along with some other ethno-linguistic groups, as the beginning of the New Year.

Nowruz is the day of the vernal equinox, and marks the beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. It usually occurs on 21 March or the previous or following day, depending on where it is observed.

The festival of Nowruz is celebrated by many groups of people in the Black Sea basin, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Western Asia, central and southern Asia, and by Iranians worldwide.

Nowruz is celebrated by Kurdish people in Iraq and Turkey, as well as by the Parsis in the Indian subcontinent.

It is the first day of Farvardin, the first month of the Iranian solar calendar. In Iran, families celebrate the New Year since the exact time of the March equinox, which is calculated every year.

Nauruz is celebrated widely in Afghanistan. Also known as the Farmer's Day, the observances usually last two weeks, culminating on the first day of the Afghan New Year, on March 21.

St. Patrick's Day 2017 Google Doodle

On Mar 17 The Search engine Google is showing this animated Doodle for the St. Patrick's Day .

Saint Patrick's Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick , is a cultural and religious celebration held on 17 March, the traditional death date of Saint Patrick , the foremost patron saint of Ireland.

To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, today’s Google Doodle takes us to the mystical Skellig Michael, a remote island just off the coast of County Kerry, Ireland.

The breathtaking destination is a World Heritage Site and home to many species of seabirds — like puffins, gannets, and razorbills If you’re brave enough to scale the 600 steps to the top of the rocky precipice, you’ll see a magnificent view of the mainland and the Atlantic Ocean from 714 feet above sea level.

Each year at least four boat licences are granted to tour operators who run trips to Skellig Michael during the summer season. For safety reasons, because the steps are rocky, steep, and old, climbs are not permitted during very wet or windy weather

when was the first cricket test match ? Google Doodle for marking First Cricket Test Match

The Search Engine Google is showing this Doodle in few Countries for 140th Anniversary of the First Cricket Test Match

The first officially-recognized test cricket match took place 140 years ago today. 

It was a contest between the established English side and the newly-formed Australian team. 

Australia won the first match, but England won the second match to draw the series . 

The rivalry between the English and Australian teams, forged on the field, endures to this day.

Today’s Google Doodle hits the deck with a lighthearted rendering that captures the spirit of sportsmanship and the inaugural test match.

Holi Festival 2017 Google Doodle. Know about the Festival of Colours

The Search Engine Google is showing an animated Doodle in many Countries for celebrating the Holi Festival.

Holi is a Hindu spring festival in India and Nepal, also known as the "festival of colours" or the "festival of love". 
The festival signifies the victory of good over evil, the arrival of spring, end of winter, and for many a festive day to meet others, play and laugh, forget and forgive, and repair broken relationships, and is also celebrated as a thanksgiving for a good harvest.

Holi is an ancient Hindu religious festival which has become popular with non-Hindus in many parts of South Asia, as well as people of other communities outside Asia.

Holi celebrations start on the night before Holi with a Holika bonfire where people gather, do religious rituals in front of the bonfire, and pray that their internal evil should be destroyed as the bonfire starts. 

The next morning is celebrated as Rangwali Holi - a free-for-all carnival of colours, where participants play, chase and colour each other with dry powder and coloured water, with some carrying water guns and coloured water-filled balloons for their water fight.

Anyone and everyone is fair game, friend or stranger, rich or poor, man or woman, children and elders. 
The frolic and fight with colours occurs in the open streets, open parks, outside temples and buildings.

Groups carry drums and other musical instruments, go from place to place, sing and dance. People visit family, friends and foes to throw coloured powders on each other, laugh and gossip, then share Holi delicacies, food and drinks.

International Women's Day 2017 Google Doodle

In 1911, the first official International Women's Day rallies were held in Austria, Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland.

Each year  Google celebrates International Women’s Day with Doodle. It is an annual holiday that takes place on March 8

It’s a Day for Investing in Women & Girls

International Women's Day (IWD) has been observed since in the early 1900's - a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies.

It Started as a Socialist Holiday.International Women’s Day is celebrated in many countries around the world,

Its purpose is to promote women’s equality, encourage support for repressed women and promote appreciation toward women everywhere.

The earliest observance of International Women’s Day took place a year later on February 28, 1909, in New York City.

The first modern International Women’s Day was finally held in 1914, four years after its conception. March 8, 1914 was chosen because it was a Sunday, which a majority of women would have off from work and thus would be able to participate in marches and other events.

In 1977, International Women’s Day was first observed as a global event by western nations when the United Nations General Assembly invited its members to dedicate March 8 as the UN Day for women’s rights.

This day was dedicated to the female workers’ causes, denouncing the exploitation and oppression of women, but defending, principally, the female vote.

Abdul Sattar Edhi Google Doodle. Top 10 Facts about Abdul Sattar Edhi

Born 28 February 1928 Bantva, Bantva Manavadar, Gujarat, British India

Died 8 July 2016 (aged 88) Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Edhi was born in India but moved to Karachi shortly after Pakistan was formed.

Abdul Sattar Edhi soon noticed that many Pakistanis lacked medicine, education, and other essentials, and he made it his life's mission to help others.

In 1951, he established the Edhi foundation, which is funded solely by private donations.

Top 10 Facts about Abdul Sattar Edhi

He gave several interviews, and all was jugged about him is that he was a very humble person

A person like Abdul Sattar is very rare in the society. He spent most of the time of his life with the people in need.

He was a Pakistani philanthropist, ascetic, and humanitarian who founded the Edhi Foundation which runs hospitals, homeless shelters, rehab centres, and orphanages across Pakistan

He is known as Angel of Mercy and is considered to be Pakistan's "most respected" and legendary figure

On what would have been his 89th birthday in 2017, Google's Doodles in 11 countries celebrated him for his "super-efficient" ambulance service

Edhi donated his organs after dying.

Edhi was married in 1965 to Bilquis, a nurse who worked at the Edhi dispensary

Edhi was known for his ascetic lifestyle, owning only two pairs of clothes, never taking a salary from his organisation and living in an apartment next to his organization's office

His last wishes included the request that his organs were to be donated but due to his ill health, only his corneas were suitable.

He was laid to rest at the Edhi Village Karachi

Ida Lewis Google Doodle. 175th Birthday of Brave Lighthouse Keeper

Known for: heroic rescues at sea

Occupation: lighthouse keeper

Dates: February 25, 1842 - October 25, 1911

Also known as: Idawalley Zorada Lewis, Ida Lewis-Wilson

Ida Lewis was born in Newport, Rhode Island, the oldest of four children of Captain Hosea Lewis of the Revenue Cutter Service.

Her father was transferred to the Lighthouse Service and appointed keeper of Lime Rock Light on Lime Rock in Newport in 1854, taking his family to live on the rock in 1857

Ida expanded her domestic duties to include caring for him and a seriously ill sister and also, with her mother's assistance, tending the light: filling the lamp with oil at sundown and again at midnight, trimming the wick, polishing carbon off the reflectors, and extinguishing the light at dawn.

Ida and her mother tended the Lime Rock Light for her father from 1857 until 1873, when he died.


Lewis made her first rescue in 1854, coming to the assistance of four men whose boat had capsized. She was 12 years old.

On July 16, 1881, she was awarded the rare and prestigious Gold Lifesaving Medal from the United States government for her daring rescue on February 4, 1881, of two soldiers from Fort Adams who had fallen through the ice while attempting to return to the fort on foot

Lewis died of a stroke on October 24, 1911, at the age of 69.

 Ida Lewis was buried in the Common Burying Ground in a prominent location so her grave can be seen by passers by.

The folk song "Lighthouse Keeper" by Neptune's Car was inspired by Lewis's experiences.

In 2017, Google Doodle commemorated Ida Lewis 175th birthday.

Exoplanet discovery Google Doodle. Celebrating Discovery of TRAPPIST-1 with 7 Earth-size Planets

Exoplanets: planets that exist orbiting stars other than our own sun or extrasolar planets are the planets that orbit stars other than our own sun or that wander without the benefit of a star to shine on them

Feb 23 2017 Google celebrate exoplanet discovery with doodle

Astronomers estimate that there could be trillions of planets around other stars.

The densest exoplanet discovered to date is the planet Janssen (55 Cancri e). This planet also has a year of just less than 18 hours.

The known exoplanets fall along a range of sizes, masses, and orbital positions.

Exoplanets are so much further away than Pluto, that astronomers really need additional help to see them.

The United States is just one of many countries working to locate exoplanets. 

CoRoT found its first exoplanet in 2007.

Most exoplanets can only be detected indirectly because bright light from the stars that they orbit drowns them out.

The region around a star where liquid water could exist on the surface of a solid planet is called the habitable zone. 

The most massive exoplanet was only discovered in February 2011. This is the planet CD-35 2722b in orbit around its parent star CD-35 2722.

Astronomers group types of exoplanets as follows: Earth-size, Earth-like, Super-Jupiters, gas giants, rocky worlds the size of Earth, rocky giants, Super-Earths, mini-Neptunes, and gas dwarfs.

A few exoplanets have been found that have orbits more like those of the planets in our solar system.