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.

What is a pangolin? Valentine's Day 2017 (Day 1) Google Doodle

Pangolins, often called “scaly anteaters,” are covered in tough, overlapping scales. 

The prehistoric pangolin, which walks on its hind legs due to the length and curvature of its impressive claws

These burrowing mammals eat ants and termites using an extraordinarily long, sticky tongue, and are able to quickly roll themselves up into a tight ball when threatened.

the humble pangolin looks more like an anteater prepped for medieval battle than an animal under threat.

Pangolin species vary in size from about 1.6kg (~3.5 lbs) to a maximum of about 33kg (~73 lbs). 

In response to the pangolin's plight, numerous campaigns have been launched to raise awareness, including the SavePangolins organisation and an app, Roll with the Pangolins, which was endorsed by Prince William in his role as President of United for Wildlife.

They vary in color from light to yellowish brown through olive to dark brown

Sunda pangolin, a species distributed throughout South East Asia, as one of his ten favourite species he would 'save' from extinction.

Unlike African pangolins, Asian pangolins also have thick bristles that emerge from between their scales

There are eight species of pangolin

The search engine Google is showing this playable Doodle for the Day 1 of Valentine's Day 2017 Doodles series.