'Tis the season! Google Doodle - Holidays 2016

Christmas, New Year holidays are here and Google is celebrating the first holiday with its doodle. Google has released its first doodle 'Tis the season! to mark the beginning of the Holiday Season.


Tis the season for song! Wintertime brings with it a number of traditions, but few are as old or fun as caroling. 

Dating back thousands of years, the original carols were songs specific to certain regions, and shared by wandering minstrels on their travels between towns.


It wasn’t until the early 1800’s that the practice of caroling as we know it, spread across England and western Europe.

During this time, cities began hosting outdoor orchestras that played songs for people to sing along with as they walked by. 

Tis the season is a line from the popular carol Deck the halls, and is also an album of Christmas songs by Olivia Newton-John and Vince Gill.

Today's Doodle features a merry crew of carolers, with a triangle player waiting for his moment. When a viewer navigates his mouse over the colourful doodle, he sees the message 'Tis the Season and clicking on it takes you to the search page for the same caption.

The giant search engine seems to have joined the celebrations officially with an adorable Google Doodle that shows the letters G, O, O, G, L and E singing ‘Tis the season Christmas carol song.

December 23 is considered the first day of the holiday season that is followed by Christmas and New Year.

Today’s Doodle features a merry crew of carolers, with a certain triangle player waiting for his moment.

Warm up your singing voice and get ready to bring some summer cheer! Today's Doodle celebrates the season with our festive chorus of melody-makers.

As we await some more festive doodles this week, here's wishing everyone happy holidays and great times ahead.

Google Doodle for Karl Landsteiner’s 148th birthday

Google is celebrating Karl Landsteiner’s 148th birthday with an animated doodle.

Karl Landsteiner, ForMemRS, was an Austrian and American biologist and physician.

He is noted for having first distinguished the main blood groups in 1900, having developed the modern system of classification of blood groups from his identification of the presence of agglutinins in the blood, and having identified, with Alexander S. Wiener, the Rhesus factor, in 1937.With Constantin Levaditi and Erwin Popper, he discovered the polio virus in 1909.

Karl Landsteiner was born in Vienna on June 14, 1868. Landsteiner studied medicine at the University of Vienna, graduating in 1891.

From 1908 to 1920 Landsteiner was prosector at the Wilhelminenspital in Vienna and in 1911 he was sworn in as an associate professor of pathological anatomy. During that time he discovered – in co-operation with Erwin Popper – the infectious character of Poliomyelitis and isolated the polio virus.

Phoebe Snetsinger Google Doodle. 85th birthday of "Birder" Phoebe Snetsinger

The Search Engine Google is showing an animated doodle in few countries for celebrating Phoebe Snetsinger’s 85th birthday.

Phoebe Snetsinger was an American birder famous for having seen over 8,398 species by the time of her death, at the time more than anyone else in history. 

As the daughter of advertising magnate Leo Burnett, she inherited a small fortune which she used to fund numerous trips in pursuit of her hobby.

Inspired to begin birding after seeing a Blackburnian warbler in 1965, Phoebe did not follow the hobby ardently until a doctor diagnosed her with terminal melanoma in 1981. 

Instead of convalescence at home, she took a trip to Alaska to watch birds, and returned home to find the cancer in remission. From then on, she would travel to often remote areas, sometimes under dangerous environmental and political conditions, in order to add to her growing life list. 

As an amateur ornithologist, she took copious field notes, especially regarding distinctive subspecies, many of which have since been reclassified as full species.

While on a birding trip in Madagascar in 1999, the van she was riding in overturned, killing her instantly. Her final life bird, after almost two decades as a "terminal cancer patient," was the red-shouldered vanga, a species which had been described as new to science only two years before in 1997.

Snetsinger's memoir, titled Birding on Borrowed Time, was published posthumously in 2003 by the American Birding Association (ABA).

The ABA describes this work as "More than merely a travel narrative, the book is also a profoundly moving human document, as it details how Phoebe Snetsinger's obsession with birds became a way of coping with terminal illness."

Lotte Reiniger’s 117th Birthday Google Doodle. Lotte Reiniger was pioneer of Silhouette Animation

The Search Engine Google is showing a Doodle in few countries for the Lotte Reiniger’s 117th birthday.

Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger was a German film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation, anticipating Walt Disney by over ten years. Reiniger made over 40 films over her career, all using her invention. 

Her most well known films are The Adventures of Prince Achmed and Papageno.Lotte Reininger created visually stunning and fantastical films using black cardboard, scissors, and boundless imagination. 

Pre-dating Walt Disney by nearly a decade, Reiniger pioneered a style of #animation that relied on thousands of photos of paper cut-out silhouettes arranged to tell a story. 

It was a painstaking process that involved moving paper characters ever so slightly and snapping a photo of each movement.Nearly a century later, Reiniger continues to inspire animators and artists.

Google Doodle for Frankie Manning 102nd birthday

The search Engine Google is showing this animated Doodle in few countries for celebrating Frankie Manning’s 102nd birthday.

Frankie Manning was an American dancer, instructor and choreographer. Manning is considered one of the founding fathers of Lindy Hop.

Although he didn't come up with the name, Frankie Manning was known as the ambassador of the Lindy Hop because he helped make the dance popular and spread it through to the mainstream.

The Lindy Hop and Manning’s aerial flourishes became wildly popular, and Manning himself performed the dance Frankie Manning in several 40’s era movies.

He also served in WWII, toured South America and the UK with his troupe, The Congaroos, performed the Lindy for King George VI, and won a Tony Award for his choreographic work on the Broadway musical Black and Blue.

A resident of Corona, Queens, Manning died in Manhattan on April 27, 2009, aged 94.He is interred in the Hillcrest Plot at Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, NY.

Rosario Castellanos Google Doodle

The search Engine Google is showing a Doodle in few countries for celebrating the Rosario Castellanos’ 91st birthday

Rosario Castellanos was a Mexican poet and author. Along with the other members of the Generation of 1950 , she was one of Mexico's most important literary voices in the last century. 

Born : 25 May 1925 Mexico City, Mexico

Died : 7 August 1974 (aged 49) Tel Aviv, Israel

Throughout her life, she wrote eloquently about issues of cultural and gender oppression, and her work has influenced feminist theory and cultural studies. Though she died young, she opened the door of Mexican literature to women, and left a legacy that still resonates today.

During her lifetime, she saw her family lose their fortune in land reforms while she rose from being an introverted child to becoming a hugely celebrated figure in Mexico’s literary and political scene.

She was an avid tennis player.Her Poems Are All Collected in the Book ‘Poetry Is Not You’.

At the time of her death, the Israeli state news agency said that she died “as the result of an electric shock from a malfunctioning table lamp.” The agency added that she lived in the coastal city of Herzliya. The initial report blamed her death on the lamp’s wirings which were thought to have not been properly insulated.

Yuri Kochiyama's 95th Birthday Google Doodle

Google celebrates Yuri Kochiyama, an Asian American activist who dedicated her life to the fight for human rights and against racism and injustice. 

She (May 19, 1921 – June 1, 2014) was a Japanese American human rights activist, revolutionary, and close ally of Malcolm X. She is notable as one of the few prominent non-black Black separatists.

Born : Mary Yuriko Nakahara May 19, 1921 San Pedro, California, United States

Died : June 1, 2014 (aged 93) Berkeley, California, United States

Occupation : Human rights activist

Japanese American activist Yuri Kochiyama is being honored with a Google Doodle on what would have been her 95th birthday.She went to San Pedro High School and Compton Junior College, where she studied English, journalism and art, graduating in 1941.

She Became an Activist Alongside Malcolm X & Held Him in Her Arms After He Was Shot in 1965.Kochiyama died in her sleep in 2014, her family said. She was survived by her four living children, Audee, Eddie, Jimmy and Tommy, along with their spouses, nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Her husband died in 1993. She had another son, Billy, who died in the 1970s, and a daughter, Aichi, who died in 1989.

Today's doodle by Alyssa Winans features Kochiyama taking a stand at one of her many protests and rallies.She and her family would later move to Harlem, where she became deeply involved in African American, Latino, and Asian American liberation and empowerment movements. 

During her life, Kochiyama fought for many causes, including redress for Japanese-American internees, Puerto Rican independence, and the Black Liberation movement.