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.