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Cesar Chavez Birthday



Cesar Chavez was an American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist, who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association. Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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Invented the first grounded lightning rod.

hobie16 wrote:Cesar Chavez Birthday



Cesar Chavez was an American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist, who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association. Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Thank you so very much hobie for posting Cesar's picture on his birthday. Cesar Chavez is my Hero!! Have admired him since I was 12 years old. Cesar was my inspiration. I used to sneak out my bedroom window at night to go hear him speak in Delano. The first ranch Cesar Chavez struck was our family's ranch in Delano. Cesar Chavez honored me by sitting on my Masters Board at Cal.

There were a number of interesting responses to Google honoring Cesar Chavez on his birthday. The best was the whack job who thought it was a socialist plot to honor Hugo Chavez, the now deceased president of Venezuela.

It takes all kinds...

hobie16 wrote:There were a number of interesting responses to Google honoring Cesar Chavez on his birthday. The best was the whack job who thought it was a socialist plot to honor Hugo Chavez, the now deceased president of Venezuela.

It takes all kinds...

I'm active on the Gmail support forum and there has been a bunch of complaints posted about having a Cesar Chavez Doodle instead of an Easter Doodle. I don't even want to know how many complaints have been posted the Web Search forum, which is the correct forum for Doodle related posts.

Yeah, I heard about that on the news last night. Like it was his fault that this year his birthday just happened to fall on Easter? And they also said Google hasn't done an Easter doodle in years.
In case anyone's interested, here's a neat little site for determining the date of Easter: http://www.gmarts.org/index.php?go=410 .

felinefan wrote:Yeah, I heard about that on the news last night. Like it was his fault that this year his birthday just happened to fall on Easter? And they also said Google hasn't done an Easter doodle in years.
In case anyone's interested, here's a neat little site for determining the date of Easter: http://www.gmarts.org/index.php?go=410 .

Google tends to avoid religious Doodles. As they are a multinational company with employees and users of all religions and creeds that's the best course of action in my opinion. If the do religious Doodles people complain and if they don't do them people complain. Google can't win but not doing religious Doodles results in the least complaints, I'm sure.

Maria Sibylla Merian birthday



Maria Sibylla Merian was a Swiss naturalist and scientific illustrator, a descendent of the Frankfurt branch of the Merian family, founders of one of Europe's largest publishing houses in the 17th century.

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306th Birthday of Swiss Mathematician Leonhard Euler



Leonhard Euler was a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist. He made important discoveries in fields as diverse as infinitesimal calculus and graph theory.