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As Rhode Island's most famous lighthouse keeper, Lewis saved a number of lives from drowning, including the two soldiers that inspired the doodle. Today’s Google doodle marks the 175th birthday of Ida Lewis, a lighthouse keeper once hailed as “America’s Bravest Woman” for the numerous lives she saved from drowning. As the owner of the Lime Rock Lighthouse in Rhode Island, Google says Idawalley Zorada Lewis made her first save at the age of 12 and continued braving into the Newport harbor’s dangerous, cold waters to save drowning men and women all the way into her sixties. From the Google Doodle Blog: A lighthouse keeper required unwavering courage, sheer physical strength, constant diligence, and a willingness to put one’s own life on the line. Ida was so dedicated that supposedly she would rush into inclement weather without shoes or coat so as not a waste a single second. Her life and legacy were not only an honor to research and illustrate, but trul...

Designed by doodler Sophie Diao, the artwork pays homage to the March sisters -- Beth, Jo, Amy and Meg. Today’s Google doodle honors author Louisa May Alcott on the writer’s 184th birthday. While Alcott is best known for her novel, “Little Women,” she penned several novels during her lifetime, including two follow-ups to “Little Women” — “Little Men” and “Jo’s Boys.” In addition to writing classics, Alcott was known for her progressive ideals around feminism and was an abolitionist — working as a nurse at a Union hospital during the beginning of the Civil War. Growing up, Alcott’s home was a station for the Underground Railroad. The Louisa May Alcott doodle was designed by Sophie Diao and features the March sisters from “Little Women” — Beth, Jo, Amy and Meg. The doodle leads to a search for “Louisa May Alcott” and includes the usual sharing icon. “The March family of Little Women was based on Alcott’s own, and the coltish Jo was Louisa’s vision of herself: st...

Google put out a special doodle today to mark is 18th birthday. The animated  Google doodle  , designed by Gerben Steenks, depicts the letter "G" as a balloon modeller, wearing a party hat and surrounded by confetti and streamers. The G blows up a long balloon and twists it into the letters "oogle", to complete the name of the search engine, before the balloon floats away and pulls the G with it. The doodle is being displayed on Google's homepage around the world on September 27. There's just one problem. While Google has celebrated its birthday on September 27 for the  past 10 years  , that hasn't always been the case. In 2005 Google published a birthday doodle on September 26, in 2004 it was put up on September 7, and in 2003 it was put it on 8 September. Getty According to Google's own  company history  ,  Google.com  was registered as a domain on 15 September 1997, and the company filed for incorporation on 4 September 19...

Google The Doodle today celebrates what would be the famous birder's 85th birthday Doctors gave Phoebe Snetsinger a year to live when they diagnosed her with melanoma in 1981, she decided to spend her remaining time birding. In the next 18 years, she traveled across the world and ended up recording 8,393 species of birds. The Google Doodle today celebrates what would be Snetsigner’s 85th birthday with five birds, including the Blackburnian Warbler and Red-Shouldered Vanga (as the ‘G’ and the ‘o’) — both among those she sighted. Snetsinger had wanted to be a scientist, but married and lived in Minnesota until just before her 50th birthday, when she was diagnosed with cancer. She kept outliving expectations and taking increasingly dangerous journeys, suffering various injuries on trails and surviving a gang rape, eventually sighting a vast majority of the roughly 10,000 bird species in the world. At the time, she amassed the highest bird count in for a...

MICHAEL OCHS ARCHIVES VIA GETTY IMAGES He would have celebrated 91 years of life today (May 19). What can be said about a man who captivated a nation? Malcolm X or Al-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz as he was known in the years prior to his death, is considered by many one of the most important voices of conscious thought and for some a racist who brought evil to our land. Ask any millennial what they love about Malcolm X and you are certain to hear one of his infamous quotes roll quickly off their tongues; “By any means necessary,” or his mantra to everyone, to “make it plain.” Much has been written about Malcolm X and his views on race and the experiences of the Black American. He was a skilled orator who was unrelenting and unapologetic in his critique of America. It is his legacy of words that continue to resonate as issues of race, and bias draw lines of division across the country today. He believed that the path to equality for African Americans was based in America’s...

He would have turned 160 today Today’s Google Doodle celebrates Austrian doctor, and father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, who developed a clinical method for treating mental issues. Born on May 6, 1856, Freud revolutionized the way we understand the mind, although his approach has generally been abandoned by psychiatrists. Freud famously held sexuality to be at the root of most pathologies of the human brain, placing much emphasis on the Oedipus complex. He also developed the idea of the subconscious mind, which Google picks up on for his birthday doodle. “A dimpled leather couch might be the typical visual associated with Freud and other therapists, but Doodler Kevin Laughlin instead created this iceberg,” Google explains. “With a vast hidden base, the iceberg references the murky depths of the unconscious mind. More importantly, the design draws our eye to the horizon, reminding us how the genius of Freud’s practice rests in the space between doctor and patient, ...