Oh, Google Doodle! Maya Angelou

Copyright © Françoise Herrmann

Today, Google Doodle celebrates Maya Angelou's 90th birthday, with one of her most famous poems "Still I rise"  The poem is read Round Robin by Maya Angelou, Alicia Keys, America Ferrara, Martina McBride, Guy Johnson, Laverne Cox and Oprah Winfrey. It is also fabulously animated and illustrated by Google Doodle.

Maya Angelou (1928-2014) was an American Civil Rights Activist, author and poet. I know why The Caged Bird Sings (1969). is her most famous book. 

Google Doodle - April 4, 2018 (Click here)

Maya Angelou: Selected bibliography

Autobiography, fiction and essays

• Angelou, M. (1969) I know why the cage bird sings
• Angelou, M. (1976) Singing and swingin', and gettin' merry like Christmas
• Angelou, M. (1981) The heart of a woman
• Angelou, M. (1991) All God's children need traveling shoes
• Angelou, M. (1994) Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now
• Angelou, M. (2002) A song flung up to heaven
• Angelou, M. (2013) Mom and me and mom
• Angelou, M. (2009) Letters to my daughter
• Angelou, M. (1998) Even the stars look lonesome
• Angelou, M. (2009) Gather together in my name

Poetry

• Angelou, M. (1971) Just give me a cool drink of water 'fore I diiie
• Angelou, M. (1975) Oh pray my wings are gonna to fit me well
• Angelou, M. (1978) And Still I rise
• Angelou, M. (1983) Shaker, why don't you sing
• Angelou, M. (1990) I shall not be moved
• Angelou, M. (1993) On the pulse of morning
• Angelou, M. (1995) Phenomenal Woman: Four poems celebrating women
• Angelou, M, (1997) Poems 
• Angelou, M. (2006) Celebrations: Rituals of peace and payer
• Angelou, M. (2010) Amazing Peace: A celebration
• Angelou, M. (2014) His day is done: A Nelson Mandela Tribute

Cooking

• Angelou, M. (2004) Hallelujah! The welcome table
• Angelou, M. (2010) Great food, all day long

Children's books

• Angelou, M., Basquiat, J.M. & S.J. Boyer  (1993) Life does not frighten me
• Angelou, M. (1994) My painted house, my friendly chicken and me
• Angelou, M. (2004) Maya's world: Angelina of Italy
• Angelou, M. (2004) Maya's world: Izak of Lapland
• Angelou, M. (2004) Maya's world: Mikale of Hawaii
• Angelou, M. (2004) Maya's world: Renee Marie of France

References

Maya Angelou (Website)

https://www.mayaangelou.com/

Google Doodle - Maya Angelou

https://www.google.com/doodles/dr-maya-angelous-90th-birthday 

Oh, Google Doodle! John Logie Baird

Copyright © Françoise Herrmann

Take a peek at today’s Google Doodle celebrating the 90^th anniversary of the first mechanical TV demonstration. 

Indeed, John Logie Baird, the Scottish Superstar engineer,  first demonstrated a working  mechanical TV system on Jan 26, 1926, and then through many subequent improvements to the original system, the first electronic color television picture tube! 

A quick search for his name at the European Patent Office returns no less than 210 patents (including 162 British patents and the remaining filed in France, Germany, Switzerland and Canada)!

Below you will find a hyperlinked list of the four British (GB) TV patents which gave rise to the 206 subsequent TV improvement patents, during the course of 20 years from 1926 to 1946: 

- GB230576 (A) ― 1925-03-19 - A system of transmitting views by means of telegraphy or wireless telegraphy 

- GB235619 (A) ― 1925-06-12 - A system of overcoming the time lag in a selenium or other light-sensitive cell used in a television or like system  

- GB236978 (A) ― 1925-07-17 - A system of transmitting views portraits and scenes by telegraphy or wireless telegraphy  

- GB269658 (A) ― 1927-04-20 - Apparatus for the transmission of views, scenes or images to a distance

Reference
Google Doodles - Jan. 26, 2016 - 90th anniversary of the first mechanical tv demo
http://www.google.com/doodles/90th-anniversary-of-the-first-demonstration-of-television
EPO - European Patent Office
www.epo.org 
Wikipedia - John Logie Baird
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Logie_Baird