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Happy Birthday Dr Johnson! Google Doodle celebrates father of modern dictionary
Happy Birthday Samuel Johnson. The man who brought us the Dictionary of the English Language would have been 308 today! Born in Lichfield, Staffordshire in 1709, Johnson is perhaps best known as a Londoner, most famous for his quote - When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in…
Google doodle celebrates London Aquatics Centre designer, Zaha Hadid
It'a been a year since the Iraqi born British architect Zaha Hadid died aged just 65 and today Google pays tribute to her in its daily 'Google Doodle' Known as the "queen of the curve," Hadid's major works include the Aquatics Centre for the London 2012 Olympics, Michigan State University's Broad Art Museum and the Guangzhou…