Cavell continued to nurse patients across the UK before moving to Belgium. Today’s Doodle, illustrated by Detroit-based guest artist Rachelle Baker, honors Juneteenth, an annual federal holiday celebrating the liberation of Black enslaved people in the. As a young woman, she cared for her seriously ill father and it was this experience that inspired her to pursue a career as a nurse at the age of 30.Ĭavell commenced training at the Royal London Hospital under the guidance of Matron Eva Lückes, a close companion to Florence Nightingale. Nursing was not always Cavell’s chosen industry. Today, Google celebrates one of those heroes: Edith Cavell.īorn in a village near Norwich, England on December 4, 1865, Cavell was a British nurse who worked in German-occupied Belgium throughout the war, and as well as nursing wounded servicemen, she helped smuggle soldiers out of Belgium into neutral Netherlands. And the more obscure and arbitrary the doodle, the more fun to be had mocking it.
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Of course, Google is free to honor Jonathan Winters or anybody else they want. One of the deadliest conflicts, World War I recorded more than 37 million casualties, both civilian and military.ĭespite the carnage and substantial death, there were those who were beacons of strength in the face of adversity - heroes who put the lives of others before their own. In 2016, they honored a Maoist black nationalist whose heroes included Osama bin Laden and old Chairman Mao himself. Google Space Invaders is a hidden Easter egg that lets you play a Google-themed version of the classic arcade game Space Invaders.
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