Google Doodle On 112 Birthday of Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges Biography Jorge Luis Borges (August 24, 1899 – June 14, 1986) was an Argentine writer who is considered to be one of the foremost writers of the 20th century. A poet and an essayist, Borges is generally best-known for his short stories. Jorge Luis Borges was born in an educated middle-class family in August 1899. They were in comfortable circumstances, but not wealthy enough to live in downtown Buenos Aires. They resided in Palermo, then a poorer suburb of the city. Borges's mother, Leonor Acevedo Suárez, came from a traditional Uruguayan family of "pure" criollo (Spanish) descent. Her family had been much involved in the European settling of South America and she spoke often of their heroic actions.Borges's...

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Google Doodle Celebrates 410th Birthday of Mathematician Pierre de Fermat

Google is celebrating what would have been the 410th birthday of mathematician Pierre de Fermat with a homepage doodle that transforms the company's logo into a complex math problem. "We have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this theorem, which today's tweet is too small to contain," Google tweeted this morning. Fermat was born in France in 1601 and studied at the University of Toulouse before relocating to Bordeaux in the late 1620s. It was there that he started his serious mathematical research, producing substantial work on maxima and minima. He then moved to the University of Law at Orléans, where he earned his law degree. "By 1631, Fermat was a lawyer and government official in Toulouse and because of the office he now held...

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Anna Hazare sent to 7-day judicial custody

New Delhi: Anna Hazare has been sent to seven days in judicial custody and will be lodged New Delhi's in Tihar Jail. Hazare's supporters Manish Sisodia, Arvind Kejriwal, Darshak, Radheshyam, Suresh Pathare, Naveen Jaisingh and Dada Phatare have also been sent to judicial custody. Hazare was sent to judicial custody on Tuesday after he refused to sign a bond which stated that he and his supporters would not violate Section 144. He told the magistrate that he was not ready to sign the bond and was ready to go to jail. Hazare and Sisodia have been kept in Jail No. 4 of Tihar Jail where Congress MP and Commonwealth Games scam accused Suresh Kalmadi is also lodged. Kejriwal and others have been sent to Jail No. 1 where DMK leader and former telecom...

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