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British Museum Frederick II, King of Prussia, was born ‪#‎onthisday‬ in 1712. He's depicted on this Worcester porcelain saucer http://ow.ly/HoXKE

Google opens logo-designing contest for kids

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Google has announced an exciting international initiative for young people in Ghana and around the world called "Doodle 4 Google - I love Football". ...


February 3, 2010 10:44 AM PST

London underground's 150th birthday celebrated in Google doodle

Search engine's six letter name spelt out on map of tube, which opened in 1863

• guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 9 January 2013 00.53 GMT

Google doodles a Rockwell

While Google continues on its march toward the difficult marriage of omnipotence and righteousness, its choices of birthdays to celebrate become ever more eclectic and lovable.
Google has already created visual remembrances of artists such as Andy Warhol and Edvard Munch and Rene Magritte. And on Wednesday, the search engine's home page enjoyed the decoration of "Little Spooners," a painting by Norman Rockwell, who would have been 116 on February 3, had he not succumbed to emphysema in 1978.
Jumping on the Google ‘unexplained phenomenon’ bandwagon, I’ve decided to investigate the choice of Google selecting a UFO for their Google doodle, or Google logo. Theories have surfaced across the Internet and many people have taken to Twitter and Facebook to air their guess as to why Google has selected a UFO or unexplained phenomenon to display upon their website this weekend. I have proposed my own guess as to why Google is featuring the UFO in their logo, and I think it might be due to Star Trek’s 43rd anniversary.

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The term "flying saucer" was coined on this date in 1947 when an American pilot reported seeing strange objects near Mt. Rainier, WA, describing them as "saucers skipping across the water." In early July of that year, some suspicious items were collected in the vicinity of Roswell, NM. The US military identified it as debris from a weather balloon that had crashed, but some thirty years later, a witness to the event told a ufologist that he believed an alien spacecraft had been found and that the US military had covered the incident up. On this date in 1997, the U.S. Air Force released its report on the Roswell Incident, stating that the UFOs that were reportedly seen in the area were, in fact, the pieces of the damaged weather balloon and the so-called aliens were actually life-sized dummies.

Quote:

"After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'" — William S. Burroughs

Definition of saucer in English:

NOUN

A shallow dish, typically having a circular indentation in the centre, on which a cup is placed.

EXAMPLE SENTENCES

Origin

Middle English (denoting a condiment dish): from Old French saussier(e) 'sauce boat', probably suggested bylate Latin salsarium.

Phrases

have eyes like saucers

1

Have one’s eyes opened wide in amazement:she saw the child looking at her with eyes like saucers

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Doodles are simple drawings that can have concrete representational meaning or may just be abstract shapes. Stereotypical examples of doodling are found in ...

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doodle

v., -dled, -dling, -dles. v.intr.

1. To scribble aimlessly, especially when preoccupied.
2. To kill time.

v.tr.
To draw (figures) while preoccupied.

n.
A figure, design, or scribble drawn or written absent-mindedly.

[English dialectal, to fritter away time, perhaps from doodle, fool. See doodlebug.]

doodler doo'dler n.

spoon
n.

1. A utensil consisting of a small, shallow bowl on a handle, used in preparing, serving, or eating food.
2. Something similar to this utensil or its bowl, as:
   1. A shiny, curved, metallic fishing lure.
   2. A paddle or an oar with a curved blade.
3. Sports. The three wood golf club.

v., spooned, spoon·ing, spoons. v.tr.

1. To lift, scoop up, or carry with or as if with a spoon.
2. Sports & Games. To shove or scoop (a ball) into the air.

v.intr.

1. To fish with a spoon lure.
2. Sports & Games. To give a ball an upward scoop.
3. Informal. To engage in amorous behavior, such as kissing or caressing.

[Middle English, from Old English spōn, chip of wood.]

spoonable spoon'a·ble adj.

fritter	(verb) Spend frivolously and unwisely.
Synonyms:	fool away, dissipate, shoot
Usage:	Our English youth fritters away its time in idleness and pleasure-seeking.