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Claude Debussy's birthday marked by a Google doodle

Claud Debussy's birthday is the subject of Thursday's Google doodle. French music composer Debussy is best remembered as one of the most prolific figures associated with impressionist music. Google's animated doodle presents a moonlit riverside scene set to the tunes of Clair de lune (3rd movement from Suite bergamasque) or Moonlight, one of Debussy's best music pieces. The moonlight riverside scene features a star studded sky, flickering streets lights and chimney smoke rising to the tunes of the piece, in addition to a windmill, boats, cycles, cars and balloons. The scene moves forward to depict rain falling on the river and concludes with two different boats crossing paths and the rowers sharing a red coloured umbrella. Claude Debussy was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, in France on 22 August 1862. He started taking piano lessons in Cannes at the age of seven, where he had moved with his mother during the Franco-Prussian war. Debuss

Independence Day India 2013 marked by a Google doodle

Independence Day India 2013 marked by a Google doodle Independence Day India is the subject of Thursday's Google doodle, on the occasion of India's 67th Independence Day. The doodle depicts a tricolour ribbon, in the colours of the Indian flag - saffron, white and green. 15th August is celebrated as Independence Day across India to mark the day that the country declared its independence from the British rule, sixty-six years ago. On the eve of Indian independence in 1947, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru delivered his famous Tryst with Destiny speech to the Indian Constituent Assembly in The Parliament. Here are its opening lines. Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes b