Check out today's Google Doodle. It's about Marie Tharp, tectonic plates, and intercontinental drift.

From the BBC.

Princess Anne to bring mother to LondonPrincess Anne will accompany Queen Elizabeth II's coffin to London ahead of the funeral, Buckingham Palace says ( Read more... )

Godspeed, ma'am. Thank you for everything.*

(*Quoting Paddington.)

The BBC is broadcasting statements about the Queen's health. Senior Royals are going to Balmoral to be with her.

I know she's 96 but I can't believe this.

With a cameo by Simon Farnaby (from BBC's Horrible Histories and Ghosts.)

Video

The full thing isn't up on YouTube yet, but it's well worth watching. It's so cute!

The BBC has a lot of articles about today, but this one shows a picture of the Queen from every year of her life.

It's rather startling to see someone age from a baby to a lady of 96 with one long scroll.

BBC.

Operation Mincemeat: The Welsh drifter who helped end WW2.
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This is absolutely fascinating.

Link.Check out the link for the pictures. They're worth seeing ( Read more... )

I like looking at Google's Doodles because I usually learn something new. Today's Google Doodle is in honour of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese official who tanked his diplomatic career by ignoring the orders from his own government by issuing transit visas to thousands of Jewish people so they could escape the Nazis by travelling via Japan to safety ( Read more... )

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