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[sandik]

Google is celebrating the birthday (117) of Martha Graham on their New Zealand home page today, 10 May.  

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[Helene]

That is great!

[carbro]

A word of advice:

I saw the figure to the left of the search box and thought, "That doesn't say 'Google!'"  Give it a second or two.  It's animated and may not start immediately.

Happy Birthday, Martha!  (I think she'd like her Google Doodle    )

[bart]

Thanks, sandik.  Why doesn't MY Google page ever do nice things like that?

I was curious about the identification of the images, so did some Googling and found the following.  Several of these images have been used by the Google animator.

http://ljeilola.wordpress.com/2009/12/

[volcanohunter]

As of midnight ET the Graham doodle is running on American Google sites.

[diane]

It is on the German Google site, too.

-d-

[volcanohunter]

An e-mail from the Martha Graham Center indicates that the online response to the doodle was big.

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18,000: number of hits on  the Martha Graham Dance Company's Facebook page  
189,000: number of views of  our website (almost a quarter of a million for the week!)
4,500,000: number of views  of our Wikipedia page  

Martha Graham was also a  Top Ten Trending Topic on Twitter last week!