Man reunited with car after forgetting where it was parked 20 years ago

Back in 1997, a man filed a report to the Frankfurt police claiming that his car was missing.

Twenty years later, city authorities found the vehicle in an old industrial building, according to The Independent.

As per report, the building was about to be demolished and the police needed to find the car’s owner.

It turned out that the man, now 76, had simply forgotten where he parked his car.

German newspaper Augsberger Allgemein reports that the police and the man’s daughter accompanied him to see the vehicle.

The car was no longer functional and needed to be scrapped. Hopefully, the man at least dodged some hefty parking fees. Niña V. Guno/JB

source: newsinfo.inquirer.net

Google prepares to celebrate Christmas with doodle

It's still two days before Christmas, but Google on Tuesday started celebrating the Christmas season with a colorful doodle.

 

Visitors to Google's home page were greeted with a doodle of children aboard a sleigh pulled by a reindeer. 

 

Clicking on the doodle takes the visitor to a Google Search Results page for "Tis the Season."

 

However, the first result - a Wikipedia entry - is a disambiguation page that offers several results for "'Tis the Season."

 

Still, a separate report on UK's The Independent said Google has dedicated its festive doodle starting Dec. 21 to 23. —Joel Locsin/VC, GMA News

source: gmanetwork.com

Google honors French physicist Foucault with pendulum doodle

Google on Wednesday marked the 194th birth anniversary of French physicist Léon Foucault with a pendulum doodle, in honor of his device confirming that the Earth rotated.

Visitors to Google's homepage (www.google.com) were greeted with an interactive pendulum allowing them to see the effect of the Earth's rotation.

"The interactive doodle is based on the Foucault pendulum - a radical device he created to demonstrate the effect of the earth’s rotation - and allows users to manipulate the swinging bob according to where on earth they happen to be," UK's The Independent said.

As in the past, clicking on the spyglass icon will send users to a Google Search Results page for Léon Foucault.


Foucault's pendulum was introduced in 1851 to confirm the theory that the Earth rotated. It made a full circle once every 32.7 hours.

Foucault was born in Paris on September 18, 1819 and initially studied medicine, but quit after developing a fear of blood.

In 1851, he made his famous pendulum experiment, and the following year he used and named the gyroscope, which was used to measure orientation.

He died of multiple sclerosis on February 11, 1868 at age 48.  — ELR, GMA News

source: gmanetwork.com