Olympic Summer Games in Sydney – Kayaking (Global) Bastille Day (France)īastille Day is a holiday celebrating the French Revolution and the storming of the Bastille. Olympic Summer Games in Sydney – Soccer (Global)Ī number of Doodles were created for the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. This was the first officialGoogle Doodle and told the story of an alien intrigue. 2000 Groundhog Day (US) Father’s Day (Global) Series From the First Week of May 1999 Season’s Greetings (Global) ‘Uncle Sam’ Search (US) This was the first-ever Google Doodle and was created to indicate the Google founders’ attendance at the Burning Man Festival. Have a favorite that isn’t on this list? Share it in the comments! 1998 Burning Man Below are some of the best hand-pickedGoogle Doodles from the past 12+ years we loved! But starting in 2008, Google has been using more and more Doodles, often with cryptic meanings that take a bit of research to unearth the meaning behind them. In the first ten years of Google Doodles (from 1998-2007), there were usually only a handful or maybe a dozen Doodles each year, usually for major events or holidays (like New Year’s Dayor the Olympics). For 12 years now, Google has been creating these logos, honoring everything from global holidays like Earth Dayto the birthdays of historically significant people (like Albert Einstein) and even to the birthdays of fictional characters like Paddington Bear. Like Anne, Bono is preoccupied with issues of freedom and dignity, and, working with Oliver Munday, our associate creative director, he made a stunning cover that captures the resolve of Ukraine’s wartime president.We’re all familiar with Google Doodles – the customized logos that appear on the search engine’s home page to commemorate special dates or events. Zelensky, a man we both admire, was a natural subject for his first go. I suggested that he make an actual Atlantic cover. I was, as you might imagine, curious about this hobby, and I asked to see his sketches. Not long ago, he told me that he sometimes redesigned and reimagined Atlantic covers on his iPad. As you will see, the pictures accompanying our story were taken by Paolo Pellegrin, one of the greatest living photographers, and the cover was designed and drawn by Bono, who, in addition to … being Bono, is a gifted illustrator. So Anne, and others, will continue to cover this war and its consequences vigorously and ambitiously. The war in Ukraine is about much more than Ukraine it is about the very subjects that animate this magazine: democracy, freedom, justice, humanism. This is the subject of the story Anne and I wrote for this issue.įrom the June 2023 issue: The case for the total liberation of Ukraine In this interview (which we conducted with Laurene Powell Jobs, the chair of The Atlantic’s board of directors), Zelensky spoke with urgency about the need for the West to remain unfaltering in the face of Russian aggression. When we saw Zelensky again, this past March, the conversation was more expansive, about democracy, education, technology. This sort of scene is repeated up and down the Dnipro River: the Russians on one bank, firing artillery and short-range missiles at civilians the Ukrainians firing back with whatever they have, which is often not enough.Īnne and I first met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last year, a short time after Russia’s full-scale invasion began, and in that meeting one of the main subjects was, indeed, ordnance-how many rockets and artillery shells Ukraine needed simply to survive the Russian onslaught. A few hours after the strike, all that was left was a modest crater, bits of shrapnel, and smudges of blood on the asphalt. Three people died in this attack, and three more were injured, including an elderly woman. The missile was meant to murder and terrorize mission accomplished. Anne and I were nearby, interviewing Ukrainian soldiers. One day, in Kherson, the still mostly abandoned southern city only recently liberated by the Ukrainian army, a Russian missile struck a supermarket parking lot. On our most recent visit to Ukraine, the darker side of human nature was plainly visible. Readers of The Atlantic have benefited from Anne’s erudition, vision, and trenchant writing. Anne’s work on that catastrophe prepared her to write about Ukraine’s latest calamity, a calamity whose author is Stalin’s worthy successor. Her book Red Famine is the definitive study of Stalin’s calculated starvation of Ukraine. ![]() View MoreĪnne, who received the Pulitzer Prize for Gulag, has made one of her professional preoccupations (to borrow from Robert Burns) man’s inhumanity to man-specifically, though not exclusively, the inhumanity manifest in Soviet and post-Soviet history. Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read.
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