Google Celebrated Robert Louis Stevenson’s 160th Birthday

Today Google celebrates Robert Louis Stevenson’s 160th Birthday. Well his not actually alive anymore as you can see he’s already 160 years old. You can see in a Google doodle a picture of a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder, a black flag and a treasure chest filled with gold.

If you observe the doodle closely, you can see the name “Google”. The first letter ‘G’ can be seen on the pirate, ‘O’ in compass of the map, ‘O’ on the mountains, ‘G’ has been marked on the ship, the flag of the pirates as letter ‘L’ and the final letter ‘E’ as the box with the treasure.

A little background of Robert Stevenson from wikipedia:

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson born on November 13, 1850 died on December 3, 1894 was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. His best-known books include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

Stevenson has been greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Marcel Schwob, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G.K. Chesterton, who said of him that he “seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins.”

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