Josephine Baker: 111th Birthday of the Jazz Icon Spy

Google recently celebrated the 111th birthday of Josephine Baker with a special Google doodle.

Josephine Baker, a Jazz icon of the 1920s fought racism and became the first entertainer of African-American heritage to gain international recognition. During the 2nd World War, she worked as an undercover for the French resistance group.

She used her celebrity status and socialized to gather intelligence information. She would then write her report with invisible in on her music sheets.

Check it out now!

 

Josephine Baker


You might also find this interesting:


  1. HTML5 Game Development Facebook, Twitter and G+ The official HTML5GameDevelopment.org Facebook page up at: http://www.facebook.com/Html5GameDevelopment The official HTML5GameDevelopment.org Twitter account is at: https://twitter.com/#!/gamedevhtml5 The Google Plus page is up at: https://plus.google.com/b/106608051085232600929/ All are updated automatically via the...

  2. Hearthstone card effect in CSS An interesting question was posed via Twitter recently. It was about finding a way to create a card browse/hovering effect like the one in the popular card game Hearthstone using...

  3. OnGameStart comes to New York: March 15th, 2013 OnGameStart, the original HTML5 Game Development conference, is expanding to the US with an US-based event taking place on March 15, 2013 in New York City. Michal has once again...

  4. Google Maps 8-Bit Quest Tower Defense Does it count as a game or just a mash-up of an elaborate Google April Fools job? No one knows – but I do know that Duncan Barclay’s turning Google’s...

  5. Tu Be’av 2017 – Google Doodle Game To commemorate Tu Be’av, the day of Love in Israel, Google created this interactive doodle. Tu Be’av 2017 is a platformer game where a young pangolin gathers different types of...

, ,
HTML5 News, Misc