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Google is known for its creative holiday plays on its familiar logo. Last year artists came up with a logo for most big holidays plus Earth Day, Bloomsday, St. Patrick's Day, Chinese New Year and the birthdays of Gaston Julia and Ray Charles. Martin Luther King Day? Nada since 2003. Today, the search engine page is plain wrap.
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