Hello & welcome to this fortnight’s GK Nugget. Last Sunday was the 128 th birth anniversary of one of the world’s most famous and recognizable comedians, Charlie Chaplin . So this edition of the GK Nugget is about the actor who has made generations of people across the globe laugh out loud. Born on 16 th April 1889 , Charles Spencer Chaplin was born just 4 days before infamous German Dictator Adolf Hitler. One of Chaplin’s most famous movies was ‘ The Great Dictator ’ which saw him satirise Hitler. Released in 1940, it was nominated for 5 Academy Awards and went on to become one of Chaplin’s most commercially successful films. Interestingly, this was Chaplin’s first true sound film. An expert of the silent films, he was the only Hollywood film maker to continue making silent films well into the period of sound films . Chaplin wrote, produced, and acted in two movies in the 1930s, well after conversations were prevalent in the "talkies" (motion pictu

Hello & welcome to this weekend’s GK Nugget. This time I’m writing about a subject that has fueled the fantasy of mankind for generations. I’m talking about space travel . April 12 th marks 56 years since Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space ( 1961 ). He traveled aboard the Soviet spacecraft Vostok 1 to an altitude of 187 miles (301 kilometers) above the earth & completed a single orbit in a flight lasting 108 minutes. Many believe this was one of the defining moments in space history, not just based on the magnitude of the event but also because it intensified the already ongoing Space Race between the Russians & Americans. 23 days later , Alan Shepard became the first American in space. Eventually on 20 th July 1969 , the space flight Apollo 11 carried the first humans to set foot on the Moon. American astronaut Neil Armstrong made his place in history by uttering the famous words " That's one small step for a man, one g