Celebrates Charlie Chaplin's 122nd Birthday

Do you still remember the actor in the era of silent films Charlie Chaplin? Google celebrates the birthday of Charlie Chaplin 122nd of popular film star via Google Doodle. Like what?

Google Doodle is black and white with a figure of close-ups of his face full name of Charles Spencer Chaplin. Interestingly, in the form of video Doodle Charlie Chaplin, who was sitting with a little paint on the chair and fought with the British police. The video shows the unique and distinctive style of Charlie Chaplin silent.

In The video also shows Google a woman painted ornament behind the body of Charlie Chaplin. Uniqueness of Charlie Chaplin also means popular music in the 90s.

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Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen

Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (30see below March 1811 – 16 August 1899) was a German chemist. He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861) with Gustav Kirchhoff. Bunsen developed several gas-analytical methods, was a pioneer in photochemistry, and did early work in the field of organoarsenic chemistry. With his laboratory assistant, Peter Desaga, he developed the Bunsen burner, an improvement on the laboratory burners then in use.

The Bunsen–Kirchhoff Award for spectroscopy is named after Bunsen and Kirchhoff

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The mysterious death of Yuri Gagarin

Yuri Gagarin was the first man in outer space, when he orbited the earth in the first manned space flight exactly fifty years ago.

Gagarin was for a brief time the most famous man on earth and hailed as a hero by millions around the world
However, the cosmonaut did not get to enjoy his celebrity – he died just seven years later in a mysterious plane crash that has generated a mountain of conspiracy theories.

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Elizabeth Taylor has died

Elizabeth Taylor, the legendary actress famed for her beauty, her jet-set lifestyle, her charitable endeavors and her many marriages, has died, her publicist told CNN Wednesday. She was 79.

Taylor died "peacefully today in Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles," said a statement from her publicist. She was hospitalized six weeks ago with congestive heart failure, "a condition with which she had struggled for many years. Though she had recently suffered a number of complications, her condition had stabilized and it was hoped that she would be able to return home. Sadly, this was not to be."

Though a two-time Oscar winner -- for "Butterfield 8" (1960) and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" (1966) -- Taylor was more celebrated for simply being Elizabeth Taylor: sexy, glamorous, tempestuous, fragile, always trailing courtiers, media and fans. She wasn't above playing to that image -- she had a fragrance called "White Diamonds" -- or mocking it.

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Ice Cream Sundae Google Doodle prompts Android rumours

The Ice Cream Sundae was honoured with a Google Doodle today for its 119th anniversary, prompting speculation that the search giant's code-named "Ice Cream" operating system may be released shortly.
The dessert, characterised by a syrup-drizzled scoop of vanilla ice cream with a wafer and cherry on top, is thought to have been created in 1892 when New York soda fountain proprietor Chester Platt served the dish to church minister John Scott.

Others believe the Sundae was invented after an ice cream truck collided with a syrup tanker.

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