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Young Sheldon is an American coming-of-age sitcom television series created by Chuck Lorre and Steven Molaro for CBS.The series is a spin-off prequel to The Big Bang Theory and chronicles the life of the character Sheldon Cooper as a child living with his family in East Texas.
Chess is a board game for two players. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess).
Global smartphone sales surpassed the sales figures for feature phones in early 2013. [279] Worldwide shipments of smartphones topped 1 billion units in 2013, up 38% from 2012's 725 million, while comprising a 55% share of the mobile phone market in 2013, up from 42% in 2012. In 2013, smartphone sales began to decline for the first time.
A one-wheeled balancing robot is an extension of a two-wheeled balancing robot so that it can move in any 2D direction using a round ball as its only wheel. Several one-wheeled balancing robots have been designed recently, such as Carnegie Mellon University 's " Ballbot " which is the approximate height and width of a person, and Tohoku Gakuin ...
Success led to significant financial rewards, but also the challenges of celebrity status. [156] Hawking travelled extensively to promote his work, and enjoyed partying into the late hours. [ 154 ] A difficulty refusing the invitations and visitors left him limited time for work and his students. [ 157 ]
While a rising birth rate is contributing to population growth, it remains considerably below the baby boom peak of 2.95 children per woman in 1964, [351] or the high of 6.02 children born per woman in 1815, [352] below the replacement rate of 2.1, but higher than the 2001 record low of 1.63. [353]
The Nanjing Massacre [b] or the Rape of Nanjing (formerly romanized as Nanking [c]) was the mass murder of Chinese civilians by the Imperial Japanese Army in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, immediately after the Battle of Nanking and retreat of the National Revolutionary Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.