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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.
According to Seneca, the early Romans coined paterfamilias as a euphemism for the relationship of a master to his slaves. [5] The word for "master" was dominus as the one who controlled the domain of the domus (household); [ 6 ] dominium was the word for his control over the slaves. [ 7 ]
This is the oldest layer of Vedic texts, which were composed between c. 1500 –1200 BCE (Rig Veda book 2–9), [note 1] and 1200–900 BCE for the other Samhitas. The Samhitas contain invocations to deities like Indra and Agni , "to secure their benediction for success in battles or for welfare of the clan."
Ted Kaczynski (the "Unabomber") infamously used two old manual typewriters to write his polemic essays and messages. [153] Actor Tom Hanks uses and collects manual typewriters. [155] [153] To control the size of his collection, he gifts autographed machines to appreciative fans and repair shops around the world. [156]
Taiwan, [II] [i] officially the Republic of China (ROC), [I] is a country [26] in East Asia. [l] The main island of Taiwan, also known as Formosa, lies between the East and South China Sea in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south.
Analogies between boron and transition metals have been noted in the formation of complexes, [259] and adducts (for example, BH 3 + CO →BH 3 CO and, similarly, Fe(CO) 4 + CO →Fe(CO) 5), [n 25] as well as in the geometric and electronic structures of cluster species such as [B 6 H 6] 2− and [Ru 6 (CO) 18] 2−.
In general, the rules governing the formation of a contract under Québecois law are codified in Book Five, Title One, Chapter 2, Division 3 of the Civil Code. Except where a specific provision of law requires otherwise, a contract is formed by the exchange of consent between persons with the capacity enter into a contract. [ 178 ]