Robots made their stage debut the day after New Year’s 1921. More than half-a-century before the world caught its first glimpse of George Lucas’ droids, a small army of silvery humanoids took to the stages of the First Czechoslovak Republic. They were, for all intents and purposes, humanoids: two arms, two legs, a head — […]
Tennis scoring, explained: A guide to understanding the rules, terms & points system
Love? Deuce? Advantage? What does it all mean? Tennis has long had the most unique way of keeping score, and the origins of the sport’s scoring system is actually fairly ambiguous. So if you’re looking for why exactly tennis scoring is so weird, you might be not be satisfied with the answer … but we’ll […]