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For nine-year-old Sheldon Cooper, it isn't easy growing up in East Texas. Being a once-in-a-generation mind capable of advanced mathematics and science is not always helpful in a land where church and football are king. And while the vulnerable, gifted, and somewhat naive Sheldon deals with the world, his very normal family must find a way to deal with him.
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For young Sheldon Cooper, it isn't easy growing up in East Texas. Being a once-in-a-generation mind capable of advanced mathematics and science isn't always helpful in a land where church and football are king. And while the vulnerable, gifted, and somewhat naive Sheldon deals with the world, his very normal family must find a way to deal with him.
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"Is it normal to be smarter than your parents? Or to have a brother who's more interested in his hair than his studies and a twin sisters whose personality is the opposite of yours? It is if your Sheldon Cooper, the phenomenally gifted 11 year-old living in East Texas with his parents, George Sr. and Mary; siblings Georgie and Missy; and tough-talking, beloved Meemaw. Season three...follow[s] Sheldon as he tests that patience of his family, the...
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In a world where thought and faith are controlled, one man fights to set knowledge free. Leonardo Da Vinci is tortured by a gift of superhuman genius. He finds himself in a conflict between truth and lies, religion and reason, past and future. His quest for knowledge nearly becomes his undoing, but Da Vinci's genius prevails and he emerges as an unstoppable force that lifts an entire era out of darkness and propels it into light.
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The show offers an extraordinary look into the life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein. Beyond his groundbreaking theories of relativity, witness Einstein's struggles to be a good husband and father, and a man of principle during a time of global unrest. A ten-episode journey of discovery guided by Einstein's wit, wisdom and insatiable thirst for knowledge.
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"It's a new semester for child prodigy Sheldon Cooper, and a year of upheaveal for the entire Cooper family. Sheldon attends his first comic convention, gets his first set of nerdy friends and fails to impress his first engineering professor. George Sr. and Mary face conflicts at work and struggles in their marriage. Missy questions her religious beliefs and asks some uncomfortable questions about sex. Meemaw buys a laundromat with a secret gambling...
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"Being a child prodigy in East Texas can be challenging, but it can also make you the most popular student on your college campus. When thirteen-year-old undergrad Sheldon Cooper creates a database, his professors clamor for a partnership, but this puts him at odds with the university. Meanwhile, the relationship between his parents, George Sr. and Mary, hits a rough patch, causing his twin sister, Missy, to take off in their dad's truck. Big brother...
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"[T]he Cooper family faces a series of challenges that put their Texan grit to the test. Sheldon returns from studying in Germany to find his Meemaw's house destroyed by a tornado and, worse, his room occupied by Georgie, Mandy and baby CeeCee. Everyhing in Sheldon's life is changing, and he doesn't like it? Meemaw has to adjust to the loss of her illegal 'business' and moving in with boyfriend Dale. George Sr. and Mary rediscover their love for...
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"Edit is just an average psychology student in the year 2074. As a volunteer at a research center, she spends time with Abel, a mathematical genius who has discovered a special formula that gives him absolute power over the land. Abel has not communicated with anyone since his discovery. Edit's close friend Herb secretly implants a microchip in her brain that allows her to communicate with Abel. Soon the microchip develops its own personality as Edit's...
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"The Doctor has returned Tegan to 1981--the right time, but the wrong place. The Tardis has landed on a massive spaceship four days away from Earth. It is the domain of Monarch, a scientific genius of almost god-like power. Monarch rules over three billion of his species, as well as a group of apparently immortal humans from Earth's history. What part has he played in Earth's past, and what are his plans for its future? Will he save humanity...
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Destruction was not his design. After a long and disastrous personal quest, it's a slow, painful rebirth for Leonardo Da Vinci as he comes to the realization that his greatest enemy is himself. After travelling from Florence to South America and back in his relentless search for the fabled Book of Leaves, Florence is in ruins and dear friends have recently been buried. Da Vinci now must rebuild himself, as well as his beloved city, just as the Turks...
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"The pact catches up with [Karen] Blixen at age 63, finding her at the pinnacle of her fame and next in line to win the Nobel Prize for literature. It has been 17 years since she gave up her famous farm in Africa, only to return to Denmark with her life in ruins. Devastated by syphilis and having lost the love of her life, she has reinvented herself as a literary sensation. She is an isolated genius, however, until the day she meets talented 30-year-old...
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Same Genius. New World. Florence is thrown into chaos in the wake of the Pazzi conspiracy and Leonardo da Vinci must push the limits of his mind and body to defend the city against the forces of Rome. When the dust settles, friends are buried and rivalries are enflamed. While the Medicis go to unthinkable lengths to deal with new threats, da Vinci continues on his quest to find the fabled Book of Leaves and uncover the secret history of his mother....
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