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    A billiard table or billiards table is a bounded table on which cue sports are played. In the modern era, all billiards tables (whether for carom billiards...
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    family of cue sports generally played on cloth-covered, pocketless billiard tables. In its simplest form, the object of the game is to score points or...
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    reflections with the boundary (a geodesic if the Riemannian metric of the billiard table is not flat). All reflections are specular: the angle of incidence just...
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    Cue sports (redirect from Billiard chalk)
    played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as cushions...
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    table (The term "billiard room" or "pool room" may also be used for a business providing public billiards tables; see billiard hall.). The billiard room...
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    Pool is the name given to a series of cue sports played on a billiard table. The table has six pockets along the rails, into which balls are shot. Of...
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    Award-winning Spanish film Seven Billiard Tables (Siete mesas de billar francés), about a woman who inherits a troubled billiard hall and is searching for her...
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  • billiard table without pockets; pool, which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets; and snooker, played on a large pocket table,...
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    early 18th century. One period advertisement read: "A very good French Billiard Table, little the worse for wearing, full size, with all the materials fit...
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    билья́рд, russky bilyard), is a form of billiards played on a large billiard table with narrow pockets. It is played across Russia and several former Soviet/Eastern...
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    A billiard ball is a small, hard ball used in cue sports, such as carom billiards, pool, and snooker. The number, type, diameter, color, and pattern of...
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    traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with pockets at each of the four corners and in the middle of each long...
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    Artistic billiards is a cue sport played on a billiard table. A discipline of carom billiards, players aim to recreate a portion of 76 pre-set shots of...
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    Pendant light (redirect from Billiard light)
    fluorescent or multiple incandescent bulbs, used over kitchen islands and billiard tables. They are sometimes considered a type of chandelier. It is a key component...
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    1515% (1 in 660) on the Great Western main line, nicknamed Brunel's Billiard Table, because the early locomotives (and their brakes) were feeble. Steep...
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    lows) is a discipline of pool played on a billiard table with six pockets, cue sticks, and sixteen billiard balls (a cue ball and fifteen object balls)...
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    Headboard Infant bed (crib, cradle) Sofa bed Toddler bed Billiard table Celestial globe Chess table Entertainment center Gramophone Hi-fi Jukebox Pinball...
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    played on a cloth-covered, 10-by-5-foot (3.0 m × 1.5 m), pocketless billiard table with two cue balls and a third red-colored ball. In a one-cushion shot...
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    at tables along the walls to the left and right, with Ginoux, the landlord said to be depicted (standing) in it, to one side of a billiard table near...
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  • billiard tables would be more lucrative, as the better tables then in use in the United States were imported from England. Brunswick billiard tables were...
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  • Seven Billiard Tables (Spanish: Siete mesas de billar francés) is a 2007 Spanish sports comedy-drama film directed by Gracia Querejeta. She also co-wrote...
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  • Snookball is a ball sport that is played on a billiard table, combining elements of snooker and association football. In 2014, snookball was founded by...
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    gets kind of meta: She considers not just one billiard table, but the universe of all possible billiard tables. And the kind of dynamics she studies doesn't...
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    use this wall to bank balls similarly to how billiard balls are played off the cushions of a billiard table. The wickets, called arches, are permanently...
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  • basic functions of a computer database Crud (game), a game played on a billiard table CRUD (radio station), a former radio station of Rochdale College in...
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    to their Los Angeles and Sausalito properties, adding a Jacuzzi and billiard table. Stone later said of Kellgren, "He single-handedly was responsible for...
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    is played on a pocketless unmarked billiard table, usually 10 by 5 feet (3.0 m × 1.5 m) in size, and three billiard balls, one, usually white, that serves...
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    of it. It was a perfect natural landing field [...] as smooth as a billiard table without anything being done to it. The lake bed made an ideal strip...
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    of a dynamical system. For example, for a particle moving on an oval billiard table, even small changes of the initial conditions result in very different...
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    theatrical notables, and maintains a kitchen and wine cellar and a billiard table in its usually busy Grill Room. In the Dining Room, filled with portraits...
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