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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Carom billiards (redirect from Carambole billiard)
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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Dynamical billiards (redirect from Dynamical billiard table)
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 (cue sports) (redirect from Pocket billiard)
Pool is a series of cue sports played on a billiard table. The table has six pockets along the rails, into which balls are shot. Of the many different...
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Look up Billiard, billiard, or billiards in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Billiard or billiards may refer to: A billiard, a type of shot in cue sports...
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Three-cushion billiards (redirect from Three cushion billiard)
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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Russian pyramid (redirect from Russian Billiard)
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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Glossary of cue sports terms (redirect from Billiard glossary)
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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English billiards (section Balls and table)
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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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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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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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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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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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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Brunswick Corporation (redirect from Great Western Billiard Manufactory)
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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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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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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station. Here he was operated on in the hotel's billiard room where Major Guy Rigby Jones used the billiard table to perform surgery. A day later he was moved...
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World Billiards Championship (English billiards) (section Billiard Association tournament World Championships)
and not recognised by the Billiard Association. With the Billiards Association championship in abeyance, the billiard table manufacturers George Wright...
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List of furniture types (section Tables)
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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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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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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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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a billiard room and installed the billiard table on the ground floor in this room. This use was retained in the nineteenth century: a new billiard table...
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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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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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Comparison of cue sports (section Tables)
strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiard table bounded by rubber cushions attached to the confining rails of the table. Carom...
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