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Three-cushion billiards

Index Three-cushion billiards

Three-cushion billiards (sometimes called three-cushion carom, three-cushion, three-cushions, three-rail, rails and the angle game, and often spelled with the numeral "3" instead of "three") is a popular form of carom billiards. [1]

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Balkline and straight rail

Balkline (sometimes spelled balk line or balk-line) is the overarching title of a large array of carom billiards games generally played with two and a third, red, on a -covered, 5 foot × 10 foot, less table that is divided by on the cloth into marked regions called.

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Billiard hall

A billiard/billiards, pool or snooker hall (or '''parlour'''/'''parlor''', room or club; sometimes compounded as poolhall, poolroom, etc.) is a place where people get together for playing cue sports such as pool, snooker or carom billiards.

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Billiards World Cup Association

The Billiards World Cup Association (BWA) was a governing body for three-cushion carom billiards which organized and marketed the Three-Cushion World Cup from 1985–1999.

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Carom billiards

Carom billiards, sometimes called carambole billiards or simply carambole (and in some cases used as a synonym for the game of straight rail from which many carom games derive), is the overarching title of a family of billiards games generally played on cloth-covered, pocketless tables, which often feature heated slate beds.

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CEB European Three-cushion Championship

The CEB European Three-cushion Championship is three-cushion billiards tournament organized by the Confédération Européenne de Billard.

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Cue sports techniques

Cue sports techniques (usually more specific, e.g., billiards techniques, snooker techniques) are a vital important aspect of game play in the various cue sports such as carom billiards, pool, snooker and other games.

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Cushion caroms

Cushion caroms (or cushion carom billiards) Each section of the newspaper page scans on this site can be clicked for a readable closeup.

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Dick Jaspers

Dingeman Jacobus Johannes "Dick" Jaspers (born 23 July 1965) is a Dutch professional carom billiards player who specializes in the three-cushion event.

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Donald in Mathmagic Land

Donald in Mathmagic Land is a 27-minute Donald Duck educational featurette released on June 26, 1959.

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Eddy Merckx (billiards player)

Eddy Merckx (born 4 September 1968 in Reet, Belgium) is a Belgian professional three-cushion billiards player.

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Florange

Florange (Lorraine Franconian: Fléischengen/Fléschéngen) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

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Flushing, Queens

Flushing is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens in the United States.

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Frédéric Caudron

Frédéric Caudron (born 27 January 1968 in Mons, Belgium) is a Belgian professional three-cushion billiards player, nicknamed "L'Extraterrestre" ("The Extraterrestrial").

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Goya Awards

The Goya Awards, known in Spanish as los Premios Goya, are Spain's main national annual film awards.

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Guri

Guri is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.

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International Olympic Committee

The International Olympic Committee (IOC; French: Comité International Olympique, CIO) is a Swiss private non-governmental organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, which is the authority responsible for the modern Olympic Games.

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Junichi Komori

(11 July 1941 – 26 July 2015) Obituary on Kozoom.com.

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Lupin the Third

, also written as Lupin the Third, Lupin the 3rd or Lupin the IIIrd, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Monkey Punch.

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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.

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Monaco

Monaco, officially the Principality of Monaco (Principauté de Monaco), is a sovereign city-state, country and microstate on the French Riviera in Western Europe.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Pool (cue sports)

Pool is a cue sport played on a table with six pockets along the, into which balls are deposited.

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Queens

Queens is the easternmost and largest in area of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Ralph Greenleaf

Ralph Greenleaf (November 3, 1899 in Monmouth, Illinois – March 15, 1950 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an American professional pool and carom billiards player, a twenty-time World Pocket Billiards Champion, whose ability and charisma dominated the sport during his heyday.

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Raymond Ceulemans

Ridder Raymond Ceulemans (born 12 July 1937) is a Belgian billiards player and possibly the most dominant single figure in any one sport, having won 35 World Championship titles (23 in three-cushion + 12 in other carom disciplines), 48 European titles (23 in three-cushion) and 61 national titles.

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Sang Lee

Sang Chun Lee (이상천; January 15, 1954 – October 19, 2004), most commonly known simply as Sang Lee, was a Korean American professional three-cushion billiards player and world champion.

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South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (대한민국; Hanja: 大韓民國; Daehan Minguk,; lit. "The Great Country of the Han People"), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and lying east to the Asian mainland.

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St. Louis

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Straight pool

Straight pool, also called 14.1 continuous or simply 14.1, is a type of pool game.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Rifleman

The Rifleman was an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son Mark McCain.

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.

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Three-Cushion World Cup

The Three-Cushion World Cup is an international tournament series in three-cushion billiards, which is held every year since 1986 between three and ten times a year.

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Torbjörn Blomdahl

Torbjörn Blomdahl (born 26 October 1962 in Gothenburg) is a Swedish professional carom billiards (and to a lesser extent pool) player from Helsingborg, Sweden.

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UMB World Three-cushion Championship

The UMB World Three-cushion Championship is a professional carom billiards tournament in the discipline of three-cushion billiards, organized mostly annually by the Union Mondiale de Billard.

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Union Mondiale de Billard

The Union Mondiale de Billard (French for World Union of Billiards) is the world governing body for carom (carambole) billiard games.

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Veldhoven

Veldhoven is a municipality and a town on the Gender stream in the southern Netherlands, located in the Metropoolregio Eindhoven just southwest of Eindhoven.

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Verhoeven Open

The Verhoeven Open is a three-cushion billiards tournament held in Flushing, Queens.

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Willie Hoppe

William Frederick Hoppe (October 11, 1887 – February 1, 1959), known predominantly as Willie Hoppe (surname rhymes with "poppy"), was an internationally renowned American professional carom billiards champion, who was posthumously inducted into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame in 1966.

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World Pool-Billiard Association

The World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA) is the international governing body for pocket billiards.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-cushion_billiards

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