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Abacus
The abacus (plural abaci or abacuses), also called a counting frame, is a calculating tool that was in use in Europe, China and Russia, centuries before the adoption of the written Hindu–Arabic numeral system.
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Air hockey
Air hockey is a game where two players play against each other on a low-friction table.
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Alex Pagulayan
Alejandro "Alex" Salvador Pagulayan (born June 25, 1976) is a Filipino Canadian professional pool (pocket billiards) and snooker player.
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All-star
An all-star (also stylized as All-Star) team is a group of people all having a high level of performance in their field.
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Allen Hopkins (pool player)
Allen Hopkins (born November 18, 1951, Elizabeth, New Jersey) is an American professional pocket billiards (pool) player, professional billiards color commentator and BCA Hall of Fame inductee.
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Aluminium oxide
Aluminium oxide (British English) or aluminum oxide (American English) is a chemical compound of aluminium and oxygen with the chemical formula 23.
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American Association of Physics Teachers
The American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) was founded in 1930 for the purpose of "dissemination of knowledge of physics, particularly by way of teaching." There are more than 10,000 members that reside in over 30 countries.
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American CueSports Alliance
The American CueSports Alliance (abbreviated ACS) is a non-profit league-sanctioning body for cue sports in the United States.
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American English
American English (AmE, AE, AmEng, USEng, en-US), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.
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American Journal of Physics
The American Journal of Physics is a monthly, peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Association of Physics Teachers and the American Institute of Physics.
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American Poolplayers Association
The American Association (APA) was founded in 1981 by professional pool players Terry Bell and Larry Hubbart, although with roots dating back to the National Pool League (NPL), founded in 1979.
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Amusement arcade
An amusement arcade (often referred to as "video arcade" or simply "arcade") is a venue where people play arcade games such as video games, pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games, merchandisers (such as claw cranes), or coin-operated billiards or air hockey tables.
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Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River - geographically Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt, in the place that is now occupied by the countries of Egypt and Sudan.
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Antler
Antlers are extensions of an animal's skull found in members of the deer family.
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Artistic billiards
Artistic billiards, sometimes called fantasy billiards or fantaisie classique, is a carom billiards discipline in which players compete at performing 76 preset shots of varying difficulty.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Avondale, Arizona
Avondale is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, adjacent to Phoenix.
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Backboard (basketball)
A backboard is a piece of basketball equipment.
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Badminton at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's doubles
The badminton women's doubles tournament at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place from 28 July to 4 August at Wembley Arena.
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Bagatelle
Bagatelle (from the Château de Bagatelle) is a billiards-derived indoor table game, the object of which is to get a number of balls (set at nine in the 19th century) past wooden pins (which act as obstacles) into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over.
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Baize
Baize is a coarse woollen (or in cheaper variants cotton) cloth.
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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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Banknote
A banknote (often known as a bill, paper money, or simply a note) is a type of negotiable promissory note, made by a bank, payable to the bearer on demand.
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Bar
A bar (also known as a saloon or a tavern or sometimes a pub or club, referring to the actual establishment, as in pub bar or savage club etc.) is a retail business establishment that serves alcoholic beverages, such as beer, wine, liquor, cocktails, and other beverages such as mineral water and soft drinks and often sell snack foods such as crisps (potato chips) or peanuts, for consumption on premises.
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Bar billiards
Bar billiards is a form of billiards which involves scoring points by potting balls in holes on the playing surface of the table rather than in pockets.
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Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams who take turns batting and fielding.
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Baseball pocket billiards
Baseball pocket billiards or baseball pool (sometimes, in context, referred to simply as baseball) is a pocket billiards (pool) game suitable for multiple players that borrows phraseology and even some aspects of form from the game of baseball.
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Basketball
Basketball is a team sport played on a rectangular court.
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Billiard ball
A billiard ball is a small, hard ball used in cue sports, such as carom billiards, pool, and snooker.
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Billiard Congress of America
Billiard Congress of America (BCA) is a governing body for cue sports in North America (here defined as the United States and Canada exclusively), the regional member organization of the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA).
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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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Billiard table
A billiard table or billiards table is a bounded table on which billiards-type games (cue sports) are played.
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Blackball (pool)
Blackball (sometimes written black ball or black-ball) is a pool (pocket billiards) game originating in the United Kingdom and popular in multiple countries.
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Bottle pool
Bottle pool, also known as bottle-billiards and bottle pocket billiards, is a hybrid billiards game combining aspects of both carom billiards and pocket billiards.
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Bowling alley
A bowling alley (or bowling center) is a facility where the sport of bowling, often ten-pin bowling, is played.
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Bowls
Bowls or lawn bowls is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls called woods so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a "jack" or "kitty".
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Brass
Brass is a metallic alloy that is made of copper and zinc.
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Breast
The breast is one of two prominences located on the upper ventral region of the torso of primates.
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British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.
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British English
British English is the standard dialect of English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom.
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017.
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Brooklyn Eagle
The Brooklyn Eagle, originally The Brooklyn Eagle, and Kings County Democrat, was a daily newspaper published in the city and later borough of Brooklyn, in New York City, for 114 years from 1841 to 1955.
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Brunswick Corporation
The Brunswick Corporation, formerly known as the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, is an American corporation that has been active in developing, manufacturing and marketing a wide variety of products since 1845.
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Calcium carbonate
Calcium carbonate is a chemical compound with the formula CaCO3.
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Canadian English
Canadian English (CanE, CE, en-CA) is the set of varieties of the English language native to Canada.
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Card game
A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, be they traditional or game-specific.
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Card sharp
A card sharp (also cardsharp, card shark or cardshark, sometimes hyphenated) is a person who uses skill and/or deception to win at poker or other card games.
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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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Carrom
Carrom (also spelled karrom) is a "strike-and-" tabletop game of South Asian origin.
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Cash game
Cash games, also sometimes referred to as ring games or live action games, are poker games played with "real" chips and money at stake, usually with no predetermined end time, with players able to enter and leave as they see fit.
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Century break
In snooker, a century break (sometimes referred to as a ton) is a score of 100 points or more within one at the table without missing a shot and requires potting at least 25 consecutive balls.
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Ceramic
A ceramic is a non-metallic solid material comprising an inorganic compound of metal, non-metal or metalloid atoms primarily held in ionic and covalent bonds.
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Chalk
Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock, a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite.
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Chess
Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid.
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Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.
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Chicago (pool)
Chicago is a "" pool gambling game.
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Combination lock
A combination lock is a type of locking device in which a sequence of symbols, usually numbers, is used to open the lock.
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Common Era
Common Era or Current Era (CE) is one of the notation systems for the world's most widely used calendar era – an alternative to the Dionysian AD and BC system.
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Commonwealth of Nations
The Commonwealth of Nations, often known as simply the Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of 53 member states that are mostly former territories of the British Empire.
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Cone
A cone is a three-dimensional geometric shape that tapers smoothly from a flat base (frequently, though not necessarily, circular) to a point called the apex or vertex.
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Corey Deuel
Corey Deuel (born November 20, 1977 in Santa Barbara, California) is an American professional pocket billiards (pool) player from West Jefferson, Ohio.
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Cornhole
Cornhole or bean bag toss (also known regionally as baggo, bags, sack toss, or bean sack) is a lawn game in which players take turns throwing bags of corn (or bean bags) at a raised platform with a hole in the far end.
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Cowboy Jimmy Moore
James William Moore (September 14, 1910 – November 17, 1999), known as Cowboy Jimmy Moore, was a world-class American pocket billiards (pool) player originally from Troup County, Georgia, and for most of his life a resident of Albuquerque, New Mexico, best known for his mastery in the game of straight pool (14.1 continuous).
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Cowboy pool
Cowboy pool (or simply cowboy) is a hybrid pool game combining elements of English billiards through an intermediary game, with more standard pocket billiards characteristics.
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Cribbage (pool)
Cribbage, sometimes called cribbage pocket billiards, cribbage pool, fifteen points and pair pool, is a two-player pocket billiards game that, like its namesake card game, has a scoring system which awards points for pairing groups of balls (rather than playing cards) that total 15.
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Crucible Theatre
The Crucible Theatre (often referred to simply as "The Crucible") is a theatre in the city centre of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England which opened in 1971, As well as theatrical performances, it hosts the most prestigious event in professional snooker, the World Championship.
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Cue sports
Cue sports (sometimes written cuesports), also known as billiard sports, are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by elastic bumpers known as.
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Cue stick
A cue stick (or simply cue, more specifically pool cue, snooker cue, or billiards cue), is an item of sporting equipment essential to the games of pool, snooker and carom billiards.
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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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Cutthroat (pool)
Cutthroat or cut-throat is a typically three-player or team pocket billiards game, played on a pool table, with a full standard set of pool balls (15 numbered s and a); the game cannot be played with three or more players with an unnumbered reds-and-yellows ball set, as used in blackball.
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Daily News and Analysis
Daily News and Analysis (DNA) is an Indian broadsheet newspaper launched in 2005 and published in English from Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Pune, Jaipur, Bengaluru and Indore in India. It is the first English broadsheet daily in India to introduce an all-colour page format. It targets a young readership and is owned and managed by Diligent Media Corporation.
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Danish pin billiards
Danish billiards or keglebillard, sometimes called Danish five-pin billiards, is the traditional cue sport of Denmark, and the game remains predominantly played in that country.
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Danny DiLiberto
Danny DiLiberto (born February 19, 1935 in Buffalo, New York) is an American professional pool player, nicknamed "Buffalo Dan".
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Dave Harold
David "Dave" Harold (born 9 December 1966) is an English former professional snooker player from Stoke-on-Trent.
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David Alcaide
David Alcaide (born 14 December 1978 in Málaga, Spain) is a Spanish pool player.
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Debagging
Debagging, also known as depantsing or simply pantsing, is the pulling down of a person's trousers or underwear, usually against their wishes, and typically as a practical joke or a form of bullying, but in other instances as a sexual fetish.
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Dennis Taylor
Dennis Taylor (born Denis Taylor, 19 January 1949 in Coalisland, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland) is a retired professional snooker player and current BBC snooker commentator.
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Derby City Classic
The Derby City Classic is an annual pocket billiard convention held every January at the Horseshoe Southern Indiana casino in Elizabeth, Indiana near Louisville, Kentucky.
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Disability
A disability is an impairment that may be cognitive, developmental, intellectual, mental, physical, sensory, or some combination of these.
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Dominoes
Dominoes is a family of tile-based games played with rectangular "domino" tiles.
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Double-elimination tournament
A double-elimination tournament is a type of elimination tournament competition in which a participant ceases to be eligible to win the tournament's championship upon having lost two games or matches.
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Earl Strickland
Earl "the Pearl" Strickland (born June 8, 1961 in Roseboro, North Carolina) is an American professional pool player who is considered one of the best nine-ball players of all time.
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Eight-ball
Eight-ball (often spelled 8-ball or eightball, and sometimes called solids and stripes, spots and stripes in the UK or, more rarely, bigs and littles/smalls, and highs and lows) is a pool (pocket billiards) game popular in much of the world, and the subject of international professional and amateur competition.
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Eight-ball (disambiguation)
Eight-ball (or 8-ball, Eightball, 8 Ball, eight ball, 8ball, etc.) may refer to.
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English billiards
English billiards, called simply billiards Serves as a good example; the book refers to English billiards simply as "billiards", from cover to cover.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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Equilateral triangle
In geometry, an equilateral triangle is a triangle in which all three sides are equal.
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ESPN
ESPN (originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is a U.S.-based global cable and satellite sports television channel owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture owned by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%).
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ESPN Classic
ESPN Classic is an American digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (which owns a controlling 80% stake) and Hearst Communications (which owns 20%).
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ESPN2
ESPN2 is an American basic cable and satellite television network that is owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (which owns a controlling 80% stake) and the Hearst Communications (which owns the remaining 20%).
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Etymology
EtymologyThe New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the study of the class in words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time".
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European Pocket Billiard Federation
The European Pocket Billiard Federation (EPBF) is the European governing body for pocket billiards.
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Ewa Laurance
Ewa Laurance (born Ewa Svensson, February 26, 1964, Gävle, Sweden, and formerly known as Ewa Mataya and transitionally as Ewa Mataya Laurance) is a Swedish–American professional pool (pocket billiards) player, most notably on the Women's Professional Billiard Association nine-ball tour, a sports writer, and more recently a sports commentator for ESPN.
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Family entertainment center
A family entertainment center (or centre), often abbreviated FEC in the entertainment industry, (also known as indoor amusement park or indoor theme park) is a small amusement park marketed towards families with small children to teenagers, and often entirely indoors or associated with a larger operation such as a theme park.
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Felt
Felt is a textile material that is produced by matting, condensing and pressing fibers together.
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Fiberglass
Fiberglass (US) or fibreglass (UK) is a common type of fiber-reinforced plastic using glass fiber.
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Fifteen-ball
Fifteen-ball (or fifteenball, 15 ball, 15-ball and other variant spellings) may refer to.
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Five-pin billiards
Five-pin billiards or simply five-pins or 5-pins (Italian: cinque birilli;, Federazione Italiana Biliardo Sportivo, 2004, Italy. Spanish: cinco quillas), is today usually a carom billiards form of cue sport, though sometimes still played on a pocket table.
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Fortitude Valley, Queensland
Fortitude Valley (also known simply as "The Valley") is a suburb of central Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia.
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Four-ball billiards
Four-ball billiards (often abbreviated to simply four-ball, and sometimes spelled 4-ball or fourball) is a carom billiards game, played on a pocketless table with four billiard balls, usually two red and two white, one of the latter with a spot to distinguish it (in some sets, one of the white balls is yellow instead of spotted).
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François Mingaud
Captain François Mingaud (sometimes spelled Mingot, Mengaud or Minguad, and often referred to simply as M. Mingaud; born 4 January 1771 Le Cailar, Nîmes, France, died 23 December 1847, Rotterdam, Netherlands) was an infantry officer in the French army and a carom billiards player.
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Free throw
In basketball, free throws or foul shots are unopposed attempts to score points by shooting from behind the free throw line (informally known as the foul line or the charity stripe), a line situated at the end of the restricted area.
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French horn
The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the "horn" in some professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell.
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French language
French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
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Friction
Friction is the force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding against each other.
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Gambling
Gambling is the wagering of money or something of value (referred to as "the stakes") on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning money or material goods.
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Gary Day (actor)
Gary Day (born 1941 in Christchurch, New Zealand) is an actor and writer who has appeared in Australian television police drama series, including Homicide and Murder Call.
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George Balabushka
George Balabushka (Russian: Григорий Антонович Балабушка Grigoriy Antonovich Balabushka; December 9, 1912 – December 5, 1975) was a Russian-born billiards (pool) cue maker, arguably the most prominent member of that profession, and is sometimes referred to as "the Stradivarius of cuemakers".
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Gerda Hofstatter
Gerda Hofstatter (born 9 February 1971 in Friesach, Austria), nicknamed "G-Force", is a professional pool player and nine-ball champion.
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Glasses
Glasses, also known as eyeglasses or spectacles, are devices consisting of glass or hard plastic lenses mounted in a frame that holds them in front of a person's eyes, typically using a bridge over the nose and arms which rest over the ears.
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Glossary of cue sports terms
The following is a glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom (or carambole) billiards referring to the various games played on a billiard table without; pool (pocket billiards), which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets; and snooker, played on a large pocket table, and which has a sport culture unto itself distinct from pool.
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Golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
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Golf (billiards)
Golf billiards (also referred to as simply golf in clear context, and sometimes called golf pool or golf pocket billiards) is a pocket billiards game usually played for money.
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Golf club
A golf club is a club used to hit a golf ball in a game of golf.
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Goriziana
Goriziana or nine-pin billiards (also known as nine-pins, 9-pins, etc.) is a carom billiards game, especially popular in Italy.
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Grapevine (gossip)
To hear something through the grapevine is to learn of something informally and unofficially by means of gossip or rumor.
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Grosset & Dunlap
Grosset & Dunlap is a United States publishing house founded in 1898.
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Handicapping
Handicapping, in sport and games, is the practice of assigning advantage through scoring compensation or other advantage given to different contestants to equalize the chances of winning.
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Harcourt (publisher)
Harcourt was a United States publishing firm with a long history of publishing fiction and nonfiction for adults and children.
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Hard Knuckle
Hard Knuckle is a 1988 Australian post-apocalyptic action television film (later released on home video) about a young boy who tries to get a pool player back on track.
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Haywards Heath
Haywards Heath is a town in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, within the historic county of Sussex, England.
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Hemdale Film Corporation
Hemdale Film Corporation, known as Hemdale Communications after 1993, was an independent British-American film production company and distributor founded in London in 1967 as the Hemdale Company by actor David Hemmings and John Daly.
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Hexagon
In geometry, a hexagon (from Greek ἕξ hex, "six" and γωνία, gonía, "corner, angle") is a six-sided polygon or 6-gon.
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Hockey puck
A hockey puck is a disk made of vulcanized rubber that serves the same functions in various games as a ball does in ball games.
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Horn (anatomy)
A horn is a permanent pointed projection on the head of various animals consisting of a covering of keratin and other proteins surrounding a core of live bone.
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Hustling
Hustling is the deceptive act of disguising one's skill in a sport or game with the intent of luring someone of probably lesser skill into gambling (or gambling for higher than current stakes) with the hustler, as a form of both a confidence trick and match fixing.
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Ibid.
Ibid. is an abbrevation for the Latin word ibīdem, meaning "in the same place", commonly used in an endnote, footnote, bibliography citation, or scholarly reference to refer to the source cited in the preceding note or list item.
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Incorporation (business)
Incorporation is the formation of a new corporation (a corporation being a legal entity that is effectively recognized as a person under the law).
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Index finger
The index finger (also referred to as forefinger, first finger, pointer finger, trigger finger, digitus secundus, digitus II, and many other terms), is the first finger and the second digit of a human hand.
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India
India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.
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Inlay
Inlay covers a range of techniques in sculpture and the decorative arts for inserting pieces of contrasting, often coloured materials into depressions in a base object to form ornament or pictures that normally are flush with the matrix.
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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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Italy
Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.
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Ivory
Ivory is a hard, white material from the tusks (traditionally elephants') and teeth of animals, that can be used in art or manufacturing.
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Jacob Schaefer Sr.
Jacob (Jake) Schaefer Sr. (2 February 1855 – 8 March 1910), nicknamed "the Wizard", was a professional carom billiards player, especially of the straight rail and balkline games, and was posthumously inducted into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame in 1968.
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Jeanette Lee
Jeanette Lee (born Lee Jin-Hee, Hangul: 이진희, July 9, 1971 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American professional pool player.
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Jim Wych
Jim Wych (born 11 January 1954) is a sports announcer and former Canadian professional snooker and pocket billiards player.
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Johnny Archer
Johnny Archer (born November 12, 1968 in Waycross, Georgia) is an American professional pool player.
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Keith McCready
Keith McCready (born April 9, 1957) is an American professional pool player, nicknamed Earthquake.
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Kelly Fisher
Kelly Fisher (born 25 August 1978) is an English professional pool and snooker player.
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Kelly pool
Kelly pool (also known as pea pool, pill pool, keeley, the keilley game, and killy) is a pocket billiards game played on a standard pool table using fifteen numbered markers called peas or pills, and a standard set of sixteen pool balls.
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Killer (pool)
Killer or killers is a multi-player folk variant of straight pool in which each player is assigned a set number of "lives" and takes one shot per to attempt to a ball, or else lose a life.
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Kim Davenport
Kim Davenport (born November 15, 1955, McAlester, Oklahoma) is an American professional pocket billiards (pool) player, nicknamed "Kimmer".
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Kim Ga-young
Kim Ga-young (born 13 January 1983 in Seoul; sometimes referred to in the Western media as Ga-young Kim and nicknamed "Little Devil Girl") is a South Korean female professional pool player who plays on the Women's Professional Billiard Association (WPBA) tour.
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Las Vegas
Las Vegas (Spanish for "The Meadows"), officially the City of Las Vegas and often known simply as Vegas, is the 28th-most populated city in the United States, the most populated city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County.
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Lathe
A lathe is a tool that rotates the workpiece about an axis of rotation to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, deformation, facing, and turning, with tools that are applied to the workpiece to create an object with symmetry about that axis.
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Lex Marinos
Alexander Francis Marinos (born 1 February 1949) better known by his stage name Lex Marinos is an Australian actor, director, writer, voice artist and media personality of Greek and Anglo-Saxon Australian descent.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Loree Jon Hasson
LoreeJon Hasson (formerly LoreeJon Jones or LoreeJon Ogonowski) began playing billiards at the age of 4 at her home in Garwood, New Jersey.
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Magnet
A magnet is a material or object that produces a magnetic field.
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Marathi language
Marathi (मराठी Marāṭhī) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken predominantly by the Marathi people of Maharashtra, India.
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Marcus Chamat
Marcus Chamat (pronounced shuh-mat) (born 6 May 1975, in Borlange, Sweden) is a professional eight-ball and nine-ball pool player.
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Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor and film historian, whose career spans more than 50 years.
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Match fixing
In organized sports, match fixing occurs as a match is played to a completely or partially pre-determined result, violating the rules of the game and often the law.
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Maximum break
In snooker, under normal circumstances the maximum break is 147, also known as a maximum, a 147, or orally, a one-four-seven.
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Medford, Oregon
Medford is a city in, and county seat of, Jackson County, Oregon, United States.
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Melamine
Melamine is the organic compound with the formula C3H6N6.
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Mika Immonen
Mika Immonen (born 17 December 1972) is a Finnish professional pool player, nicknamed "The Iceman.".
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Mike Massey
Michael Massey (born April 9, 1947), professionally known as Mike Massey, is an American professional pocket-billiards (pool) player, best known as a trick-shot artist since the late 1970s, who has given substantial visibility to the sport by traveling the globe to perform exhibitions and compete in a variety of disciplines.
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Mike Russell (billiards player)
Mike Russell (born 3 June 1969 in Middlesbrough, England), is a twelve-time WPBSA World Champion in the game of English billiards.
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Mike Sigel
Mike Sigel (born July 11, 1953) is an American professional pool player nicknamed "Captain Hook." He earned the nickname from his ability to hook his opponents with safety plays.
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Mineola, New York
Mineola is a village in Nassau County, Long Island, New York, United States.
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Mnemonic
A mnemonic (the first "m" is silent) device, or memory device, is any learning technique that aids information retention or retrieval (remembering) in the human memory.
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Mosconi Cup
The Mosconi Cup is an annual nine-ball pool tournament contested between teams representing Europe and the United States since 1994.
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MSG Plus
MSG Plus (visually branded on-air as MSG+) is an American regional sports network owned by MSG Networks; it operates as a sister channel to MSG Network.
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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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Nick van den Berg
Nick van den Berg (born 24 May 1980 in Amsterdam, Netherlands) is a professional pool player.
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Niels Feijen
Niels Feijen (born 3 February 1977, The Hague) is a professional pool player, from the Hague, Netherlands.
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Nine-ball
Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a contemporary form of pool (pocket billiards), with historical beginnings rooted in the United States and traceable to the 1920s.
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Novuss
Novuss (also known as koroona or korona) is a two-player (or four-player, doubles) game of physical skill which is closely related to carrom/ Karrom, and pocket billiards.
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NTSC
NTSC, named after the National Television System Committee,National Television System Committee (1951–1953),, 17 v. illus., diagrs., tables.
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Numeral prefix
Numeral or number prefixes are prefixes derived from numerals or occasionally other numbers.
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Nylon
Nylon is a generic designation for a family of synthetic polymers, based on aliphatic or semi-aromatic polyamides.
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Obelisk
An obelisk (from ὀβελίσκος obeliskos; diminutive of ὀβελός obelos, "spit, nail, pointed pillar") is a tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape or pyramidion at the top.
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One-pocket
One-pocket (sometimes spelled one pocket or 1-pocket) is a pocket billiards game.
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Pan Xiaoting
Pan Xiaoting (born 25 February 1982 in Yanzhou District, Jining, Shandong; sometimes referred to in the Western media as Xiaoting Pan and nicknamed "Queen of Nine-Ball") is the first-ever female professional pool player from China to play full-time on the Women's Professional Billiard Association (WPBA) tour.
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Parallelogram
In Euclidean geometry, a parallelogram is a simple (non-self-intersecting) quadrilateral with two pairs of parallel sides.
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Particle board
Particle board – also known as particleboard, low-density fibreboard (LDF), and chipboard – is an engineered wood product manufactured from wood chips, sawmill shavings, or even sawdust, and a synthetic resin or other suitable binder, which is pressed and extruded.
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Perpendicular
In elementary geometry, the property of being perpendicular (perpendicularity) is the relationship between two lines which meet at a right angle (90 degrees).
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Phenol formaldehyde resin
Phenol formaldehyde resins (PF) or phenolic resins are synthetic polymers obtained by the reaction of phenol or substituted phenol with formaldehyde.
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Pichenotte
Pichenotte is a French Canadian tabletop game, with a board, game pieces and rules similar to carrom.
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Pinball
Pinball is a type of arcade game, in which points are scored by a player manipulating one or more steel balls on a play field inside a glass-covered cabinet called a pinball table (or "pinball machine").
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Pitchnut
Pitchnut is a wooden tabletop game of French Canadian origins, similar to carrom, crokinole and pichenotte, with mechanics that lie somewhere between pocket billiards and air hockey.
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Plastic
Plastic is material consisting of any of a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic organic compounds that are malleable and so can be molded into solid objects.
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Plywood
Plywood is a sheet material manufactured from thin layers or "plies" of wood veneer that are glued together with adjacent layers having their wood grain rotated up to 90 degrees to one another.
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Poker
Poker is a family of card games that combines gambling, strategy, and skill.
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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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Press Trust of India
Press Trust of India (PTI) is the largest news agency in India.
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Pub
A pub, or public house, is an establishment licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, which traditionally include beer (such as ale) and cider.
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Puppetry
Puppetry is a form of theatre or performance that involves the manipulation of puppets – inanimate objects, often resembling some type of human or animal figure, that are animated or manipulated by a human called a puppeteer.
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Quarter dollar
Quarter dollar may refer to ¼ unit of currencies that are named dollar.
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Rack (billiards)
A rack (sometimes called a triangle) is a piece of equipment that is used to place billiard balls in their starting positions at the beginning of a billiards game.
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Richard Price (writer)
Richard Price (born October 12, 1949) is an American novelist and screenwriter, known for the books The Wanderers (1974), Clockers (1992) and Lush Life (2008).
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Rodney Morris
Rodney Morris (born 25 November 1970 in Anaheim, California, USA) is a professional pool player of Chamorro - Hawaiian descent.
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Rodolfo Luat
Rodolfo Luat (born December 8, 1957) is a Filipino professional pool player from Angeles City, Pampanga.
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Ronato Alcano
Ronato (Ronnie) Alcano (pronounced al-kah-no) (born 27 July 1972 in Calamba City, Laguna, Philippines), is a Filipino professional pool player, nicknamed "Ronnie Calamba" and "the Volcano".
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Rotation (pool)
Rotation, sometimes called rotation pool or 61, is a pocket billiards game, requiring a standard pool table, and triangular rack of fifteen pool balls, in which the lowest-numbered on the table must be always struck by the cue ball first, to attempt to numbered balls for.
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Russian pyramid
Russian pyramid, also known as Russian billiard (ру́сский билья́рд, russky bilyard) or pyramid billiards, is a cue sport that has several differences from Western pool, although game play is still dominated by attempts to billiard balls.
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San Diego
San Diego (Spanish for 'Saint Didacus') is a major city in California, United States.
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Science fiction
Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.
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Scrabble
Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles bearing a single letter onto a board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares.
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Seven-ball
Seven-ball is a contemporary pool game with rules similar to nine-ball, though it differs in two key ways: the game uses only seven as implied by its name, and play is restricted to particular pockets of the table.
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Shane Van Boening
Shane Van Boening (born July 14, 1983) is an American professional pool (pocket billiards) player from Rapid City, South Dakota, currently number 1 in the US rankings published by the UPA Tour.
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Shim (spacer)
A shim is a thin and often tapered or wedged piece of material, used to fill small gaps or spaces between objects.
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Shortstop
Shortstop, abbreviated SS, is the baseball or softball fielding position between second and third base, which is considered to be among the most demanding defensive positions.
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Silicon dioxide
Silicon dioxide, also known as silica (from the Latin silex), is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula, most commonly found in nature as quartz and in various living organisms.
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Sint-Martens-Latem
Sint-Martens-Latem is a municipality located in the Belgian province of East Flanders, in Belgium.
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Six-red snooker
Six-red snooker (sometimes spelled six-reds, 6-red, and also known as super 6s), is a cue sport based on snooker, but with only six on the table as opposed to the standard fifteen.
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Skee-Ball
Skee-Ball is an arcade game and one of the first redemption games.
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Slate
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism.
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Snooker
Snooker is a cue sport which originated among British Army officers stationed in India in the latter half of the 19th century.
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Spandex
Spandex, Lycra or elastane is a synthetic fiber known for its exceptional elasticity.
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Spanish language
Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.
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Speed pool
Speedball also called speed pool is a solitary pool game.
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Sports governing body
A sports governing body is a sports organization that has a regulatory or sanctioning function.
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Sports journalism
Sports journalism is a form of writing that reports on sporting topics and competitions.
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SportsNet New York
SportsNet New York (SNY) is an American regional sports network that is owned by Sterling Entertainment Enterprises, LLC, itself a joint venture between the New York Mets (which owns a controlling 65% interest), Charter Communications through its acquisition of Time Warner Cable in May 2016 (which owns 27%) and Comcast, through its NBC Sports Group subsidiary (which owns 8%).
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Steve Bisley
Steve Bisley (born 26 December 1951) is an Australian film and television actor, best known for his roles in the films Mad Max and The Great Gatsby, and as Detective Sergeant Jack Christey in the television series Water Rats.
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Steve Mizerak
Stephen Mizerak Jr., better known as Steve Mizerak (October 12, 1944, in Perth Amboy, New Jersey – May 29, 2006), was a world champion pool player dominant during the 1970s and early 1980s, especially in the game of 14.1 continuous (straight pool) and nine-ball.
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Stickmen (film)
Stickmen is a 2001 New Zealand film directed by Hamish Rothwell and starring Robbie Magasiva.
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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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Talc
Talc or talcum is a clay mineral composed of hydrated magnesium silicate with the chemical formula H2Mg3(SiO3)4 or Mg3Si4O10(OH)2.
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Tavern
A tavern is a place of business where people gather to drink alcoholic beverages and be served food, and in most cases, where travelers receive lodging.
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Ten-ball
Ten-ball is a modern pool game.
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Ten-pin bowling
Ten-pin bowling is a sport in which a player (called a "bowler") rolls a bowling ball down a wood-structure or synthetic (polyurethane) lane and towards ten pins positioned at the end of the lane.
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The American (magazine)
The American is an online magazine published by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. The magazine's primary focus is the intersection of economics and politics.
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The Color of Money
The Color of Money is a 1986 American drama film directed by Martin Scorsese from a screenplay by Richard Price, based on the 1984 novel of the same name by Walter Tevis.
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The Color of Money (novel)
The Color of Money is a 1984 novel by American novelist Walter Tevis.
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The Hustler (film)
The Hustler is a 1961 American drama film directed by Robert Rossen from Walter Tevis's 1959 novel of the same name, adapted for the screen by Rossen and Sidney Carroll.
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The Hustler (novel)
The Hustler is a 1959 novel by American writer Walter Tevis.
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The Mikado
The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, their ninth of fourteen operatic collaborations.
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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 New York Times Company
The New York Times Company is an American media company which publishes its namesake, The New York Times.
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Thomas Engert
Thomas Engert is a German professional pool player.
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Thorsten Hohmann
Thorsten Hohmann (born 14 July 1979 in Fulda, West Germany) is a German professional pool player, nicknamed "the Hitman.".
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Three-ball
Three-ball (or "3-ball", colloquially) is a folk game of pool played with any three standard pool and.
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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.
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Tom Reece
Tom Reece (12 August 1873 – 26 October 1953) was a Welsh professional player of English billiards.
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Tournament
A tournament is a competition involving a relatively large number of competitors, all participating in a sport or game.
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Trade secret
A trade secret is a formula, practice, process, design, instrument, pattern, commercial method, or compilation of information not generally known or reasonably ascertainable by others by which a business can obtain an economic advantage over competitors or customers.
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Transworld Publishers
Transworld Publishers Inc. is a British publishing house in Ealing, London that is a division of Penguin Random House, one of the world's largest mass media groups.
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Trick shot
A trick shot (also trickshot or trick-shot) is a shot played on a billiards table (most often a pool table, though snooker tables are also used), which seems unlikely or impossible or requires significant skill.
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Trousers
Trousers (British English) or pants (American English) are an item of clothing originating in Asia, worn from the waist to the ankles, covering both legs separately (rather than with cloth extending across both legs as in robes, skirts, and dresses).
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U.S. Open 9-Ball Championships
The U.S. Open Championships (often shortened in clear contexts to simply U.S. Open, and sometimes spelled with "US", "9-ball", "Nine-ball", singular "Championship", etc.) is an annual professional pool (pocket billiards) tournament that began in 1976 at Q-Master Billiards in Norfolk, Virginia, although previous versions of a "U.S. Open Nine-ball Tournament" had been held at the Jack n Jill Club in Arlington, V.A. as early as 1970.
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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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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Unsportsmanlike conduct
Unsportsmanlike conduct (also called unsporting behaviour or ungentlemanly conduct or bad sportsmanship or poor sportsmanship) is a foul or offense in many sports that violates the sport's generally accepted rules of sportsmanship and participant conduct.
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Valley National 8-Ball League Association
The Valley National 8-Ball League Association (VNEA) A one-page flyer distributed by the organization at events.
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VHS
The Video Home System (VHS) is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes.
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Vice Media
Vice Media LLC is a North American digital media and broadcasting company.
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Video game journalism
Video game journalism is a branch of journalism concerned with the reporting and discussion of video games.
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Walter Tevis
Walter Stone Tevis (February 28, 1928 – August 9, 1984) was an American novelist and short story writer.
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Watertown, Massachusetts
The Town of Watertown is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
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William A. Spinks
William Alexander Spinks Jr. (1865–1933) was an American professional player of carom billiards in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Woodturning
Woodturning is the craft of using the wood lathe with hand-held tools to cut a shape that is symmetrical around the axis of rotation.
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World Billiards Championship (English billiards)
The WPBSA World Billiards Championships are a pair of international, professional cue sports tournaments in the discipline of English billiards.
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World Cup of Pool
The World Cup of Pool is the international annual single-elimination tournament for doubles teams in nine-ball pool competition.
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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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World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association
The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA), founded in 1968 and based in Bristol, the United Kingdom, is the governing body of men's professional snooker and English billiards.
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World Snooker Championship
The World Snooker Championship is the leading snooker tournament both in terms of prestige and prize money.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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1986 in film
The following is an overview of events in 1986 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.
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2011 Mosconi Cup
The 2011 Mosconi Cup, the 18th edition of the annual nine-ball pool competition between teams representing Europe and the United States, took place 8–11 December 2011 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_cue_sports_terms
