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billiards and snooker Billiards is a game which evolved as a popular pursuit in the 19th cent. A modern billiards room was opened in Covent Garden and then in many London clubs. Snooker developed from it in the Indian army and is believed to have taken its name from the slang termfor a new cadet. Billiards has never achieved wide popularity but snooker has acquired a considerable TV following and its simpler variant, pool, is played in many pubs, on smaller tables.
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Billiard deserves much better
Newspaper article from: Charleston Daily Mail; 11/21/2001; ; 687 words
; BUD Billiard found himself behind the 8-ball. So, the veteran...his class, his dignity and his pride would allow Billiard to do. He scratched. On purpose. After 23 years, Billiard resigned. But there is more to his resignation than...
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Billiard Balls Roll South on I-81
Magazine article from: Quad - State Business Journal; 12/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...America, the term "billiards" refers to all the...which are played on a billiard table; in the U...is a synonym for billiards. The word "pool...bars, with food and billiards." Billiard halls, however, are...
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BILLIARDS: FEENEY RACKS UP SUCCESS
Newspaper article from: Sun Publications (IL); 7/17/1998; 700+ words
; ...Feeney's participation in billiards has gone beyond just playing...matches, written articles for billiards publications, given private...belief that while pool or other billiard games are great, they shouldn...in this game," he said. Billiards has sent Feeney to other countries...
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Billiards series update.(sports and recreation)
Magazine article from: Paraplegia News; 4/1/2009; 700+ words
; ...30, the first day of the PVA/NWPA Billiards Tournament in Rochester, Minn., the...hotel. The event taking place was a billiards tournament co-sponsored by Paralyzed...national governing body of wheelchair billiards, has helped develop billiards tournaments...
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Billiards Sharks Bank on Championships
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 8/5/1992; ; 698 words
; ...are more than 4,000 billiards halls; in Holland, the billiard federation claims 45...has only about four billiards halls. "In other countries...have waiting lists for billiard tables," Gilbert said. Billiards was popular in the United...
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Billiards veteran realises long-held title ambition
Newspaper article from: The Press; 12/10/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...also-ran in more than 100 Christchurch billiards and snooker competitions, Alf Dunn is...Riccarton's successful division two billiards team. Welham's caution to 15-times...has been absent from the Christchurch billiards scene only between 1950 and 1953, when...
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Billiards, home decor a bank shot FlatIron store tries to reach whole family to lift sales.(Business)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 4/15/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...legs of his first billiard table in 1845...he saw his first billiards table, the legend...buying equipment for billiards and indoor games...Brunswick Home & Billiard store, customers...tables and other billiard supplies through...said. Brunswick Billiards is a division of...
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Executive Billiards banks on breaking Mamaroneck Avenue out of doldrums. (billiards hall catering to a professional clientele) (Company Profile)
Magazine article from: Westchester County Business Journal; 12/23/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...Halpern family. While Executive Billiards is new to the Mamaroneck Avenue...and city dignitaries to Executive Billiards. Unlike other billiard parlors in the area, Halpern said Executive Billiards will cater to lawyers, doctors...
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Russell stirs billiards' ashes
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo; 3/11/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Prestatyn to take in the World Professional Billiards Championship and pot a few balls with...this week hosting the World Professional Billiards Championship, widely regarded as one...the championship, he hadn't played billiards for six months. "I'm basically retired...
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Uzbekistan bans billiards as morally harmful pastime, shuttering clubs across the country
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 10/23/2002; ; 681 words
; ...effective end to billiards as a sport in Uzbekistan. The Billiard Federation has been...all our lives to billiards, said Sadykov...real, professional billiards suffer because of...clubs? Sadykov's billiard tables lie in a...
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billiards
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
billiards any one of a number of games played with...and cushioned edges. Games similar to billiards were popular in England and France in...1800. There are three main types of billiards: carom billiards, pocket billiards...
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billiard
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...with cues into pockets around the edge of the table: play billiards at home [as adj. ] billiard ball billiard room. ∎ ( English billiards ) a game played on a billiard table with pockets, in which points are made by caroms...
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billiards and snooker
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
billiards and snooker. Billiards is a game of some antiquity which evolved as a popular pursuit...17th cents. with a hoop and a king-pin as a skittle. A modern billiards room was opened in Covent Garden and then in many London clubs...
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Pool Table
Book article from: How Products Are Made
...The first recorded billiard table was one sold to...of France in 1470. Billiards developed simultaneously...gradually disappear from billiard tables. Because playing...During the 1700s, billiards remained popular in...series of improvements in billiard tables. Between 1800...
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Gambling
Book article from: American Eras
...with a cue and balls, billiards was known to the many...Because the average billiard table was twelve feet...owners were drawn to billiards for a variety of reasons...diversions, including a billiard table. In 1711 he confided...Mumford and I played at billiards till dinner...
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