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geometry, physics, and barely-contained rage, all rolling on green felt.
means A family of games played on a cloth-covered table where players strike balls with a long cue stick, the most familiar versions involving pockets (pool, snooker) or none at all (carom).
from From the French 'billard,' originally the name of the curved stick used to nudge the balls — itself from 'bille,' meaning a log or tree trunk, the same root that gives us 'billet' for a chunk of wood. So the game is named not for the table or the balls but for the stick, a humble piece of timber that grew up to become the cue.
- royal habit
- Mary, Queen of Scots played until her execution
- ivory crisis
- prize for fake billiard balls birthed modern plastic
- green felt
- color mimics the lawn games it replaced
- space shot
- astronauts proved pool physics works in zero gravity
- max break
- a perfect snooker run scores 147 points
mosconi cup — annual team billiards competition between usa and europe since 1994
jeanette lee — dominant professional pool player known as 'the black widow' with 2 wpba world titles