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billiards: Quick Facts

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Also Known As billiard games

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billiards
Diagram of a Carom billiards table showing labeled divisions: head, center, and foot sections, each marked with a spot and a string line, and the table's head and foot ends indicated.
Plan of English billiards table
Diagram of a rectangular pocket billiards table with six pockets, showing labeled head string, head spot, and foot spot. An inset details the triangular arrangement of fifteen balls at the foot spot for the game's start.
billiards; felt
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Key People

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Stephen Hendry
Scottish snooker player
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Allison Fisher
English-born billiards player
Willie Hoppe.
Willie Hoppe
American billiards player
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Clark McConachy
New Zealand billiards player
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Luther Lassiter
American billiards player
Cochran, Welker
Welker Cochran
American billiards player
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Joe Davis
British billiards and snooker player

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Assorted sports balls including a basketball, football, soccer ball, tennis ball, baseball and others.
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Bowling ball hitting all ten pins in a strike. (bowling alley, 10 pins, sports, recreation)
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