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1 day ago · Snooker (pronounced UK: / ˈsnuːkər / SNOO-kər, US: / ˈsnʊkər / SNUUK-ər) [1] [2] is a cue sport played on a rectangular billiards table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six pockets, one at each corner and one in the middle of each long side. First played by British Army officers stationed in India in the second half of the ...
- Rules of Snooker
Snooker table, drawn to scale, with starting positions of...
- English Billiards
A late nineteenth century match between John Roberts, Jr and...
- Comparison of Cue Sports
Carom billiards and pool are two types of cue sports or...
- List of Snooker Players by Number of Ranking Titles
This is a list of professional snooker players ordered by...
- Rules of Snooker
1 day ago · More Than a Game. v. t. e. Sir John Major KG CH (born 29 March 1943) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997. He previously held Cabinet positions under prime minister Margaret Thatcher, his last as chancellor of the Exchequer from 1989 to 1990.
1 day ago · t. e. Space exploration, as predicted in August 1958 by the science fiction magazine Imagination. Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and ...
1 day ago · The counterculture of the 1960s was an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon and political movement that developed in the Western world during the mid-20th century. [3] It began in the early 1960s, [4] and continued through the early 1970s. [5] It is often synonymous with cultural liberalism and with the various social changes of the decade.
1 day ago · The holdings in the Locke Room at the Bodleian have been a valuable resource for scholars interested in Locke, his philosophy, practices for information management, and the history of the book. Many of the books still contain Locke's signature, which he often made on the pastedowns of his books. Many also include Locke's marginalia.
1 day ago · Boxing Two Royal Navy men boxing for charity (1945). The modern sport was codified in England in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Also known as Western boxing, pugilism [a] Focus Punching, striking Country of origin The sport itself: Ancient history, possibly Prehistoric Modern rules: United Kingdom Olympic sport 688 BC (ancient Greece) 1904 (modern) Boxing (also known as "western boxing" or ...
1 day ago · Warsaw, [a] officially the Capital City of Warsaw, [7] [b] is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at 1.86 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 3.27 million residents, which makes Warsaw the 7th most-populous city in ...
