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Pyramid pool, or simply pyramids, is a form of pool that was played mainly in the 19th century. It was one of several pool games that were popular at this time, and was forerunner to modern games such as eight-ball, blackball, straight pool, and Russian pyramid. Along with black pool, it was one of the progenitor cue sports of snooker.

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Pyramid pool

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Pyramid pool, or simply pyramids, is a form of pool that was played mainly in the 19th century. It was one of several pool games that were popular at this...

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Russian pyramid

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less-formal venues. The slate used in Russian pyramid tables are typically much thinner than those of pool and snooker tables, but is occasionally heated...

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Black pool

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potting colour and black to maximize money. Around 1875, black pool was merged with pyramid pool to form the new game of snooker, today one of the most popular...

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Cue sports

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ten-ball, straight pool (the formerly dominant pro game), one-pocket, and bank pool Snooker, English billiards, and Russian pyramid, played on a large...

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Great Pyramid of Giza

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The Great Pyramid of Giza is the largest Egyptian pyramid. It served as the tomb of pharaoh Khufu, who ruled during the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom...

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World Pool Championship

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2019 WPA World Pyramid Pool Championship, last contested in 2019 World Pool-Billiard Association Matchroom Sport World Cup of Pool World Pool Masters This...

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Snooker

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Chamberlain, stationed in India, devised a set of rules that combined black pool and pyramids. The word snooker was a well-established derogatory term used to describe...

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Billiard table

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the modern era, all billiards tables (whether for carom billiards, pool, pyramid or snooker) provide a flat surface usually made of quarried slate, that...

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Billiard ball

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ball is a small, hard ball used in cue sports, such as carom billiards, pool, and snooker. The number, type, diameter, color, and pattern of the balls...

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Glossary of cue sports terms

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  Also pyramids. The game of Russian pyramid or any related game. pyramid spot 1.  In pool, same as foot spot: The spot on which the pyramid is racked...

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San Alfonso del Mar

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shop, kiosk-bar, outdoor jacuzzis, and a heated swimming pool covered by a glass pyramid. Nightclub, an underground building on the side of a hill with...

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Bletchley Leisure Centre

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1970s replacing the outdoor queens pool. The centre was quite iconic with its pyramid building that housed the pool. Until the 1990s it also had a multi-storey...

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United States soccer league system

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or in part, in the United States. Sometimes called the American soccer pyramid, teams and leagues are not linked by the system of promotion and relegation...

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Moody Gardens

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to the wave pool – suspending visitors 60 feet (18 m) above Palm Beach, allowing them to get a bird's eye view of the Moody Gardens pyramids and tropical...

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Bitcoin

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Retrieved 22 November 2023. "This Billionaire Just Called Bitcoin a 'Pyramid Scheme'". Fortune. Archived from the original on 24 September 2017. Retrieved...

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Alfred Wilks Drayson

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of White's Club, Drayson played billiards and related games including pyramid pool. He was a reputed player of whist, and an author on a well-known book...

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English billiards

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colonies, is a cue sport that combines the aspects of carom billiards and pool. Two cue balls (one white and one yellow) and a red object ball are used...

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Denmark Series

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and 2 + Groups 3 and 4), where the teams met the teams from the opposite pool once, which meant seven matches in total (the top teams got one extra home...

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Solar pond

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A solar pond is a pool of saltwater which collects and stores solar thermal energy. The saltwater naturally forms a vertical salinity gradient also known...

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Dinka people

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standing on higher ground near a picturesque pool of water surrounded by ardeiba and suba trees. This pyramid is connected in mythology with a chain of lesser...

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Tournament

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divisions may be linear, or tree-like, as with the English football league pyramid. In contract bridge a "tournament" is a tournament in the first sense above...

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