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A postcard showing Royal Terrace in Peony Park, Omaha, Nebraska. Peony Park was an amusement park located at North 78th and Cass Streets in Omaha, Nebraska.Founded in 1919, over the next seventy-five years the 35-acre (140,000 m 2) park included a 4.5-acre (18,000 m 2) pool, beach and waterslide, a ballroom that billed itself as "1 acre under one roof," an open-air dance area for 3000 dancers ...
English billiards, [1] called simply billiards in the United Kingdom and in many former British 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. Each player or team uses a different cue ball.
This category is for the cue sport known as English billiards, a hybrid of pocket billiards and carom billiards, played in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and a number of other Commonwealth countries The main article for this category is English billiards .
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Pool, also called "pocket billiards", is a form of billiards usually equipped with sixteen balls (a cue ball and fifteen object balls), played on a pool table with six pockets built into the rails, splitting the cushions. The pockets (one at each corner, and one in the center of each long rail) provide targets (or in some cases, hazards) for ...
Hayden W. Lingo (1907-1973), often cited as "the man who invented the billiards game of One Pocket", [1] was a prominent early proponent of the game, and a top player in the United States in the 1940s through the 1960s.
A feud with pool hustler Rudolf "Minnesota Fats" Wanderone (concocted mainly by Wanderone himself) kept Mosconi in the spotlight well into the 1970s and 1980s. In 1974, Mosconi competed against Rex Williams in a challenge match, where both players competed in snooker and in various pocket billiards games in a 17 day competition, to conclude the ...
Cowboy pool (or simply cowboy) is a hybrid pool game combining elements of English billiards through an intermediary game, with more standard pocket billiards characteristics. The game employs four balls, the cue ball and three others, numbered one, three, and five.