Mac Neill Jhon B. Calamaan‚ BS Che II P.E. 23 1-3 T 11-12-12 History Of Billiards Condensed version of "A Brief History of the Noble Game of Billiards" By Mike Shamos. Curator of The Billiard Archive‚ a nonprofit organization set up to preserve the game’s history. With permission of the Billiard Congress of America. The History of billiards is long and very rich. The game has been played by kings and commoners‚ presidents‚ mental patients‚ ladies‚ gentlemen‚ and hustlers alike. It
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Austin Nesbit English 1 2/23/2011 Professor Dowden Billiards is not Just a Game When most people think of pool they think of drunks playing in bars‚ or hustlers gambling in pool halls. In reality pool and billiards takes extreme concentration‚ hand eye coordination and critical thinking skills. Billiards has been played for many centuries but only recently has it changed from a parlor game into a sport and art form. Through the years that this game has been played‚ three players in particular
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Alexander Zouev 000051 - 060 Extended Essay – Mathematics Alhazen’s Billiard Problem Antwerp International School May 2007 Word Count: 3017 -0- Alexander Zouev 000051 - 060 Abstract The research question of this Mathematics Extended Essay is‚ “on a circular table there are two balls; at what point along the circumference must one be aimed at in order for it to strike the other after rebounding off the edge”. In investigating this question‚ I first used my own initial approach (which
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Robert Grubbs Case Analysis 3.2 April 3‚ 2013 Hanover-Bates Chemical Corporation 1. Current Situation James Sprague is the newly appointed district sales manager for the northeast. Upon arriving he had dinner with Hank Carver and John Follet‚ two senior sales representatives‚ and discussed his plans to review the company’s data prepared by the national sales manager and better the area’s profits. Carver‚ the most experience sales representative‚ took offense to analysis saying that his 34
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Billiards and Sexuality: An Examination of Coded Gestures Although Vanity Fair often tries to provide a realistic portrayal of life in the 1800’s‚ it balks realism when confronted by issues of sexuality. Consistently‚ the narrator uses games‚ particularly billiards‚ as stand-ins for sex and sexual promiscuity. These coded gestures allow the narrator to comment on an otherwise taboo subject in Victorian England. At the same time‚ the narrator’s commentary on sexual promiscuity reflects back on gambling
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as the “Noble Game of Billiards‚” the game of pocket billiards has long held a reputation as a game played by‚ shady individuals‚ in smoke filled parlors only accessible through dark alleyways and basement stairwells‚ who have only one goal in mind‚ and that is to part the poor unsuspecting individual who happened to stumble in off the street‚ from his money. While this may be true in some cases‚ the reality is that over 36 million people in the United States play billiards (2012 USA Sports Participation
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Your town | * Can you describe your town or village to me? * Tell me something about your hometown. * Where are you from? * Where is your hometown? * Where do you come from? * What is the name of the street you live on? * What kind of street do you live on? * What do you like about your town? * I live in Lahore. It is my favourite place. It is the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab and the second largest city in the country. A 2010 government estimate now puts the population
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Question one‚ Snyder’s of Hanover Snyder’s of Hanover had a big problem of managing and analyzing financial data. Although Snyder’s sells more than 80 million bags of pretzels‚ chips‚ and organic snack items each year‚ its core systems of collecting data were entered manually and written down. Snyder’s financial department was collecting spreadsheets from all departments to bring the financial analyst together. Their financial analyst would spend the entire final week of each month collecting
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The Hanover Revolt of 1776 AP-HIST 1050 Dave Cousins November 21‚ 2012 The Hanover Revolt of 1776 Two documents which discuss the slave revolt in seventeen seventy-six are titled as “The Jamaican Slave Insurrection” by Richard Sheridan and “Testing the Chains” by Michael Craton. Both these documents contain these historian’s perspectives about the seventeen seventy-six slave revolt. These documents both have similarities and differences and contribute aspects with the seventeen
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they can alienate their readers and not describe characters‚ moods‚ or other objects nearly as well. This would lead to unhappy readers and not an effective book that would not sell a substantial amount of copies. In the stories “The lemon Tree Billiards House” by Cedric Yamanaka and “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Myers‚ both popular short stories‚ the
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