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    Eight-ball (redirect from Black Ball)
    to introduce purpose-made ball sets with seven red, seven yellow, one black ball, and the cue ball, which allowed spectators to more easily see which suit...
    21 KB (2,649 words) - 02:00, 28 October 2024
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    British Columbia, Canada on the MV Coho, through its operating company, Black Ball Ferry Line. In the past, the company operated an entire fleet of steamboats...
    8 KB (837 words) - 00:38, 1 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1985 World Snooker Championship final
    The 1985 World Snooker Championship final, also known as the black-ball final, was played on the weekend of 27–28 April 1985 at the Crucible Theatre in...
    36 KB (3,042 words) - 20:30, 3 August 2024
  • forcing a deciding frame. The 35th frame was contested over the final black ball, with the player able to pot the ball winning the world title. After Taylor...
    70 KB (5,532 words) - 22:01, 28 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for MV Coho
    The MV Coho is a passenger and vehicle ferry owned and operated by Black Ball Line. Black Ball's only ferry, Coho carries passengers and cars, motorcycles...
    7 KB (476 words) - 00:46, 27 September 2024
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    "Packet". Packet shipping companies included: Baltimore Steam Packet Company Black Ball Line (trans-Atlantic packet) City of Dublin Steam Packet Company Cunard...
    9 KB (1,213 words) - 01:18, 24 June 2024
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    ballot, where a white ball or ballot constitutes a vote in support and a black ball signifies opposition. The system is typically used where an organization's...
    6 KB (746 words) - 18:13, 8 August 2024
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    Australia passenger service. Champion was ordered by James Baines of the Black Ball Line from Donald McKay. She was launched 19 April 1854 and was abandoned...
    14 KB (942 words) - 13:17, 29 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Black Ball Line (trans-Atlantic packet)
    The Black Ball Line (originally known as the Wright, Thompson, Marshall, & Thompson Line, then as the Old Line) was a passenger line founded by a group...
    15 KB (1,104 words) - 15:30, 4 September 2024
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    race around the Horn to San Francisco. In 1863 the Comet was sold to the Black Ball Line and renamed the Fiery Star. She was lost at sea on 12 May 1865 after...
    12 KB (1,321 words) - 05:42, 20 January 2024
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    Schomberg was a clipper built in Aberdeen by Alexander Hall & Co. for "the Black Ball line" (which was a subsidiary of James Baines & Co., of Liverpool) for...
    16 KB (1,979 words) - 23:07, 6 May 2023
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    champion Steve Davis but recovered to win 18–17 in a duel on the last black ball. The final's conclusion attracted 18.5 million viewers, setting UK viewership...
    95 KB (3,157 words) - 18:08, 15 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hania El Hammamy
    19 after defeating her compatriot Nour El Sherbini in the final of the Black Ball Squash Open. She also became one of the youngest players to have won a...
    17 KB (1,658 words) - 00:34, 31 October 2024
  • Set up in 1960 to provide a similar service to that provided by the Black Ball Line and the Canadian Pacific Railway, which were affected by job action...
    56 KB (2,905 words) - 15:49, 21 October 2024
  • Blackball (redirect from Black ball)
    Look up blackball in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Blackball, black-ball, black ball, blackballed, or blackballing may refer to: Blackballing, a rejection...
    2 KB (281 words) - 19:00, 6 June 2023
  • if they believe that drawing a red ball is more likely than drawing a black ball (according to expected utility theory). Also, there would be indifference...
    16 KB (2,110 words) - 09:54, 13 October 2024
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    as the Black Ball Line) and the Kitsap County Transportation Company. A strike in 1935 caused the KCTC to close, leaving only the Black Ball Line. Toward...
    28 KB (1,797 words) - 05:41, 12 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cordão da Bola Preta
    Cordão da Bola Preta (Portuguese for 'string of the black ball'), shortly Bola Preta, is a carnival block that parades every carnival Saturday in Rio de...
    3 KB (177 words) - 02:50, 24 February 2024
  • quarter-final match. He won his biggest PSA title in December 2020 at the CIB Black Ball Open in Egypt, defeating Ali Farag in five games. Major tournaments include:...
    3 KB (167 words) - 00:38, 31 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Melati Suryodarmo
    Black Ball for a retrospective on painter Egon Schiele. Inspired by Schiele's 1912 drawing Organic Movement of a Chair and Jug, she held a black ball...
    24 KB (2,359 words) - 11:57, 3 October 2024
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