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A shuffleboard player taking a shot. Table shuffleboard (also known as American shuffleboard, indoor shuffleboard, slingers, shufflepuck, and quoits, sandy table) is a game in which players push metal-and-plastic weighted pucks (also called weights or quoits) down a long and smooth wooden table into a scoring area at the opposite end of the table.
Two shuffleboard players preparing a game on a ship's deck with cue-sticks. Shuffleboard is a game in which players use cues to push weighted discs, sending them gliding down a narrow court, with the purpose of having them come to rest within a marked scoring area. As a more generic term, it refers to the family of shuffleboard-variant games as ...
Ball near the bumpers and pocket. Typically, bumper pool tables are smaller than a regulation pool table. [2] [clarification needed] The table has two pockets, placed opposite one another, located at the center of two of the rails. [2] The surface of the table has the same cloth covering as a standard pool table. Two bumpers flank each pocket. [2]
Ohio University (Ohio or OU) is a public research university with its main campus in Athens, Ohio, United States. [9] The first university chartered by an Act of Congress [10] and the first to be chartered in Ohio, [11] the university was chartered in 1787 by the Congress of the Confederation and subsequently approved for the territory in 1802 and state in 1804, [12] opening for students in 1809.
Crokinole (/ ˈ k r oʊ k ɪ n oʊ l / ⓘ KROH-ki-nohl) is a disk-flicking dexterity board game, possibly of Canadian origin, similar to the games of pitchnut, carrom, and pichenotte, with elements of shuffleboard and curling reduced to table-top size. Players take turns shooting discs across the circular playing surface, trying to land their ...
Douglas Osborne McClure (May 11, 1935 [1] – February 5, 1995) was an American actor whose career in film and television extended from the 1950s to the 1990s. He is best known for his role as the cowboy Trampas during the entire run from 1962 to 1971 of the series The Virginian and mayor turned police chief Kyle Applegate on Out of This World .
Jessica McClure Morales (born March 26, 1986; widely known as "Baby Jessica" in 1987 [1]) fell into a well in her aunt's backyard in Midland, Texas, on October 14, 1987, at the age of 18 months. Over the next 56 hours, rescuers worked to free her from the 8 in (20 cm) well casing , about 22 ft (7 m) below grade.
Rob McClure (born June 15, 1982) [1] is an American actor and singer, best known for his work on the Broadway stage. McClure made his Broadway debut in 2002 as an understudy in I'm Not Rappaport . From 2006 to 2009, he went on to play several roles in Avenue Q , both on Broadway and on the show's national tour.