** Fred Davis, English snooker and billiards player ( d. 1998 )

* April 15 – Joe Davis, English snooker and billiards player ( died 1978 )

* July 10 – Joe Davis, English snooker and billiards player ( b. 1901 )

English, follow and draw in billiards and pool.

* Willie Smith ( billiards player ) ( 1886 – 1982 ), English professional player of snooker and English billiards

English billiards was originally called the winning and losing carambole game, folding in the names of three predecessor games, the winning game, the losing game and the carambole game ( an early form of straight rail ), that combined to form it.

These rules continued to exist in English billiards until 1983, when a standard two points for all fouls was introduced.

The three ancestral games had their heyday in 1770s England, but had combined into English billiards, with a 16-point score total, by approximately 1800.

Gradually, the French ( who also adopted the cue ) made their tables without pockets, while the English retained the pockets, causing the final bifurcation of English and Continental billiards.

There are a number of pocket billiard games directly descended from English billiards, including bull dog, scratch pool, thirty-one pool and thirty-eight.

Category: Indian players of English billiards

Category: World champions in English billiards

He rowed for Cambridge, founded inter-varsity sports, became English Champion walker, coached four winning Boat-Race crews, devised the Queensberry Rules, staged the Cup Final and the Thames Regatta, instituted championships for billiards, boxing, cycling, wrestling and athletics, rowed beside Matthew Webb as he swam the English Channel and edited a national newspaper.

Geet Siriram Sethi ( born April 17, 1961 ) of India is a professional player of English billiards who dominated the sport throughout much of the 1990s, and a notable amateur ( ex-pro ) snooker player.

He is a six-time winner of the professional-level and a three-time winner of the amateur World Championships, and holder of two world records, in English billiards.

Born in Delhi to a Punjabi family and growing up in Ahmedabad, Sethi won his first major English billiards event in 1982, the Indian National Billiards Championship ( an international event despite its name ), defeating Michael Ferreira, and later went on to win the NBC again four years in a row, 1985 – 1988, and made a comeback in both 1997 and 1998 to reclaim the title.

Sethi also took the Indian National Snooker Championships four times back to back, in the same 1985 – 1988 span as his national English billiards streak.

In the 1992 World Professional Billiards Championship, Sethi constructed a world-record English billiards of 1276 under the three-pot rule, also the highest break in five decades ) and won first place.

At the same time, however, I availed myself of the services of that great English actor and master of make-up, Sir Gauntley Pratt, to do a `` quickie '' called The Mystery of the Mad Marquess, in which I played a young American girl who inherits a haunted castle on the English moors which is filled with secret passages and sliding panels and, unbeknownst to anyone, is still occupied by an eccentric maniac.

It omits, for example, practically the whole line of great nineteenth century English social critics, nearly all the great writers whose basic position is religious, and all those who are with more or less accuracy called Existentialists.

An appellate court, commonly called an appeals court or court of appeals ( American English ) or appeal court ( British English ), is any court of law that is empowered to hear an appeal of a trial court or other lower tribunal.

A novel called Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, based on Avicenna's story, was later written by Ibn Tufail ( Abubacer ) in the 12th century and translated into Latin and English as Philosophus Autodidactus in the 17th and 18th centuries respectively.

An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.

* The Abduction ( novel ), 1987, also called Bortførelsen, written in Norwegian by Mette Newth, translated into English by Steven T. Murray and Tiina Nunnally

Interestingly, the London Confession of 1689 was later used by Calvinistic Baptists in America ( called the Philadelphia Baptist Confession ), whereas the Standard Confession of 1660 was used by the American heirs of the English General Baptists, who soon came to be known as Free Will Baptists.

Known to the Iranians by the Pahlavi compound word kah-ruba ( from kah “ straw ” plus rubay “ attract, snatch ,” referring to its electrical properties ), which entered Arabic as kahraba ' or kahraba, it too was called amber in Europe ( Old French and Middle English ambre ).

In later English publications it has been called Alfheim, Elfland or Elfenland.

This kind of formal English, particularly written English, is often called " standard English ".

: In British English, "( )" marks are generally referred to as brackets, whereas "" are called square brackets and "

He travelled across the United States spreading the idea of Aesthetics in a speech called " The English Renaissance.

When told they were called " Anglii " ( Angles ), he replied with a Latin pun that translates well into English: “ Bene, nam et angelicam habent faciem, et tales angelorum in caelis decet esse coheredes ” (" It is well, for they have an angelic face, and such people ought to be co-heirs of the angels in heaven ").

* The Star-Spangled Banner's tune was adapted from an old English drinking song by John Stafford Smith called " To Anacreon in Heaven ".

Since the English Reformation, the Church of England has been more explicitly a state church and the choice is legally that of the British crown ; today it is made in the name of the Sovereign by the Prime Minister, from a shortlist of two selected by an ad hoc committee called the Crown Nominations Commission.

Abbreviator, plural Abbreviators in English or Abbreviatores in Latin, also called Breviators, were a body of writers in the papal chancery, whose business was to sketch out and prepare in due form the pope's bulls, briefs and consistorial decrees before these are written out in extenso by the scriptores.

* 1660: Baron Windsor, called out of abeyance after 18 years ( the length of the English Civil War ); again in 1855 after 22 years.

While an organism with complete absence of melanin is called an albino ( American English, or British English ) an organism with only a diminished amount of melanin is described as albinoid.

They called these parkas “ Kameikas ” for raingear in the English language K ( Aleut Corp.

The disputed books, included in one canon but not in others, are often called the Biblical apocrypha, a term that is sometimes used specifically ( and possibly pejoratively in English ) to describe the books in the Catholic and Orthodox canons that are absent from the Jewish Masoretic Text ( also called the Tanakh or Miqra ) and most modern Protestant Bibles.

The New English Bible ( the Old Testament and Apocrypha will be published at a future date ) has not been planned to rival or replace the King James Version, but, as its cover states, it is offered `` simply as the Bible to all those who will use it in reading, teaching, or worship ''.

At the other extreme are languages such as English, where the spelling of many words simply has to be memorized as they do not correspond to sounds in a consistent way.

The French word artiste ( which in French, simply means " artist ") has been imported into the English language where it means a performer ( frequently in Music Hall or Vaudeville ).

The-dour element, referring to the Burn, means simply ' water ' ( archaic dobur ), and is unconnected to the Scots / English ' dour '.

English writer Douglas Adams, who wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, used the metaphor of a living puddle examining its own shape, since, to those living creatures, the universe may appear to fit them perfectly ( while in fact, they simply fit the universe perfectly ).

The English word " amputation " was first applied to surgery in the 17th century, possibly first in Peter Lowe's A discourse of the Whole Art of Chirurgerie ( published in either 1597 or 1612 ); his work was derived from 16th century French texts and early English writers also used the words " extirpation " ( 16th century French texts tended to use extirper ), " disarticulation ", and " dismemberment " ( from the Old French desmembrer and a more common term before the 17th century for limb loss or removal ), or simply " cutting ", but by the end of the 17th century " amputation " had come to dominate as the accepted medical term.

Ten years later, limited liability, the key provision of modern corporate law, passed into English law: in response to increasing pressure from newly emerging capital interests, Parliament passed the Limited Liability Act 1855, which established the principle that any corporation could enjoy limited legal liability on both contract and tort claims simply by registering as a " limited " company with the appropriate government agency.

The English Channel (,, ), often referred to simply as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates southern England from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic.

The fact that cognates exist ( such as the German elbinne ) could suggest a West Germanic * alb ( i ) innjo, but this is uncertain, as the examples may be simply a transference to the weak declension common in Southern and Western forms of Middle English.

In English, the book is commonly referred to simply as Ecclesiastes ( abbreviated " Ecc.

Many new words can be derived simply by changing these suffixes, just as-ly derives adverbs from adjectives in English: From vidi ( to see ), we get vida ( visual ), vide ( visually ), and vido ( sight ).

The medical term for the mixture of gases is flatus, informally known as a fart, or simply ( in American English ) gas.

A former English plumber turned evangelist who lived simply and read nothing but the Bible from the time his wife taught him to read, Wigglesworth traveled around the world preaching about Jesus and performing faith healings.

As there was no possibility of getting a divorce in these circumstances, Henry decided to simply secede from the Church, in what became known as the English Reformation.

The title – taken from the first words of the song – means " Old Land of My Fathers ", usually rendered in English as simply " Land of My Fathers ".

Hilda Ellis Davidson ( 1948 ) states that Hel " as a goddess " in surviving sources seems to belong to a genre of literary personification, that the word hel is generally " used simply to signify death or the grave ," and that the word often appears as the equivalent to the English ' death ,' which Davidson states " naturally lends itself to personification by poets.

The Irish-born have frequently denied the authenticity of their Irish identity, using the derogatory term plastic paddy, and the English regards them as " assimilated " and simply " English.

Sometimes, these terms refer simply to the array of varieties of English spoken throughout the world.

The English word stems from a spelling-pronunciation of a French transliteration of the Russian word кнут ( knut ), which simply means " whip ".

The Musée du Louvre ()— in English, the Louvre Museum or simply the Louvre — is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument.

Latin sometimes uses amāre where English would simply say to like.

Lulach mac Gille Coemgáin ( Modern Gaelic: Lughlagh mac Gille Chomghain, known in English simply as Lulach, and nicknamed Tairbith, " the Unfortunate " and Fatuus, " the Simple-minded " or " the Foolish "; before 1033 – 17 March 1058 ) was King of Scots between 15 August 1057 and 17 March 1058.

In everyday English, " Mandarin " refers to Standard Chinese, which is often called simply " Chinese ".