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Ball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Balls are usually hollow and spherical but can be other shapes, such as ovoid (only in a few special cases) or solid (as in billiards). In most games using balls, the play of the game follows the state of the ball as it is hit, kicked, or thrown by players. The purpose of playing with a ball or ball substitute such as the shuttlecock is that the focus of the game is the ball and not the opposing players. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ball   (239 words)

Cricket ball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cricket balls are made from a core of cork, which is layered with tightly wound string, and covered by a leather case with a slightly raised sewn seam. The seam of a cricket ball can also be used to produce different trajectories through the air, with the technique known as swing bowling, or to produce sideways movement as it bounces off the pitch, with the technique known as seam bowling. A new cricket ball is harder than a worn one, and is preferred by fast bowlers because of the speed and bounce of the ball as it bounces off the pitch. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cricket_ball   (917 words)

Golf ball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Like golf clubs, golf balls are subject to testing and approval by the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews and the United States Golf Association, and those that do not conform with the regulations may not be used in competitions (Rule 5-1). In the twentieth century, multi-layer balls were developed, first as wound balls consisting of a solid or liquid-filled core wound with a layer of rubber thread and a thin outer shell. When a golf ball is hit, the impact, which lasts less than a millisecond, determines the ball’s velocity, launch angle and spin rate, all of which influence its trajectory (and its behavior when it hits the ground). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Golf_ball   (957 words)

Ball gown - ball gown prom dress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) yellow ball gown or costume ball gown depends entirely on quinceanera ball gown, modest ball gown belle of the ball gown is not colonial ball gown, ball gown in swimming beautiful ball gown. couture ball gown petite ball gown, renaissance ball gown. ball evening gown wear and ball gown masquerade opera phantom, satin ball gown is focused on ball blue gown navy and topics related to evening dress ball gown, pageant ball gown, ball beach gown palm west. ball-gown.thebardak.com   (1016 words)

Hugo Ball   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) Ball was deeply religious and had a great belief in life however, he had become a skeptic, having seen how the world had decended into the absurd meaningless which he believed the war to be. Ball's belief was that the world reflects art and being witness to world events in 1915 his concern, as was that of Kandinsky was to bring about the rebirth of society through the medium of all artistic trends and potentialities. Ball's phonetic poetry must surely be considered one of the most important contributions.However, with the emergence of the Romanian Tristan Tzara Balls grip on the reigns of the movement began to lessen. www.spa.ex.ac.uk /drama/dada/page7.html   (629 words)

Roman Ball Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) Pila was the term used for ball playing in general, but is here used to define the circular version of harpasta, which may have been the most popular ball game in Roman times. The ball is clearly a folis, an inflated ball, not a floppy paganica like in the first part of the Bikini Girls image. They even had a glass ball and a ball of stone the size of a bowling ball was found in Pompeii. www.personal.psu.edu /users/w/x/wxk116/romeball.html   (1325 words)

BALL - Biochemical Algorithms Library — The BALL Website BALL is well suited to serve as a public repository for reliable data structures and algorithms. BALL is distributed under the Lesser GNU Public License (LGPL), parts of it are under the GNU Public License (GPL). BALL is currently being developed in the groups of Hans-Peter Lenhof (Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany), Oliver Kohlbacher (University of Tübingen, Germany), and Andreas Hildebrandt (Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany). www.bioinf.uni-sb.de /OK/BALL   (225 words)

World Standardized Rules   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) The object balls are racked in a diamond shape, with the 1-ball at the top of the diamond and on the foot spot, the 9-ball in the center of the diamond, and the other balls in random order, racked as tightly as possible. If the cue ball is pocketed or driven off the table, or the requirements of the opening break are not met, it is a foul, and the incoming player has cue ball in hand anywhere on the table. When the cue ball is in hand, the player may place the cue ball anywhere on the bed of the table, except in contact with an object ball. www.bca-pool.com /play/tournaments/rules/rls_9bl.shtml   (1192 words)

Psi Ball Encyclopedia Articles @ CreatedByGod.com (Created by God)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) Psi balls are said to be capable of performing many different tasks, such as healing, protection, telekinesis, or sending short telepathic messages. The energy is said to come from both inside the mind of the practitioner and also from a variety of external sources, such as the Sun, the Moon and the Earth. People who claim to be sensitive to auras also say they have the ability to detect invisible psi balls. www.createdbygod.com /encyclopedia/Psi_ball   (359 words)

High Voltage Mystery: Ball Lightning BALL LIGHTNING does not look like "lightning." Instead, it usually appears as a mysterious glowing sphere which drifts horizontally through the air. It is typically the size of a grapefruit, but sometimes appears as small as a pea, or as large as a bus. Ball Lightning and St. Elmo's Fire as Forms of Thunderstorm Activity www.eskimo.com /~billb/tesla/ballgtn.html   (500 words)

DX-Ball - download a free arcade game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) The object of the game is to bounce your ball around the screen with your paddle, breaking bricks, collecting points and power-ups as you go. Balls stick to the paddle, rather than bounce. Balls and lasers cut straight through the bricks. www.magicwandsoft.com /games/dxball   (158 words)

Times Square Alliance - New Year's Eve - About The Ball At 11:59 p.m., the Ball begins its descent as millions of voices unite to count down the final seconds of the year, and celebrate the beginning of a new year full of hopes, challenges, changes and dreams. This original Ball, constructed of iron and wood and adorned with 100 25-watt light bulbs, was 5 feet in diameter and weighed 700 pounds. The Ball has been lowered every year since 1907, with the exceptions of 1942 and 1943, when its use was suspended due to the wartime "dimout" of lights in New York City. www.timessquarenyc.org /nye/nye_ball.html   (783 words)

Rockin' on without Microsoft | Newsmakers | CNET News.com Sterling Ball, a jovial, plain-talking businessman, is CEO of Ernie Ball, the world's leading maker of premium guitar strings endorsed by generations of artists ranging from the likes of Eric Clapton to the dudes from Metallica. Ball's IT crew settled on a potpourri of open-source software--Red Hat's version of Linux, the OpenOffice office suite, Mozilla's Web browser--plus a few proprietary applications that couldn't be duplicated by open source. Ball, whose father, Ernie, founded the company, says the transition was a breeze, and since then he's been happy to extol the virtues of open-source software to anyone who asks. news.com.com /2008-1082_3-5065859.html   (2192 words)

Ball Horticultural Company - An internationally renowned breeder, producer and wholesale distributor of ornamental ... A family-owned business since it was founded in 1905, Ball has grown from a one-man operation into a world leader in the research, production and marketing of ornamental crops. Today Ball is known around the globe for the superior varieties it supplies as seed, plugs, young plants and cuttings. Ball Seed Company is excited to announce that it has reached an agreement with Royal Van Zanten, LLC to be the exclusive licensee of all CBA and Cleangro-bred chrysanthemum varieties formerly produced by Royal Van Zanten in North America. www.ballhort.com   (285 words)

Marcia Ball "Ball is the bayou queen of the piano, steeped in blues and honky-tonk. Marica Ball was honored with her third award in as many years when she was named Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year. Ball gives each song the workout of a lifetime, reinventing and reinvigorating every track with the immediacy and fire only a live show can deliver. www.rosebudus.com /ball   (1077 words)

Social Security Online Leaving the agency briefly around 1945 Ball became a principal in an educational institute, and when the 1948-1949 Social Security Advisory Council was formed, Ball was tapped to be its Staff Director. Following his retirement, Ball went on to be one of the most active and prolific consultants and experts on Social Security and related topics. In 1981-1982 Ball was an influential member of the Greenspan Commission, which resulted in the 1983 Amendments--the last major piece of Social Security legislation in the 20th century. www.ssa.gov /history/orals/balloralhistory.html   (720 words)

Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Ball. The allusion is to the game of tennis, in which a line is stretched in the middle of the court, and the players standing on each side have, with their rackets, to knock it alternately over the line. A metaphor from cricket, as when a batsman runs up to meet the ball at full pitch, before it bounds. One tossed, like a ball, from pillar to post; one who has experienced many vicissitudes of fortune. www.bartleby.com /81/1276.html   (271 words)

ball - Wiktionary ball" and "bale", which has hence been erroneously assumed to be its source. French: (small, such as a cricket ball) balle f. (mostly for balls filled with air but there are exclusions such as baseball, golf ball and others), шар (šar) m. en.wiktionary.org /wiki/ball   (424 words)

Hand Ball - Throw the ball up against the wall and make your opponent bounce out. Score more points than your opponent ... Well, the aim of the game is simple, hit the ball with your glove in front of the wall and avoid missing the ball on your turn. When a players hits the ball against the front wall, it is the other player's turn to return the ball. Use the ball shadow to figure out where the ball is on the court. hand-ball.freeonlinegames.com   (273 words)

World's Largest Twine Balls One runs across more than a few balls on the obsession landscape -- balls of stamps, or of barbed wire. His multicolored ball of string sat in his barn, had a 41.5 ft circumference, 18 inches greater than the largest on record. August 2005: A relatively unknown twine ball, rolled by James Frank Kotera at Lake Nebagamon, Wisconsin since 1979, threatens upset with its claim as the heaviest. www.roadsideamerica.com /attract/MNDARtwine.html   (634 words)

Albert Ball   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) Ball was the first British ace idolized by the public. Flying the new scout, Ball's flight encountered Jasta 11 on the evening of 7 May 1917 and Ball was last seen by Cyril Crowe entering an extremely dark thundercloud. Ball was killed but the German ace survived. www.theaerodrome.com /aces/england/ball.html   (867 words)

ball (1) definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta game with ball: a game, especially one played by children, in which a ball may be thrown from one player to another in various ways ball played in particular way: a particular use, movement, or way of transferring the ball to another player in the course of a game She has a lot on the ball; let's give her the opportunity to chair the committee. encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861728457/definition.html   (502 words)

Dodge Ball - Dont Get Knocked Out The aim of the game is to hit your opponent with the ball and smash him into pieces. To pick up a ball, move your player's hand over the ball. To throw the ball, left click and hold the mouse button, release when the power meter located above your player's head is red. dodge-ball.freeonlinegames.com   (100 words)

Ball and Ball Antique Hardware Reproductions and Restoration Ball and Ball produces antique reproduction hardware of the highest quality. Ball and Ball antique reproduction builder's hardware, is accurate in every detail to original hardware, making it unique among most builders' hardware available today. Ball and Ball can expertly reproduce many of these items using the same methods and techniques that were used in the making of the originals. www.ballandball-us.com   (506 words)

Slick Ball - Play a 3D game where you have to guide the slick ball home. Collect diamonds for extra points and avoid ... Slick Ball is a game where real life physics and wide open 3D maze levels determine the actual game play. The goal of this game is to drive your 'Slick Ball' with your mouse through 10 wide levels; each level in a certain amount of time where balancing gravity and solving various exciting tasks are the main objectives. The numerous tasks demand not only precise control of the 'Slick Ball' from the player but rather logic combined skills for each level to attain the next. slick-ball.freeonlinegames.com   (176 words)

Crab Ball - Test your moving skills with a crab, don't let the ball drop and see who gets the highest points. Crab Ball - Test your moving skills with a crab, don't let the ball drop and see who gets the highest points. All you have to do is to hit the ball with crab and accumulate as many point as you can. Use your arrow keys to maneuver yourself under the ball to bounce it over to the other side, when your opponent cannot reach the ball in time you get a point. crab-ball.freeonlinegames.com   (135 words)

Ball I’ve learned hard rubber balls are the best – the last time she had a flimsy plastic one she worked it down to bits, chewed it with such passion there was almost nothing left. And Tess’ ball was still in the bedroom with Eric; I wasn’t leaving without it, I wasn’t going to leave her without a ball. I retrieved Tess’s ball, and hurried to free her from the other room; she kissed me wildly, whimpering, as though she’d feared something had happened to me or that I’d left her forever. www.zinkville.com /Ball.htm   (6513 words)

MICHAEL O. BALL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) Michael Ball received his B.E.S. in Engineering Science and M.S.E. in Operations Research from Johns Hopkins University in 1972 and his Ph.D. degree in Operations Research from Cornell University in 1977. Ball joined the University of Maryland faculty in 1979 as an Assistant Professor and in 1984 he became Associate Professor in the College of Business and Management. Dr. Ball is a member of the Operations Research Society of America, the Mathematical Programming Society, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and IEEE. www.isr.umd.edu /People/faculty/Ball.html   (422 words)

Curve Ball - A Modified game of classic old school ping pong where you have to hit the ball with your crab. Curve Ball - A Modified game of classic old school ping pong where you have to hit the ball with your crab. Anyway, the idea of the game is just to hit the ball with your paddle but, make it curve to win. To gain more points hit the ball in the center of the paddle and curve the ball as you hit it. curve-ball.freeonlinegames.com   (164 words)

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