AdmiralAkbar1 t1_j62rgqi wrote
Reply to comment by TinyDayDreamer0 in TIL that snooker was invented by a British army officer named Neville Chamberlain. He was a distant cousin of Neville Chamberlain, who would become famous for being Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. by Mr_BeardedBread
Yes. Billiards as a whole emerged in the late medieval era as an indoor adaptation of lawn sports (like ping-pong is to tennis), before evolving into recognizable precursors of pool and other modern billiards games in the 19th century. Snooker in particular was a combination of two different rule sets, known as pyramid pool and black pool.
popsickle_in_one t1_j63igyc wrote
> indoor adaptation of lawn sports (like ping-pong is to tennis)
Ironically tennis is the outside adaptation of real tennis
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