Pool

an old poster of people playing billiards
Pool
Alex Horscroft

A Odd History of Billiards and Pool

Did you know that Shakespeare mentioned billiards in his tragic play, Antony and Cleopatra? That was in 1674. This shows how popular the game was during that period, but billiards was invented hundreds of years earlier, and the history of billiards is weirder than you’d think.  Billiards was invented in