House Harkonnen is a powerful noble family in Frank Herbert's fictional Dune universe. The Harkonnens are featured prominently in the original 1965 novel Dune, and The Harkonnen bloodline extends throughout all of the original Dune novels. They are the arch enemies of the House Atreides.
House Atreides is a fictional noble family from the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. One of the Great Houses of the feudal interstellar empire known as the Imperium, whose members play a role in every novel in the series. House Atreides rules the water planet of Caladan, employing noble ...
The Fremen are a group of people in the fictional Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. They are nomadic, desert-dwelling people, descendants of humans who migrated to Arrakis thousands of years before the events of the novel Dune, as the Zensunni Wanderers, a religious sect in retreat. Over ...
Melange, or the "spice" – is the name of the fictional drug central to the Dune series of science fiction novels by Frank Herbert, and derivative works. In the series, the most essential and valuable commodity in the universe is melange, a drug that gives the user a longer life span, greater ...
Arrakis is a fictional desert planet featured in the Dune series of novels by Frank Herbert. The planet is the home of the Fremen, nomadic desert people, and subsequently the Imperial Capital of the Atreides Empire. Arrakis, also known as Dune, is home of the spice melange, the greatest treasure in ...
In pocket billiards games, "scratch" stands for pocketing of the cue ball. In most games, a scratch is a type of foul.
In pool games, safety shot refers to an intentional defensive shot, the most common goal of which is to leave the opponent either no plausible shot at all, or at least a difficult one.
Skittle is an upright pin, which looks like a miniature bowling pin, or a mushroom-like object, present in certain billiard games. Depending on the game, there may be one skittle, or several, and they can be targets for players to hit, or obstacles to avoid.
