Virgo
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Virgo was nicknamed 'Mr Perfection' during his playing days, but a run to the semi-finals in 1979 was as close as he came to winning the World Championship.
From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026
Virgo spoke of Higgins rescuing a sport that was "going nowhere", crediting him with reinventing it into a spectacle that was both "watchable and exciting".
From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026
Snooker clubs were enjoying a boom, but they often remained places of ill repute, and Virgo recognised there was historical justification for that.
From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026
Nobody conveyed that quite as naturally as Virgo.
From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026
The Virgo cluster is already the richest collection of galaxies known, replete with spirals and ellipticals and irregulars, a jewel box in the sky.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.