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Curling History:     more books (74)

History of curling, Scotland's ain game, and fifty years of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club by John Kerr, 2010-08-14 The Curling Name in History by Ancestry.com, 2007-06-15 Tales of a Curling Hack by Doug Maxwell, 2006-10-15 Men of the Rifles: The Reminiscences of Thomas Knight of the 95th (Rifles) by Thomas Knight; Henry Curling's Anecdotes by Henry Curling & The Field Services ... its Formation to Waterloo by Jonathan Leach by Thomas Knight, Henry Curling, et all 2008-01-09 CURLING DIARIES OF THE ZULU WAR: There was Awful Slaughter by Adrian Greaves, 2002-03 Curling: The History, The Players, The Game by Warren Hansen, 2000-09-02 Canada Curls: The Illustrated History of Curling in Canada by Doug Maxwell, 2002-11-01 Curling: Webster's Timeline History, 1344 - 2007 by Icon Group International, 2009-07-11 The Stone Age: A Social History of Curling on the Prairies by Vera Pezer, 2003-09-29 History of Curling and Fifty Years of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club [Title Page Printed in 2 Colours] by John Kerr, 1890-01-01 The Curling Name in History by Ancestry.co.uk The Generations Network, 2008-10-28 History of curling: Scotland's air game, and fifty years of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club by John Kerr, 1898 Curling in Ontario - 1846-1946 by John Alexander Stevenson, 1950 The Recollections of Rifleman Harris: As Told to Henry Curling by Benjamin Harris, Henry Curling, et all 2000-11

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1. Media Curling History Is Made At The Dominion Curling Club
   All news Curling History is Made at The Dominion Curling Club Championship TORONTO, Nov. 30 /CNW/ The Dominion Curling Club Championship - Canada's first-ever national  
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2. Curling History Iron
   Anchorage Curling Club About Curling/History A Brief History of Curling The origin of this fascinating game of curling appeared in Scotland as evidenced by a curling stone  
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   Extractions: beauty supply beauty product ... acne skin care Related - Link Directory: January 2003 Shop CacheBeauty.com 41 (ctrl + f) to search Anchorage Curling Club - About Curling/History A Brief History of Curling The origin of this fascinating game of curling appeared in Scotland as evidenced by a curling stone, bearing the from Scotland, cast iron "stones" originally The Royal Montreal Curling Club, organized in http://www.anchoragecurling.com/history.htm curling history iron ... Links Vol. 4 2002 curling history iron. 100, curling iron, Blowdryers hair care, curl iron, curling irons, Anchorage Curling Club - About Curling/History,, http://www.cachebeauty.com/link_directory/curling_history_iron.html A Brief History of Hairstyles Click on a period of history for an overview of trends in hairstyles: Ancient Georgian Regency Victorian Edwardian A BRIEF HISTORY OF HAIRSTYLES For each era, we have provided a brief history of the key elements in hairstyles. Try our simple http://www.erasofelegance.com/hairstyles.html

3. A BRIEF HISTORY Of CURLING Appleton Curling Club
   Curling Glossary Curling Etiquette Curling Positions Curling History FAQ's A BRIEF HISTORY of CURLING The first evidence of curling in the world was found in  
   http://www.appletoncurlingclub.com/curling_history.html
   
   Extractions: Home About Us Member Info Events ... US Women's Curling Assoc. cssdropdown.startchrome("menu") The first evidence of curling in the world was found in Scotland in the sixteenth century. A typical example is the famous Stirling Stone with the engraved inscription 1511, the first written reference to the sport. Thereafter, both prose and verse from Scotland frequently referred to the sport called curling. However, at the same time, the sport appears in the Netherlands on the paintings of Peter Bruegel and Jacob Grimmer. The shadowy past of the sport fails to reveal any real; organization of clubs or rules before the beginning of the eighteenth century. In 1716, the Curlers of Kilsyth in Stirlingshire formed a club and other in central Scotland followed. The sport's earliest stones were nothing more than rocks that were felt to be suitable for use. They were all shapes, sizes, and weights with no handles except for niches chipped in the rock for sufficient grip of the thumb and forefinger. By 1775, circular stones with the metal handles had become common and with then birth of the Royal Caledonian Club in 1838, came the ultimate standardization of the size and shape. Scottish immigrants brought the game to North America in the eighteenth century where it spread across the northern US and Canada. By 1855, curling clubs started in New York City, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Portage, WI.

4. Smith, David Nichol, Books On 'Curling -- History'
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5. Curling -- History (subject At ISBNdb.com)
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6. Curling History
   The Curling History Page century curler WILLIAM WEEMS, circa 1850 WORLD CANADA OLYMPICS NEWS STATISTICS HISTORY RULES LINKS ABOUT US EMAIL SCRAPBOOK 1997-2002 Mural  
   http://www.cachebeauty.com/link_directory/curling_history.html
   
   Extractions: beauty supply beauty product ... acne skin care Related - Link Directory: January 2003 Shop CacheBeauty.com 29 (ctrl + f) to search The Curling History Page http://www.home.istar.ca/~rockroll/curling.html Soudog's Curling History Site SOUDOG'S Curling History Site Welcome to my Curling History Website. I'm currently father, Bert Canadian Curling legend Hec Gervais Year-by-Year A brief history of the Brier 2001 Record Book OLYMPIC CURLING: All-Time Olympic http://www.fortunecity.com/olympia/best/915/ The Curling History Page: About The Site Frequently asked questions. about curlinghere did curling originate? What is the games terminology? How has the curling rock evolved? http://home.istar.ca/~rockroll/faq.html Curling's Premiere Directory Directory of Curling Links Welcome back to Curling.Com - Your Premiere Curling Curling.net Curling City Curling History The Curling School Curlingtour.com Curlingzone Roaring Game Soudog Curling History Site curling.8m.net rds.ca - Curling (Fr http://www.curling.com/

7. Soudog's Curling History Site
   History of the sport, curlers, Olympic curling, and links.  
   http://soudogcurling.tripod.com/main.html
   
   Extractions: Build your own FREE website at Tripod.com Share: Facebook Twitter Digg reddit document.write(lycos_ad['leaderboard']); document.write(lycos_ad['leaderboard2']); SOUDOG'S CURLING HISTORY SITE "THE ROARIN' GAME" "You've gotta have STONES to play this game!" This site is dedicated to the memory of four individuals who, more than anyone, personified "For the love of the game" My father, Robert A Soutar March 1, 1999) Hec "The Gentle Giant" Gervais Click photo to visit Tribute page "The Queen of Hearts" March 2, 2000) Click photo to visit Tribute page Douglas Dean Maxwell THE BRIER CANADIAN WOMEN THE WORLDS THE OLYMPICS 2008 PACIFIC CURLING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2008 EUROPEAN CURLING CHAMPIONSHIPS Support the Sandra Schmirler Foundation. Click this image. This site is for information purposes only. While it is not a complete, nor "official" archive, nearly all information has been taken from official sources. It is my policy that every effort is made to ensure the information contained in these pages is accurate BEFORE it appears in these pages. Any errors or omissions which may occur are not intentional.

8. THE GAME: HISTORY: HISTORY OF CURLING / LE JEU: HISTOIRE: HISTOIRE DU CURLING
   ORIGINS ORIGINES. The precise beginnings of curling will always remain a mystery! However, it is not hard to imagine a man, hundreds or even thousands of years ago, who weighed a  
   http://icing.org/game/history/historya.htm
   
   Extractions: ORIGINS ORIGINES The precise beginnings of curling will always remain a mystery! However, it is not hard to imagine a man, hundreds or even thousands of years ago, who weighed a smooth, heavy rock in his hand, then watched and listened with fascination as he launched it along a glistening bed of ice on a frozen river. This "first curler" must have been intrigued by the way the rock moved and by the grumbling sound it made as it twisted and turned. Other people in the not so distant past have heard this same sound and have applied it as a nickname for the game of curling ... it is often referred to as "the roaring game". Scots and continental Europeans have engaged in many a lively dispute as to the true origin of curling. Both claim to be founders. Did Scots invent the game, or was it imported by Flemish sportsmen who emigrated to Scotland during the reign of James VI (James I of England)? Did Europeans engage in some early form of curling, and did Scots merely adopt and enhance it? The evidence, based on works of art, contemporary writings, and archaeological finds, has sparked a number of theories, but nothing is conclusive. Some of the earliest graphic records of a game similar to curling date from 1565. Two oil paintings by the Dutch master Pieter Bruegel, entitled "Winter Landscape with Skaters and a Birdtrap" and "Hunters in the Snow", show

9. Wheelchair Curling - About This Site
   Home Headlines Articles Events Calendar Links Why I publish wheelchaircurling.com and its sister blog plus a brief history of the sport in Canada  
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   Extractions: Contact the publisher Wheelchair curling hasn't been around very long - the late 90s in Europe and since 2002 in Canada. Its inclusion as a Paralympics sport at the Torino Games in 2006 spurred the attention of national and regional curling associations, especially in Canada where a team skipped by Chris Daw brought home the first gold medals. In March 2009, in the first competition to be held in the new Olympic curling facility in Vancouver. Canada won their first World Championship. While Canadians celebrate these successes, in a country where even the smallest community has curling ice, our sport has not yet caught the imagination of wheelchair users. CCA sponsored programs like Discover Curling, and corporate sponsorship for grassroots development from TSX will help, but change, if it comes, will blossom from the efforts of club curlers making their clubs wheelchair accessible and inviting wheelchair users to participate in our great sport. With the Paralympics Winter Games to be held in British Columbia in March 2010, attention is again focused on fielding a competitive national team. But we need more than a successful national team if wheelchair curling is to take its rightful place as an inexpensive and accessible winter recreation, the winter recreation of choice for Canada's wheelchair users.

10. Curling - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
    Curling is a sport in which players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area. It is related to bowls, boule and shuffleboard. Two teams, each of four players, take  
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curling
    
    Extractions: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search This article is about the sport. For other uses, see Curling (disambiguation) Curling Highest governing body World Curling Federation Nickname(s) Chess On Ice, The Roaring Game First played Approximately late medieval Scotland Characteristics Team members 4 per team (2 in Mixed Doubles Venue Curling sheet Olympic Purpose-built curling pond at Colzium, Kilsyth, Scotland A curling match at Eglinton Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland in 1860. The Curling House is located to the left of the picture. Group of people curling on a lake in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia , Canada, ca. 1897 Men curling in Ontario, Canada in 1909 A Curling House near Stewarton in Ayrshire, Scotland, now converted into a dwelling Curling is a sport in which players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area. It is related to bowls boule and shuffleboard Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones across the ice curling sheet towards the house , a circular target marked on the ice.

11. British Olympic Association > Sport
    2010 British Olympic Association. The British Olympic Association is a company registered in England and Wales with its registered office at 60 Charlotte  
    http://www.olympics.org.uk/sporthistory.aspx?gt=W&sp=CU

12. Milwaukee Curling Club
    Engaging in both league play and social events. Included are membership information, curling history and rules.  
    http://www.milwaukeecurlingclub.com/
    
    Extractions: Welcome to the Milwaukee Curling Club! From our 1845 beginnings on the frozen Milwaukee River to our present facility at Ozaukee Country Club, we are the longest continually operating curling club in the United States. The curling club has four sheets of ice, a large viewing area, and bar room; wait staff from Ozaukee Country Club provide food and beverage service. The club has over 200 members, ranging in age from 5 to 85, demonstrating the intergenerational and lifelong nature of the sport. LEAGUE CURLING BEGINS THIS WEEK, SEE CONTACT INFORMATION FOR MORE DETAIL LEARN TO CURL The new curling season has begun and again and we are pleased to announce new "Learn to Curl" classes. Please CLICK HERE for information on our next class. CLICK HERE FOR THE OCTOBER 2010 DONOR REPORT In the news...

13. History Of Curling
    More curling history is available at the United States Curling Association website. The history of the Potomac Curling Club is available here  
    http://www.curldc.org/about/history.php
    
    Extractions: History of Curling and Its Place in the World Curling has come a long way from the 16th century when hardy Scots slid odd-shaped rocks called 'loafies' on the frozen lochs and marshes of Scotland. Today the game is played indoors on meticulously prepared ice with polished 42-pound granite rocks that gleam like jewels as they rumble their way down towards brightly colored houses. It became an Olympic medal sport in 1998 at the Nagano games in Japan and proved to be extremely popular at the Salt Lake City games in 2002 We continue to see an upswing in interest every four years, coincident with the Winter Olympic Games. Curling in the United States dates back to the 1830s when Scottish soldiers and settlers brought the game to Michigan. From there it spread northward into Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota and other other states in the Curling Heartland of America, where it remains popular. Today there are over 15,000 curlers and 135 clubs in the U.S., most in the north central US. but also in about 20 or states. Still more clubs are forming in the wake of the Olympic popularity. The Kansas City Curling Club has a fascinating map of US clubs Around the world, over a million participate in the game in 35 countries, though 90% of those million curlers are in Canada, where the sport is an important part of the social and community fabric. Since many Canadians have found their way southward, a number of American clubs (especially ones outside the north central area) were started by Canadians, who continue to make major contributions to the development of the sport.

14. Curling History
    BBC's Flog It programme broadcast a segment in 2005 with presenter Paul Martin being shown some of David B Smith's collection of curling memorabilia.  
    http://curlinghistory.blogspot.com/
    
    Extractions: I recently wrote about the wonderful variety of table lighters which the game of curling had spawned, see here . This second piece on the topic concerns a newer and more conventional design, namely the miniature curling stone. In these the body of the stone is generally turned from real stone. In the top has been cut a circular hole into which is fitted the actual lighter. As one would expect the common types of curling stone metal are used but a large proportion of those which I have seen are made from rare and uncommon rocks, which are difficult to identify and name.

15. Home
    Jump to main content Access key 'C'  
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16. Curlinghistory.com
    Curling pins and curling history. Pins Index. Last update. 12th. Marts 2010.. Hi and welcome to MGPins……. This site was created on August 1, 2003.  
    http://www.curlinghistory.com/

17. Latvia Makes Curling History | The Curling News
    Meet Iveta StasaSarsune, everyone.Iveta meet everyone.This gal has played quite well for Latvia at the past two World Mixed Doubles Championships (in Italy  
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    Extractions: @import url( http://www.thecurlingnews.com/blog/wp-content/themes/CurlingNews/style.css ); Meet Iveta Stasa-Sarsune , everyone. This gal has played quite well for Latvia at the past two World Mixed Doubles Championships (in Italy and Finland, respectively) but she and her teammates took it to another level at the 2009 Le Gruyere European Curling Championships in Aberdeen, Scotland this past week. Team Latvia won the B-pool and then defeated Finland (skipped by TCN correspondent Katja Kiiskiken ) in a best of three World Challenge series in Swift Current, Saskatchewan Congratulations to Iveta and all curling-mad Latvians! If your cheering squad is anything like that of the legendary Latvian hockey fans , Swift Current will be rocking out! Want even more curling news? • Subscribe to The Curling News – via our new website! • Follow our Twitter feed [Photo by Bob Cowan] VN:F [1.7.9_1023] please wait... Rating: 4.0/ (4 votes cast) Latvia makes curling history Share and Enjoy: Ford worlds Iveta Stasa-Sarsune Le Gruyère European Championships curling ... latvia Said

18. HickokSports.com - History - Curling
    This document contains a history of curling, with an account of how the sport is played and a list of U. S. national men's and women's champions. It is a page in the History  
    http://www.hickoksports.com/history/curling.shtml
    
    Extractions: Alpha Index Index by Sport History Bits Forum ... Search Table of Contents There is solid evidence that curling was a sport in both Scotland and the Low Countries during the 16th century. The oldest known curling stone, found in Scotland, bears the date 1511, and a 1560 work by the Flemish painter, Pieter Breughel, shows a busy Dutch curling scene, complete with brooms. The game was played on frozen marshes in Scotland, using "channel stones" that had been worn smooth by the action of water, while the Dutch curled on the same frozen canals where ice skating flourished. As with golf, the question of where curling was "invented" will probably never be answered, but the Scots certainly have to be credited both with developing the modern version of the sport and with promoting the game in America. Scottish immigrants organized the Royal Montreal Curling Club in 1807 and the Orchard Lake, Michigan, Club in 1832. The Grand Caledonian Curling Club (later the Royal Caledonian Curling Club) was founded in 1838 at Edinburgh to become Scotland's national governing body and to standardize rules for international play. A branch of the Royal Caledonian was established in Canada in 1852 and the Grand National Curling Club of America, also an affiliate of the Royal Caledonian, was founded in 1867.

19. World Curling Federation - History Of Curling
    The 195967 results now are recognized in the curling history of the men's world championship. The success of the Scotch Cup series led to another attempt, in March 1965, to create  
    http://www.worldcurling.org/history-of-curling
    
    Extractions: Paintings by a 16th Century Flemish Artist, Pieter Bruegel (1530-1569) portrayed an activity similar to curling being played on frozen ponds. The first written evidence appeared in Latin, when in 1540, John McQuhin, a notary in Paisley, Scotland, recorded in his protocol book a challenge between John Sclater, a monk in Paisley Abbey and Gavin Hamilton, a representative of the Abbot. The report indicated that Sclater threw a stone along the ice three times and asserted that he was ready for the agreed contest. Another 25 years passed before a meeting was held in Edinburgh in 1957 to consider the formation of an international organization which would be required in order to apply for Olympic medal status. No progress was documented, but two years later, in 1959, Scotland and Canada reached a major milestone by launching the Scotch Cup series between their national men's curling champions.

20. Curling HIstory
    Curling History. The oldest artifacts from the ice sport of curling are stones which prehistoric people slid toward a target along frozen rivers or lakes.  
    http://www.norfolkcurlingclub.org/hist.html
    
    Extractions: Home Membership Leagues Bonspiels ... Contact Curling History The oldest artifacts from the ice sport of curling are stones which prehistoric people slid toward a target along frozen rivers or lakes. These people may also have used primitive brooms to clear snow from the path of their sliding stones. In 1565, Holland’s Peter Breugel painted "Hunters in the Snow" and another work depicting scenes resembling modern curling. Breugel’s paintings support the premise held by some that curling originated in continental Europe. The Scots, however, are the undisputed developers and formalizers of the modern game. By 1638 curling was considered, with golf and archery (in M. H. Adamson’s poem The Muses Threnodie), to be a usual recreational pastime. After a huge growth spurt in the 19th century, curling was played by thousands in nearly every Scottish parish. Between the 16th and 20th centuries, Scotland’s climate warmed, and today the lochs rarely freeze. The climate change hindered curlers, who played outdoors on natural ice until the 20th century. Nonetheless the Scots had, by the mid-1800s, formalized curling’s rules of play and equipment and had established the "mother club" of curlers worldwide, the Royal Caledonian Curling Club. The RCCC is today the national governing body of curling in Scotland, with 20,000 active members now playing indoors on refrigerated ice. The game of curling spread throughout the world through the efforts of thousands of Scottish soldiers and émigrés. In North America, curling’s origins

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