Where did curling originate from?
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It is generally agreed that curling was developed in Scotland in the 16th century. Scottish farmers curled on frozen marshes using "channel stones," which were naturally smoothed by the water's action. The principles of the game were similar to the modern game, although there were many differences in rules and equipment.
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I don't know but I did ask my husband how these athletes come about that compete in curling. What kid grows up running to their friend's house to say, "Lets go curling". It is pretty cool though isn't it???? I wonder what store sells these- not the average sporting goods store.
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Holyoke, Massachusetts. That is where the sport was originated in 1885.
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The Origins and Early History of Tennis\nFrom Jeff Cooper,\nYour Guide to Tennis.\nFREE Newsletter. Sign Up Now!\nAncient Egypt or Medieval France?\nThe earliest origins of tennis are a matter of some dispute. \n\nOne side believes that the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans played a precursor to tennis. Drawings or descriptions of any tennis-like games have not been discovered, but a few Arabic words dating from ancient Egyptian times are cited as evidence. The theory says that the name tennis derives from the Egyptian town of Tinnis alongside the Nile and the word racquet evolved from the Arabic word for palm of the hand, rahat. \n\nAside from these two words, evidence for any form of tennis preceding the year 1000 is lacking, and most historians credit the first origins of the game to 11th or 12th century French monks, who began playing a crude handball against their monastery walls or over a rope strung across a courtyard. \n\nSponsored Links\nFree Tennis Racquets\nWilson, Prince, Dunlop & more. Limited Time Only. Act now.\nTennis.GiftFiesta.com\n\nNimrod's Legacy\nThe story of Nimrod's modern legacy this week on the WWT.\nwww.wonderfulworldtomorrow.org\n\nDemo Racquets For Sale\nGood to New condition demo tennis racquets for sale.\nwww.justtennis.net/demos.htm\nThe game took on the name jeu de paume, which means "game of the hand." Many who dispute more ancient origins argue that tennis derived from the French tenez, which meant something to the effect of "take this," said as one player would serve to the other. \nAs the game became more popular, courtyard playing areas began to be modified into indoor courts, where the ball was still played off the walls. After bare hands were found too uncomfortable, players began using a glove, then either a glove with webbing between the fingers or a solid paddle, followed by webbing attached to a handle -- essentially a racquet. Rubber balls were still centuries away, so the ball was a wad of hair, wool, or cork wrapped in string and cloth or leather, then in later years, hand-stitched in felt to look something like a modern baseball. \n\nThe nobility learned the game from the monks, and some accounts report as many as 1800 courts in France by the 13th century. The game became such a popular diversion, both the Pope and Louis IV tried unsuccessfully to ban it. It soon spread to England, where both Henry VII and Henry VIII were avid players who promoted the building of more courts. \n\n12Next
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Hey there,\nIf you are interested, just call the closest curling club and tell them that you are interested in trying curling out. Usually the club manager is the person who you should ask to talk to. They're usually more than happy to come in and let you try it, and answer any questions. The link below lists the curling clubs for MN :)\n\nhttp://www.goodcurling.net/basics/U.S.%20clubs/minnesota.html
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The U.S. had both a Men's and Women's curling team in the 2002 Winter Olympics.\n\nYou can find their names and brief bios at:\n\nhttp://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/2002/uscurling_bios/
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It origin dates back to the ancient games in Greece and the goddess Hera. The flame is lit in Greece and then carried along its path to the final destination of the games. See the links below for more info.
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Don't forget to choose the best answer.\nWe are real people answering real questions with real answers so please show your appreciation by choosing the best answer! \n\nWhat's curling?
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before you ask about curling you should ask about chess. Yes they are both sports... and to be honest if you dont know the rules or you arent playing they turn out to be the most boring sports ever
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Check out the US Curling Club map for venues.  \nSurprisingly, there is one in most major northern cities.\nhttp://www.kccurling.com/main/USClubs.asp
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First of all, curling is not a real sport.  It's a leisure activity.  It's not much harder than playing a pocket ball.  The reason it's in Winter Olympics is because there aren't too many events in Winter Olympics.\n\nOn the other hand baseball is definitely a sport.  It requires physical speed, strength, endurance, skills, team spirit and more!  This sport is getting more popular and it should be part of Summer Olympics.  I mean basketball and soccer is in Summer Olympics.  Why shouldn't baseball be?  It's only a matter of time before baseball will be part of Summer Olympics
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It's like a game of bocce ball. On pebbled Ice. Curling is played by "ends" like "innings" in baseball. \n\nThere are 10 ends. In each end only 1 team can score points. The team with the rock closest to the button is awarded one point for each of its own rocks that is closer than the opponent's closest rock. If you happen to have multiple stones closer to the "button" than any of your opponents stones inside the "house" those are added to your score. Each team throws 8 stones per end. A maximium of 8 points is possible per end. If both teams are outside the house, no points are awarded in that end. The "sweeping" is to smooth the surface out to allow the stone to move farther and move straighter. It's better explained at the link I have provided but I wanted to give my own interpretation.
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The roots of the sport are from rugby and soccer (european football).  The form of the game played in the 1870's was a contact sport played with mostly soccer rules.
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curling is scored some what like horseshoes.  who ever has the closest rock to the center gets a point.  the next closest rock, if it is from the same team who shot the closest gets another point.  This team continues to get points until the you reach one of the other teams rocks during that end.
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Hockey's origins are indeterminate. Indeed, the very definition of the game is at debate. Some observers accept as hockey any pastime where participants on skates use a club, or other wooden implement, to knock a ball or some such propellant about. Others say an activity cannot be recognized as hockey unless it is a contest between teams and conducted under an accepted set of rules.\n\n\nHunters in the Snow, by Pietr Bruegel (the elder), circa 1565\nCopyright/Source\n   \nAmusements bearing some resemblance to hockey are known to have taken place in Europe as early as the sixteenth century, or even earlier. For example, a painting by Pietr Bruegel (the elder) entitled "Hunters in the Snow" (circa 1565), depicts skaters carrying curved sticks. One of these figures is about to bring his stick in contact with a small object on the ice.\n\nThe earliest skate blades were fashioned from animal bones, but it is known from the journals of Olaus Magnus, the last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden, that polished iron blades were used in the Gulf of Bothnia area in the 1500s.\n\nSome hockey history enthusiasts trace the game's beginning to Mesopotamia, in the third millennium B.C. These historians point to Tablet XII of the Gilgamesh epic (an ancient text from the area that is now Iraq) that shows men employing curved sticks to manipulate a wooden ring over a dirt surface.\n\nRegardless of what these stalwarts along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers or those on the lakes of northern Europe were actually doing, there is no evidence to suggest a progression of their play to a form that can be accepted as structured sport.\n\nResearch points to North America as the region where the idea of a contest on ice took hold and led to the sport we know today. Incarnations of the game are said to have occurred in New York and Newfoundland as early as the late eighteenth century. In recent years, the name of Windsor, Nova Scotia, has come to the forefront as hockey's birthplace. Proponents point to a passage in Thomas Chandler Haliburton's 1843 novel, The Attaché; or Sam Slick in England, as evidence. Sam, a fast-talking Connecticut Yankee, mocks the reminiscences he imagines his traveling companion will have of his childhood at King's Collegiate in Windsor, including "hurly on the long pond on the ice." Critics do not accept this passage as satisfactory evidence, noting that the source in question is a work of fiction. However Windsor's backers argue that the novel is largely autobiographical and that the "hurly" referred to is a direct recollection by Haliburton of what he knew as a youth around 1810.\n\nAnother Maritime entrant in the origins contest is Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Advocates base their argument on an array of events, innovations and developments that sets their claim apart from those of rivals. They note that primitive forms of the game were played on Dartmouth lakes and ponds as early as 1827. The Acadian Magazine in January of that year, for example, contains a poem including the lines: "Now at ricket with hurlies some dozens of boys/ Chase the ball o'er ice with a deafening noise." A newspaper report in February 1867 tells of "a match game called hockey, i.e. ricket" being contested by officers of the Garrison and the Fleet at Oathill Lake. As well, notes the Dartmouth claim, that city was the home of the Starr Manufacturing Company, Canada's earliest producer of ice skates.\n\nFor years, the city of Kingston, Ontario, enjoyed the title of hockey's birthplace. This resulted from a report of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association in 1942, which said that soldiers of the Royal Canadian Rifles played hockey on the harbour ice in 1855. The evidence has subsequently proved suspect and Kingston authorities themselves have rejected the claim, asserting that the game was not introduced there until 1886.\n\n  \nPage from Sir John Franklin's journals and corr
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Scotland...\n\nNobody knows exactly how golf started but most scholars say that the\ngame of golf was from club in German or Dutch, “Kolbe” or “Kolf” and\ngolf started from a man hitting stones with stick instinctively in\nancient days.\n  \nW.G.Simpson explained the origin that golf began by a shepherd on a\nsheep pasture in Fifeshire, which became the Royal and Ancient Golf\nClub of St. Andrews. One day a man was playing with a small stone\nhitting by a stick as usual but then the stone fell into a rabbit hole\nby chance. When he was trying to put a stone in a hole again, his\nfriends saw it and joined together.\n   \nIt also can be said that golf started among the ancient Romans. This\ngame was played with a bent stick and a leather ball filled with\nfeathers. The Roman army conquered Europe bringing the sport them and\ngolf was spread over the European countries.\n  \nThere is another suggestion that “Koven”, a Dutch game, is the origin\nof golf. The game consisted of people trying to hit a stick with a\nminimum of strokes using a ball which was the same size as a\ngrapefruit. 200 years later, golf was established in Scotland.\n  \nMoreover, another opinion is that golf came from the Flemish game of\n“Chole” played in 1353. This game was played by two players hitting\nthe same ball three times each using a stick to reach the far goal.\n  \nThese games are similar to recent golf but not exactly the same. It is\nsure that golf naturally results from such sports as these. Records\nsay that a kind of golf was played in Scotland in the 15th century,\nand it was developed by Scots.
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See what we Americans have been missing. I wonder if Curling will become more mainstream now as it is in Canada! It is a fascinating concept not only because of the skill, but because of the physics of it as well! lol.....and not to mention the men like the girls that are easy on the eyes. lol :P