Where did curling originate from?
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The game was probably invented in late medieval Scotland, with the first written reference to a contest using stones on ice coming from the records of Paisley Abbey, Renfrewshire, in February, 1541. Two paintings (both dated 1565 [1]) by Pieter Brueghel the Elder depict Dutch peasants curling (Scotland and the Low Countries had strong trading and cultural links during this period, which is also evident in the history of golf).\n\nThe word curling first appears in print in 1620 in Perth, Scotland, in the preface and the verses of a poem by Henry Adamson.
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lacrosse was invented by many indian tribes as a form to prepare for war. the earliest recorded date of lacrosse being played was when all the explorers came to the northern americas.  when the queen of england saw this sport she thought that the sticks look like whats called a La Crosse which is the long metal pole that the pope holds. thats how it got its name
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Curling is amusing in small does.
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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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There are several people and places where hockey is claimed to have originated. Some say Kingston, Ontario (ask Don Cherry), others in a place (I forget the name) in Nova Scotia. It was most likely College students looking to make use of the elements. Personally, I don't care where or how it was invented, I just care that it was!
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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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The history of ice hockey is one of the most contested in all of sports. The city of Montreal had been traditionally credited with being the birthplace of hockey, but early paintings contest this claim; 16th-century Dutch paintings show a number of townsfolk playing a hockey-like game on a frozen canal.\n\nKingston, Ontario, and Windsor, Nova Scotia, also lay claim to its origins for similar reasons. And many think that hockey began in Virginia, the evidence of this was a post on a Williamsburg Newspaper in colonial time that recorded a snow storm and recorded hockey being played in Virginia.
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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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Here's one picture I found: http://www.chiptech.com/images/curling/curling.jpg
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Bowling isn't a common enough sport? Come on....pluh-eez. \n\nIf they have a category for curling for crying out loud, they should have a category for bowling. I've always thought that was ridiculous.
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England.  I borrowed this from another answer: 'The earliest known mention of the sport is in a 1744 British publication, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, by John Newbery. It contains a wood-cut illustration of boys playing "base-ball," showing a set-up roughly similar to the modern game, and a rhymed description of the sport.'\n\nIn the United States, the rules were first codified in 1845.  It is based on two English games, rounders and cricket.  There are references to baseball in the USA going back to 1791.  Baseball as we know it was also once called the "New York" game, there being a variant more like cricket that was called the "Massachusetts" game.  Nonetheless, these developments were American in origin.\n\nChina isn't even in the running.  There wasn't even that much direct trade with China when baseball was developed, though it was growing.  India was the big market.  Whatever the Chinese were playing, it was their own game, not baseball, which was introduced later.
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I think tennis and golf are the most boring.  Maybe that's just because I've never heard of curling.  What's curling?
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The game originated in Scotland and was brought to Canada probably in the 1500's.\n\nIt is probably called curling because the rocks curl when you deliver them by putting either an in turn or out turn on the rocks handle as you release it from your hand. They are made of granite form Scotland and weigh 40 pounds.\n\nIt's all very weight and ice sensitive  as to the amount the rock will curl.\n\nGenerally speaking the softer you release(throw) the rock the more it will curl and the faster you release it the less it will curl.\n\nYou are pushing forward with your back leg from the hack and sliding on your front foot(opposite leg) which has a slider on the sole.\n\nIt's all too complicated to answer properly in a short amount of time but it is a fun game and can be played by most people at varying degrees of skill.
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From the Greeks.  Named after Mount Olympus where the gods were and hence the first Greek Olympian games were invented. Covering wrestling, running marathons, disk throwing and many other sports.
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Curling is huge in Canada.  Have you ever done it? \n\nDo you know how much a rock (curling stone) weighs? \n\nIt is a lot of work, to get that rock to go to the other end of the ice...and sweeping on the ice assists it. \n\nThere are 4 people..the Skip, Vice, Second & Lead, and they all have crucial roles to play. \n\nYou need to have the right strength, and know the ice surface, and have the right turn to make the rock go the direction you like.  You need to be quick to make sure you keep up with the rock, and as you approach the house (the circle), you need to be very careful you don't burn (touch) any of the rocks.  \n\nIt is a sport. \nTrust me, it is a lot harder than it looks.  Unless you have played...you shouldn't judge.  If they have made it look easy, it is because they are good....and deserve to be there.
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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 origins of the word curling are not known. It was first used in print in 1630 in Perth, Scotland. Also known as "the roaring game" (because of the sound the stones make while travelling over the pebble), curling probably does not take its name from the motion of the stones. In the early history of curling, the rocks were simply flat-bottomed river stones which were sometimes notched or shaped; the thrower had little control over the rock, and relied more on luck than skill to win. One possible derivation is that it came from the old verb curr which describes a low rumble. Nevertheless, today a rock which deviates from a straight line is said to curl.