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/Home/Sports/Sports/History of Sports/Curling HickokSports.com - History - Curling Votes:0 Sports History Alpha Index Index by Sport History Bits Forum Links Search Curling Table of Contents History How It's Played U. S. Curling Hall of Fame Other Resources History 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 Scot Read More Go to Site Ontario Junior Curling Tour - Powered by CurlingRocks.com Votes:0 Navigation: News About Us Events Results Championship Rules Contact Us Forum OJCT News Event News Point History eNews Latest OJCT News: 2008 OJCT Championships Sixteen of the best junior curling teams in Ontario will compete for one of many cash prizes at the OJCT Championships, January 26th at the Lindsay Curling Club. Among the competitors will be members of the reigning Ontario women’s and men’s junior champions. This event represents the culmination of ten junior spiels and provincial playdowns. Only the top eight mens and top eight womens teams will be invited. Sponsored by MMM Group Limited - Engineers, Surveyors and Planners Technical Difficulties Thank you for your patience as we sorted out ranking system issues. Please feel free to contact the OJCT Management if you ha Read More Go to Site THE GAME: HISTORY: HISTORY OF CURLING / LE JEU: HISTOIRE: HISTOIRE DU CURLING Votes:0 HISTORY* of CURLING 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 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. Read More Go to Site

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