Bowls on Ice?
In Scotland...
...in 1541!
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...the granite stone 'roars' as it travels over the ice!
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The exact origins of Curling are unclear. But there is little doubt that when the notary John McQuhin recorded a challenge about throwing stones across the ice between a monk at Paisley Abbey in Renfrewshire and a relative of the Abbott in February 1541, the written history of curling had begun. Curling was established in Canada in 1807, United States in 1830, and soon spread across Europe, to Brazil, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, China, and Korea.
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Curling stones are not made from just any rock, it is forty-two pounds of polished granite mined on the Ailsa Craig, a tiny volcanic island between Glasgow and Belfast, with mythical status in the world of curling.
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...Curl power - brooms in hand as players sweep away the opposition!
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