Curling
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Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice towards a target area that is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, ea
Curling games taking place during the 2005 Tim Hortons Brier
Detail from a reproduction of Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap (Bruegel, 1565)
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, c. 1897
Ailsa Craig
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Ailsa Craig is an island of 99 ha in the outer Firth of Clyde, 16 km west of mainland Scotland. The island's microgranite has long been quarried to make curling stones. The now-uninhabited island comp
Curling
…Canada sometime after 1870, and was subsequently adopted by Scottish stone manufacturer Andrew Kay. The granite for the stones comes from two sources: Ailsa Craig, an island located in the Firth of Clyde off the Ayrshire coast of Scotland, and the Trefor Granite Quarry, north of the Llŷn Peninsula, Gwynedd in…
Ailsa Craig from the southeast
Ailsa Craig as drawn in the 1840s
Ailsa Craig in the background with Dunure in 1840
The tramway between the North Port and the lighthouse