Curling is thought to have been invented in 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.

One well-known case is Donoghue v Stevenson where Mrs. Donoghue consumed part of a drink containing a decomposed snail while in a public bar in Paisley, Scotland and claimed that it had made her ill.

Tony McManus ( born 1965 ) is a Scottish Steel-string guitarist of Irish descent born in Paisley, Scotland.

** Reverend Ian Paisley, hardline Protestant leader in Northern Ireland, is jailed for 3 months for illegal assembly.

He had served as a captain in the Scottish Guards of the Kings of France, and is buried in Paisley Abbey.

Prince is a trademark owned by Paisley Park Enterprises Inc.

He is impressed by a group named Frozen Gold when he sees them live, in the Union of Paisley College of Technology, and auditions with them.

Espedair Street is also a real street in Charleston, Paisley, where some of the significant events in the book take place.

Also, ESPN. com Page 2 columnist Bill Simmons often jokes that he is looking forward to running a future network ; SportsCenter anchors appeared as themselves in music videos by Brad Paisley ( I'm Gonna Miss Her ( The Fishin ' Song )) and Hootie and the Blowfish ( Only Wanna Be With You ); and the 1998 TV series Sports Night was based on an ESPN-style network and its titular, SportsCenter-analogue flagship sports results program.

Even earlier evidence for human occupation dating back as much as 14, 500 years ago is emerging from Paisley Caves in central Oregon.

The county is generally divided between the communities around Lakeview and Paisley to the south and the communities around Christmas Valley, Fort Rock, and Silver Lake to the north.

Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside, PC ( born 6 April 1926 ) is a politician and former church minister from Northern Ireland.

Paisley is a former member of the Orange Institution.

The town forms part of the North Antrim constituency and the elected MP is Ian Paisley Jr.

It is the fifth-biggest town ( excluding cities ) in Scotland after Paisley, East Kilbride, Livingston and Cumbernauld.

Its headquarters is located in Apopka, Florida, and its primary Scout camp is Camp La-No-Che in Paisley.

Paisley is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Lake County, Florida, United States.

Paisley is home to Boy Scout Camp La-No-Che on the north shore of Lake Norris which at times during the summer and other special events has a larger population than the CDP itself.

Paisley is also host to the Toronto Argonauts pre-season training and free agency camp.

Paisley is located at ( 28. 987370 ,-81. 536972 ).

In order of campus presence it is host to the University of the West of Scotland ( UWS ) ( formerly known as University of Paisley & Bell College ), Dumfries & Galloway College, and the University of Glasgow.

Paisley is a city in Lake County, Oregon, United States.

Paisley is also home to the Paisley Players Community Theater, a non-profit organization with a board of directors.

One story says that Charles Mitchell Innes, from Scotland, named the place for Paisley in his home country, in about 1873.

He founded Arista Nashville which became the home to Alan Jackson, Brooks & Dunn, Pam Tillis and Brad Paisley.

As the administrative centre of the county of Renfrewshire, Renfrew District and, currently, Renfrewshire council area, Paisley is home to many significant civic buildings.

As a result of its historic textile industry, Paisley is home to many examples of Victorian industrial architecture.

Paisley is home to a number of religious denominations and an important historical centre for the Christian faith in Scotland.

Historically, Paisley was notable as being the religious home of the Stewart family who descended from Walter FitzAlan, the first High Steward of Scotland and founder of Paisley Abbey, eventually becoming the Scottish and British Royal Family.

He is honoured in his home town of Paisley with a memorial and a statue.

In 2010 Paisley made his directorial debut with the play ' The Lasses, O ' at the Edinburgh Festival.

Commissioned by the Paisley International Organ Festival.

A Discovery Channel TV documentary titled, Undercover: Operation Harvest King, which documents Mark Whitacre's role in the ADM price fixing case aired several times during 2009 and 2010, where Discovery Channel interviewed the three FBI agents who handled the Mark Whitacre / ADM case ( i. e., Dean Paisley, Brian Shepard and Robert Herndon ), along with Mark and Ginger Whitacre.

The band was part of the Los Angeles Paisley Underground scene, which featured groups that played a mixture of 1960s-influenced folk-rock and jangle pop with a more modern punk – ish / garage band undertone.

Two of the band's tracks were included in the recent Rhino Nuggets Box set Children of Nuggets which compiles and documents the Paisley Underground and garage rock of the 1980s.

In 1951, a congregation of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland was forbidden by denominational authorities to hold a meeting in their own church hall at which Paisley was to be the speaker.

Paisley promotes a form of Biblical literalism and Anti-Catholicism, which he describes as " Bible Protestantism ".

Paisley, along with Noel Docherty established the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee, which in turn established the paramilitary organisation Ulster Protestant Volunteers on 17 April 1966 at a parade in the Shankill area of Belfast < ref name = Boulton > Boulton, David .< u > The UVF 1966-73, An Anatomy of Loyalist Rebellion </ u > Dublin: Torc Books, 1973.

Paisley and his party opposed the Agreement in the referendum that followed its signing, which saw it approved by over 70 % of the voters in Northern Ireland and by over 90 % of voters in the Republic of Ireland.

The DUP fought the resulting election to the Northern Ireland Assembly, to which Paisley was elected, while keeping his seats in the Westminster and European parliaments.

On Monday 26 March 2007, the date of the British Government deadline for devolution or dissolution, Paisley led a DUP delegation to a meeting with a Sinn Féin delegation led by Gerry Adams, which agreed on a DUP proposal that the executive would be established on 8 May.

In November 2011, Ian Paisley announced his retirement from the pastorate at his congregation, which he had led for over 60 years.

The papers show that Paisley had indicated he could " reach an accommodation with leaders of the Catholic minority, which would provide the basis of a new government in Stormont.

Steele was the first postmaster of the Paisley post office, which was established in 1879.

The Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan Canal was a canal in the west of Scotland, running between Glasgow, Paisley and Johnstone which later became a railway.

The Company of the proprietors of the Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan canal was incorporated by an Act of Parliament which received Royal assent from George III on the 20 June 1806.

The original members of the Dwarves began making music together in the mid-1980s as teenagers in the Chicago garage rock outfit, Suburban Nightmare, which was compared to The Sonics, and which has been described as part of the Paisley Underground scene.

Paisley was not the only design produced by French textile printers ; the demand for paisley which created the industry there also made possible production of native patterns such as toile de Jouy.

By 1860, Paisley could produce shawls with fifteen colors, which was still only a quarter of the colors in the multi-color paisleys then still being imported from Kashmir.

Dolores Kelly, the Social Democratic and Labour Party equality spokesman called on the Northern Ireland Assembly to censure Mr Paisley, saying " Ian Paisley is a junior minister in the Office of the First and Deputy First Minister, the department which is charged with promoting equality and bringing forward the Single Equality Bill.

Govan has had several local newspapers over the years such as the Govan Chronicle and Govan Press published by the Cossar Family ( 1851-1983 & 2006 – present ) which also serves the communities of Cardonald, Penilee and Hillington and the Govan Post ( 1983 – 1988 ) published by Cook, Paton & Co. of Paisley, now part of Dunfermline Press.