Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called " rocks ", across the ice curling sheet towards the house, a circular target marked on the ice.

The family moved into a house on Varadi Avenue in Brantford seven months after Wayne was born, chosen partly because it was flat enough to make an ice rink on every winter.

The Man Who Came To Dinner is about the caustic Sheridan Whiteside who, after injuring himself slipping on ice, must stay in a Midwestern family's house.

By 1881 there were fancy restaurants, a bowling alley, four churches, an ice house, a school, an opera house, two banks, three newspapers, and an ice cream parlor, alongside 110 saloons, 14 gambling halls, and numerous brothels all situated among a number of dirty, hardscrabble mines.

After a failed attempt to obtain planning permission for a new building incorporating the old ice house in the park, a 250-seat restaurant was created in the carriage house.

Aleister Crowley, spent his teenage years during the 1880s in Streatham at a house opposite the present ice rink.

Far distant from any other metropolitan city, by mid-1881 Tombstone boasted a bowling alley, four churches, an ice house, a school, two banks, three newspapers, and an ice cream parlor, alongside 110 saloons, 14 gambling halls, and numerous dancing halls and brothels.

By mid-1881 there were fancy restaurants, Vogan's Bowling Alley, four churches — Catholic, Episcopalian, Presbyterian, and Methodist — an ice house, a school, the Schieffelin Hall opera house, two banks, three newspapers, and an ice cream parlor, alongside 110 saloons, 14 gambling halls, and numerous brothels all situated among and on top of a number of dirty, hardscrabble mines.

Ottie Cate ran a poultry and ice house, and Bill Shaver had the Standard Oil service station.

A total of 143 houses were built in 1906, with 58 more built the following year ; other building constructed during that period include boarding houses, an ice house, a Catholic church, hotel, school, and general store.

It comprises thirteen parks scattered throughout the village, for a total of of parkland, a historic house available for functions with payment of fees, the Oak Park Conservatory, two outdoor pools, a gymnastics center, and an ice rink.

The Lindenhurst Civic Center, founded as an outlet for teen fun, built its own facility in 1961 using the remains of the original Lindenhurst Farm ice house to anchor its building.

They included a hotel, opera house, cheese factory, several mills, furniture company, blacksmith shop and livery stable, dry goods store, ice business, hardware store and a newspaper-Mackinaw Enterprise Gazette.

Fulton had the only ice house on the route north to Chicago.

Empty railcars were pulled up to the side of the ice house and these large blocks of ice were loaded end up covering the entire box car.

There was the suggestion of ice water, and -- in spite of the protest `` We're not really thirsty '' -- Linda Kay, to escape the stuffy air and the smothering soft voices, hurried to the kitchen.

During the latter procedure the temperature was maintained at 2-degrees-C by surrounding the apparatus with ice.

An extended cold spell caused ice to build up on the aerator which was mounted on a floating platform and caused the entire platform to sink lower in the water.

To starboard was a cape a thousand feet high, patched with ice and snow, populated by thousands of screaming sea birds.

Hundreds of miles to the north, the route back to England through the `` Furious Overfall '' was again filling with ice.

After heavy rains and an onslaught of mice, snow fell on October 15, 1825, and remained on the ground through a winter so cold that the ice on the Red was five feet thick.

Frostbite was treated by putting the feet and hands in ice water or by rubbing them with snow.

He came through from the Fleet Bar, which was stag, with the ice cubes tinkling in a glass he carried.

The treaty was a diplomatic expression of the operational and scientific cooperation that had been achieved " on the ice ".

On the scale he used, the boiling-point of water was marked at + 73 and the melting-point of ice at 51, so that the zero of his scale was equivalent to about − 240 on the Celsius scale.

The outer shell of the calorimeter was packed with snow, which melted to maintain a constant temperature of around an inner shell filled with ice.

Celsius conducted many geographical measurements for the Swedish General map, and was one of earliest to note that much of Scandinavia is slowly rising above sea level, a continuous process which has been occurring since the melting of the ice from the latest ice age.

Then it was covered with logs and poles and then sealed by drit / mud / soil and ice and moss.

During the winter of 2010 / 11, which was quite severe compared to those of the last decades, the maximum ice cover was 315 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup >, which was reached on 25 February 2011.

The ice then extended from the north down to the northern tip of Gotland, with small ice free areas on its either side, and the east coast of the Baltic Sea was covered by an ice sheet ca.

However, floating ice was additionally observed near Świnoujście harbour in January 2010.

In 2007 there was almost no ice formation except for a short period in March.

The Berlin – Warsaw Urstromtal ( ice age glacial valley ), between the low Barnim Plateau to the north and the Teltow Plateau to the south, was formed by meltwater flowing from ice sheets at the end of the last Weichselian glaciation.

During a complex creation myth in which the cosmic cow licked Buri free from the ice, the sons of Buri's son, Bor, who were Odin, Vili and Vé, constructed the universe and put Midgard in it as a residence for the first human couple, Ask and Embla, whom they created from driftwood trees in Section 9.

The nearby Thompson Arena, designed by Italian engineer Pier Luigi Nervi and constructed in 1975, houses Dartmouth's ice rink.

Emperor Rudolf II of the Holy Roman Empire enjoyed ice skating so much he had a large ice carnival constructed in his court in order to popularise the sport.

The question having attracted the attention of Agassiz, he not only discussed it with Charpentier and Schimper and made successive journeys to the alpine regions in company with them, but he had a hut constructed upon one of the Aar Glaciers, which for a time he made his home, in order to investigate the structure and movements of the ice.

Anna dressed them as clowns, and had them spend their wedding night naked in a specially constructed ice palace during the exceptionally harsh winter of 1739 – 40.

A new ice hockey arena was constructed for Tuto in Kupittaa Park in 2006.

The ice road is constructed each winter from Aniak to Bethel by drilling and marking holes in the ice every 100 yards and subsequently marking and plowing a route on the river where the ice depth is sufficient.

In 1831, a dam was constructed on the Mohawk River above the city's waterfall by the new Cohoes Company, it was soon swept away by ice and a new one was built the following year.

Another ongoing controversy involves a proposed twin ice rink facility to be constructed on a vacant Riley Street lot in the Village downtown area.

* Sea Ice Runway ( ICAO: NZIR ), an annual runway constructed on the sea ice nearest McMurdo Station

Landing pads may also be constructed in extreme conditions such as on ice.

At its opening the road was the largest continuous concrete structure in Britain and was constructed with many advanced features such as heating grids on slopes to control the formation of ice.

He built ice plants and roads in Arkansas and constructed water tanks and railroad stations for the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad.

It was, however, constructed using plain ice ( from the lake ), before pykrete was considered.

Nests are well formed and may be constructed of seaweed, grasses, leaves and ice plants.

A large boathouse was constructed in 1926, allowing visitors to rent a boat, canoe, swimsuit, or buy ice cream and pop as well as many other items necessary to a summer day at the lake.

At Lake Louise, Alberta, large ice blocks were constructed, and a small prototype was constructed at Patricia Lake, Alberta, measuring only 60 by 30 feet ( 18 by 9 m ), weighing in at 1, 000 tons and kept frozen by a one-horsepower motor.

Their fourth flying machine, the Silver Dart, constructed in 1908, made the first controlled powered flight in Canada on 23 February 1909 when it was flown off the ice of Bras d ' Or Lake near Baddeck by McCurdy, who had been one of its designers.

This road was constructed by ice road pioneer John Denison.

Early in its history, ice hockey was played mostly on rinks constructed for curling.