Wikipedia Trails: From Storms to Ghost Sickness

So I am sitting here trying to figure out what to start with and there is a storm happening so I googled storm and that is how I began. From there I saw a particular kind of storm called a dustdevil. This is sort of like a tornado but much much weaker. From dustdevil I saw how it became named and that led me to the chindi which is a Navajo word. From there I was reading and I saw that the Navajo believed that anyone that came in contact with a chindi had ghost sickness. This sickness has weakness, loss of appetite, dizziness, nightmares, and terror attacks. It was interesting to see how just thinking of a simple storm has led me to see Navajo traditions and beliefs that a ghost interacted with a human causing a sickness to occur.

(Storm)

Bibliography:

Storm; link to reading

Dustdevil; link to reading

Chindi; link to reading

Ghost sickness; link to reading

Wikipedia Trails: From Pumpkins to "The Battle of Magh Tuireadh"

I started with pumpkins because why not. It is fall time and I really want to carve a pumpkin. From there I went to jack-o-lanterns because that is what we call pumpkins after we carve them here in the US. From jack-o-lanterns I went to Samhain, which is a festival of harvest which was also called Halloween. And lastly from Samhain I went to "The Battle of Magh Tuireadh." It ended with this because Samhain is an Irish festival so when I went to that page it began talking about Irish mythology and about this book and the myth of this specific battle in ancient times. 

(Pumpkins)

Bibliography:

Pumpkins; link to reading
Jack-o-lanters; link to reading
Samhain; link to reading
"The Battle of Magh Tuireadh"; link to reading 

Wikipedia Trails: From Kermit the Frog To

So something that caught my eye in the Twitter stream was a funny meme of Kermit the Frog. So I decided to look up Kermit the Frog. I love all of the Kermit memes so I thought it would be cool to look up Kermit.

(Kermit the Frog)

And from there I saw that Kermit sang a song in a style similar to Johnny Cash so I went to Johnny Cash. This sparked my interest because I couldn't imagine Kermit singing a song by Johnny Cash. I also wondered how they interconnected at all. From there it led me to finding the Soviet Army.

I thought this was cool because he served as a morse code operator. So I thought I would read about the old nation and find out what happened during this time period for their country. From this I was led to Strategic Missile Troops.

I was pretty interested in this because it sounds pretty cool to be honest. I think it is so interesting though how I began with Kermit the Frog and ended with this topic.

(SRF emblem)