Wikipedia Adventures

I decided to take Optimistic's challange. I decided to browse around Wikipedia a little bit and then I decided to see if I could take on a challange. I decided I wanted through only links to go from Machias Maine to Provo Utah, but I had to make a stop at Marvel Comics. Surprisingly I was able to to do it quite quickly. I went from Machias to the county it's in Washington County, to another city in that county of Lubec. Lubec is connected to Campobello Island, and Island of New Brunswick. This island was featured in a 1960s movie called Sunrise at Campobello which stars Hume Cronyn. Hume was also in the movie Brewster's Millions which also starred John Candy. Candy starred in a short lived animated show called Camp Candy. The animated show inspired also a brief lived comic book of the same name which was made by Marvel Comics! So I'm at Marvel Comics, I knew once I got there the rest would be easy. I went to the Hulk which is one of Marvel's staple comics. The movie of the same name was directed by Ang Lee, who also directed the movie brokeback mountain which takes place in Wyoming. Wyoming and Utah are neighbors and Provo is a city in Utah. Wooo!

So now I'm going to attempt something a little harder. I'm going to start with Provo Utah and end with the Bering Strait. However I can't use any of the links I used in the previous one, and I have to make stops in "The Big Bang", "Battletoads", the band "Ween", The Book of Nehemiah in the Bible, and The UFC and ex-WWE wrestler Ken Shamrock in that order.

So I started with Provo and went the obvious route of religion by doing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, I then clicked on the New Testament, then the Old Testament, the first book Genesis and went with the theology of Creation, knowing I had to get away from religion I found the sentence "Creation is a doctrinal position in many religions which maintains that one or a group of gods or deities is responsible for creating the universe." Luckily universe was in blue so I clicked on that. So in Universe one of the first things it talked about was the Big Bang!

Wow going from the Big Bang to the nintendo game battetoads was a little harder. First I thought maybe if I click on a random book I can get through the entertainment route. But first I clicked on Materialism cause video games are very materialistic. So I found the book called "The World as Will and Representation" which was written by Arthur Schopenhauer. As I was looking for something else to click on, something caught my attention. This line, "Many of the views articulated in Will and Representation are also closely related to those of Spinoza and Leibniz." I thought, hey, that's the same as Leibniz's Blogging name so I decided to find out who this person was. Turns out his name is Gottfried Leibniz and according to wikipedia "He invented calculus independently of Newton, and his notation is the one in general use since." So I then thought about going through computers, so I clicked on calculus. That took me to Computer Science which led me to Computer. Computer had Computer and Video Games which took me to the Nintendo Entertainment System. I read through that one for a little while and found out that the game "Bible Adventures" was created by a religious company and didn't have the permission of nintendo to make the game. However Nintendo felt they shouldn't sue because they feared a public relations backlash. I couldn't find a listing of games until I went through the game Kirby's adventure and then found the listing whihc finally took me to the game Battletoads which was the eighth game I owned as a child.

Now Battletoads to one of my favorite bands, Ween. The main enemy in Battletoads is the Dark Queen who looks a lot like cult movie star Elvira. Elvira was the host of a horror film show which showed different horror movies. So i went to the horror film genre, from there I went to the Genre of Science Fiction. Then to Science Fiction in Television, and to the show the X-Files, which had a movie based on the series, the soundtrack of said movie had the song Beacon Light by Ween!

For anyone wanting to know a little more about the band Ween, just type in Ween on the search and you'll get a really good overview of the band, much better then I can give.

Now going from Ween to the book of Nehemiah. It is said of Ween, "Their earliest home recordings were anarchic and free-spirited." The Word Anarchic brought up a listing of different forms of Anarchy. So i went with Anarchism which is a term of Philosophy. Philosophy took me to Belief then to Spirituality, Christianity, Old Testament and finally the book of Nehemiah.

Now Nehemiah to Ken Shamrock. Starting in Nehemiah this book consists of four parts including "An account of the rebuilding of the wall of Jerusalem, and of the register Nehemiah had found of those who had returned from Babylon" So I clicked on Babylon where the Hanging Gardens was one of the ancient Seven Wonders of the World. On this list it also has a list of modern wonders including the Empire State Building. This building is located in New York City where another building called Madison Square Garden is. Madison Square Garden has been the location of three Wrestlemanias which the WWE considers it's grandest night of the year. On the WWE's main page I was able to find "The Kat" a female wrestler. She was once the valet of Val Venus who had his second major fued with Ken Shamrock!

Lastly Ken Shamrock to the Bering Strait. This was an easy one. Ken Shamrock fueded with a stable in the WWE which featured female wrestler Chyna who's name obviously is a knock off of the country China. China is a part of East Asia which borders North Asia of which Russia is a part of, and Russia borders the US by the way of the Bering Strait!

This ends my adventures on wikipedia. Have fun.