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Wikipedia Trail: from Krishna to Nuclear Weapons

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Krishna He is the eight avatar of the god Vishnu. He represents love, compassion, and tenderness, all things the world needs more of. Nepal I went to Nepal next because I want to one day visit it. It has the most number of public holidays so I will plan my trip to make sure to indulge myself in their culture as much as I can. They serve a lot of soup. I have experienced this a lot in other countries for some reason. Football, soccer, is the most popular sport, as it usually is in any place around the world. World Wars Next I looked into the world wars. Due to current events, although I think the media has exaggerated the problems between nations, this topic interests me. Through each world war, countries were forced to create newer and more powerful weapons, leading to the A-Bomb. I can not imagine what another world war would cause the great nations of the world to create. Nuclear Weapons I went to the Nuclear Weapon page next as they are intriguing. Although incredibly destruc...

Wikipedia Trails

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Surya I started at the wikipedia page for the son god in Surya, which I came across in someone's story. The fight between the sun and the moon is cool. Sun From there I went to the page about the sun as I find the sun to be incredibly interesting in every aspect. I mainly focused my reading here on the religious aspects portion as that is most relevent to this class. It is interesting to see the different takes on the sun in each culture, but in each on the god of the sun is incredibly powerful. Also that sunday is the day of the sun god in christian studies, which makes sense why church is held on sundays. Aztec  Next I went to the Aztec culture, as anything that has to do with ancient cultures fascinates me. The aztecs had equality between women and men, which is incredibly interesting to see in an ancient civilazation. Obsidian The last page I went too, I decided to have some fun and clicked on obsidian, which was a little underwhelming to be honest. I was hoping for more...