Wikipedia Trail: From Osiris to Bone Tools

For my Wikipedia trail, I started out with Osiris, the Egyptian god of the afterlife.  I wanted to start out with this topic because it was a character that I came across in someone's story and it really caught my interest as something that I wanted to look into further.  In this article I found that he was not only known as the god of the afterlife but he was also seen as a merciful judge that granted life by providing vegetation and the flooding of the Nile River.  I decided to click on Nile River as my next link.

In the article about the Nile River, it mostly talked about where it flows and its tributaries, however id did mention that it has been the lifeline of the Egyptian people since the Stone Age.  Curious as to what the Stone Age might have been like for the Egyptians, that was my next link. 

To my surprise, the Stone Age article gave a very wide definition of what it was.   This article simply described it as a prehistoric period where stone was used to implements with an edge. The period lasted about 3.4 million years.  The Stone Age was then followed by the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age.  During the Stone Age the article mentioned that "bone tools" were used and I was curious to what that meant so I clicked to find out.

Well, turns out a bone tool is simply just a tool that is made from bone.  Kind of unexciting.  However, some of the oldest bone tools that have been found are 1.5 million years old and come from African descent. 

Osiris- god of the afterlife.  Web Source. 

Wikipedia Trail: Mermaids to Mel Gibson

I chose the topic of Mermaid's for my Wikipedia trail because it was a storybook topic that I came across that interested me, but I didn't ever look into it so I wanted to for this assignment. 

I started off at a basic "Mermaid" Wikipedia page that had a ton of links from there leading to mermaids in music, books, movies, history and so on.  The next link I clicked on was "Mermaids Cave". Mermaids Cave is an undercut sandstone cave located in Australia.  The link didn't say much more about it except that it was used in a scene from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, so I followed that link to learn more about it.

It turns out Mad Max Beyond Thunderstorm (also referred to as Mad Max 3) is an Australian action film made by Warner Brothers in 1985.  A sequel to Mad Max 2, Max is played by Mel Gibson and is exiled to the desert were he encounters an isolated cargo cult.  I should probably know more about Mel Gibson considering his name is a big one in Hollywood, but I don't so I decided to click on his name to learn more about what other acting roles he has played. 

Born on January 3rd, 1956 Mel Gibson is an American actor most known for his role as Mad Max.  Fun Fact: our birthdays are 6 days apart! His net worth is $425 million and he has 9 children.  He also starred in Braveheart, where he won a Golden Globe.  He not only acts in  movies, he also produces them. Some of his successful movies include Hacksaw Ridge, and The Passion of the Christ.

Young Mel. Web Source.