Wednesday, April 28, 2010

To be carried by the love of useless knowledge

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It all started with this post on Stage1st about tattooing, then boredom led me to the Wikipedia entry of such:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tattoo

And Blutgruppentätowierung was mentioned in the "See also" section

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_blood_group_tattoo

Not very interesting on its own. Nonetheless somewhere in the article they mentioned British Free Corps, which turned out had never been more than a handful of nutty Poms.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Free_Corps

That entry was particularly meticulous and confusing, however one Frankish name really stands out of all the Teutonic hullabahoo:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Pierrepoint

Fascinating figure, must be taken together with the story-within-a-story part of The Sandman #55.
The content even branches out to include some interesting criminal stories, which I am still reading through ATM. A few of them more or less relate back to the previous entry of people committed of treachery (How do you pronounce that word again?)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Joyce

A.K.A. Lord Haw-Haw, we all know about him, but of his boss....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Mosley

...who married someone of a prominent family.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitford_sisters

...one of which owns this piece of outstanding estate!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatsworth_House

This is how far I have covered tonight, wait and behold, it may even go on and cover every page there is in Wikipedia.