This is why I love Wikipedia so damned much. It gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling to know that whenever I want to learn about something completely irrelevant to the world at large, there's a compendium of knowledge to almost anything you can think of.
PS. I suppose I should have made a "hey, I'm not dead" post. Basically, I've been without the internet in Belleville, as I missed a bill payment ages ago and my account was suspended. But it's all good again.