from dad:

Copts are native Egyptian Christians, 95% of whom belong to the Coptic
Orthodox Church. Under related words I found the middle English word for
Egyptian (it's Gypsy) which linked me to Scots language...

Gaelic. Correctly
pronounced (by oatmeal savages "Gallic"). Gaelic, which I have been trying
to learn off and on for the last few months. It ain't easy when you're busy
as bloody old hell. It even makes homework assignments late sometimes.
Gaelic in Scotland and elsewhere is descended from Irish. There are three
basic divisions left in the world. Manx, Scots, and Irish. There used to be
about six. One of the places it's still spoken is...

Canada.

So off we go. I clicked on...

Trudeau our "love him or hate him" former Prime Minister. My feelings about Pete are a little different from most. I respect or admire him. I don't know which. He was just smarter than everybody. I chuckle to think of him debating that insipid little sorry excuse for a Prime Minister we have now, that pasty faced dweeb Steve Harper. He'd cut him up into fish bait. Trudeau started out quite socialist in his early life. He attended a meeting in Moscow which blacklisted him from entering the US for a while.

Moscow eventually connected me to Dalton Trumbo. A guy I know not enough about. One of the Hollywood 10 blacklisted movie people. Here we go on another Land of the free...etc. witch hunt. Sound familiar, boys and girls? Does it sound like what's going on now? Guantanamo Bay, Patriot Act, etc. Bill O'Reilly saying "Agree with the war or shut up". ? So anyway, after Dalton started working under his own name, a period of about twelve years, he wrote the novel and the movie Johnny Got His Gun.
Everyone must see this. It is a very intense anti war movie.

Metallica did a video using clips from the movie. At this point I was hoping I would find a link to Bob Dylan or Frank Zappa, two of my heroes, but I settled for Spinal Tap.

Hey Josh, what do you mean Spinal Tap isn't a real band? I saw a documentary
on them. That's like Lucien Bouchard saying that Canada isn't a real country. Rob Reiner narrated it. It was neat to discover that Christopher Guest, one of the band members is English aristocracy. He is Christopher Haden-Guest, the fifth baron Haden
Guest. Woohoo. He also did some great movies, Best of Show, Waiting for Guffman, and A Mighy Wind. Clever. Hilarious.
So. Ten steps and I've gone from Egypt to England.

This was fun. The worst thing I could say about this assignment was that I occasionally found myself skimming Wiki articles looking for blue letters.
Anything blue. I doubt if that is what our teacher intended. The best part
is that I re- discovered Dalton Trumbo, so I aill learn more about him now.
I think I'll go and listen to my Spinal Tap vinyl discs now.
I hope some of what I've learned will make me entertaining at a party.