(Wiki-wanders consist of me getting lost in Wikipedia for unreasonable amounts of time and then coming back to tell the tale.)
This wander started with an upsetting story about sentencing in the assault of a Sikh man in Chicago.
Google turned up little more, but did find a Sikh advocacy account on Twitter. One of their tweets showed a picture of the Canadian Defence Minister (a Sikh) meeting President Obama as part of the Trudeau delegation. One tweet noted that Sikhs can't serve in the US military and... wait, what? So off I went to wikipedia to read about Sikhs in the United States military.
Pretty soon I was reading about Bhagat Singh Thind and his struggle to attain US citizenship. Kind of surprising how openly racist US immigration law was so far into the 20th century. I was pleased to see a judge in Oregon try to do the right thing, even if he was ultimately overruled by the Ninth Circuit and the Supreme Court. That Wikipedia page about Thind had an odd facet that caught my eye. It referred to the Singh part of his name as though it were a title or ethnic marker: "a Singh". This was new to me, so off I went to read about that.
Singh, aside from being a common Indian name, has a long history and is derived from a Sanskrit word meaning "lion".
According to that Wikipedia article on Singh, Singapore is not coincidentally known as the Lion City. Malay is influenced by Sanskrit and so 'singa' = lion and 'pura' = city. Neat!