Six degrees of Wikipedia -- come and play

Here's a fun news site from Stephen Dolan at Trinity College Dublin: He's found a way to show the smallest number of Kevin Bacon steps separate any article on Wikipedia from any other. So for instance, if you want to find the shortest path between, say, the  Sweetgum tree and ball bearings, just enter them on the page and check out the results (you usually have to submit a couple of times before it works):

Sweetgum --> Glacier --> Friction --> Ball bearing ... 4 steps!

Dolan also used the algorithm to determine that the article from which any other article (on average) is the fewest number of steps away is "2007", with an average click distance of 3.45.  It's a little unfair to choose 2007 as the center of Wikipedia, though, because it's just a long list of things that happened that year, so it has a million links in it. Just so, Dolan found that the non-list article that's the closest to most other articles is "United Kingdom."

Let's test it out, shall we?  The idea is to pick a topic or person that has the least possible to do with the UK. It's tough.  My top-of-the-head attempt is the Planck Epoch.  Let's plug it in and watch...

United Kingdom --> December 7 --> Max Planck --> Planck epoch

Let's try one more: Different Strokes. 

United Kingdom --> Kosovo War --> Peacekeeper --> Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 TV series)
--> Different Strokes ... 5 steps! And imagine, I might've had 6 if the "Peacekeepers" weren't a fictional law enforcement group in TMNT. 

Not bad, well at least we beat the average.  Can anyone find something that's 6 degrees from UK? 7? 8?

(image by Laurens van Lieshout)