Posted: 30^th July 2012

Who? Where? What? How? Why?

No, that's not the new London Olympic venue. It's the stadium built for the 1908 London Olympics. While you're watching the festivities and contests, whether electronically or (lucky you!) right there, you can log onto h2g2 for background information, historical titbits¹, and fun discussion of ongoing events.

That you can do this is thanks to your fellow Researchers and the Guide. We may take the Guide for granted at times, but with over 10,000 Entries and growing, it's your home-away-from-home for the most interesting information about Life, the Universe, and Everything. Create's Challenge Extra is designed to show you how YOU, too, can help expand the Guide. To that end, we're challenging you with a new Post Quiz to test your Guide knowledge, and offering a few writing tips as we go along.

Our contributors may not win medals, but they deserve them. (We're just cheap.) In this issue, Post Reporters boldly go out and get the stories, then come back and share. Vicariously attend the Dublin Meet, stand in the wilds of South Africa, and revisit Calum's Road. Witness the thrill of kayaking victory – and the agony (or ecstasy) of sneezing. Find out what's inside St Mungo's and what's outside our atmosphere.

In short, be entertained. Learn, enjoy, write comments. Then get inspired, go out and find, and Send More Stuff. Till next week!

Dmitri Gheorgheni

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  24 Lies a Second


Awix tunes up the Batmobile.

• Big Churches in Little Europe


PT visits St Mungo's.

• Colours of Wildlife


Willem asks about a frog.

• The Post Quiz: Guide Facts


We ask, 'What do you know?'

CREATIVITY

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  The h2g2 Poem:
  A Birthday Poem


Shagbark turns 65, creatively.

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  Oddity of the Week


Creative ads from 1903².

• Do You Enjoy a Good Sneeze?


Rosie waxes creative. (Atchoo.)

• Writing Right with Dmitri


We all sharpen our Guide skills.

ATHLETICISM

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  Gheorgheniplex


Surf's up in the Needle Galaxy.

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  Kayaking


Deke experiences success.

• Murder on the Dance Floor


Beatrice has all the moves.

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  h2g2 Water Games 2012


Bluebottle has an invitation.

• Babe Among the Stars
  


Galaxy Babe has space bonuses.

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  Dublin Meet Report


Trillian's Child has bonus h2g2ers.

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