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Reading the h2g2 Guide is a fantastic experience: nowhere else on the Internet will you find such a huge array of subjects covered in such a variety of ways. The Guide is growing bigger and better every day, and every working day we add entries to the Edited Guide¹, so you'll always find something to entertain, educate and inform.

Here are just a few ways in which you can explore the h2g2 Guide:

• Latest New Entries - The Front Page lists today's new Edited Entries.

• Searching the Guide - To perform a simple search, just type your search word(s) in the box at the top of any page, and click the 'Search' button - it's that simple! For more specific searches, you can use the Advanced Search.

• Browsing the Guide - To make life easy, we've divided the Edited Guide up into three sections that you can browse through: Life, The Universe and Everything. You can get to these categories from the top of every page, and they're a great way to explore the contents of the Edited Guide.

A Quick Introduction to the h2g2 Guide

There's a whole page dedicated to the art of Reading the Guide, but to save you clicking, here's a quick taster of some of the gems you can find in the Guide.

Instructive, Informative and Factual Entries

• Handy Mandarin Chinese Phrases
• How Soap Works
• Classical Guitars
• Spoons

Entries with a Personal Writing Style

• Tango to San Telmo
• The Agony of Being a Chicago Cubs Fan
• The Hanger Lane Gyratory System
• Alaskan Fish Plants

Entries Containing Canny Observation and Personal Perspective

• Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus
• McMurdo Station, Antarctica
• Sadako and the Peace Crane
• The Storage of Eggs

Really Thorough Entries

• Billy the Kid
• The Simpsons
• Railways on the Isle of Wight, UK
• Galway City, County Galway, Ireland

Well-balanced Entries

• Cigarettes
• Mormonism - A Question and Answer Session
• Evil from a Western Perspective
• Condoms

Well-structured Entries

• Insanity and the Law
• Garfagnana, Tuscany, Italy
• Jai-Alai - the World's Fastest Sport
• Is The Necktie Dying?

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