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Welcome to Entry Of The Month, the Post column that celebrates the very best of writing for the Edited Guide.

First, a big thank you to everyone voting in last month's competition. It was a great turnout.

The new year on h2g2 saw the start of a very interesting h2g2 Post competition, The Stretcher. Some very brave Researchers agreed to take part in a series of writing challenges and have had their work critically appraised by a panel of judges. It's certainly had an effect on Peer Review: so far, two waves of submissions have arrived and are being put through the process. The first of these challenges was to write an entry containing the word 'shell' in the title, and the fruits of this are now starting to hit the h2g2 Front Page. The standard has been excellent and it's great to see so many different writing styles and unique interpretations of the subject. I'm sure it won't be long before one of them receives an Entry of the Month badge too.

The Winners

As is customary, we have a new winner to announce:

Entry of the Month, December 2008 is Der Hauptmann von Koepenick.

This entry, written by Malabarista and sub-edited by Matt is a wonderful tale of how a Prussian fraudster commandeered an army unit and fooled an entire town to steal money from the town hall.

Congratulations to everyone involved!

January Competition

These are a few which caught my eye this month, and which hopefully illustrate the variety of entries in this month's competition. It's not the full list, of course - there are a total of 42 entries which you can vote for, and the last item in this list links to the Front Page Archive, where you will find all the others. As always, please look through the entries and cast a vote for your favourite. Not only that, but please ask your h2g2 friends to take part, too.

Icy's Suggestions

Can I Vote?

Of course you can! Entry of The Month is all about popular opinion. So whether you're an old-hand in Peer Review or you just signed up yesterday, you are more than welcome to post your vote to the forum below.

IMPORTANT: Please post only once to the voting forum. Votes can then be quickly counted without having to double-check. Please do not try to vote anywhere else. Voting for your own Entry is politely discouraged. This system is reliant on your goodwill and honesty.

But I don't like any of your suggestions!

That's fine. My list is just a few which caught my eye. If you've seen something you prefer, please vote for that Entry instead. It would help if you could include an A-Number by way of a link.

All an Entry needs to qualify is to have been put on the Front Page for the first time in the last month. Please check the date on the Entry you are nominating. It happens that old Entries are sometimes put back on the Front Page for a 'second spell' – you can identify these on the Front Page Archive as they have a little ® beside them. The Entry Of The Month must be first published in the month in question.

The competition will be closed at a judicious point towards the end of the calendar month in which the competition is published according to the following Post deadline, when voting activity has been quiet for a period of time. Either Icy North or the Post Team will announce closure by posting to the voting thread. The votes will be tallied and any ties will be resolved by the Post Team. The Post Team's decision on any matter relating to the competition will be final.

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