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Literature 1992. Written by Douglas Adams.
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1The AlphaNightlifeNightclubs

The Alpha
Stavro's original club in New York, now run by his brother Karl, who thought of himself as a German with a Greek mother.

2The Assumption of St. AntwelmEventsFairs and Festivals

The Assumption of St. Antwelm
An annual feast celebrated by the local people in Saquo-Pilia Hensha, featuring a game called Hunt the Wocket.

3The Autumn PassageEventsFairs and Festivals

The Autumn Passage
Festival on the planet Lamuella. "The very best of the meat would be roasted straight away for the feast that marked the Autumn Passage. The celebrations would last for three days of sheer exuberance, dancing and stories that Old Thrashbarg would tell of how the hunt had gone, stories that he would have been busy sitting making up in his hut while the rest of the village was out doing the actual hunting."

4Blamwellamum of WoontEntertainmentTheater Productions

Blamwellamum of Woont
Opera performed by the Hallapolis State Opera. "Spaceships and jetcars and helipods crashed and exploded continuously around her, illuminating the night, villainous people in strange hats smuggled dangerous drugs through her, and the combined orchestra and chorus of the Hallapolis State Opera performed the closing March of the AnjaQantine Star Guard from Act IV of Rizgar's Blamwellamum of Woont in a little glade somewhere off to her left."

5Breathe-o-SmartGoodsHardware

Breathe-o-Smart
Ventilation system. "One of the smartest features of the Breathe-o-Smart is that it cannot possibly go wrong. So. No worries on that score. Enjoy your breathing now, and have a nice day."

6Breathe-o-Smart Inc.Industrial CompaniesManufacturing

Breathe-o-Smart Inc.
Makers of the Breathe-o-Smart ventilation system.

7Dine-O-ChargeFinancial CompaniesCredit Cards

Dine-O-Charge
Ford's credit card.

8Divinity and Water PoloResearch InstitutesInstitutes

Divinity and Water Polo
Religious institute. When the Infinite Improbability Drive arrived and whole planets started turning unexpectedly into banana fruitcake, the great history faculty of the University of MaxiMegalon finally gave up, closed itself down and surrendered its buildings to the rapidly growing joint faculty of Divinity and Water Polo, which had been after them for years.

9The Domain of the King Bar & GrillDiningRestaurants

The Domain of the King Bar & Grill
A truckstop diner. Somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Quiet.

10Envir-O-Form MachineryGoodsMiscellaneous Products

Envir-O-Form Machinery
Machinery apparently used to make an uninhabitable planet habitable. Used by the Grebulons.

11Fanallan RumBeverage ProductsAlcohol

Fanallan Rum
Liquor mentioned when Ford reminisces about the good old days.

12Hallapolis State OperaMusicOrchestras

Hallapolis State Opera
Opera company. "Spaceships and jetcars and helipods crashed and exploded continuously around her, illuminating the night, villainous people in strange hats smuggled dangerous drugs through her, and the combined orchestra and chorus of the Hallapolis State Opera performed the closing March of the AnjaQantine Star Guard from Act IV of Rizgar's Blamwellamum of Woont in a little glade somewhere off to her left."

13The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Gui...LiteratureBooks

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Guide Mark II
The second, more powerful version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy created by Infinidim Enterprises for the Vogons to finish their job of destroying the Earth once and for all.

14The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyLiteratureBooks

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


15Hrundi RunaboutVehiclesSpacecrafts

Hrundi Runabout
Spacecraft. "The third spacecraft, half an hour after that, the little four berth Hrundi runabout, only made it on to the local news."

16Hunt the WocketSportsSports

Hunt the Wocket
Game played at the the annual feast of the Assumption of St. Antwelm, in Saquo-Pilia Hensha.

17Ident-i-EezeTechnology ProductsElectronics

Ident-i-Eeze
All-purpose machine-readable card that you can then carry around in your wallet that's encoded with every single piece of information about you, your body and your life.

18InfiniDim EnterprisesCorporationsCompanies

InfiniDim Enterprises
Publishing company that buys out Megadodo Publications, becoming the new owner of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

19Infinite Improbability DriveTechnology ProductsPower Supplies

Infinite Improbability Drive
Starship engine. When the Infinite Improbability Drive arrived and whole planets started turning unexpectedly into banana fruitcake, the great history faculty of the University of MaxiMegalon finally gave up, closed itself down and surrendered its buildings to the rapidly growing joint faculty of Divinity and Water Polo, which had been after them for years.

20Life-Support-O-SystemsTechnology ProductsElectronics

Life-Support-O-Systems
Systems used to support life on unihabitable planets. Used by the Grebulons.

21March of the AnjaQantine Star GuardMusicSongs

March of the AnjaQantine Star Guard
Opera song, from the opera called Blamwellamum of Woont. "Spaceships and jetcars and helipods crashed and exploded continuously around her, illuminating the night, villainous people in strange hats smuggled dangerous drugs through her, and the combined orchestra and chorus of the Hallapolis State Opera performed the closing March of the AnjaQantine Star Guard from Act IV of Rizgar's Blamwellamum of Woont in a little glade somewhere off to her left."

22Maximegalon Institute of Slowly and Pain...Research InstitutesInstitutes

Maximegalon Institute of Slowly and Painfully Working Out the Surprisingly Obvious
The site of the famous Herring Sandwich experiments, where a robot was tricked into an infinite loop whereby it attempted eternally to eat a herring sandwich by picking it up, dropping it, picking it up again, et cetera.

23Megadodo PublicationsMedia CompaniesPublishing Companies

Megadodo Publications
Publisher of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Once one of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor, eventually bought out by Infinidim Enterprises.

24NBSCinemaTV Stations

NBS
TV station that needed a new anchor on account of Mo Minetti leaving the US/AM breakfast show to have a baby.

25Ol' Janx SpiritBeverage ProductsAlcohol

Ol' Janx Spirit
Liquor mentioned when Ford reminisces about the good old days.

26Perfectly Normal Beast RollsMenuMenu Items

Perfectly Normal Beast Rolls
Menu item at the Domain of the King Bar & Grill.

27Practical Parenting in a Fractally Demen...LiteratureBooks

Practical Parenting in a Fractally Demented Universe
Book on parenting.

28Resettlement Advice CentreServicesMiscellaneous Services

Resettlement Advice Centre
Centre on Pintleton Alpha where Arthur goes seeking advice on a place to get a life where the people look vaguely like him.

29RW6VehiclesSpacecrafts

RW6
Spacecraft that lands on the planet Lamuella. "An RW6 was the sort of thing you only saw in the sort of magazines that were designed to provoke civil unrest."

30Stavro'sNightlifeNightclubs

Stavro's
The currently fashionable spot for high-flying media people.

31Temporal Reverse EngineeringTransportationTime Travel

Temporal Reverse Engineering
It's a lethal little thing. Looks pretty, talks big, collapses waveforms selectively at will.

32UltragolfSportsSports

Ultragolf
Club membership card in Harl's wallet.

33The University of MaxiMegalonEducationUniversities

The University of MaxiMegalon
Starship engine. When the Infinite Improbability Drive arrived and whole planets started turning unexpectedly into banana fruitcake, the great history faculty of the University of MaxiMegalon finally gave up, closed itself down and surrendered its buildings to the rapidly growing joint faculty of Divinity and Water Polo, which had been after them for years.

34US-AMTelevisionTV Shows

US-AM
TV breakfast show which Tricia McMillan is in New York to try out for.

35You and Your PlanetsLiteratureBooks

You and Your Planets
New book by Gail Andrews.



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