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Britannica
http://www.britannica.com/
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Britannica.com includes the complete,
updated Encyclopedia Britannica, along with selected articles
from more than 70 top magazines and a guide to the Web's best
sites. |
Encyberpedia
http://www.encyberpedia.com/glossary.htm
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Complete listing of all the major dictionaries
and glossaries on the Internet. Includes everything from sign
language, telecommunications, computers, weather, tides, water
quality and a lot more." |
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Based on The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Third
Edition and information from the Electronic Library, this site
is a useful place for short entries with many cross references. |
Information Please Almanacs
http://www.infoplease.com |
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If you can tolerate the ads, this is an excellent source of
information; an online version of the popular almanac
which you can browse by category or search for specific information.
It also includes the Random House Webster's College Dictionary
and the Columbia Encyclopedia, quick facts and figures, quizzes,
current fads, links to the news, weather. |
Old Farmers Almanac
http://www.almanac.com/index.php |
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Tips on the weather, gardening, food, and more. |
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| Biographical Reference |
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Biography
http://www.biography.com/ |
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From A&E, this site provides a searchable
and browsesable online collection of 15,000 biographies from
the Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia. |
Biographical Dictionary
http://www.s9.com/biography/ |
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More than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped
our world from ancient times to the present day are described.
The dictionary can be searched by birth years, death years,
positions held, professions, literary and artistic works,
achievements, and other keywords.
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Lives, the Biography Resource
http://members.home.net/klanxner/lives/
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A vast collection of links to thousands of biographies,
autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, letters, narratives, oral
histories and more. Special collections focus on contributions
of African Americans, women, Holocaust survivors and rescuers,
the Civil War and Canadians. |
Find a Grave
http://www.findagrave.com/ |
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Locate the site where famous people are buried with photos and
maps of the region. Search by name, location, claim to
fame. |
The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/nobel.html
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The Nobel Prize Internet Archive is fully interactive.
Gives the Nobel Prize winners from the beginning of the award. |
Biographies
http://scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/sample34.html
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A select list of individuals as well as links to other biography
pages. |
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| Calculation
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Time Zone Converter
http://www.timezoneconverter.com/ |
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Find out the time anywhere in the world! Links to other
travel related conversion sites. |
Universal Currency Converter
http://www.xe.net/ucc/ |
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Perform interactive foreign exchange rate conversion.
Rates are updated once per minute, in English, French and Swedish. |
USA Today Money Calculators
http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/calculators/calculator.htm |
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Calculate consumer loan (monthly payment with different interest
rates and repayment periods), tuition (how much you should be
saving today to cover tomorrow's tuition), new car (costs of
leasing vs. buying a new car), mortgage interest rates and repayment
periods, and retirement benefits. |
The Calendar Zone (CalZone)
http://www.calendarzone.com/ |
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"Comprehensive categorized calendar
catalog currently containing countless correlating connections
& calzone recipes!" |
Multi-Cultural Calendar
http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/MCC/ |
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KIDLINK students and KIDLEADERs have made this calendar possible.
Included in the country's holidays and festivals are recipes
for holiday foods, historical background, significance of the
holidays and the special ways in which these days are observed.
Indexed by month, holiday and country. |
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| Statistical
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County and City Data Books
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/ccdb/ |
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This is the electronic versions of the 1988 and 1994 County
and City Databooks which provides the opportunity to create
custom printouts and/or customized data subsets of local and
regional population data. |
Global Statistics
http://www.stats.demon.nl/ |
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There's a large collection of data at this site compiled by
Johan van der Heijden in the Netherlands, ranging from country
profiles with their capitals, surface area, economy and population,
to the highest mountains in the world. |
| Historical Data: The United States, 1790-1970
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/ |
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Utilizing the power of the web, this interactive site enables
you create tables and charts with information about the people
and the economy of the US for each state and county for all
decades from 1790 to 1970. |
The US Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/
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Information from the 1990 census on people, business, geography,
news, maps, and more is included. Locate facts based upon
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US Census Bureau's tables. Though somewhat cumbersome
to use, you can access social or economic characteristics
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states, cities, counties, congressional districts, population
data, maps, and industry profiles. |
American FactFinder
http://factfinder.census.gov/ava_prod/
dads.ui.homePage.HomePage |
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Statistical Resources on the Web
http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/
Documents.center/stats.html |
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Well annotated links to statistical sites on agriculture; business
and industry; consumer affairs; demographics; economics; education;
energy; environment; finance and currency; foreign economics;
foreign governments; foreign trade; U.S. government finances;
health; housing; labor; military; politics; science; sociology;
transportation; weather. |
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| Dictionaries
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/ |
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An online searchable version of the 1901 edition
of Bartlett's from the Bartleby Project, courtesy of Columbia
University. |
Dictionary.com
http://www.dictionary.com/ |
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Claiming to be the most comprehensive dictionary site on the
web, this site includes a thesaurus, a translator and some fun
stuff. |
Roget's Thesaurus
http://www.thesaurus.com/ |
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An online version of the classic print thesaurus. |
Semantic Rhyming Dictionary
http://www.rhymezone.com/ |
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Submit your word and find rhymes, synonyms, match last sound
only, find homophones, get related words and more. |
Merriam-Webster's WWWebster Dictionary
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary |
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Includes everything you'd expect from an excellent dictionary,
plus the Word of the Day, Word Games, Cool Words (and archives),
and more. |
Web of Online Dictionaries
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html |
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This web site indexes on-line dictionaries, thesauri and such,
containing words and phrases in many languages. |
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| Subject
Specific Reference |
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50 States and Capitals
http://www.50states.com/ |
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All you could ask about the fifty states, such
as location (latitude and longitude), geographical features,
colleges and universities, constitutions, flowers, genealogical
resources, geological formations, mottos, national forests and
parks, newspapers, nicknames, population, state and federal
representatives, birds, songs, and trivia. Many of the facts
are linked to authoritative web pages. |
All Music Guide
http://www.allmusic.com/ |
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This complete music database allows searching by artist name,
album title, or song title. It also includes essays about various
musical topics and styles. |
AtlaPedia Online
http://www.atlapedia.com/ |
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Atlapedia Online atlas contains full color physical and political
maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the
world. |
Artcyclopedia
http://artcyclopedia.com/ |
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A searchable database of artists with links to online museum
collections. |
CIA World FactBook 1999
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html |
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Quick facts on countries of the world compiled by the CIA for
the use of U.S. Government officials covering such topics
as geography, political conditions, populations, land, industries. |
Country StudiesLibrary of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html |
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Photographs, maps, and charts have been added to the text-based
Area Handbook Series for most countries of the world. |
Encyclopedia Mythica
http://www.pantheon.org/mythica/ |
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The work of Micha F. Lindemans of the Netherlands, this is an
encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, legends, and more. It
contains 5000+ gods and goddesses, supernatural beings, legendary
creatures and monsters from all over the world. |
Epicurious
http://food.epicurious.com/ |
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Includes a huge database of recipes, plus a dictionary and etiquette
resource. |
Healthfinder
http://www.healthfinder.gov/ |
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A free gateway to reliable consumer health and human services
information developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services. |
InvestorWords
http://www.investorwords.com/ |
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This is the "most comprehensive financial
glossary you'll find anywhere, online or off." |
Literary Resources on the Net
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/ |
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A comprehensive collection of Web sites related
to literature & the humanities. Compiled and maintained
by Jack Lynch of Rutgers University. |
National Archives and Records Administration
http://www.nara.gov/ |
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NARA's holdings include family history/genealogy research
and veteran's service records, reproduction ordering information,
the NARA Archival Information Locator (NAIL) database, the Federal
Register with laws, regulations, notices and presidential documents. |
U.S Dept. of State Background Notes
http://www.state.gov/background_notes/index.html |
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Background Notes on countries of the world with information
about international organizations. |
Repositories of Primary Sources
http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html |
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From the University of Idaho, this site includes links to 3000+
web sites providing primary sources. |
SciCentral
http://www.scicentral.com/ |
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A clearinghouse for science information in all major categories
including biological sciences, physical and chemical sciences,
health sciences, earth and space sciences, engineering sciences
with news and current research highlights. |
Scientific American: Ask the Expert
http://www.sciam.com/askexpert/ |
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The place to go if you are stumped with a science question. |
Xpedition
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions |
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Provided by National Geographic, this is the "home of geography
standards on the Internet. " Includes lesson plans,
activities, maps, and a virtual museum. |
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Current Awareness
http://www.landmark-project.com/ca |
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Updated monthly, this site provides teachers
and administrator with a bibliography (with abstracts)
of hot topics in education, as reflected in educational
journals. |
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