| Encyclopedias |
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HighBeam Encyclopedia
The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia provides short articles with links to other internet information
as well as HighBeam Research (a pay service).
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| General Reference "Desks" |
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Refdesk.com
iTools
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| General Reference Sources |
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Geographic.org
Countries of the World
16 years of CIA World Fact BooksAnyday Today-in-History Page
The who, what, when, and where for each date on the calendar
Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
Including Bartlett's Quotations, Roget's Thesaurus, American Heritage Dictionary and Gray's Anatomy, among others
Information Please Home Page
By the publishers of Information Please Almanac. Find facts quickly as well as resources for current news events. Online Dictionary, Internet Encyclopedia, Atlas, and Almanac Reference.
OnlineConversion.com
Conversions for almost anything that you can think of and then some!
Old Farmer's Almanac
Quotations Page
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| Biographical Information |
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Biography.com
A searchable and browsable collection from
A&E television.
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| Dictionaries |
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Acronym and Abbreviation Server
OneLook Dictionaries
Over 722,000 words in 159 dictionaries indexed
Thesaurus.com
Uses
Roget's New Millennium™
Thesaurus
Also includes a link to
Dictionary.com and
Reference.com
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995
Merriam-Webster Online
Has both dictionary and thesaurus searching available, as well as a word of the day which can be subscribed to by e-mail.
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| Law |
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Congress.org
Find out how to contact
any federal elected official
or a member of any
government department. See
what is happening in
Congress and how your
representatives voted.
LII: Legal Information
Institute
Federal and individual state
constitutions, statutes, and
codes, index to laws by
topic, and court opinions
from Cornell Law School.
Contacting the Congress
Contact information for every
member of Congress. There is
also a search form to find
the name of your
representative if you are
unsure .
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| Maps |
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Map Machine @ nationalgeographic.com
Many maps available for downloading, as well as many links for other sources of maps.
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