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| U.S. Department of Justice | Glossary of legal terms. |
| Encyclopedia.com | Online Encyclopedia, Dictionaries, Thesaurus, and Almanacs |
| The Free Dictionary.com | English, Medical, legal, and Computer Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, a Literature Reference Library, and a Search Engine all in one! |
| Vocabulary.com | An interactive, graphical approach to learning vocabulary. |
| LibrarySpot.com | Encyclopedias, maps, online libraries, quotations, dictionaries & more. |
| Learning Center | Author's biography , online dictionary and thesaurus, online books and novels. |
| Encarta | Learning and Reference site. |
| Internet Public Library | Online library. Sponsored by the University of Michigan. |
| Audubon Institute | Interact with virtual animals in cyberspace. Meet them in their habitat and learn more about their environment. |
| eNature | The National Audubon Society provides access to field guides for more than 4800 species of plants and animals. |
| The Animal Omnibus | Enjoy a well-organized site featuring animal pictures, sounds, and great links to other animal WebPages. |
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| Site contains detailed answers to all manner of questions. | |
| Yahoo | Access to a collection of resources, including, various communications tools, forums, shopping services, search services, and personalized content. |
| Dogpile | Parallel searcher that queries a customizable list of search engines and the Open Directory |
| Metacrawler | Searching the leading search engines for web pages. Contains phone number search engine. |
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| Louisiana | |
| Louisiana History | A timeline of important historical facts and Louisiana pictures makes this site worth visiting. |
| Louisiana Environmental Resources Directory | Environmental facts about the state and its resources are provided on this site. |
| Louisiana Swamp | This site offers information on how to preserve Louisiana swamps. |
| Encyclopedia of Cajun Culture | Browse through the index of Cajun culture terminology and enjoy the pictures depicting the culture at its best. |
| Folklife in Louisiana | Look for Louisiana Voices: An Educator's Guide to Exploring our Communities and Traditions. |
| Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism | Information on state parks, tourism, and other cultural development in the state is provided here. |
| TABASCO.com | Add some spice to your Louisiana lessons with the history of Tabasco, recipes and fun. |
| Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries | Official site for wildlife in Louisiana. |
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| PowerPoint Help | |
| PowerPoint Tutorial |
Step-by-step help with PowerPoint 2000 |
| A talk show type tour of PowerPoint's unique features and abilities | |
| BrainyBetty.com | PowerPoint help and free tutorials |
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| Wetlands | |
| USGS National Wetlands Research Center | US Department of the Interior |
| Louisiana Department of Natural Resources | Site on coastal erosion. |
| LaCoast | The Louisiana Coastal Wetlands Conservation and Restoration Task Force web site contains information and links relating to coastal restoration projects in Louisiana. |
| Wetlands Theme Page | Louisiana Wetlands A site with links to Louisiana's wetlands and pages expressing the need to conserve them. |
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| Geography | |
| Louisiana Maps | This site features maps of Louisiana and other geographical information. |
| Color Landform Atlas of the Unites States | Relief maps and satellite image maps of the states are featured at this site. |
| Geography Home Page | The starting place for exploring Geography, from your About.com Guide. |
| Maps & Geography: Online Maps, Games, Information | Find almost any place with online National Geographic atlases, order maps, get information about countries & states, print maps, play geography games. |
| Indo.com | Find the latitude and longitude of two places, and then calculates the distance between them (as the crow flies). It also provides a map. |
| Geographic.org | Site provides facts about geography, climate, countries, flags, maps, world population, economy and more. |
| Numerical Aspects of Maps | Teaches Geography skills. |
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