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| GENERAL REFERENCE SITES - Great sources for all kinds of information Refdesk.com http://www.refdesk Reference Page http://www.referencepage.com LibrarySpot http://www.libraryspot.com Internet Public Library Reference Center http://www.ipl.org/ref THOR: The Online Resource http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/reference/dict.html Almanacs Information Please Almanac http://www.infoplease.com Old Farmer's Almanac http://www.almanac.com Atlases - see also Geographical Resources Atlapedia Online http://www.atlapedia.com Historical Atlas of the 20th Century http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/20centry.htm Biographical Sources Biographical Dictionary http://www.s9.com/biography Biography http://www.biography.com askART http://www.askart.com Includes biographies on 25,000+ American artists Lives, the Biography Resource http://www.amillionlives.com Uncle Sam - Who's Who in the Federal Government http://www.lib.memphis.edu/gpo/whos3.htm Calendar & Clocks 10,000-Year Calendar http://calendarhome.com/tyc The World Clock http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock Dictionaries Merriam-Webster Online http://www.m-w.com OneLook Dictionary http://www.onelook.com Your Dictionary http://yourdictionary.com Wordsmyth http://www.wordsmyth.com Dictionaries - Rhyming Rhyming Dictionaries http://libraryspot.com/rhymingdictionaries.htm Encyclopedias A to Z http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/worldbook.html Encyclopedia.com http://www.encyclopedia.com Geographical Resources 50 States http://www.50states.com AsiaSource http://www.asiasource.org About.com Geography http://geography.about.com MapQuest http://www.mapquest.com U.S. Gazetteer http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer Library of Congress Country Studies http://memory.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html Libraryspot Maps http://libraryspot.com/maps Great source for all types of maps: US, world, and specialized (including bike, earthquake, outline/blank, historical, topographical and weather maps) Map Collections: 1500-1999 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps Legal Information on the Internet Locating the Law http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/scall/locatingthelaw.html Law.com Dictionary http://dictionary.law.com Findlaw http://www.findlaw.com Legislative Information on the Internet Thomas http://thomas.loc.gov Quotations Bartlett Quotations http://www.bartleby.com/100 The Quotations Page http://www.quotationspage.com Quoteland http://www.quoteland.com/index.html Thesauri Roget Thesaurus http://www.thesaurus.com Wordsmyth http://www.wordsmyth.com Translation AltaVista's Babel Fish http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn Statistics - see also Social Studies - Statistics page FedStats http://www.fedstats.gov Statistical Abstract of the U.S. http://www.census.gov/stat_abstract Statistical Data Locators http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/stat/statdata.htm US Census Bureau http://www.census.gov University of Michigan Documents Center: Statistical Resources on the Web http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html Telephone Directories Teldir.com Web Site Evaluation Resources Evaluating Internet Resources http://library.albany.edu/internet/evaluate.html Student�s Guide to Research with the WWW http://www.slu.edu/departments/english/research Media-Awareness http://www.media-awareness.ca |
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