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Bartleby.com
- World Factbook 2000 is a complete
geographical handbook, featuring 267 full-color maps
and flags of all nations. Each country profile tracks
such demographics as population, ethnicity and literacy
rates, as well as political, geographical and economic
data.
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The
CIA World Factbook provides information
for more than 250 countries, including geography,
map, flag, population, government, economy, communication,
transportation, and the military.
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Information
Please Almanac allows searching
or browsing in sports, entertainment, U.S., world,
people, living, society, business & economy, or
science & technology.
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List
of Lists provides business and
industry rankings from various web-accessible resources.
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Gary
Price Fast Facts compilation of
quick reference resources, including almanacs, statistics,
and fact books.
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Computer
Industry Almanac an annual reference
guide to the computer industry.
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Britannica
Online is the online version of
Encyclopedia Britannica and includes internet links.
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Bartleby.com
is an online publication of the Columbia Encyclopedia,
6th edition.
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Encyberpedia
is an electronic encyclopedia with its own content as
well as over 10,000 links to the best reference sites
on the Internet.
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The
Probert Encyclopaedia is a serious
reference source with over 60,000 fully hypertext linked
entries covering the entire spectrum of human knowledge,
content is aimed at journalists and researchers.
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Grolier
Multimedia Encyclopedia Online is
an online version of the popular Grolier Encyclopedia,
search for the articles, or browse by the category.
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Microsoft
Encarta®
Encarta Online is the home for the Encarta Concise Encyclopedia,
the Encarta Schoolhouse educational site and Encarta
Explore, an ever-changing resource for exploration and
discovery.
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Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Ed.
allows regular and wildcard searching,
so you can find all the words ending in a given suffix.
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Your
dictionary.com (A Web of Online Dictionaries)
provides links to more than 400 dictionaries
in more than 130 different languages.
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OneLook
Dictionaries is the best place
to look up a word or term in an Internet dictionary
or glossary. Free search access to a frequently updated
database of words, terms, names, acronyms vs Internet
links to on-line dictionaries or glossaries.
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Dictionary.com
is a free online dictionary, thesaurus, translator,
word of the day, crossword puzzles and word games,
and vocabulary learning resources for many languages.
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Bartleby.com
is an online publication of The American Heritage
Dictionary, Fourth Edition. Featuring 70,000 audio
word pronunciations, 900 full-page illustrations and
over 10,000 new words and senses.
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Roget's
Thesaurus is searchable by headword
or full text.
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WWWebster
Thesaurus online version of the
Merriam-Webster Thesaurus.
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Thesaurus.com
is the online version of Roget's Thesaurus of English
words and phrases.
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Webster
Gateway provides a hypertext point-and-click
interface for accessing various dictionary services
on the Internet.
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Biography.Com
- sponsored by the Biography Channel,
provides a database of over 20,000 brief biographies.
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Biography-Center
- 11134 biographies in different languages.
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Britannica
Lives - Biographies from Britannica
Online, arranged by date of birth.
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Writer's
Web
- offers suggestions on organizing a
paper, punctuation, style and documentation, including
Turabian, MLA and APA.
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Columbia
Online Style: MLA Style Citation of Electronic Sources
- provides instructions and specific
examples for citing electronic resources.
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NoodleBib
- The MLA Bibliography Composer -
a free tool to create, edit, and save your MLA-style
bibliography online, then publish it to a Web page,
email it, or save it as RTF and open it in Microsoft
Word.
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William
Strunk Jr.'s The Elements of Style -
online publication of Strunk's classic guide to the
English language.
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Guide
to Grammar and Style - the information
ranges from copy editing to elements of style to discussions.
Practical information about the writing craft.
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Acronym
Finder
- searchable database of 80,000+ acronyms
and meanings. Covers: common acronyms, computers, technology,
government, telecommunications, and military acronyms.
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Yale
Style Manual
- a style manual for the design of Web
pages and Web sites. Covers graphic and information
design, page layout, Web graphics, site organization,
navigation, and Web multimedia content.
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How
to Cite Information From the WWW
- a brief introduction from the American Psychological
Association.
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MapQuest
- find directions and explore towns and cities worldwide.
Users can display addresses on a map, view nearby businesses,
get driving directions and maps, and plan a trip with
city information.
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Atlapedia
Online maps provide information
such as climate, vital statistics, religions, languages,
information on education, economy, trade, transportation,
communication, and military.
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Quick
Maps of the World
- small GIF maps of the countries of
the world.
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World
Atlas
- a complete atlas of the world featuring
several thousand place names and colorful, accurate
maps.
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Worldwide
Country Maps - maps for all countries
in the world.
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MapQuest
highly rated mapping web service. Find 3 million locations
worldwide.
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Airlines
of the Web
provides extensive links to individual airlines around
the world. Information on frequent flyers programs and
airline stock quotes are also given.
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Yahoo!
Travel
- very useful if you have a destination
in mind. May check flight options, hotel/motel reservations,
and rental cars.
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Arthur
Frommer's Outspoken Encyclopedia of Travel
- travel tips and recommendations.
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CIA
World Factbook - one-volume encyclopedia
that gives brief information on the government, climate,
economics, and other aspects of individual countries.
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The
Weather Channel
is the web version of the popular cable
television channel. U.S. and International conditions
and forecasts are listed as well as a good selection
of weather trivia.
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