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Hutchinson Dictionary of Difficult Words
A-Z index of over 13,900 difficult words to increase your vocabulary or just find out what those words really mean.

The Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
A rich source of answers to questions about the full range of
human knowledge, with more than 25,000 alphabetical entries,
covering the arts, business, computers, geography, history,
literature, medicine, philosophy, politics and popular culture.

Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Containing nearly 51,000 entries (marshalling six and one-half 
million words on a vast range of topics), and with more than 
80,000 hypertext cross-references, the current Sixth Edition 
is among the most complete and up-to-date encyclopedia ever produced.

Encyclopedia of Finance 

Information Please
This site offers millions of useful and interesting facts on a wide
range of topics. Also includes a dictionary and encyclopedia.

Internet Public Library
This site provides library services to Internet users. Includes a reference center, a catalog of books and publications, subject-
based collections, and resources for kids and teens.

Visual Thesaurus
This is an endlessly fascinating site that offers an exploration of
sense relationships within the English language. By clicking on
words, you follow a thread of meaning, creating a spatial map of
linguistic associations.

Thesaurus.com
This site is an online version of the thesaurus of English words 
and phrases. To use the thesaurus, simply type a word in the 
gold search box and click the 'Look it up' button. A list of 
synonyms and antonyms will be returned.

National Geographic

National Geographic Homework Help
Need to know how much hippos eat, what explorers Lewis
and Clark packed in their first-aid kit, where Giza is, or how
fireworks work? You've come to the right place. Here are our
most fact-filled features, perfect for reports, presentations,
homework-or your curiosity.

Phrase Finder
This site provides word resources, including: Meanings and Origins 
of Phrases, sayings, cliches, proverbs and quotations. Other features
are Euphemisms, Popular Fallacies and phrases with Biblical origins.

Weights and Measures
Trying to find out how many gallons is equal to 50 liters? This
conversion calculator can help you convert measurements for
area, length, weight, and volume whether you're using the metric
system, the U.S. system, or both.

Spell Checker
Free online spell checker. Copy and paste a word or document 
up to 5000 characters to check and correct it online.

Dictionary of Units of Measurement
Americans probably use a greater variety of units of measurement
than anyone else in the world. Caught in a slow-moving transition
from customary to metric units, we employ a fascinating and
sometimes frustrating mixture of units in talking about the same
things. We measure the length of a race in meters, but the length
of the long jump event in feet and inches. We speak of an engine's
power in horsepower and its displacement in liters. In the same
dispatch, we describe a hurricane's wind speed in knots and its
central pressure in millibars. This dictionary, put together by Russ
Rowlett, the Director of the Center for Mathematics and Science
Education at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, will help
you learn more about units of measurement.

Best of History Web Sites
Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal created for
students, history educators, and general history enthusiasts. Here
you'll find sites, rated for usefulness and accuracy, that will help
you study or teach a wide variety of topics and periods in History.

Earth Calendar
A daybook of holidays and celebrations around the world. 
Holidays are listed by date, country, and religion.

Classic Reader
At this site you can read, search, and annotate great works of
literature by authors such as Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, 
and many others. The collection currently contains 743 books
and 1041 short stories by 211 authors. New works are added to
the collection on a regular basis, many at the suggestion of 
readers. The works are split into seven categories: fiction,
nonfiction, children, poetry, Shakespeare, short stories and drama.

The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
Considered the most important work of literary history and criticism ever published, the Cambridge History contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing. The set encompasses a wide selection of writing on orators, humorists, poets, newspaper columnists, religious leaders, economists, Native Americans, song writers, and even non-English writing, such as Yiddish and Creole.

The Harvard Classics & Shelf of Fiction
The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time
comprises both the 50-volume "5-foot shelf of books" and the the
20-volume Shelf of Fiction. Together they cover every major literary
figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through
the twentieth century

Flags of the World
This site delivers information on vexillology (the study of flags). 
In addition,  you can read more than 18,000 pages about flags
and view more than 33,000 images of flags 

Largest Earthquakes in the World  presently off-line
U.S. Geologic Survey provides information and data on the largest
earthquakes in the World, including: a text description of the event,
maps of its range, isoseismal maps, and, when available, pictures 
of its destruction. 

National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art houses one of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to the present.

The World's Famous Orations
William Jennings Bryan, Editor-in-Chief
Two millennia of Western Civilization come into focus through
these 281 masterpieces by 213 rhetoricians. Selected under 
the supervision of the greatest orator of his time, these brief persuasive addresses form both a window into history's turning
points as well as a timeless collection for any reference shelf.

Guinness Book of Records
In 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver, then the managing director of the
Guinness Brewery, went on a shooting party and became 
involved in an argument. Which was the fastest game bird in
Europe - the golden plover or the grouse? He realized then that
a book supplying the answers to this sort of question might 
prove popular. He was right! Sir Hugh's idea became reality 
when Norris and Ross McWhirter, who had been running a
fact-finding agency in London , were commissioned to compile
what became The Guinness Book of Records. The first edition
was bound on August 27, 1955 , and went to the top of the
British bestseller lists by Christmas that year. This site is the
latest online version

Calendars through the Ages
Explore the fascinating history of the human endeavor 
to organize our lives in accordance with the sun and stars.

Global Environment Change and Health
Johns Hopkins University created this website for students,
teachers, and parents. It's based upon a graduate course at
this world-famous school. Use it as a stand-alone research 
and teaching tool, a place to learn and gain insights, and a
companion to PBS's Journey to Planet Earth television series.

NationMaster
This site allows you to graphically compare any combination of
countries on a vast array of stats. Current data comes from the
CIA World Fact book.

Biography.com
This site features a search of over 25,000
of the greatest lives, past and present.

Sampler: New Words in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
Once a decade, Merriam-Webster updates its best-selling dictionary includes 10,000 new words and more than 100,000 new meanings and revisions among its 225,000 definitions. This site presents an overview of new words added.

Space Reference
This site is a suite of tools and services designed to allow both 
the novice and specialist alike to explore outer space from their personal computer.

The American Heritage Book of English Usage
A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English. With
a detailed look at grammar, style, diction, word formation, gender,
social groups and scientific forms, this valuable reference work is
ideal for students, writers, academicians and anybody concerned
about proper writing style.

Quoteland
The Quoteland Reference Library is a multimedia archive of the documents that move, inspire, amuse, anger and ultimately provoke thought within us. This site contains a large collection of quotations divided by topic and author, as well as the text of historical documents.

What is Copyright Protection?
This page covers the basic definitions regarding copyrights. It 
has been written using the Berne Union for the Protection of 
Literary and Artistic Property (Berne Convention) as the main bibliographical source, and does not refer to the laws of any 
country in particular. Copyright is a protection that covers 
published and unpublished literary, scientific and artistic works, whatever the form of expression, provided such works are fixed 
in a tangible or material form. This means that if you can see it, 
hear it and/or touch it - it may be protected. Copyright protection begins when any of the above described work is actually created 
and fixed in a tangible form. This site explains all the intricate matters involved in this legal issue.

The World Factbook, 2002
The U.S. government's complete geographical handbook, 
featuring 267 full-color maps and flags of all nations and 
geographical entities. Each country profile tracks such 
demographics as population, ethnicity and literacy rates, 
as well as political, geographical and economic data.

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