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REFERENCE DESK




DICTIONARIES



OneLook: An Excellent Online Dictionary Search Engine

Biographical Dictionary         
This site provides information about famous people and is searchable by name, date or keyword.

Etymology Dictionary

Cambridge Dictionary Online         
This site is a great and easy place to find the definitions of words.

ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Encarta Concise Encyclopedia Online         
This site contains the encyclopedia and many external resources, one of which is specifically designed for teachers.

Encyclopedia Mythica         
This site is a mother lode of information on mythology, folklore, legends and more.

HyperHistory         
This site contains an encyclopedia of history which includes information on important people and events from 1000 B.C. to the present.   It is searchable by keyword.

Knowledge Adventure Reference Search         
At this site a keyword search will lead to many references which include one thousand articles from the Random House Kid's Enyclopedia.

ATLASES

Atlas of the World         
 

Color Land Form Atlas of the United States         
This site contains topographical and political maps to the county level for each of the fifty states .

National Geographer's Map Machine         
This site includes country maps, facts, flags, resources, political and physical maps, all listed alphabetically.

Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection         
This site contains over 230,000 maps covering every area of the world.         
 

OTHER RESOURCES

Tallahassee Democrat         
This site contains local, national, and international news and more.

Bartlett's Quotations         
This site contains thousands of quotations and their origins which are searchable by keyword         
 

Yahooligan's Homework Directory         
This is a directory of sites to help students answer their homework questions.

Multnomah County Library Homework Center         
This site contains a useful set of links organized by topics that students need for homework help.

Ask Jeeves for Kids         
At this site, ask questions in plain English and Jeeves takes you to one good website for the answer.

Information Please Almanac Homepage         
At this site, which is searchable by keyword, find information in an almanac, dictionary or encyclopedia.



Carnegie Mellon University Online Reference Works         
This site contains a collection of online reference works including dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias and maps.

How Stuff Works is a great place to come to 
learn about how things work in the world 
around you. Have you ever wondered how the engine in your car works, or what gears do, or what makes the inside of your refrigerator cold? Then How Stuff Works 
is the place for you! 

Search the Encyclopedia Britannica for a wide variety of information ranging from history and science to art and mythology.


Bibliomania

Hundreds of searchable full text works of classic fiction, popular fiction, short stories, drama, poetry, dictionaries, research and religious texts