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| OneLook:
An Excellent Online Dictionary Search Engine |
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Biographical
Dictionary
This site provides information about famous people and is searchable by name, date or keyword. |
| Etymology Dictionary |
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Cambridge Dictionary Online
This site is a great and easy place to find the definitions of words. |
| ENCYCLOPEDIAS | |
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Encarta
Concise
Encyclopedia Online
This site contains the encyclopedia and many external resources, one of which is specifically designed for teachers. |
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Encyclopedia
Mythica This site is a mother lode of information on mythology, folklore, legends and more. |
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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. |
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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 | |
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Atlas of the World
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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 . |
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National
Geographer's
Map Machine
This site includes country maps, facts, flags, resources, political and physical maps, all listed alphabetically. |
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Perry
Castaneda Library Map Collection
This site contains over 230,000 maps covering every area of the world. |
| OTHER RESOURCES | |
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Tallahassee Democrat
This site contains local, national, and international news and more. |
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Bartlett's
Quotations
This site contains thousands of quotations and their origins which are searchable by keyword |
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Yahooligan's
Homework Directory
This is a directory of sites to help students answer their homework questions. |
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Multnomah
County Library Homework Center
This site contains a useful set of links organized by topics that students need for homework help. |
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Ask Jeeves for
Kids At this site, ask questions in plain English and Jeeves takes you to one good website for the answer. |
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Information Please
Almanac
Homepage At this site, which is searchable by keyword, find information in an almanac, dictionary or encyclopedia. |
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Carnegie
Mellon
University Online Reference Works
This site contains a collection of online reference works including dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias and maps. |
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How Stuff Works
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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. | |
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Bibliomania Hundreds of searchable full text works of classic fiction, popular fiction, short stories, drama, poetry, dictionaries, research and religious texts |