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Almanacs	Ask an Expert	Biographies
Dictionaries	Encyclopedias	Maps and Flags
Quotations		Thesauri

Almanacs

Information Please Almanac
http://www.infoplease.com

Old Farmer's Almanac
http://www.almanac.com

Reddeaux's Almanac
http://geocities.com/Athens/2760/

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Ask An Expert

Ask An Author
http://www.ipl.org/youth/AskAuthor/

Ask Dr. Universe
http://www.wsu.edu/DrUniverse/

Ask Jeeves
http://www.askjeeves.com/

Ask Jeeves For Kids
http://www.ajkids.com/

Dr. Universe
http://www.wsu.edu/DrUniverse/Contents.html

Kids Connect
http://www.ala.org/ICONN/kidsconn.html

Pitsco's Ask An Expert
http://www.askanexpert.com/

Xpert Site
http://www.XpertSite.com/

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Biographies

Biographical Dictionary
http://www.s9.com/biography/

Biographies A-Z
http://women.eb.com/women/ind_articles.html

Biographies of Mathematicians
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/BiogIndex.html

Biography Find
http://www.biography.com/cgi-bin/biomain.cgi

Celebrity Biographies
http://www.mrshowbiz.go.com/celebrities/index.html

National Women's Hall of Fame
http://www.greatwomen.org

National Women's History Project
http://www.nwhp.org/

Spotlight Biography
http://educate.si.edu/spotlight/

USA: Index to Biographies
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/index.htm

Women's Biographies: Distinguished Women of the Past and Present
http://www.DistinguishedWomen.com/

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Dictionaries

Acronym and Abbreviation Dictionary
http://www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/index.html

ArtLex:  Visual Arts Dictionary
http://www.artlex.com/

Dictionary.com
http://www.dictionary.com/

Dictionary (Merriam-Webster)
http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm

Semantic Rhyming Dictionary
http://www.rhymezone.com

Web of On-Line Dictionaries
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html

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Encyclopedias

Collier's Encyclopedia (available with Infotrac subscription)
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/cascade_midsch

Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia
http://www.encyclopedia.com/

Encarta Concise Encyclopedia
http://encarta.msn.com/default.asp?

Encyclopedia Britannica
http://www.britannica.com/

Etronica
http://etronica.com/

Grolier Online Encyclopedias:  The New Book of Knowledge, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, and Encyclopedia Americana (subscription)
http://go.grolier.com/

Microsoft's Encarta Concise Encyclopedia
http://encarta.msn.com/Default.asp

My Virtual Encyclopedia
http://www.refdesk.com/myency.html

Nupedia
http://www.nupedia.com/

World Book Encyclopedia (available through subscription to Proquest)
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb

World Encyclopedia: Geography
http://www.emulateme.com/

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Maps & Flags

Altapedia Online
http://www.atlapedia.com/index.html

City Maps: Excite Travel
http://www.excite.com/travel/maps

Color Landform Atlas of the United States
http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html

Digital Atlas of the U.S.
http://130.166.124.2/USpage1.html

How Far Is it?
http://www.indo.com/distance/

Map Collections: 1544-1999
Library of Congress--the American Memory.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/

Map Machine
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps/

Mapquest
http://www.mapquest.com/

Mapmaker, mapmaker, make me a map
http://ur.utenn.edu/ut2kids/maps/map.html

Maps and References
http://www.cgrer.uiowa.edu/servers/servers_references.html

Maps in the News
http://www-map.lib.umn.edu/news.html

The National Atlas
http://www-atlas.usgs.gov/indext.html

Outline Maps
http://www.eduplace.com/ss/ssmaps/index.html

PCL Map Collection
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html

Road Trip USA
http://www.moon.com/road_trip/

World Encyclopedia
http://www.emulateme.com/

Yahoo Maps
http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Geography/Cartography/Maps/

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Sky Maps

Earth and Moon Viewer
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html

Home Planet
http://fourmilab.ch/homeplanet/homeplanet.html

Your Sky
http://www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky/

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Flags

Flags of All Countries
http://www.wave.net/upg/immigration/flags.html

Flags of the World
http://fotw.digibel.be/flags/

World Encyclopedia
http://www.emulateme.com/

World Flag Database
http://www.flags.net/

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Quotations

Annabelle's Quotation Guide
http://annabelle.net/

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/99/

Crative Quotations
http://www.bemorecreative.com/home-cq.shtml

Inspirational Quotes
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/2844/QP.htm

Phrase Finder
http://www.shu.ac.uk/web-admin/phrases/go.html

The Quotation Page
http://www.starlingtech.com/quotes/

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Thesauri

Research-It!
http://www.iTools.com/research-it/research-it.html

Merriam-Webster Thesaurus
http://www.m-w.com/thesaurus.htm

Roget's Thesaursus: Yahoo
http://dir.yahoo.com/Reference/Thesauri/Roget_s_Thesaurus/

Synonym Dictionary
http://vancouver-webpages.com/synonyms.html

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