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Britanica
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Concise - Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia
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Microsoft Encarta on-line encyclopedia
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Merriam-Webster Dictionary
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Merriam-Webster Thesaurus
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Information Please
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Some information about everything. Browse the almanac.
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Internet Public Library |
Deep collection of reference materials. |
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ISO |
International Organization for Standardization. |
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Lives, the Biography Resource |
Links to thousands of biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, letters,
narratives, oral histories and more. |
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Tipworld
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Want to know how to do something? Try one of these tips!
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Measurements Converter
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Many conversion functions
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RxList
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Health Central on line pharmacy. "The Internet Drug List"
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Translation
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Translation for an incredible number of languages. Free language classes. Links to many language resources, chat rooms, etc.
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Universe Multilingual Chat Rooms
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On-line chat rooms. Auto-translates between languages! You will need to supply a nickname to get into the system.
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US Census Fact
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Find an incredible amount of statistics for any area of the United States.
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US Military
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US Fed
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Education
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Access Indiana Teaching and Learning Center.
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Legal
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Legal sites on the web.
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FindLaw
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Search for law and government questions.
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Stocks
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About.com
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Expert advice for many topics from art, entertainment, food, menus and so much more.
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| Calculators | Thousands of 'calculators'. |
| DEA |
U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. All you wanted to know about drugs.
Excellent site with the most information that I have seen about drugs and
enforcement. |
| Fact Monster | Tons
of information presented in an interesting manner. Atlas, almanac,
dictionary, encyclopedia, general classroom oriented information. |
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Interactive Prism
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View how white light is affected by a prism.
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K9Web
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All sorts of doggie stuff. The BEST parts of this extensive site are at rec.pets.dogs
FAQ Home Page and the Breed FAQ Home Page.
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List of Lists
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SearchBot
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Audio search using speech recognition. Over 3700 hours of popular radio shows indexed for retrieval.
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MEL
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The Michigan Electronic Library
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Bureau of Consular Affairs
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Worlds largest Star Trek site for kids
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Internet Grateful Med
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National Library of Medicine.
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National Geographic
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Electronic Text Center
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University of Virginia collection of tens of thousands of on-line text and images. |
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Useless Information |
Stuff you never needed to know, but your
life would be incomplete without. Click
here for an
index. |
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Corbis
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Classic and professional pictures and photographs
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Janes |
The famous Jane's defense. This is the place to go for information
on weapons systems. You can view a couple of levels of information without
subscribing. |
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Koran |
Free, on-line Koran. Text in several languages. Downloadable copy.
Will read to you. |
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Symbols
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Over 2,500 Western symbols indexed.
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Museum of the City of San
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Interesting exhibits relating to San Francisco.
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National Registry of Historic
Places
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List of all registered historic places.
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Urban Legends and Folklore
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Ghost stories, Halloween, Disney, computers, campus myths, and more. Either frighten yourself or
discover the hoax behind the story.
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Urban Legends Reference Pages |
Tons of legends. Pregnancy, Disney, horror, travel, weddings, Titanic,
sex, love, humor, religion, toxins, autos, coke, military, science and more. |
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Security on Campus
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Check statistics about campus crimes, crime prevention, legislation.
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Book Locker |
There is hope for you aspiring authors. For a small fee, you can get
yourself published. |
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Politics |
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Electoral-Vote.com |
Excellent site presenting daily electoral vote potentials based on a combination
of polls |
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Zogby International |
Pollster - widely quoted, usually pretty accurate. |
