Reference

GENERAL REFERENCE
My Virtual Reference Desk http://www.refdesk.com/
Virtual Reference Desk http://vrd.org/locator/subject.shtml
Guinness Book of World Records http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com
B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/bjpinchbeck/

DICTIONARIES AND THESAURI
Dictionary.com http://www.dictionary.com
Encarta World English Dictionary http://dictionary.msn.com/
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/index.html
Life Science Dictionary http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/pages/dictionary.html
Merriam-Webster's Word Central http://www.wordcentral.com
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus http://www.bartleby.com/62/
Rhyming Dictionary at Rhyme Zone http://www.rhymezone.com/
Word Reference http://www.wordreference.com/
Word Spy http://www.logophilia.com/WordSpy/
WWWebster Dictionary http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm
 

ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Britannica Online http://www.britannica.com
Columbia Encyclopedia http://www.bartleby.com/65/
Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia http://www.encyclopedia.com/
Encarta Concise Encyclopedia http://encarta.msn.com
Encyclopedia Mythica  http://www.pantheon.org/
Encyclopedia of Plants http://www.botany.com/
Encyclopedia Smithsonian http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/start.htm
Fact Monster http://www.factmonster.com/
How Stuff Works http://www.howstuffworks.com
How Things Work http://howthingswork.virginia.edu/
Instrument Encyclopedia http://www.si.umich.edu/chico/instrument/
Resource Central Encyclopedias http://www.kalama.com/~mariner/qserencyclo.htm
Treasure Troves of Science http://www.treasure-troves.com/

ALMANACS
CIA World Factbook http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Information Please Almanac www.infoplease.com
Fact Monster/Infoplease Kids' Almanac http://kids.infoplease.com
Farmers' Almanac www.farmersalmanac.com
Knowledge Hound http://www.knowledgehound.com/

ATLASES AND MAPS
Geobytes http://www.geobytes.com/CityDistanceTool.htm
Atlapedia http://www.atlapedia.com/
About.com maps of all countries: http://geography.about.com/library/maps/blindex.htm
American Memory Maps Collections Home Page http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html
Infoplease Atlas: http://www.factmonster.com/atlas/
Landform Atlas of the United States http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html
MapQuest http://www.mapquest.com
Maps@National Geographic.com http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/index.html
Mining Company World Atlas http://geography.miningco.com/library/maps/blindex.htm
National Atlas of the United States http://www.nationalatlas.gov/atlasvue.html
National Geographic Desk Reference http://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps/
Outline Maps (Houghton Mifflin) http://www.eduplace.com/ss/ssmaps/index.html
Blank Outline Maps http://geography.about.com/cs/blankoutlinemaps/
World Atlas Blank Outline Maps http://worldatlas.com/webimage/testmaps/maps.htm
World Atlas Maps http://worldatlas.com/aatlas/world.htm

CALCULATORS
Calculators and Converters  http://library.smsu.edu/resources/analytic.shtml

BIOGRAPHY
A & E’s Biography.com http://www.biography.com/
Academy of Achievement http://www.achievement.org/mainmenu.html
African American Biographical Database http://aabd.chadwyck.com/
Biographical Dictionary http://s9.com/biography/
Distinguished Women http://www.DistinguishedWomen.com/
Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/faces.html
4000 Years of Women in Science http://crux.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/4000WS.html
Biographies (Black History Month, Women's History,  Hispanic Heritage, Poets' Corner) http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/index.htm
History Central: Biographies http://www.historycentral.com/bio/index.html
Inventor Hall of Fame http://www.invent.org/book/index.html
Nobel Prize Internet Archive http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/header.html
Nobel Prize Laureates http://www.almaz.com/nobel/alpha.html
Time 100 http://www.time.com/time/time100/

TRANSLATORS
Babelfish (Altavista's translation service) http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn
FreeTranslation.com http://www.freetranslation.com/
LOGOS Homepage (international translation portal) http://www.logos.it/

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