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| Click on any of the 50 US states and get capital cities, state birds
and songs, nicknames, and many other facts and links relevant to each
state. Each state's flag is pictured and its symbolism described. |
| The Internet Public Library provides this valuable and extensive guide
to researching and writing a paper, using Web and library sources, "without
going totally NUTS!" Available for download free. |
| Search here through 45,000 acronyms about computers,
technology, and the US military. Put in the acronym to find out what it
stands for or type in a word or concept to bring up its acronym. This site
has straightforward, helpful directions, tips, and references to other
helpful sites. |
| With more than 600 places of interest listed, this site offers an "ultimate
field trip resource" for New York City and Philadelphia.
Information about museums, nature centers, historic sites, farms,
aquariums, and zoos is included. |
| This huge online research resource, with ties to the University of
Michigan, can guide you to the information you're looking for on the
Web. There are thousands of links, categorized, annotated, and rated. |
| Up to the minute news is available online from this multimedia news
source. The site also includes a keyword search tool for locating news
on particular topics. This is the future of news broadcasting:
personalized, instantly available access. |
| Customize your own daily paper with news from hundreds of online
sources. The information is organized into 17 different categories, such
as Arts & Entertainment, Sports, Funnies, and Business. You may
create your paper with or without frames, and the creation of your own
paper requires a working e-mail address. Very cool! |
| EarthWatch brings you "your weather on your schedule." Click
on current weather, storm warnings, or weather headlines, or create a
custom satellite or radar image with SkyWatch. |
| Give it a question and it will help find an answer: links to
magazines(800 full-text), maps, books, newspapers(150 full-text) &
newswires, TV & radio transcripts, photos, and major works of art.
It's like having your own research library at your finger tips without
having to deal with what you need being checked out. This is now a
subscription service, but you can get 30 days free trial. |
| This well known writer's handbook has been reproduced online and is
available as part of Project Bartleby. |
| Created by librarians at the Library of Congress, this online guide
organizes material by subject matter. If you need copyright information,
BTW, it's here too. |
| Brought to you by the National Technical Information Service
Technology Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce, this site
has links to technical information databases. |
| The Free Internet Encyclopedia is composed of information available on
the Internet. The info's divided into two main divisions:
MacroReference, which contains large areas of knowledge, and
MicroReference, which is smaller sites and information on specific,
narrow subjects. |
| This searchable index, from some of the ARTFL Project folks, contains
about 75,000 terms and allows you to input French or English for
translation. |
| This multimedia database contains a variety of educational resources
on a number of subjects. The headings are Business, Fine Arts,
Engineering, Liberal Arts, Library, and Science. |
| Grolier offers mini-units on various subjects with quizzes to allow
you to test what you've learned. There are also articles, test
subscriptions to encyclopedias, kids' areas, games, products to sample
and order, and more. |
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