Almanacs

Atlases and maps

Government information US and world

Biography for Beginners

Culturegrams - statistics, culture, recipes, famous people

• MLA citation example --
  "Angola." CultureGrams Online Edition. ProQuest, 2012. Web. 14 Mar 2012.

Exploring Nature.org - Exploring Nature Educational Resource

see also
Animal Diversity Web - University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (free)

• MLA citation example --
  "Angola." Encyclopedia Americana. Grolier Online, 2012. Web. 14 Mar. 2012.

History Study Center - historical documents, journal articles, maps, images and video

International Wildlife Encyclopedia

see also Animal Planet- Wild animals A-Z [with advertising]

Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States

MLA citation example--
"Washington." Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States. 6th ed. Web. 14 Mar. 2013.

I N F O T R A C

Peoples of Africa

Proquest Learning: Literature - authors - biography, criticism, reference

SIRS Discoverer - - Biographies - Country Facts - Maps of the World - Science Fair Explorer

MLA citation example--
"Angola." SIRS Discoverer: Country Facts. 2010: n.p. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 14 Mar 2012.

World Geography (ABC-CLIO) online database of information on countries

• includes topographical map

MLA citation example--
"Angola: Country Overview." World Geography: Understanding a Changing World. ABC-CLIO, 2012. Web. 14 Mar. 2012.

Almanacs

• Baseball Almanac
• Fact Monster
• Guinness Book of World Records
• Information Please Almanac
• World Almanac for Kids

Atlases and maps (also Maps ( with games and relief maps) -- Mapping practice -- Latutude and Longitude or Country information)

• All the world maps
  
• Atlapedia
• Flags and Maps of World
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic names online
  • PlaceNames.com - a gazeteer
• Google Maps
• Global Incident Map
• Historical maps
• InfoPlease Atlas
• MapQuest
• NationalAtlas.gov - printable state maps and info
• National Geographic Map Machine
• National Geographic World - includeing GeoSpy game
  • Geowalk - info, photos, videos of cities on world map
  • Maplandia - searchable Google satallite maps
  • Virtual Tourism - video, info of specific sites in specific cities of world countries

Biographical Dictionary - very brief information

• Biography.com - A&E biographies
• Information Please Biography Search

  Biography Resource Center - Seattle Public Library (need card #) - EXCELLENT

Dictionaries and thesauri

• Acronym Finder
  • Acronyms and Abbreviations
  • Symbols of the World
• Dictionaries
  • American Heritage Dictionary
  • Dictionary.com
  • Etymology Dictionary online - where words/phrases come from
  • Internet Language Dictionary
  • Measurements
    • Dictionary of units - equal to
    • Units of Measurement Dictionary - definitions
  • Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary
  • Online-Dictionaries.Net
  • OneLook.com - words from 287 dictionaries, dictionaries by subject
  • Rhyming dictionaries
    • RhymePoetry.com
    • Rhymezone.com
    • rhymer.com
  • Strange and Unusual Dictionaries
  • VisuWords.com - free interactive online graphical dictionary and visual thesaurus
• Roget’s Thesaurus
• Thesaurus.com
• Visual Thesaurus - and interactive guide to words (free to try - $$ to subscribe)
  • VisuWords.com - free interactive online graphical dictionary and visual thesaurus
• Wordnik.com - definitions, etymology, examples, thesaurus all in one

• E.Encyclopedia - Dk & Google - with pictures that can be downloaded
• Reference.com - Columbia Encyclopedia +
• Wikipedia - a "free content" encyclopedia

Government Information (see also Local Area Information)

• United States
  • 50states.com --brief state info/links
  • FirstGov.gov -- US Federal
  • SearchGov.com -- US and state
  • Statistical Abstract -- US 2001 statistics
  • US Census - state and county quick facts
  • US Government Manual online
• World (see also Country information )
  • Foreign Government Resources on the Net
  • Governments on the WWW
  • Political Resources on the Net

Quotations

and Proverbs

• Bartlett’s Quotations
• BrainyQuotes.com over 38,000 famous quotes by 10,000 authors from Aristotle to Zappa with brief biographies
• Cliche Finder
• Great Quotes from Great Leaders - movie
• Quotations Page over 19,000 quotations online from over 2400 authors
• Quoteland
• Simpson's Contemporary Quotations 1950-1988