Portals
(like having a reference library on your desktop!)
Bartleby
refdesk
Martindale's Reference Desk
Internet Public Library Reference Desk
Jewish Virtual Library
Dictionaries/Thesauri
Visuwords: My favorite! Graphical dictionary, showing relationship between different forms of the word. Oh, and the definition!
American Heritage Dictionary
Cambridge Dictionary of American English
Roget's New Thesaurus
Rhyming Dictionary
Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms
French-English Dictionary
Word Reference: English to: Spanish, French, Italian (or vice-versa)
Cambridge Dictionary of Spanish
Perseus Latin Dictionary
Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid: from University of Notre Dame
Medical Dictionary
Almanacs:
InfoPlease
FactMonster (middle school)
FastFacts
Farmer's Almanac
Almanac of Global Statistics
50States.com States and Capitals and lots of other info
Guinness Book of World Records
Encyclopedias
Columbia Concise Encyclopedia
Encarta
World Book
Jewish Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History
Cambridge History of English and American Literature
Internet Ecyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Encyclopedia Mythica Mythology, folklore and relgion
Encyclopedia Smithsonian Wonderful collection covering Art and Design, Science and Technology, History and Culture
How Products Are Made
Encyclopedia of Plants
Quotations
Bartleby
Quotations Page
Quoteland
CoolQuotes
Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
Mathematical Quotations Server
Atlases
Encarta Map Center
Color Landform Atlas of the US
Mathematical Atlas
National Geographic Map Machine
National Geographic XPeditions: Blackline maps
Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century
Perry Castaneda Map Collection (Historic Maps)
National Atlas (government site)
Country Information
World Fact Book
Country Studies
Flags of the World
Footnotes to History: Information about former, largely unknown, nations.
Biography
Biographical Dictionary
InfoPlease Biographies of presidents, sports figures and famous Americans
The HistoryMakers: African-American biographical archive
Who's Alive and Who's Dead?
Government
FirstGov
Ben's Guide: Ok, so it looks like a little kids site, but good information.
KidsGov: (MS)
U.S. Census
Bureau of Labor and Statistics
Contacting Congress Get in touch with your Senator or Representative
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