Reference           

GENERAL REFERENCE
My Virtual Reference Desk http://www.refdesk.com/
Guinness Book of World Records http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com
Internet Public Library for Kids http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/

HOMEWORK HELPERS
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/
** Little Explorers (picture dictionary) http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Aisfor.shtml
** 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/

ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Columbia Encyclopedia http://www.bartleby.com/65/
 Encyclopedia.com http://www.encyclopedia.com/
Encarta Concise Encyclopedia http://encarta.msn.com
Encyclopedia of Plants http://www.botany.com/
Encyclopedia Smithsonian http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/start.htm
Encyclozine http://encyclozine.com/
Fact Monster http://www.factmonster.com/
How Stuff Works http://www.howstuffworks.com
How Things Work http://howthingswork.virginia.edu/
Treasure Troves of Science http://www.treasure-troves.com/

ALMANACS
** (Fact Monster) Infoplease Kids' Almanac http://kids.infoplease.com
Farmers' Almanac www.farmersalmanac.com
** Knowledge Hound http://www.knowledgehound.com/

CALCULATORS
Calculators and Converters  http://www.smsu.edu/contrib/library/resource/analytic.html
Calculate.com http://calculator.com

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/
CNN Newsmaker Profiles http://cnn.com/resources/newsmakers/world/asia/peng.html
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
Gale Group Free Resources (Black History Month, Women's History,  Hispanic Heritage, Poets' Corner) http://www.galegroup.com/freresrc/index.htm
History Central: Biographies http://www.historycentral.com/bio/index.html
Inventor Hall of Fame http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/1_0_0_hall_of_fame.asp
Nobel Prize Internet Archive http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/header.html
Nobel Prize Laureates http://www.almaz.com/nobel/alpha.html

SOCIAL STUDIES (STATES, NATIONS, HISTORY, TRAVEL) (See also Almanacs)

ATLASES AND MAPS
Atlapedia http://www.atlapedia.com/
Historical Atlas of the 20th Century http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/20centry.htm
Landform Atlas of States: http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html
Maps@National Geographic.com http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/index.html
National Atlas of the United States http://www.nationalatlas.gov/atlasvue.html
Outline Maps (Houghton Mifflin) http://www.eduplace.com/ss/ssmaps/index.html
U.S. Department of State's "Graphic Learning Site" http://geography.state.gov/index.html
World Atlas (Good outline maps)  http://www.worldatlas.com/

STATES
*Fifty States and Capitals http://www.50states.com/
State Homepages: http://janus.state.me.us/states.htm
*Stately Knowledge http://www.ipl.org/youth/stateknow/skhome.html
US State Home Pages http://www.globalcomputing.com/states.html
Yahoo! Regional: U.S. States http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/U_S__States/

American Memory Maps Collections Home Page http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html
Countries Theme Page http://www.cln.org/themes/countries.html
Educational Resources on Asia http://www.isop.ucla.edu/eas/Resource.htm
Flags of All Countries http://www.theodora.com/flags.html
Flags of the World http://www.flags.net/
Library of Congress Country Studies http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
World Factbook http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

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