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Exploratorium is an online museum of science, art, and human perception. |
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My Bookmarks is a free internet service that allows you to keep your browser bookmarks and favorites online so you can access them from anywhere. |
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Smithsonian Photographic Services covers close to 1,000 images selected from the most popular Smithsonian exhibits. You can search by key world or through the table of contents. |
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| World Clock | The World Clock displays live statistical data counters. See the world population, death rates, illness incidence, global warming rate, and many more |
Gateways or portals are sites which offer access to a full collection of reference resources, from almanacs to trivia essentials.
Bartleby is the preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web free of charge. |
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Educational Hotlists link to online resources that science educators and enthusiasts may find useful. We've screened these resources to ensure they stimulate creative science and learning. |
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Enchanted Learning, LLC produces K-12 educational material that is published online. They have 25,000 pages on our web site covering a wide range of topics. They produce new pages almost every day. |
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iTools or Internet tools allows you to search, research, reference, look up or translate just about anything in one place. |
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The mission of Know Play is to simplify access to useful and high quality information services. Our goal is to help simplify your life. |
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The Open University offers free online learning. |
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Refdesk is a free and family friendly web site that indexes and reviews quality, credible, and current web-based reference resources. |
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The University of Albany Libraries promote intellectual growth and creativity by developing collections, facilitating access to information resources, teaching the effective use of information resources and critical evaluation skills and offering research assistance. |
The Alien Fascination covers our fascination with aliens through movies, books, radio, and even scientists at NASA. |
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At The Beast of Loch Ness you can read about the legend of Loch Ness including several eyewitness accounts. Links to other sites are also provided. |
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Read about the past and current theories on the Bermuda Triangle site. |
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The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization site bills itself as the only scientific research organization exploring the bigfoot/sasquatch mystery. It contains an extensive amount of information on the bigfoot mystery. |
The Computer Network Glossary is an index of wireless and computer networking terms. It provides a quick reference for beginners and for those who are more experienced. |
| All Readers | All Readers features detailed book reviews from all genres as well as presenting featured authors, latest book reviews of your favorite books, or you can enter a book review and get listed as a scholar. |
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NetSmartz is an interactive, educational safety resource from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and Boys & Girls Clubs of America for children aged 5 to 17, parents, guardians, educators, and law enforcement that uses age-appropriate, 3-D activities to teach children how to stay safer on the internet. |
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Public Libraries.com is a community of public libraries. Here you will find the most extensive directory of public libraries of the United States. Please feel at home and enjoy your library search. The listings of local libraries in this web site will be updated continuously. |
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| A Research Guide for Students | A Research Guide for Students is a virtual Library of Useful URLs Subject Headings Arranged by Dewey Decimal Classification: 000-999 |
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At the Smithsonian Library you can explore the rich variety of topics, images, and materials featured in online exhibitions from libraries, archives, historical societies, and museums around the world. |
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Are you Web-savvy? You may already use the Internet to e-mail friends and find the latest information on movies, news, sports, or music. Take the Internet Basics Quiz to determine what you know about the Internet and its uses. Then explore the other sections of Web Research Guide to build on your prior knowledge and learn the skills you'll need to do effective research on the Web. |
Encyclopedia.com is the Internet's premiere free encyclopedia. It provides users with more than 57,000 frequently updated articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Each article is enhanced with links to newspaper and magazine articles as well as pictures and maps - all provided by High Beam Research. |
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Encyclopedia Smithsonian is the world's largest museum complex and research organization composed of 19 museums, 9 research centers, and the National Zoo. Visit the Smithsonian in person or online and you will see why it represents for so many the treasured icons of our past, the vibrant art of the present, and the scientific promise of the future. |
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Infoplease is a comprehensive reference source that combines the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas, and several almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records. A single search engine allows you to search all these sources at once. |
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SoYouWanna teaches you how to do all the things nobody taught you in school. From work to wine, apartment rentals to toning your abs you can find out how to do it here. |
Answers.com offers free access to millions of topics from the world's leading publishers. The Baseball Almanac is an interactive baseball encyclopedia filled with more than three-hundred thousand pages of in-depth baseball facts, original baseball research and baseball statistics not found anywhere on the Internet. Big Book Super Pages provides yellow pages and business information for: Lawyers, Hotels, Restaurants, Florists, Mortgages, and more.CNN has collected their best videos since the birth of CNN in 1980 and compiled them into CNN Video Almanac. You can choose a year or topic to begin a multimedia tour through history.
Fact Monster is a kids' reference website brought to you by the editors of Information Please. The Internet Public Library is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment. The Reference section includes basic research tools such as almanacs, dictionaries and encyclopedias. The Old Farmer's Almanac is America's oldest source of weather, folklore gardening and other information. Refdesk.com has everything - essential reference tools, almanacs, moon phases, Gallup polls, USA and world newspapers, health and news sites, and much more.
ABC News presents late breaking news from the ABC Broadcasting System.The Newseum — a 250,000-square-foot museum of news — offers visitors an experience that blends five centuries of news history with up-to-the-second technology and hands-on exhibits.
Thousands of the worlds newspapers are contained on the Online Newspaper site.Tween Tribune Tween Tribune is the daily news site for tweens. Each day they post the most compelling, relevant and interesting news for tweens. Stories are selected by tweens working closely with professional journalists. Tweens can comment upon these stories. They can also submit their own stories and photos.
Updated: August 31, 2011