Almanacs - For Quick Facts

• Fact Monster - a student-friendly resource from the Information Please Almanac. An excellent starting place.
  
• Infoplease -  This adults' site includes contents of the Information Please Almanacs, a biography database, a dictionary, an atlas, and articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia.
  
• World Almanac for Kids Online - This site provides information for children about animals, who was born on a specific day, space, sports, inventions, presidents, and much more.

 Atlases & Maps

• Grolier On-Line--access to encyclopedias and atlases.
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection  - University of Texas at Austin - online access to maps covering every area of the world.
• Yahoo! Maps  - with point-to-point driving directions.

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  Biography

• Biography.com - Search or browse 25,000 biographies of notable personalities from antiquity to the present. Searchable by name of person only.

• http://www.pbs.org/history/  In-depth coverage of many personalities from PBS

   

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  Census

• U. S. Census Bureau Stats and data on people, business, geography and news, as well as special topics.

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  Dictionaries

• American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language - This is the searchable online version of the fourth edition of this respected Bartleby.com dictionary.

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  Directories

• Internet Public Library -  Searchable public library on the web.
• Librarian's Index to the Internet - a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 7,600 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. It's meant to be used by both librarians and non-librarians as a reliable and efficient guide to described and evaluated Internet resources.
• Library Spot the best library and reference sites together with insightful editorial in one user-friendly spot.

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• Grolier On-Line--access to encyclopedias and atlases.

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