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Encyclopedia (General) |
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History , Law & Social
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Religion & Mythology |
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Technology |
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Encyclopedia
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Columbia Encyclopedia
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Contains "nearly 51,000 entries (marshalling
six and one-half million words on a vast range
of topics), and with more than 80,000
hypertext cross-references."
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Encyclopedia Britannica |
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Explore art,
history, science, and other topics with
Encyclopedia Britannica's |
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Encarta Encyclopedia (Free
Version)
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This
is a scaled down version of the commercial
version, but still worth checking if you don't
have access to a full version.
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Funk and Wagnalls
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In
addition to the encyclopedia, this reference
site includes a dictionary, thesaurus, world
atlas, animal book, media gallery (with
images, speeches, sound bites), and news
sections.
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Info please Encyclopedia and
Dictionary
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A
combined small encyclopedia and dictionary.
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L1 Kids Encyclopedia (Homework
Helper)
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If the
other encyclopedias are over your head, you
may want to give this one a try, designed for
the younger student.
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Specialized Encyclopedia |
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Art |
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Artcyclopedia
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Offers
"a comprehensive index of every artist
represented at hundreds of museum sites, image
archives....have now indexed 700 leading arts
sites, and offer more than 24,000 links
directly to an estimated 80,000 works by 7,000
different artists." Search or browse by
movement, medium, name of artist, nationality,
etc.
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Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols
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"Symbols.Com
contains more than 2,500 Western signs,
arranged into 54 groups according to their
graphic characteristics. In 1,600 articles
their histories, uses, and meanings are
thoroughly discussed. The signs range from
ideograms carved in mammoth teeth by
Cro-Magnon men, to hobo signs and subway
graffiti."
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History, Law & Social Science
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Encyclopedia of British History
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A
wonderful historical encyclopedia created in
Great Britain, and made freely available on
the Web by Spartacus Publishing Company.
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Encyclopedia of the Celts
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The
goal of this work is to "give the reader
access to a fragment of the contents of some
of the greater and lesser know works of Celtic
Literature; including works of mythology,
legend, fiction and history."
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Internet Encyclopedia of
Philosophy
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"Articles ... are currently from three sources
(1)adaptations from public domain sources, (2)
adaptations of material written by the editor
for classroom purposes, and (3)original
contributions by professional philosophers
around the Internet." Includes timeline, table
of contents, and keyword searching.
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Legal Encyclopedia
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Nolo
Press offers this collection of articles on a
wide variety of legal topics. "Plain-English
articles on the legal topics that affect you
most."
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Religion &
Mythology |
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Islam |
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The detailed
information about Islam involving all sects. |
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Catholic Encyclopedia
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An
encyclopedia related to matters involving the
Catholic religion. This is a broad area, with
much historical and biographical information
about many, many related things.
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Encyclopedia Mythica
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An
on-line encyclopedia about mythology,
folklore, legends, and more...
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Science |
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The PLANTS Database
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Encyclopedic in scope, includes names,
checklists, automated tools, identification
information, species abstracts, distributional
data, crop information, plant symbols, plant
growth data, plant materials information,
plant links, references, and other plant
information.
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Technology |
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Webopedia
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An
online encyclopedia that covers technology and
all things related to computer technology and
the Web. Very thorough and complete, with
links back and forth between many concepts and
topics.
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Acronym Search - The ultimate
acronym tool
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When
you hear people use strings of letters
(acronyms) when referring to something, such
as "CIA", do you wonder what they stand for?
This page tells you some of the possible
meanings.
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Asia Reference
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Explains terms used with the study of Asia.
"Features a growing general glossary of terms
covering Economics, Business, Politics, Arts,
and Religion... currently lists more than a
thousand terms with a particular strength in
the Arts and Religion."
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Financial Terms Glossary (Yahoo!)
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Find
out the meaning of terms related to investing,
such as stocks, bonds and commodities. At the
top of the page, click on the first letter of
the term you want explained.
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Glossary of Grammatical Terms
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Concise chart of common grammar terms, with
Latin meanings as well. |
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Glossary of Internet Terms
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Find
out the meaning of words and phrases related
to the Internet. Provided by Matisse Enzer,
Internet expert.
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Hypertextual Finance Glossary
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"Over
6,000 Entries, More than 16,000 Hyperlinks,
The largest financial glossary on the
Internet. Developed as a result of teaching
Global Financial Management at both Duke
University and the University of Chicago."
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Sports Glossaries
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Use
glossaries to four popular sports: soccer, ice
hocky, football and basketball. Simply click
on a name of the sport for definitions of
terms and phrases.
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Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A
Glossary of Hardboiled Slang
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Explains the slang used in hard-boiled
detective novels and films.
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The World Wide Web Acronym and
Abbreviation Server
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This is a list of
(mostly) acronyms (abbreviations constructed
from the first letters of the words of a
phrase), not a dictionary or encyclopedia. For
example, if you want to know that ALANON
stands for, you can find out by searching
here.
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