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Almanacs & Countries of the World

=> Background Notes (Countries of the World) - Government Printing Office (GPO) publication
=> CountryWatch - "Website to the World"
=> Flags of the World
=> InfoNation - Contains geographical, economic, demographic, and social indicators data for all 185 UN members
=> World Factbook - Produced by the CIA
=> World Time Server

Dictionaries

Encyclopedias

=> Encyclopedia Britannica Online
=> Encyclopedia Smithsonian
=> Gale Virtual Reference Library - Managed by Gale, brought to you by SUNYConnect
=> Microsoft's Encarta Online

Famous People

=> Biography.com - A&E's searchable web site containing over 20,000 brief biographies
=> National Women's History Museum Biographies - Biographical information for some of the world's most influential women
=> The Nobel Prize Internet Archive - Both current and historical information about the Nobel Prize and the prize winners
=> PBS Biographies - Multimedia Biographies
=> The Pulitzer Prizes - "80 searchable years of Pulitzer Prize history" - Choice Magazine

General Reference

=> Acronym and Abbreviation Server
=> Best Information on the Net
=> Calendar & Clock Page - Historical and current timekeeping from all over the world
=> Infomine - Created and maintained by the University of California, Riverside, Infomine is a virtual library that features well organized access to important university level research and educational tools on the Internet.
=> Internet Public Library Reference Center
=> Martindale's "The Reference Desk" - "Covers areas as diverse as astrology and housing, immigration and dinosaurs, chromosome maps and postal information" from Choice Magazine
=> Research-It - language tools: dictionary, thesaurus, translator, acronyms
=> Symbols.com - the world's largest online encyclopedia of graphic symbols

Quotations

Research Paper Help

=> Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
=> Citing sources guide from Duke University - includes APA, MLA, Turabian
=> Guide to Grammar and Writing - sponsored by Capital Community-Technical College, Hartford, CT
=> International Writing Centers Association
=> Plagiarism - Annotated webliography of links to information about plagiarism
=> Purdue University's Writing Lab
=> APA Style of Citation
=> MLA Style of Citation
=> Thesaurus.com

Statistics

=> Statistical resource on the Web - Maintained by University of Michigan library
=> Statistics Canada

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