Background Notes
   A U.S. State Deprtment resource that provides information on countries, geographic entities, and international organizations.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
   Online version of 9th edition (1901) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.

Biographical Dictionary
   More than 25,000 men and women from ancient times to present day. Searchable by names, professions, literary and artistic works, as
   well as other keywords.

Biography (R) Online
   15,000 brief biographies of people past & present.

CIA World Factbook
   Information on countries.

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
   A catalog of programs, project, services and activities that offer Federal assistance, both financial and non-financial, administered by
   departments of the U.S. government.

Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
   A directory of the leaders of foreign governments produced by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

Country Studies/Area Handbooks
   Seventy-one countries represented with descriptions and analyses of their political, economic, social and national security systems
   and institutions. Provides information on the people.

Dictionary of Cell Biology
   Use for quick access to terms found in modern biology and hypertext links to additional information. Based on the 2nd ed. of the
   printed dictionary from Academic Press.

Encarta Online
   An abridged edition of the Encarta Encyclopedia on CD-ROM.

Encyclopedia.com
   17,000 plus free articles from the Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia. The articles are short but include internal links to related
   articles and links to related internet sites. The Electric Library of full-text articles, books, maps and photos is a fee-based document
   delivery service. Also connects to books for sale at Barnes & Noble.

Encyclopedia Mythica
   An online encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and magic with 3600+ definitions of gods and goddesses, supernatural beings,
   legendary creatures and monsters from the world's traditions and cultures.

Hyperhistory Online
   Historical charts of people, events, history & maps in fields of science, technology, economy, discovery, culture, art philosophy,
   music, poetry, religion, politics, and statecraft. Gives a comparative view from a time and place perspective. Includes maps.

Index of On-Line Dictionaries
   Be sure to check the bottom of the page for an index leading to an amazing number of online dictionaries of varying degrees of quality.
   Includes foreign language dictionaires and other specialty dictionaries.

Information Please Almanac
   A resource for information found in an encyclopedia, dictionary and several almanacs. Statistics, facts and historical records in a
   variety of topics such as sports, entertainment, business, science and technology, society, the U.S. and world.

Internet Movie Database
   Detailed information on over 150,000 movies from around the word starting from the beginnings (1898) to movies still in production.

Kelley Blue Book
   Kelley Blue Books site for new car pricing and used car values, along with links to automobile manufactured on the WWW.

MapQuest
   Interactive maps and specific driving directions.

MediaFinder
   Look here for information on 90,000+ magazines, catalogs, newsletters, journals, and newspapers. Provides subscription and
   descriptive information, as well as links to websites, if available.

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary
   Online version of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th edition.

Nobel Prize
   This site from the Nobel Foundation includes lists of all laureates in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, peace and economics.

Notable Citizens of Planet Earth
   Biographical information on over 18,000 people worldwide from ancient times to the present. Offers more flexible searching capabililties
   than a printed biographical dictionary.

Online Medical Dictionary
   A searchable dictionary for medical and scientific terms, with over 46,000 definitions in biochemistry, cell biology, chemistry, medicine,
   molecular biology, physics, plant biology, radiobiology, science and technology.

Onelook Dictionaries
   Indexes dictionaries in 10 subject categories.

PubList.com (Periodical Publishers)
   A comprehensive directory of information on 150,000+ periodicals and 8,000+ newspapers worldwide. Information comes from reliable
   sources such as Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory and Editor and Publisher International Yearbook.

ROGET'S Thesaurus
   Search the full-text or headword entries in the ARTFL Project Roget's Thesaurus

Those Were the Days
   Click on the 3 current days given or use the archives button and select a day from the calendar. Here you'll learn about past events,
   birthdays, and "Chart Toppers."

U.S. Gazetteer
   Search for places in the U.S. by name or zip code to find a Tiger Map and census data.

U.S. Government Organization Manual
   Online version of the comprehensive source of information on the executive, legislative, and judicial branches.