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The American Memory: Library of Congress
American Memory is a web site created by the Library of Congress. It provides public access to over five million historical items, presented in over 80 thematic collections through the World Wide Web.
AskOxford.com
Features Ask the Experts, Better Writing, World of Words, Games, Global English, and Foreign Languages. You can select UK or US view.
Biographical Dictionary
This dictionary covers more than 33,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day.
Find It Virginia
This library service is available 24 hours a day at home, at work, or anywhere you connect to the internet. You can find magazine and newspaper articles, encyclopedias and other reference works. A Virginia public library card is the only requirement to use these resources.
The Free Dictionary by Farlex
English, Medical, Legal, Financial, and Computer Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Acronyms, Encyclopedia, a Literature Reference Library, and a Search Engine all in one.
How to Do Research on the Internet
A tutorial on how to do research on the Internet
Internet Public Library
"Are you trying to find information on the Internet? Let our team of IPL reference librarians assist you in finding the information that you need."
Library of Congress
The Library preserves a collection of more than 119 million items, more than two-thirds of which are in media other than books.
MagPortal.com
Find free magazine articles, categorized and searchable.
Online Maps
From Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
Refdesk
Refdesk is only about indexing quality Internet sites and assisting visitors in navigating these sites. At Refdesk that is all that counts and that is all that will ever count. Refdesk is free and family friendly.
Word Central
Word Central is the place on the Web where kids can learn how much fun words can be! We've developed this site with input from teachers around the country using a language arts curriculum framework.
Wordsmyth
"Wordsmyth is an innovative and evolving language reference source that meshes the functions of a dictionary and a thesaurus with powerful and flexible search capabilities.
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