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ENCYCLOPEDIA
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High Beam Encyclopedia – Free online library – now with reference works like Oxford Dictionaries, Britannica Concise Encyclopedia and millions of newspaper and magazine articles.
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Encyclopedia Britannica Online – Explore the updated online encyclopedia from Encyclopaedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of articles, biographies, videos and photos along with access to the Britannica Student Encyclopedia, Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, and Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary and Thesaurus.
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MSN Encarta – Online encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas and homework.
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Wikipedia – The Free Encyclopedia – A free encyclopedia built collaboratively using Wiki software and with over 1 million articles.
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InfoPlease – A free, authoritative, and respected reference for internet users provides a comprehensive encyclopedia, almanac, atlas, dictionary and thesaurus. Infoplease.com contains facts on all subjects including sports, entertainment, technology, education, world news, and united states government and history.
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Reference.Com – Online encyclopedia, almanac, web search powered by google, web dictionary, dictionary and thesaurus.
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Bartleby.com – The preeminent internet publisher of liteture, reference and and verse, providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited and access to books and information on the web, free of charge.
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SPECIAL SUBJECT ENCYCLOPEDIAS
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Catholic Encyclopedia – An excellent tool for historical and biographical research in Catholic religion.
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Symbols.Com – Contains more than 1,600 articles about 2,500 Western signs, with their histories, uses and meanings, and arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics.
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Encyclopedia Mythica – An on-line encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and legend. It contains hundreds of definitions of gods and goddesses, supernatural beings, legendary creatures and monsters from all over the world.
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The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy – Provides a good overview and introduction to both philosophers and philosophy subjects.
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ALMANAC
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Geohive Global Statictics – a site with geopolitical data, statistics on the human population, Earth and more. The main kind of data you can find here is population statistics of regions, countries, provinces and cities. Next to that there are some statistics on economic factors like wealth, infrastructure; statistics on natural phenomena, and more.
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Symbols.Com – Contains more than 1,600 articles about 2,500 Western signs, with their histories, uses and meanings, and arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics.
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The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy – Provides a good overview and introduction to both philosophers and philosophy subjects.
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FREE E-BOOKS
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Online Book Catalog – 22000 free ebooks online
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