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OneLook Dictionaries – over 950 dictionaries on line Google's Directory of Acronyms French-English and English-French translation service National Research Council's CISTI – Canada's scientific, technical, and medical library — you need to sign on RhymeZone Rhyming Dictionary and Thesaurus ARTFL Project's ROGET'S Thesaurus Search Form Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 1901 (Columbia University's Bartleby Library) The Complete Works of William Shakespeare The Access Foundation's The Great Books The Perseus Digital Library – Tufts University resources for studying the ancient world The Internet Classics Archive – mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation Search the Bible at the Bible Gateway – twenty-eight languages and multiple Bible versions The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Canadian Geographical Names name search service Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with examples Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Bartleby) A.Word.A.Day Web page for a great vocabulary mailing list |
Ask any question (formerly Ask Jeeves, who has retired) InfoNation Advanced: United Nations Cyber Schoolbus The 'Lectric Law Library's Reference Room Find out How Stuff Works The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's World Factbook 2006 National Geographic's MapMachine online atlas for satellite and street maps Date and Time Gateway – timezone database Joseph Luft's Philatelic Resources on the Web Look up U.S. Zip Codes and Canadian Postal Codes Telephone Directories on the Web Megasources – research gateway Calendar Zone – celestial, cultural and religious calendars, global indexes and more Measure 4 Measure: Sites That Do the Work For You Chemicool Periodic Table – search by element name or symbol For those of us wondering about earthquakes in Canada: Recent Earthquake Reports from Natural Resources Canada For music searches try the All Music Guide For movie searches try the Internet Movie Database That celebrity still alive? Check the Dead People Server |
Pat Acton's Grammar Lady Fowler's The King's English, 1908 (Bartleby) Strunk's The Elements of Style, 1918 (Bartleby)
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