Encyclopaedias & Factfinders

Encyclopaedias


The Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Free web version of this well known publication.
* url: http://www.britannica.com/

Perseus Classical Encyclopedia
* url: http://medusa.perseus.tufts.edu/Secondary/Encyclopedia/encyc.subj.html

The Catholic Encyclopedia
Web version of the 1913 edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia.
* url: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/

History of Costume 1861-1880
Electronic version of pictorial history of costume published in Munich between 1861-1880 by Braun & Schneider. German title "Zur Geschichte der Kostume."
* url: http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/history.html

SYMBOLS.COM: The Encyclopedia of graphic symbols.
Online encyclopedia of graphic symbols, search by word or graphic covers ideograms carved by Cro-magnon man to subway graffiti.
* url: http://www.SYMBOLS.com/

Bartleby.com
Collection of reference works and texts including Roget's Thesaurus; columbia Encyclopedia 6th edition; bartlett's familiar Quotations; Simpson's Contemporary Quotations; American Heritage Book of English Usage; Selected English and American Literature.
* url: http://www.bartleby.com/index.html

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Factfinders


The Living Almanac of Disasters
A calendar of disasters providing brief information about major natural and transportation disasters.
* url: http://catilaporte.com/disasterium/

Information Please
Brief factual information organised by subject category including architecture, geography, sport, society and science & technology.
* url: http://www.infoplease.com/

Atlapedia Online
Physical and political maps, key facts and statistics for the countries of the world.
* url: http://www.atlapedia.com

The CIA World Factbook 2003
Produced by the CIA profiles the countries of the world.
* url: http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

Library of Congress-Country Studies
A Series of online books prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the United States Department of the Army. This online series presently contains studies of 91 countries.
* url: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html

United States. Dept. of State Background Notes.
Background Notes provide information on geographic entities and international organizations and are updated periodically. Background Notes for some countries are currently unavailable.
* url: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/

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