Useful links for research work
| Pop song lyrics | The texts of tens of thousands of pop songs |
| How stuff works | cool site: allows you to embarrass all the nitwits who know nothing about nothing |
| The Fact Monster | especially suited for the research needs of younger students |
| Answers.com | The greatest
innovation since Google! Search engines are
terrific when you’ve got a complex request; if you are trying to recall, say,
the name of a Victorian Scottish woolen bonnet*,
there’s probably a page out there that you can dig up. But if you need to
know what
pie in the sky means, when
Benjamin Franklin was born, or whether
Aeschylating is a
cromulent word, a search engine isn't your best bet. You need a FREE
one stop reference tool. |
| Overview of online encyclopediae | Links to all relevant online encyclopediae |
| Encarta | The scaled-down version of Microsoft's famous encyclopedia |
| The Internet's premiere free encyclopedia, provides users with more than 57,000 frequently updated articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Each article is enhanced with links to newspaper and magazine articles as well as pictures and maps - all provided by eLibrary. | |
| infoplease |
Contains:
Almanacs
/ Complete Subject List
/
Alphabetical Index |
| Columbia Encyclopedia Sixth Edition | Containing nearly 51,000 entries (marshalling six and one-half million words on a vast range of topics), and with more than 80,000 hypertext cross-references, the current Sixth Edition is among the most complete and up-to-date encyclopedias ever produced. |
| CIA Word Fact Book | all the basic information on just about every country in the world |