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Selected
Reference Resources available on the Web
Almanacs
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Biography
- American
National Biography [SHS
only - See Mrs. Rabner for remote access passwords]
- American Presidents: Life Portraits
- Biography
Resource Center [SHS
only - See Mrs. Rabner for remote access passwords]
- Biographical Dictionary -
4000 biographies covering ancient times to the present.
- Biographical
Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to the Present
- Biography.com
- A & E's Biography television series; includes the searchable text
of 15,000 entries from The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia.
- The Catholic Encyclopedia -
Full and authoritative information on the entire cycle of Catholic interests, action and doctrine.
- Encyclopedia Britannica Online [SHS only - See Mrs. Rabner
for remote access passwords]
- infoplease.com -30,000+ biographies organized by category.
- NameBase Index
- Over 200,000 citations covering more than 90,000 individual and organizational
names from approximately 500 books published since 1962 and periodicals
from 1973. Covers people in academia, high tech, media, politics, intelligence,
U.S. foreign policy, religion, crime, business.
- Patron Saints Index -
Profiles of Patron Saints, with portraits and biographical information.
- POTUS-Presidents of the United States
- World of Scientific Biography -1,071 entries and 2,144 cross-references profiling 222 scientific figures. Searchable by scientific branch, gender, historical period, nationality, and prize winners.
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Citation Makers [SHS uses MLA]
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Dictionaries
Medical Dictionaries
Selected Language Dictionaries
French
German
Thesauri
Encyclopedias
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Directories
Phone & Email
Zipcode
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Government, Law
& Politics
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Health & Medicine
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Maps & Geography
- Google Earth
- How Far is It? - data from the US Census and a supplementary list of cities around the world to find thelatitude and longitude of two places, and then calculates the distance between them
- Map Machine - (National Geographic) has political, physical, country maps and more
- Mapquest - street atlas of the U S provides mileage, and streep maps with driving directions. Also has trip information that includes hotels, restaurants, sites and weather
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Movies & Film
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News & Newspapers
Local Newspapers
U.S. Newspapers
Newspapers Worldwide
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Quotations
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Sports
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Statistics
- American Factfinder - U.S. Census Bureau - a "data access and dissemination system" from the US Census Bureau offers access to some of the Bureau's largest data sets. Users can create a variety of tables, reports, or maps with information on their community, the economy, or American society.
- Bureau of Labor Statistics - includes statistics and reports on employment and unemployment
- Consumer Price Index
- County and City Data Book - latest official statistics for 1,078 cities, all 3,141 U.S. counties, and 11,097 places of 2,500 or more inhabitants
- Statistical Abstract of the United States - collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the US
- World Population Data
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Time, Measurements & Calendars
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Web Search Engines
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