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Table of Contents
Encyclopaedias (General)
Encyclopaedias (Specific subjects)
Dictionaries
Atlases
For a more comprehensive list of online references, visit the Senior School's Online Resources
St Mary’s subscribes to an educationally sound online database called Weblinks that can be accessed at www.weblinksresearch.co.za/login. The username is stmarys and the password is 558.
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Encyclopaedias
General Encyclopaedias
Encyclopedia.com
Encyclopedia.com 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
www.encyclopedia.com
Wikipedia
One of the most comprehensive web-pedias available. Type in your keywords in the
searchbox in the left column and then keep going until you get the information
you need
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Encarta
www.encarta.msn.com
Encyclopaedia Britannica
www.britannica.com
Infoplease
This is a daily almanac site with "facts behind the news",
"today in history", a "kids almanac", feature stories behind
the day's news, and a search engine.
www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia
Internet Oracle Online Encyclopedias
This allows you to search through various encyclopaedias.
http://www.internetoracle.com/encyclop.htm
Encyclopedia Smithsonian
Encyclopedia Smithsonian helps answer frequently asked questions about the
Smithsonian with links to resources on subjects from Art to Zoology
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/start.htm
Fact Monster
Specially designed for kids
http://www.factmonster.com/
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Specific Encyclopaedias
Art Encyclopedia
http://www/artcyclopedia.com
Dr. Koop's Medical Encyclopedia
http://www.drkoop.com/enc/index.html
Spartacus Educational
Encyclopedia of History
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/industry.html
Encyclopedia Mythica
Encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion
http://www.pantheon.org/mythica/
Encyclopedia of Plants http://www.botany.com/
Encyclopaedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics www.ency-astro.com
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Dictionaries
OneLook (745 online dictionaries) www.onelook.com/index.html
Websters www.m-w.com/netdict.htm
AskOxford.com http://www.askoxford.com/
Cambridge Dictionaries Online http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/esl/dictionary/
Chinese-English Dictionary http://easyhosting.ipoline.com/dict-gb.html
Dictionary.com http://www.dictionary.com
Dictionary of Slang http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/
Encarta World English Dictionary http://dictionary.msn.com/
Free Medical Dictionary http://www.medterms.com/
Life Science Dictionary http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/search/dict-search.html
Little Explorers (picture dictionary) http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Dictionary.html
Merriam-Webster's Word Central http://www.wordcentral.com
Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs & Body Language Cues http://members.aol.com/nonverbal2/diction1.htm
Strange and Unusual Dictionaries http://blueray.com/dictionary/
Word Reference http://www.wordreference.com/
World Wide Words: Exploring the English Language http://www.worldwidewords.org/
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Atlases
Atlapedia http://www.atlapedia.com/
Geographia
A description of countries on various continents
http://www.geographia.com/
Historical Atlas of the 20th Century http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/20centry.htm
How Far is It? http://www.indo.com/distance/
Landform Atlas of the United States http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html
MapQuest
Allows you to zoom in or out on places
http://www.mapquest.com
Map Machine
Find nearly any place on Earth, and view it by population, climate, and much
more. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/
Maps@National Geographic.com http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/index.html
MultiMap.com (European cities) http://www.multimap.com
World Atlas: Maps and Geography of the World
http://geography.about.com/library/maps/blindex.htm
Outline Maps (Houghton Mifflin)
http://www.eduplace.com/ss/ssmaps/index.html
Tiger Map Server
U.S. Census Bureau Maps and Cartographic Resources
http://tiger.census.gov/
Mapblast World Maps
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