| Mass Moments- On January
1, 2005, the Massachusetts Foundation for the
Humanities launched the Mass Moments project—a daily
almanac of Massachusetts history. Throughout 2005, radio
listeners and Internet users will find a different story
every day about events and people in the recorded history
of Massachusetts. |
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AltaVista’s Babelfish
- Translate text from different languages
Free Translation.com
- Translate text from different languages
Miriam
Webster OnLine online dictionary and thesaurus
Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus,
Third Edition. 1995
Containing 35,000 synonyms in an easy-to-use format, this
thesaurus features succinct word definitions and an innovative
hyperlinked category index by the Editors of the American
Heritage® Dictionary.
Roget’s International
Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases. 1922 - Mawson’s
modernization of the classic structure becomes even more
user-friendly on Bartleby.com with 85,000 hyperlinked
cross-references. Additionally, over 2,200 quotations
from classic and modern authors illustrate the 1,000-plus
entries.
A Visual Thesaurus:
Both a thesaurus and a dictionary, its interactive display
lets you explore language in a new way.
| Atlases |
All the Worlds
Maps
American
Memory Maps Collections
Color Landform
Atlas of the United States
Encarta
Map Center
Geography.com
Historical
Atlas of the Twentieth Century
Historical Maps and Atlases
Lunar
and Planetary Institute - Lunar Atlases
MapBlast.com
Maporama
MapQuest
MultiMap.com
National Atlas
National
Geographic’s Map Machine
Perry
Casteñeda Map Collection
Places
in the News
TopoZone
United
Nations Cartographic Section |
| Health
Issues |
| Bulimia
nervoxa guide: a unique, one-stop, evidence-based
resource with answers to important questions. |
| Science
Resources |
BUBL
Information Service-
provides access to many resources, including full-text
articles and mailing lists. The BUBL Link category
contains Subject Menus where you can choose "Science"
and find topic links under Mathematics, Astronomy,
Physics, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Life Sciences,
Plants, and Animals.
Eric
Weisstein's World of Science - free full-text
"encyclopedias of astronomy, scientific biography,
chemistry, and physics ... assembled over more than
a decade by Internet encyclopedist Eric W. Weisstein
with assistance from the Internet community."
Genetics Home Reference
- find answers to your genetic questions, as well
as genetic conditions and the genes responsible
for htose conditions
Household
Products - Find out p;otential health effects
of common products used in the home, and other safety
and handling information.
MedlinePlus
- for anyone with a medical or health-related question;
provides extensive information about diseases and
conditions, clinical trials and drugs.
PubMed
- access to MEDLINE, including links to full-text
articles and related resources. Explore PubMed Central,
an e-archive of free, full-text articles from life
sciences journals, as well as Bookshelf, "a
growing collection of [full-text] biomedical books
that can be searched directly."
SciCentral
- For high school and above, this is a "gateway
to the best scientific research news sources,"
providing selective access to area-specific research
news in the Biosciences, Health Sciences, Physics/Chemistry,
Earth & Space, and Engineering fields, as well
as links to "locate prime research tools and
resources."
Toxicology and
Enviornmental Health Information Program - offers
a variety of high-quality databases and links to
additional sources on toxicology and environmental
health.
Tox Town
- a resource of "non-technical" infromation
about comonly encountered toxic substances, your
health, and the environment. |
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