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HistoryBuff.com Extensive Web site focusing primarily on how newspapers and the press covered major, and not so major, events in American history. Also information for newspaper collectors.
Internet Public Library The Internet Public Library (IPL) features a searchable, subject-categorized directory of authoritative websites; links to online texts, newspapers, and magazines; and the Ask A Question online reference service.
ScienceDaily Researchers Reveal How Nitric Oxide Helps Pregnant Women With Hypertension Nitric oxide is best known as an air pollutant produced by vehicle emissions and power plants but for pregnant women it is a crucial compound required to avoid hypertension and pre-eclampsia. Now researchers at the University of Warwick's Warwick Medical School have uncovered some of the secrets of what can interfere with the protecting properties of nitric oxide for pregnant women.
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Welcome to INFOMINE_ Scholarly Internet Resource Collections INFOMINE is a comprehensive virtual library and reference tool for academic and scholarly Internet resources, including Web sites, databases, electronic journals, bulletin boards, listservs, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and other types of information.
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Official U.S. Time The official U.S. time. Public service cooperatively provided by the two time agencies of United States: a civilian agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and its military counterpart, the U. S. Naval Observatory (USNO). Also historical and general interest exhibits.
The Calendar Zone -- Bringing Order to Calendrical Chaos! Comprehensive categorized calendar catalog currentlycontaining countless correlating connections & calzone recipes. Dates in Calendar are CloserThan They Appear! (Formerly CalendarLand)
Time Zone Check Help for long distance callers, and travelers.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online: authoritative biographies of 56,000 people who shaped the history of Britain and beyond
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First Lady's Gallery An index to the biographies of all First Ladies of the United States of America, from 1789 to present.
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The Online Slang Dictionary Welcome Welcome to The Online Slang Dictionary and Slang Thesaurus. A dictionary of slang words you can help create.
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grammar The Guide to Grammar and Writing contains scores of digital handouts on grammar and English usage, over 170 computer-graded quizzes, recommendations on writing -- from basic problems in subject-verb agreement and the use of articles to exercises in parallel structures and help with argumentative essays, and a way to submit questions about grammar and writing. Javascript and cgi-based quizzes (form enabling required). Acrobat Reader, sound card, and PowerPoint recommended but not required.
Guide to Grammar and Writing - Stepcase Lifehack Capital Community College Foundation has a good site on Grammar and Writing which contains a very intensive guide from word and sentence, paragraph to essay and
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Alex- A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is collection of digital documents. The scope of documents in the collection include items from American literature, English literature, and Western philosophy.
! INFOMINE, U.C. Riverside Library's List of On-Line Resources INFOMINE is a comprehensive virtual library and reference tool for academic and scholarly Internet resources, including Web sites, databases, electronic journals, bulletin boards, listservs, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and other types of information.
! Literary Resources on the Net Index of literary resources available on the Web, focusing on those of interest to scholars. Searchable and organized by period and topic.
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Department of Energy- Information Bridge Department of Energy full-text technical reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental cleanup, energy technologies and others
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Aesop's Fables This Collection of Aesop's Fables is the largest online exhibit of Aesop and other Fables, on the net. There are 655+ fables, indexed with Morals, Fairy Tales, Mythology, Stories, Real Audio, Images, Search engine, Message Forum, and more being added all the time.
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Great Books of Western Civilization Through this survey of political, religious, philosophical, and scientific thought, students can increase their skills in disciplined thinking and effective writing, can heighten their moral and ethical reflectiveness, and can understand how the seminal ideas of the past have formed our twentieth and twenty-first century selves.
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! Higher Education Resource Hub A clearinghouse of information resources for improving our understanding of higher education in the U.S. and around the world.
Chronicle of Higher Education The Chronicle of Higher Education is the number one news and job-information source for college and university faculty members, administrators, and students
Merlot MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments.
BEYOND GENERAL WWW SEARCHING Guides to Subject Guides: Rich sites for finding information on many topics, often inaccessible by keyword searching in most search tools
FINDING INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET- A TUTORIAL Finding Information on the Internet, Tutorial on the Internet, World Wide Web searching, Choosing the best search tools or engines to refine searches and get the documents you want, Evaluating Web, Critical Thinking, Search Engines, Web Directories, Meta-Search, help searching
HOW TO SEARCH THE WORLD WIDE WEB This work is prompted by the present inherent difficulties in searching the Internet and the absence
of a guide of particular help to the beginner. Our aim is to add to your knowledge and understanding of the search process and to help
improve your skills in conducting searches.
EServer.org Accessible Writing The EServer is an arts and humanities e-publishing co-op where hundreds of writers, editors and scholars gather to publish more than 35,000 works free of charge to readers.
! Thoreau Reader Readable online editions of Thoreau’s works, some annotated, with an introduction to Thoreau, images, essays, help for students and teachers, and links to other Thoreau and Walden pages.
Anatomy Links PathMax is the premiere pathologist-created WWW metaindex of sites pertinent to pathology education. PathMax is indexed by topic and constantly updated and reviewed by pathology professionals.
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General Pathology Links PathMax is the premiere pathologist-created WWW metaindex of sites pertinent to pathology education. PathMax is indexed by topic and constantly updated and reviewed by pathology professionals.
! INFOMINE SCHOLARLY INTERNET RESOURCES COLLECTIONS INFOMINE is a comprehensive virtual library and reference tool for academic and scholarly Internet resources, including Web sites, databases, electronic journals, bulletin boards, listservs, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and other types of information.
ACADEMIC INFO An subject directory of education resources for high school and college studentas well as a directory of online degree programs and admissions test preparation resources.
CollegeSource Online The World's College Catalog Resource CollegeSource Online features College Catalogs in cover-to-cover, original page format representing 2-Year, 4-Year, Graduate and Professional Schools. Hyperlinked tables of contents and indexes.
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GALAXY Vertical search engine development custom topic specific search engines.
INFORMATION PLEASE Information Please is the world's largest free reference site. Here you can find facts on thousands of subjects including sports, entertainment, technology, business, education, and health.
SUBJECT INDEX TO LITERATURE ON ELECTRONIC SOURCES The Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information and the accompanying Electronic Sources of Information: A Bibliography deal with all aspects of electronic publishing and include print and non-print materials, periodical articles, monographs and individual chapters in collected works. Over 700 items were identified and indexed in great detail for this project. Thousands of URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) were added to various entries. Both the Index and the Bibliography are continuously updated.
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thebigview.com - Table of Contents Table of Contents - thebigview.com takes a bird's eye view on issues such as philosophy, religion, science and human life.
The Fallacy Files Describes and gives examples of logical fallacies from the media and everyday life, applying logic to controversial issues in order to improve critical thinking skills.
The Logician home page Writings by Avi Sion: FUTURE LOGIC, JUDAIC LOGIC, BUDDHIST ILLOGIC, PHENOMENOLOGY, LOGIC OF CAUSATION, VOLITION and Allied Causal Concepts, MEDITATION, Logical and Spiritual REFLECTIONS, and others. About modal inductive logic; causal logic; rabbinic logic; Buddhist logic; Nagarjuna's arguments; and many other topics in logic, epistemology, phenomenology, philosophy.
Humor in Philosophy Over the years, I have comeacross some passages in philosophicalwritings that have tickled my funnybone. Sometimes the humor wasintentional, other times it was inadvertent (the product, simply,of bad writing). In any case, here are a few of those paragraphs thathave amused me. I have not indicated which are deliberately cleverand which are simply unintentionally funny. Enjoy!
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! Exploratorium The Exploratorium: a hands-on museum of science, art, and human perception in San Francisco. Our site provides interactive online exhibits and exhibitions, activities, Webcasts, and more.
The Cave of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc La grotte Chauvet Pont d'Arc, découverte en1994, contient un extraodinaire bestiaire (plus de 400 représentations d'animaux) datant de30.000 ans avant le présent
Earthshots Satellite Images of Environmental Change Table of Contents Earthshots is a collection of Landsat images and text, designed to show environmental changes and to introduce remote sensing. From the U.S. Geological Survey's EROS Data Center, the world's largest archive of earth science data.
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Genetics Virtual Library This web site is a subject catalog covering genetics in the biosciences.
ASPB - Publications - The Arabidopsis Book To promote the growth and development of plant biology, to encourage and publish research in plant biology, and to promote the interests and growth of plant scientists in general.
GalaxyGoo Welcome to GalaxyGoo a science resource and community site
Goddard Space Flight Center NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, located in a Maryland suburb outside of Washington, DC, is home to the Nation's largest organization of combined scientists and engineers dedicated to learning and sharing their knowledge of the Earth, solar system, and Universe.
Solar System Exploration Home Page The Solar System Exploration Home Page is part of NASA's Office of Space Science and describes NASA's program to explore the solar system.
NSDL.org The National Science Digital Library NSDL.org is an online science library with links to high quality science, technology, engineering, and math resources for K-12 teachers, faculty, librarians, students and informal learners. Funded by the National Science Foundation.
Physics Institutes and National Labs Listing of physics institutes and national laboratories worldwide: Los Alamos, Sandia, Argone, CERN, Triumf
! Adherents.com - Religion Statistics Adherents.com is a growing collection of over 41,000 adherent statistics and religious geography citations -- references to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc.
Adherents.com is an Internet initiative and is not affiliated with any religious, political, educational, or commercial organization.
Adherents.com is the 2nd most frequently visited general religion site on the Internet.
Pew forum As a religious people, Americans are unsure about how to judge a world that seems
increasingly in conflict along religious lines. The public overwhelmingly sees religion’s influence in the world and the nation as a good thing. And by 51%-28%, Americans think the lesson of Sept.11 is that there is too little, not too much religion in the world.
The American Jewish Committee The American Jewish Committee - Advancing Religious, Ethnic and Racial Understanding Worldwide.
THE GRADUATE CENTER, CUNY: Research Studies The website of the City University of New York's Graduate School and University Center, offering 32 doctoral programs in the humanities, social sciences and sciences.
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! Charles Bukowski Charles Bukowski: These Words I Write Keep Me from Total Madness is a bibliography of works by and about the poet and fiction writer Charles Bukowski.
Writing and Grammer
! Language Corner Various rules of the language, including rules of thumb, are discussed here (with as little jargon as possible) because we need to know the rules to know when to follow them, when to bend them, even when to break them. To borrow a fundamental thought from The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage, the first and overriding rule will be common sense. Evan Jenkins can be reached at ejenk35@aol.com.