The Online World resources handbook

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acronyms, quotations, maps, phone numbers, postal information, package tracking,
financial info and more.
The UNESCO trilingual Thesaurus (English/French/Spanish) contains more than
7,000 terms for education; science; culture; social and human sciences; information and
communication; and politics, law and economics. It also includes the names of countries
and groupings of countries (political, economic, geographic, ethnic and religious, and
linguistic groupings).
At the Phrase Finder page , type in a word to get a list of phrases related in some
way to that word. The database includes: Lines from Shakespeare (or phrases related to
the word Shakespeare), Quotations (or phrases related to the word quotation), and
One liner jokes.
Searching and reading well known encyclopedias like Grolier's Academic
American in full text costs money. Some services, like Dow Jones Interactive, will give
you access at discount prices.
The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia has made over 17,000 articles
from their Third Edition searchable for free. (Related links turn the encyclopeida into a
subject oriented front end to the fee based Electronic Library.)
The Encyclopaedia Britannica's 32 volume site also gives access to articles from
over 75 magazines. Detailed encyclopedia entries and articles (as well as related books
and Websites) for specific topics are accessed through the keyword search engine at the
top of the page.
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copyrighted 2002 by Odd de Presno.
Updated at January 10, 2002.
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