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Museums Around the World

Online References

• Research It!
  One-stop reference page

Words

• Roget's Thesaurus
  

  Dictionaries

  • OneLook Dictionaries, The Faster Finder
  • Yahoo! - Reference: Dictionaries
  • Web of Online Dictionaries
  • Webster's Dictionary from Merriam-Webster
  • Webster's Dictionary, 1913 Edition, Revised and Unabridged
    from the ARTFL Project
  • Acronym Lookup
  • Bill Casselman's Latin Dictionary
    A brief but useful dictionary
  • Latin (And A Few Greek) Phrases Defined
  • Quotes from Roman Poets And Other Famous Authors
  • Other Languages
    German, Greek, Latin, Spanish-- from Dictionary.com
  • Latin-English Dictionary

Encyclopediae

• Free Internet Encyclopedia
  A work in progress
• Britannica Online
  Need subscribe for full access, but provides FREE one-week (30-day?) trial membership
• Encyclopedia Smithsonian
  Not really an encyclopedia in the classic sense, it uses Smithsonian exhibitions to illuminate different facets of its topics

Misc.

• The Online Books Page
  Find the full electronic texts of thousands of books. Includes links to other e-text repositories, including Project Bartleby and the Internet Public Library.
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
  Archived mostly for historical reasons.
• The Elements of Style
  For improving your writing style.

Computers

• Online Dictionary of Computing

Reference Desks and Other Meta-Indices

• My Virtual Reference Desk
  Dictionaries and Language Resources
  Encyclopedic in breadth