The etymology and history of first names.

Comprehensive listing of calendar resources on the Net.

Site collects links "to inflation statistics, price indexes, and sources of data on changes in the value of money."

The Internet's largest site devoted to flags.

Forms of address & salutations for clerics, government officials and more- from Information Please Almanac.

Online version of the Information Please Almanacs.

A collection of links related to all aspects of coins and banknotes worldwide.

An easy-to-use site for calculating & converting all types of measurements.

Current local times around the world.

British Library interactive timeline allows you to explore collection items chronologically, from medieval times to the present day.

Online multilingual dictionaries

Free dictionaries from Collins (English, French, German & Spanish).

Comprehensive listing of information about the living languages of the world.

A site that claims to be "the largest pronunciation guide in the world."

Extensive glossary of poetry terms from the Poetry Foundation.

A large historical dictionary of English slang.

Contains almost 800,000 words from Old English to the present day arranged into detailed hierarchies within broad conceptual categories such as Thought or Music.

Large collection of foreign language media materials geared toward students preparing to study abroad & scholars pursuing independent study.

Searchable directory to more than 6,000 freely available online bilingual and multilingual dictionaries.

This site contains thousands of definitions about computers, the Internet, and the online world of business, technology & communication.

A guide to over 200 writing systems worldwide.

Searches over 100 online dictionaries.

This utility will find words with any combination of listed parameters. For example, you can find all 6 letter words that start with d" and end with "n". Find words that rhyme by searching for words that end with the same letters."

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Traces the development of words in English over time.

Poetry.net is a huge collection of poems from famous and not-so-famous poets from around the world.

Free dictionary for translating into many foreign languages.

A crowdsourced thesaurus.

Look up synonyms using the third edition (1996) of this classic thesaurus.

Resource for English synonyms, antonyms, and definitions.

Contains English language medical, legal, financial, and computer dictionaries, plus a thesaurus, acronyms dictionary, and encyclopedias.

Slang dictionary with user-created definitions.

Translation dictionaries for French, Italian, and Spanish.

An incredible array of English and foreign language dictionaries and grammars and much more. Includes an online version of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition.

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Gale Virtual Reference Library offers complete content of more than 200 book titles from the Gale Group of publishers.

List of free online encyclopedias.

Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars.

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Thousands of photographs and graphics

Historic programs of publicly funded radio and television across America, dating back to the 1950s.

A huge number of images from the collections of the Library of Congress.

Collects in-depth video oral histories with TV's greatest legends and pioneers. Browse the collection by person, show, topic or profession.

A guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet.

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Contains over 300,000 digital images and associated catalog data from notable art and architecture collections worldwide.

Millions of images available for viewing from the Web.

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Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the visual arts worldwide

Provides access to over 300,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library

Online access to unique and historically important content produced by the public television and radio station WGBH.

All types of symbols are here including hieroglyphics, map symbols, world scripts, and much more.

View art, maps, architecture, photographs, and more from museums, universities & private collections worldwide.