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EBERLY'S LIST OF 1877 UNIT MEASURES. Extracted from Robinson's Progressive Practical Arithmetic for Common Schools and Academies by Daniel W. Fish, A.M., Ivison, Blakeman & Company, NY, (1877), an old math book which gives these units of measure.

"A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Freethinkers" by Joseph McCabe. Learn a little about the ‘radical’ thinkers throughout the ages.

"The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable" 1894 Edition edited by the Reverend E. Cobham Brewer. 18,000 fascinating entries on the meaning, derivation, and origin of words and phrases in the English Language. Searchable and cross-referenced.

"How Things Work: Index Page" This interesting Q&A site covers an amazing range of topics - but some of the questions are a little weird. This is the physics of every day life and a good place to learn more about common objects around you. See also the Table Of Contents

"Animal Bytes" Pretty impressive collection of fast facts on a variety of animals. Includes photo, extensive but easy to assimilate animal facts, and some fun and interesting info about each animal. Has a link to more data at the bottom of most reports. Thank Sea World & Busch Gardens for this great site.

"The Elements of Style" The original text, on-line, in html mark-up. The complete book that has helped millions get out a readable paper. This is one of the essential books on grammatical style and a foundation of any English library. Download PDF Version!

"Roget’s Thesaurus" It’s online, and it’s searchable! If you are uncomfortable using the "search" option, try reviewing the "HEADWORDS" list by clicking on the link. It will take you to a (long) list of base words for concepts. Clicking on a Head Word will move you to the corresponding page and from there you can find the word(s) your looking for. Great resource.

"Webster’s Dictionary On-Line" It’s Here! You can’t really "browse" it, per se, but if you know the word, you can find the definition. It’s a start.

"Common Equivalent Weights & Measures Table" Everybody needs this information, sooner or later.

"Web of On-Line Dictionaries" Darn near every dictionary in every language. If you can't find it here, it probably can't be found.

"Cyber Dewy" The complete Dewey Decimal system on-line. Learn about the DDS and browse through the thousands of categories, sub categories, sub sub categories, etc. Pretty amazing.

"Semantic Rhyming Dictionary" Want to be a rhyming poet or song writer? This site will help you find the match to that last word. All kinds of neat stuff and pretty fast results. {now called "RhymeZone"}

"American Sign Language Dictionary" Pretty extensive page of sign language terms includes basic alphabet & numbers.

"The Animated American Sign Language Dictionary" This one didn’t need any upgrades or downloads for my fairly basic set-up to work. Check it out! It does have instructions for those who can’t get the animations to adjust your machine to make it work. Whew! I think I need the "Elements of Style" for that last paragraph!

Deaf Missions, Animated Dictionary of Religious Signs (ASL) This dictionary fulfills the purpose of presenting certain religious signs in a (hopefully) understandable, visual way. We have not created it under the pretense that it alone could be used to teach ASL, but instead that it functions as a reference material and supplement to "real" training.

"The Symbolism Dictionary" Fascinating dictionary provides insight into the various meanings behind the obvious term or symbol. Really very interesting. I accidentally got caught-up in browsing this site for a whole 30 minutes! One thing just led to another….

"My Virtual Reference Desk" USE CAUTION!!! Going to this site may mean you’ll spend the whole day there. Just browsing the Table of Contents made me leave before I got stuck. Somebody with time to spare should hang out here for a couple of weeks and find the real gems for the rest of us. Yes, this is a plea, I’m not too proud…

"Syndicate Educational Vocabulary Site" This is an interesting educational site link. I haven’t tried any of the subpages because I love puzzles and was worried about spending the whole day there. The index page looks intriguing and the puzzles and games are grade specific. Seems like a great vocabulary building tool disguised as fun.

"CIA’s Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments" Lists of entire foreign gov. cabinets, from the CIA .

U.S. Historical Documents Archive This archive is designed to make U.S. Historical Documents easily available to on-line users. You may read the documents on-line or you may download a Rich Text Format file that you can print out on your own computer and read off-line. The RTF file can be opened by most word processors for Windows and Macintosh. The files are compressed in self-executable files. See also http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/

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