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Statistical Abstract data present here ranges from our most recent edition to the historical abstracts compiled throughout the decades. Some of the data were scanned as an effort to make historical abstract information available to the public.

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Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions. They also include audio and video clips from BBC archives.

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Documents for the Study of American History: US History: 800 - 2008 Primary Sources | www.vlib.us

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TimesMachine can take you back to any issue from Volume 1, Number 1 of The New-York Daily Times, on September 18, 1851, through The New York Times of December 30, 1922.

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AllYouCanRead, a massive media directory of 22,800 local and international magazines and newspapers from all over the world. Over 200 countries are represented at AllYouCanRead.com. - The World's Largest Online Newsstand - 28,000 Newspapers and Magazines from 200 Countries

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Listing over 35,000 free books on the Web

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The Reference Bible indexes Concordance, Dictionary and Encyclopedia entries for each term.

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ARKive is a unique collection of thousands of videos, images, and fact-files illustrating the world's species. Arkive is a great website for biology teachers and students. Arkive has thousands of images and videos of threatened plants and animals. Arkive also has a Google Earth layer that students can use to view marine species habitat. The education section of Arkive has complete lesson plans including video clips and slideshows that teachers can download.

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EOL aims to create an online reference source and database for every one of the 1.8 million species that are named and known on this planet. All the pages digitized by the Biological Heritage Library (http://www. biodiversitylibrary.org/) will be made available through EOL, and will be linked to the species information. This content about every species reviewed by museums and research institutions around the world.

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Online database of animal history, distribution, classification and conservation biology provided by the University of Michigan.

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NWE is designed to provide the context and values of our social and organizational relationships, and our relationship with nature and the environment.

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Worldmapper aggregates data from many countries and displays it visually on a flattened global cartogram, which “re-sizes each territory according to the variable being mapped.” (e.g., a population cartogram shows a gigantic China).

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Shmoop's biography section offers brief biographies and study guides of famous authors and former US Presidents.

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Shmoop Civics section offers charts, explanations, and key-point lists about the branches of US Government. The civics section also includes discussion guides and background sheets about civil rights topics

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Lists population, government, military, and economic information for nations recognized by the United States.

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Google has partnered with ProQuest who is supplying its microfilm vault newspaper content that can be delivered effectively in the less formal framework of the open web. News archive search provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives.

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The site is a collection of resources for teaching American history, from its early days through the present, capitalizing on the holdings of the National Museum of American History. Artifacts from the museum serve as jumping-off points for lesson plans and activities based on national history standards. The site can be searched by historical era, resource type, and grade level, and a time line on the home page allows for easy chronological browsing.

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Scitable is a free, online educational resource for undergraduate biology students and educators. Scitable: Geared towards advanced high school and college science students, Nature Education launched Scitable to provide free online access to overviews of key scientific and genetics concepts. The tool consists of a article content library and virtual classrooms set up by teachers across the globe.

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The official Web site of the J. Paul Getty Museum and Library in CA with focus on promoting appreciation of visual arts.

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