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Art
Automotive
Business
Careers
Cities, States, Countries
Colleges
Dictionaries, Almanacs,  Encyclopedias

  

Food
Foreign Language
Government, Federal
Government, International
Government, State
History & Biography
History Day

Language & Literature
News
Science
Scholarships
Sounds
Teachers (Education)
Test Prep
Travel

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Art

• AskArt-the American Artists' Bluebook
• Louvre--Official site of France's most famous art museum.
• Musee Online--An online collection of many museum websites.
  
• Smithsonian American Art Museum--The Smithsonian American Art Museum online.
• Virtual Art Museums--Art museums from around the world searchable by country.

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Automotive

• Edmund's Automobile Buyer's Guide--Prices on new and used cars, trucks, and sport utility vehicles.
• Kelly's Blue Book--Will determine the market value of new and used vehicles, including optional equipment.

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Business

• BigCharts--Investment charting and research site.
• Dow Jones Index--Stock quotes, charting and research site.
• Hoover's Online--Business information.
• MSN Money--Online stock quotes.
• U.S.Securities and Exchange Commission--Financial information about publicly held companies.

Careers

• America's Career Infonet--Occupation, job and job market information.
• Occupational Outlook Handbook--Classic reference about occupations.
• Careers in Food--employment site for food and beverage industry.
• LifeWorks--100+ health and medical science careers
• Vocational Biographies--career stories of 1001 real people
  

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Cities, States, Countries

• Portals of the World--Information on world nations.
• World FactBook 2011 --Brief articles with information about the geography, politics, economy, industry, and technology of countries of the world.
• Nations Online-- A guide to the world's countries.

Colleges

CollegeView.com--Up-to-date information on colleges and universities, interest inventory and career information

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Dictionaries, Quotations, Almanacs

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations--A source for famous and infamous quotes.
• Information Please--Online almanac. 
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary--Online dictionary.
• ROGET's Thesaurus--Words of similar, and/or opposite meaning.

Food

• World Recipes--Categorized by Country
• Recipe Source--Searchable Online Archive of Recipes
• A Culinary World Tour
• Choose My Plate --the latest dietary guidelines for Americans
  
  
  

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Foreign Language

• E.L. Easton Languages Online
• Learn Spanish--A free online tutorial

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Government, Federal

• The White House--Information about the current residents of the Executive Mansion. Includes a section for kids and a link to commonly requested federal services.
• U.S. House of Representatives--Find your representative with voting and scheduling information.
• U.S. Senate--Information on Senators from each state.
• Library of Congress--One of the largest online libraries.
• Our Documents--100 milestone documents of the United States.
• Truman Presidential Museum and Library

Government, International

• Embassies of the world--Directory of the world's embassies and consulates.
• World Leaders --Chiefs of State and Cabinet members of foreign governments ins published weekly by the CIA.

Government, State

• Missouri State government--Online source to state government services.
• Missouri Senate--A comprehensive source on Missouri's Senate.
• Missouri House of Representatives--Find out the status of legislation, summaries of bills filed in the legislature and other background information.

History & Biography

• American Presidents Timeline--C-Span Classroom, Information on past presidents.
• The History Place--Great Speeches collection.
• Missouri Digital Archives
  

History Day

• American Journeys--eyewitness accounts of North American exploration.
• Harry S. Truman Presidential Museum and Library
• Library of Congress Exhibits--good examples for those interested in the Web Site category.
• National History Day
• Our Documents--100 milestone documents chronicoling American history from 1776-1965.
• SCORE History/Social Science links to over 5000 history/
• State Historical Society of Missouri at Columbia
  

Language & Literature

• Bartleby--Full text literature, reference and verse, thousands of titles.
• Bettendorf, Iowa, Public Library--great list of book in series.
• Book Lists and awards--reading lists prepared by American Association of School Librarians
  Project Gutenberg --over 13,000 free electronic books
• Fantastic Literature--information on thousands of books; also lists of books in series
• The Literature Network--book, short stories and poems by over 90 authors
  The Online Books Page-over 20,000 free online books
• Translator--Translates from 14 different languages.

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News

• Missouri Papers
  Carthage Press
  Joplin Globe
  The Kansas City Star
  St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  The Springfield News-Leader
• Weekly News Magazines
  Newsweek
  CNN Sports Illustrated
  Time
• Worldwide News
  CNN
  USA Today
  The Christian Science Monitor
  The New York Times
• Foreign Language Newspapers
  International Newspapers
  Mexico
  

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Scholarships

• FastWeb-- a source of local, national, and college-specific scholarships.
• TuitionFundingSources--claims to be the world's largest scholarship database.  Also contains college and career information.

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Science

• Biomes/Habitats
• National Science Digital Library--Educational resource for science, technology, engineering and mathematics
• Periodic Table of Elements--An online interactive Periodic Table of Elements.

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• Absolute Sound Effects Archive
• FindSounds
• Free Play Music
• MovieWavs Page
• Movie Sounds Page
• Simply the Best Free Sounds
• Wav Central
• WavSource

Teachers (Education)

• Department of Elementary and Secondary Education--DESE.
• PuzzleMaker--A tool to create a variety of word and math puzzles..

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• ACT--Educational and career planning.  Includes ACT test prep and registration.
• CollegeBoard--Information on Advanced Placement.
• Khan Academy--user-paced practice and instruction
• Learning Express Library--ACT test prep
  Number2.com--ACT, SAT and GRE test prep

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Travel

• How Far Is It?--This service uses data from the US Census and a supplementary list of cities around the world to find the latitude and longitude of two places, and then calculates the distance between them (as the crow flies).
  Currency Converter--a multi-lingual Currency Converter with up-to-date exchange rates provided from leading market data contributors. 
  

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