- Infoplease Almanacs - http://www.infoplease.com/almanacs.html
Provides access to a variety of topical almanacs.
- Afro-American Almanac - http://www.toptags.com/aama/
On-line reference to the of the Afro-American experience in America provides a historical overview from the beginning of the slave trade to the present. Also includes sections on historical events and documents, biographies, and folk tales.
- Farmers' Almanac Home Page - http://www.farmersalmanac.com/
The online version of one of America's oldest publications. Includes gardening tips, helpful hints, weather forecasts, and folklore.
- The Old Farmer's Almanac - http://www.almanac.com/
Online version of America's oldest source of weather, folklore, gardening and other information.
- inQuiry Almanack - http://sln.fi.edu:80/qanda/qanda.html
An archive of seasonal activities. Some geared toward classroom use.
- World Factbook 2000 - http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
Provides detailed information about countries and non-self-governing territories around the world.
- The World Factbook - http://www.bartleby.com/151/
complete geographical handbook, featuring 267 full-color maps and flags of all nations. Each country profile tracks such demographics as population, ethnicity and literacy rates, as well as political, geographical and economic data
- Wordswitch.com Countries - http://www.worldswitch.com/Countries/index.htm
Web directory of links specific to individual countries.
- World Almanac For Kids - http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/
Offers games, quizzes, contests, homework help, and reference facts on topics such as space, presidents, the environment, animals, geography, and historical birthdays.
- United Nations CyberSchoolBus - http://www.cyberschoolbus.un.org/
United Nations produced Web K-12 site with lesson plans for teachers and activities and games for students. The InfoNation is a kid-friendly interface for viewing official UN country statistics.
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