Reference Resources

• Acronym Finder - " the world's largest and most comprehensive database of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms"
• Biographies - includes over 25,000 biographies of the greatest lives, past and present."
• Free Dictionary - contains, computing, medical, legal, financial and general dictionaries
• How Stuff Works - explanations of how everything actually works - contains thousands of articles, content features and illustrations.
• Information Please Almanac - a "reference source that combines the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas, and several almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records."
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary Online Quotations Page - The oldest quotation site on the web. Includes "over 24,000 quotations online from over 2,700 authors."
• Thomas Register of American Manufacturers -you will need to create a free account to use this web site.
• Virtual Library - "Oldest catalog of the web " started by the creator of the web, Tim Berners-Lee.

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