Homework Help - Reference

Atlapedia Online
—This site has excellent physical and political maps of the countries of the world. The history and statistics on these countries is only updated to 1993.

CIA World Factbook
—Click on the World Factbook link on the right to acess government informaation about countries around the world

Encyclopedia.com from Electric Library
—This site puts the third edition of the Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia at your fingertip.

Little Explorers
—You can click on "B" to see many different things that start with the letter "B". Here are also dictionaries for French, Spanish, German and Portuguese.

Merriam-Webster
—This is an on-line version of the print dictionary.

U.S. Gazetteer
—You can type in a place an state or zip code and find a map for the area. You can also choose the type of map and whether you want to see strees, cities, railroads, parks, etc. on the map.