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Wikipedia |
- Free, interactive encyclopedia
- Look things up
- Contribute
- Excellent resource - but remember to use with care and check entries for accuracy.
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Columbia Encyclopedia
search hosted by Yahoo |
- Search the Columbia Encycolpledia from the University of Columbia - more than
84,000 cross references
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- Search for anywhere
- Get directions from one place to another
- Check distances
- View as map, satellite or hybrid
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- see towns, cities, mountains in 3D from google earth - amazing!
- free download - but you need quite a lot of computer space and memory - check on site before download
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Free-translator.com
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- Use with care as it is machine translation
- Translate up to 150 word chunks
- Web page translation
- News in various languages including Serbian and Albanian
- 28 translators for 38 languages
- travel vocabulary with sound
- lots of advertisements
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MSN Encarta Encyclopedia
Online
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- encyclopedia
- atlas
- dictionary
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Ultra
Lingua's Web Dictionary
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- American English
- fast search
- synonyms
- conjugations - if you choose this from the top menu you can put in, for example, 'think' and all the tenses are listed - e.g. present tense - I think, you think etc.
- numbers option - converts numbers to text
- references option - grammar references and explanations
- extremely useful for ESOL students
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Internet Public Library -
Reference Section
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- books
- newspapers
- reference works
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