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Biographical Dictionary 11011 biographies in English
"25,000 of the greatest lives"
Search and links towards other biographical dictionary.
Library and Archives Canada is the editor of this electronic version which covers people who played an important role in the formation of Canada.
Language Dictionaries A reference in the English Language Teaching, the Cambridge Dictionaries give access online to 7 different dictionaries: - Advanced Learner's Dictionary - Learner's Dictionary - Dictionary of American English - International Dictionary of Idioms - International Dictionary of phrasal Verbs - Dictionnaire Cambridge Klett Compact (French-English) - Diccionario Cambridge Klett Compact (Spanish-English)
Online dictionary collecting a terminological collection of 3 million terms in 200 fields of activity. The majority of words are in French but there are also English words and Latin words. Edited by the Office de la langue Française (OLF), it's a useful tool to find the equivalent word in English.
Sponsored by the Capital Community College Foundation Hartford, Connecticut, this guide includes answers about English grammar and principles of composition.
Online English dictionary and online thesaurus. Also a link towards the Encyclopaedia Britannica (partial edition)
Free online translation dictionaries (French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Dictionary)
Encyclopedias online Access to 37 reference works online as Columbia Encyclopedia, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy and The Encyclopedia of World History. Also access to information about authors and books.
A very good Canadian encyclopedia to complete advantageously the other resources particularly relating to the history, the geography, arts and the Canadian society.
"Search more than 4,500 articles on the world of knowledge." Summary version of the CD-ROM edition, MSN Encarta gives a free access online to an encyclopedia, thesaurus, dictionary, atlas and multimedia center.
Easy to consult and created for school works, "Encyclopedia.com, the Internet's first free encyclopedia, provides users with more than 57,000 frequently updated articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Each article is enhanced with links to newspaper and magazine articles as well as pictures and maps - all provided by HighBeam Research."
A virtual encyclopedia which covers and shows the interconnections between history, art, literature, philosophy and culture - and how each plays off and influences the others.
A free encyclopedia which covers all the topics. Use it with judgement because it is an encyclopedia written collaboratively by many of its readers and not necessary by experts. Inappropriate changes are usually removed quickly.
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