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Home / Kids and Teens / School Time / Reference Tools / Almanacs
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- Afro-American Almanac - 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.
www.toptags.com/aama
- Baseball Almanac - The "Official" Baseball History Site - Baseball Almanac is filled with awards, records, stats, quotes, feats, facts and a book full of baseball history!
www.baseball-almanac.com
- Daily Almanacs - A day-by-day listing of births, deaths, significant events, holidays, and observances.
www.dailyalmanacs.com
- Farmers' Almanac Home Page - The online version of one of America's oldest publications. Includes gardening tips, helpful hints, weather forecasts, and folklore.
www.farmersalmanac.com
- General Knowledge - Top-Education - Collection of general facts providing information about history, geology, science, biographies and other topics.
www.top-education.com/gk/main/nextpage.asp
- Infoplease Almanacs - Provides access to a variety of topical almanacs.
www.infoplease.com/almanacs.html
- inQuiry Almanack - An archive of seaonal activities. Some geared toward classroom use.
sln.fi.edu:80/qanda/qanda.html
- The Old Farmer's Almanac - Online version of America's oldest source of weather, folklore, gardening and other information.
www.almanac.com
- The World Factbook - 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
www.bartleby.com/151
- United Nations CyberSchoolBus - 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.
www.cyberschoolbus.un.org
- Wordswitch.com Countries - Web directory of links specific to individual countries.
www.worldswitch.com/Countries/index.htm
- World Almanac For Kids - Offers games, quizzes, contests, homework help, and reference facts on topics such as space, presidents, the environment, animals, geography, and historical birthdays.
www.worldalmanacforkids.com
- World Factbook 2000 - Provides detailed information about countries and non-self-governing territories around the world.
www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook
- Yahooligans Kids' Almanac - Easy-to-use directory of information on topics such as animals, the environment, people, languages, and the law.
www.yahooligans.com/content/ka
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