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Find out what any acronym, abbreviation, or initialism stands for.
Find out about historic events and birthdates that occurred on a selected day.
A resource for students to search or browse for information in encyclopedias, magazines, videos, and Web sites. *
A powerful resource to search or browse for information in encyclopedias, magazines, videos, and Web sites.*
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online features profiles of more than 143,000 past and present authors, historians, journalists, screenwriters, publishers, and playwrights. The biographies discuss the lives and careers of the literary figures profiled, along with the critical response to their works.
Explore la Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol, una fuente de conocimiento autorizado y confiable con miles de artfculos en un amplio rango de temas.*
Provides an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life, knowledge, and the contribution of Jews to world cultures. *
Provides in-depth information on the nature and habitat of familiar animals.*
Provides clear and accessible presentation of wide-ranging philosophical subjects, serving as a first-stop resource for general readers, students and educators.*
Full-text encyclopedia.*
Includes Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies, Encyclopedia of Associations, Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media, and National Directory of Nonprofit Organizations.*
Full-text reference books on topics including biography, business, the environment, history, law, social sciences, medicine, religion, the sciences, and multicultural studies.*
A selective guide to the best reference sources, organized by academic discipline. An editorial team of reference librarians and subject experts have selected and annotated some 16,000 entries, both print and web-based, free and subscription.*
Encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture.
Combines the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, and several up-to-the-minute almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records.
Online English language dictionary and thesaurus. Also includes a medical dictionary and a Spanish-English dictionary.
Among the 12,000 entries in the encyclopedia are articles on theology, philosophy, history, literary figures, saints, musicians and much more.*
Crossword puzzle dictionary.
Includes Grove Art Online and containc articles on all aspects of the visual arts - painting, sculpture, graphic and decorative arts, photography - from prehistory to the present. *
Online version of the Oxford English Dictionary, including the complete Second Edition and the New Edition in progress.
Oxford Music Online is the leading online resource for music research, offering the full texts of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd Edition (2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd Edition (2001), as well as all subsequent updates .*
Time zones and calendars, including a perpetual calendar.
Online French, Spanish, German, and Italian Dictionary.
Find a bilingual, multilingual or specialized dictionary from a list of over 600 dictionaries.
For more information, search in the databases listed under Magazines, Scholarly Journals and Publications.
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