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Best of the Web: Resources for Young Adults » Homework Help
- A Celebration Of Women Writers
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A Minute Longer
A soldier's blog.
- A&E's Biography
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A+ Guide to Research and Writing
A step by step guide plus other online resources
- A+ Research & Writing Guide
- ABC News
- Absolute Shakespeare
- Africa South Of The Sahara
- Aint It Cool News?
- All About Jazz
- All Music Guide
- Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall
- Art History Resources On The Web
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Art Magick
Gallery of art from art movements of the 19th and early 20th centuries
- Arthurian Literature
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Back to Iraq
Follow a reporter's blog through the terrain of Iraq.
- Background Notes
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Bartleby Library Great Books On Line
Many reference books published on the web
- Bartleby Library Guides to Quotations
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Bartleby Library of Reference and Verse
Many famous poems online
- BBC News
- Beginner's Guide To HTML
- BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper
- British Broadcasting Corporation
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Building Big
All the essential statistics and a short history, from PBS.
- CBS News
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Celebration of Women Writers
Works by women writers and an extensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical information. Browse by author, century, country, or ethnicity.
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Citation Style for Research Papers
What style should you use for your research paper's footnotes? APA? Turabian? MLA? Chicago? AMA? Not sure what all this means? Find out here.
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Classical Music Page
Music history and biographies
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Classics Online
Works of Greek and Roman philosophers, historians and storytellers
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CliffsNotes
Read the free online versions of the popular study guides.
- Convert it!
- Distinguished Women Of The Past & Present
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Easybib
How to write a bibliography, MLA style, in a few easy steps.
- Encyclopedia.com
- Endangered Species
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Eric's Treasure Trove of Music
An amazing site
- Essentials of Music
- Famous Quotations Network
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FBI
The official site of the FBI.
- Foreignword.com
- General Chemistry Online
- Global Statistics
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Glossary of Literary Terms
From the University of Kentucky Classics Department
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Great Buildings - The World Trade Center
More about the architect, Minoura Yamasaki, plus images, 3-D renderings, and building details.
- Guide To Internet Research
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Guide to Writing a Basic Essay
Solid and simple instructions to essay writing
- Homework Central
- How Many? A Dictionary Of Units Of Measurement
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How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurements
An A-Z dictionary of the International System of Units, the metric system, and English traditional systems with a history and overview of each. Comprehensive.
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Hunting Bin Laden
The companion website to the PBS documentary "Hunting Bin Laden".
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InfoNation
View and compare up-to-date statisticaldata for member states of the United Nations.
- Internet Mathematics Library
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Internet Public Library Newspapers
Links to online newspapers from around the world organized by region and country, searchable by keyword.
- Internet Public Library Reading Room
- Internet Public Library's Magazine Collection
- Internet Public Library's Online Newspaper Collect
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Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism
The IPL Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
- IPL Science Fair Project Resource Guide
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Iraq Index
Need the latest about reconstruction and security in Post-Saddam Iraq? Check here.
- Kimball's Biology Pages
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L. T. Smash: Live from the Sandbox
Daily life in the Marines in Iraq.
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Literary Criticism Online
Critical reviews of literary works from the Internet Public Library
- Literary Resources On The Net
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Merriam Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus
The classic student reference books online
- MTV News
- NASA
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National Inventors Hall Of Fame
The National Inventors Hall of Fame celebrates the creative spirit of great inventors.
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- NBC News
- NetSerf
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New York State Regents Exams
Download old Regents Exams, get exam dates and help from the New York State Library.
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NovelGuide
Literary analysis of assigned reading list books
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Official Statements of the Coalition against Terrorism
Official statements on terrorism from the U.S. Department of State. Updated daily.
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On-line Books Page from the University of Pennsylvania.
Another source for e-texts which include plays, accessible by author, title and subject.
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Online Books Page
Serves as an index to more than 18,000 public domain books on the web, searchable by author, title, and subject.
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Online Citation Styles
How to document almost anything.
- Periodic Table of the Elements
- Phrase Origins
- Plants Database
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Poetry Archives
Amazing site of e-text poems by classic/famous poets
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Purdue On Line Writing Lab
Grammar and punctuation tips and exercises
- Religious Statistics
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Ricci Adam's MusicTheory.net
Music theory lessons online
- Savage Earth
- Savage Seas
- Schoolwork.org
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Science Fair Central
Handbook, project ideas, as well as recommended books and links from the Discovery Channel.
- Search The Internet
- Shakespeare Bookshelf
- Shakespeare Classroom Online
- Shakespeare Online
- Shakespeare's Globe
- Sign Language
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Speech Tips
Tips on writing and giving speeches
- The Catholic Encyclopedia
- The Earth Fact Sheet
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The Element of Style
The classic William Strunk Jr. book online
- The High School Hub
- The Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers
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Picture of the Day
May Day in New York (1856). NYPL Picture Collection.
One of 700,000 pictures in the NYPL Digital Gallery