I recently came across a tremendous website called FactMonster.com. The site is a children's reference website designed for kids ages 8-14 that provides entertainment and educational resources. It combines the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas, and several almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records. A single search engine allows you to search all these sources at once.
From the website:
In addition to an electronic database that is continuously updated and expanded, the Fact Monster site includes information from the following reference works:
- The TIME for Kids Almanac®, edited by Beth Rowen of Fact Monster and published by Time Inc.
- Selected content from The TIME Almanac, with Information Please®, edited by Borgna Brunner of Information Please and published by Time Inc.
- The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, published by Columbia University Press.
- Infoplease Dictionary, based on the Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
- The Infoplease Atlas, which includes several hundred maps from Magellan Geographix.
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