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Non-fiction Books at BooksShouldBeFree.com. 19.20.21. When Wikipedia Won't Cut It: 25 Online Sources for Reliable, Researched Facts. Although Wikipedia is a great place to find information, it's subject to incomplete citations, biased views, and inaccuracies.

When Wikipedia Won't Cut It: 25 Online Sources for Reliable, Researched Facts

And when you absolutely have to have undisputable facts, that's just not good enough. Fortunately, there are plenty of alternatives out there that can deliver with high quality accuracy, and we've listed 25 of the best here. Citizendium: This wiki focuses on credibility, using both the general public and credentialed experts. It works just like Wikipedia, but better. AmericanFactFinder: This database from the US Census Bureau is a great source for information on housing, economics, geography and population.

- StumbleUpon. Where Inquiry and Creativity Rules: iPads in the Classroom: App Recommendations Galore! Good, extensive list... - StumbleUpon. Printable Paper. The history of Central America. Get (Almost) Any Book For Free: 100+ (Kosher) Sites Offering Great Literature for Download. Philosophy Timeline. Myth, Legend, Folklore, Ghosts. Apollo and the Greek Muses Updated July 2010 COMPREHENSIVE SITES ON MYTHOLOGY ***** The Encyclopedia Mythica - SEARCH - Areas - Image Gallery - Genealogy tables - Mythic Heroes Probert Encyclopaedia - Mythology Gods, Heroes, and MythDictionary of Mythology What is Myth?

Myth, Legend, Folklore, Ghosts

MESOPOTAMIAN MYTHOLOGYThe Assyro-Babylonian Mythology FAQ Sumerian Mythology FAQ Sumerian Mythology Sumerian Gods and Goddesses Sumerian Myths SUMERIAN RELIGION Mythology's Mythinglinks: the Tigris-Euphrates Region of the Ancient Near East Gods, Goddesses, Demons and Monsters of Mesopotamia The Assyro-Babylonian Mythology FAQ More info on Ancient Mesopotamia can be found on my Ancient River Valley Civilizations page. GREEK MYTHOLOGYOrigins of Greek MythologyGreek Mythology - MythWeb Greek-Gods.info (plus a fun QUIZ)Ancient Greek Religion Family Tree of Greek Mythology Greek Names vs. Book Country: Discover New Fiction with the Genre Map.

Publishers, booksellers, and readers describe books by their literary categories, or genres.

Book Country: Discover New Fiction with the Genre Map

It's how books are placed in stores and sold online. We created the Genre Map to help you find the right genre for your book. Roll over the map with your cursor to see the different genres. Some categories, such as women's fiction, stand alone. If you select mystery, fantasy, romance, science fiction, or thriller, you'll see the many subgenres that you can explore within these categories. Please contact us if there's a category you'd like to see on the Genre Map. Shakespeare Insult Kit. Shakespeare Insult Kit Since 1996, the origin of this kit was listed as anonymous.

Shakespeare Insult Kit

It came to me on a piece of paper in the 90's with no attribution, and I thought it would make a cool web page. Though I searched for the origin, I could never find it. In 2014, Lara M informed found the originating author. It appears to be an English teacher at Center Grove High School in Greenwood Indiana named Jerry Maguire. World Digital Library Home. Free Audiobooks and eBooks - Librophile. WorldCat.org: The World's Largest Library Catalog. A brief history of pretty much everything. List of Free Books.

Philosophy since the Enlightenment, by Roger Jones. Kidipede - History for Kids - Homework Help for Middle School. Big history. SearchWorks (SULAIR) Children Educate Themselves III: The Wisdom of Hunter-Gatherers. For hundreds of thousands of years, up until the time when agriculture was invented (a mere 10,000 years ago), we were all hunter-gatherers.

Children Educate Themselves III: The Wisdom of Hunter-Gatherers

Our human instincts, including all of the instinctive means by which we learn, came about in the context of that way of life. And so it is natural that in this series on children's instinctive ways of educating themselves I should ask: In the last half of the 20th century, anthropologists located and observed many groups of people—in remote parts Africa, Asia, Australia, New Guinea, South America, and elsewhere—who had maintained a hunting-and-gathering life, almost unaffected by modern ways.

Probe into Amelia Earhart mystery. Washington - Seventy-five years after Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific, a research team is setting off on 2 July with high hopes of resolving the mystery surrounding the pioneering aviatrix.

Probe into Amelia Earhart mystery

For the tenth time in 23 years, the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) will set off for Nikumaroro island in Kiribati to establish whether Earhart survived the apparent crash of her aircraft. "This time, we'll be searching for debris from the aircraft," TIGHAR's founder and executive director Richard Gillespie, himself a pilot and former aviation accident investigator, told AFP. Earhart vanished on 2 July 1937 at age 39 with navigator Fred Noonan during the final stage of an ambitious round-the-world flight along the equator in a twin-engine Lockheed Electra. The holder of several aeronautical records, including the first woman to cross the Atlantic by air, Earhart had set off from New Guinea to refuel at Howland Island for a final long-distance hop to California. Watch free documentary films &videos.