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DICTIONARIES

ARTFL Project: ROGET'S Thesaurus Search Form
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html

Casey's Snow Day Reverse Dictionary
Search for words based on their definitions
http://www.c3.lanl.gov:8075/cgi/casey/revdict

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict

The Human-Language Page
http://www.june29.com/HLP/

Hypertext Webster Interface Author: Bennet Yee
Searchable English dictionary that contains many hypertextual links in its entries
http://c.gp.cs.cmu.edu:5103/prog/webster?

Oxford English Dictionary
http://www.oed.com/dicts.html

Phrase Finder--Searchable
Does for phrases what a thesaurus does for words.
http://www.shu.ac.uk/web-admin/phrases/

Rhyming Dictioanry
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dougb/rhyme.html

SLANG DICTIONARIES

American Slanguage
Pick a city--talk like the locals
http://www.slanguage.com:80/

Argentine Slang
It's more idiomatic than the other countries in SA
http://www.middlebury.edu/~leparc/htm/lengua.htm

Aviator Slang
http://www.nasni.navy.mil/nha/slang.htm

College slang dictionary
gopher://wiretap.spies.com:70/00/Library/Article/Language/slang.col

Crackin Wise: A Slang Dictionary
1. Selections from The dictionary of African-American Slang by Clarence Major
2. Selections from American Tramp & Underworld Slang by Godfrey Irwin
3. Australian Slang
4. Slang from the 1880's
5. Logger Talk of the Pacific Northwest
http://netspace.org:80/~mrl/projects/writing/slang.html

Dorktionary
http://www.latech.edu/~jlk/jwz/dorktionary/index.shtml

International Slang
An internet collaborative project
http://www.notam.uio.no/~hcholm/altlang/

Jargon File
Hacker slang illuminating hackish tradition, folklore, and humor
http://www.cnam.fr/Jargon/

Mountain Bike Slang Dictionary
http://world.std.com:80/~jimf/biking/slang.html

The Totally Unofficial Rap Dictionary
http://www.sci.kun.nl/thalia/rapdict/dictionary.html

Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang
Sam Spade, Bogart, et al
http://www.vex.net/~buff/slang.html

DICTIONARIES by SUBJECT

Dictionary of Cell Biology
Cross-referenced definitions of terms found in modern biology literature http://www.mblab.gla.ac.uk/dictionary/

Multilingual Glossary of Technical and Popular Medical Terms
Cross references in nine European languages
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~rvdstich/eugloss/welcome.html

Rasta/Patois Dictionary (from Reggae International)
Although short, a number of sayings, idioms, and terms are translated into English
http://niceup.com/patois.txt

Satellite Terms
http://www.miralite.com/Glossary.html

Skeptic's Dictionary
http://wheel.ucdavis.edu/~btcarrol/skeptic/dictcont.html

Literary Dictionary
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/2297/literary.html

ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Computer Desktop Encylopedia--Searchable
http://www.currents.net/resources/cyclo/cyclo.html

Encyclopædia Brittanica
The Real Thing: By subscription but some free teasers are available
http://www.eb.com/

Encyclopædia Brittanica Internet Guide
Web Guide
http://www.ebig.com/

Free Internet Encyclopedia
http://clever.net/cam/encyclopedia.html

Ancient Greece Searchable Encyclopedia
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/art&arch.html

The Encyclopedia Mythica
Mythology, Folklore, Mysticism
http://www.pantheon.org/myth/

My Virtual Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia pointer to web resources
http://www.refdesk.com/myency.html

Encyclopedia Smithsonian
http://www.si.edu/strttxt.htm

TIME - CLOCKS AND CALENDARS

An amazing variety of calendars: Time, Place, Culture.
http://www.panix.com/~wlinden/calendar.shtml

Calendar
http://www.stud.unit.no/USERBIN/steffent/kalender.pl

Calendarland
http://www.juneau.com/home/janice/calendarland/

This Day In History
http://www.historychannel.com/today/

U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK
http://www.brillig.com:80/debt_clock/

World Clock
http://www.stud.unit.no/USERBIN/steffent/verdensur.pl?+1

HISTORY AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS

Electronic Sources for History
http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/History/netuse/history.guide

Hippocratic Oath
gopher://ftp.std.com/00/obi/book/Hippocrates/Hippocratic.Oath

Historical Documents
Full text of important historical documents, e.g., MagnaCarta, Gettysburg Address, etc.
gopher://peg.cwis.uci.edu:7000/11/gopher.welcome/peg/VIRTUAL%20REFERENCE%20DESK

Horus WWW Links to History Resources
http://www.ucr.edu/h-gig/horuslinks.html

Presidential Documents
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/