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Biography
The Biography Channel - http://www.biography.com
Features 25,000 very brief biographical notes.
Time 100 - http://www.time.com/time/time100/
Profiles the 100 most influential people of the 20th
century (as selected by TIME Magazine) in five fields of endeavor.
Biographical Dictionary - http://www.s9.com/biography/
More than 25,000 notable men and women who have
shaped our world.
World Biographical Index - K. G.
Saur Publishing - http://www.saur-wbi.de/
Free access to a large biographical database
containing over 2 million references to persons. Search by name (or
part of name) in combination with occupation, year of birth or death,
year cited, and biographical archive.
About Famous People - http://www.aboutfamouspeople.com/
A collection of the biographies of various
historical personages.
Biography Center - http://www.biography-center.com/
Multi-lingual biographical directory.
Education
The Internet Scout Report - http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/Current/
Published every Friday both on the web and by email.
A team of professional librarians and subject matter experts selects,
researches, and annotates each resource.
Students.Gov - http://www.students.gov/
Collection of links to a variety of government
resources geared towards students, including information on
financial aid programs, international study, community service, and
career development.
Outstanding Books for the
College Bound and Lifelong Learners
http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/
booklistsawards/outstandingbooks/outstandingbooks.htm
Recommended nonfiction reading list, sorted into
academic disciplines. Revised every five years and intended for
students, educators, librarians, and parents.
Office of Educational
Accountability - http://education.umn.edu/oea/
Research and information on teaching best practices,
educational policy and administration, and educational
accountability issues; intended to benefit educators, parents, and
policymakers.
Museums
Szépművészeti
Múzeum
Hadtörténeti Múzeum
Budapesti Történeti Múzeum
Budapesti Történeti Múzeum
Őskori kiállítása
Semmelweis Orvostörténeti Múzeum
Nagytétényi Kastélymúzeum
Iparművészeti Múzeum
Science Fiction Museum and Hall
of Fame - http://www.sfhomeworld.org/
Seattle, Washington, museum provides a look at
exhibits, hours and location, a calendar of events, a newsletter,
and membership details
Roberson Museum & Science Center - http://www.roberson.org/
Features 19th and 20th-century art, history, folk
life, science and natural history. Includes hours, admission fees,
events, programs, membership information, and directions. Located in
Binghamton, New York.
Madame Tussaud's - http://www.madame-tussauds.com
Provides access to Madame Tussaud's London, London
Planetarium and Rock Circus as well as Madame Tussaud's in Europe
and the USA.
Smithsonian Institution - http://www.si.edu
Composed of sixteen museums and galleries, the
National Zoo, and numerous research facilities in the United States
and abroad.
The Art Institute of Chicago
Museum - http://www.artic.edu/aic/index.html
Museum houses more than 300,000 works of art and
includes among its treasures, American Gothic by Grant Wood, Edward
Hopper's Nighthawks and 33 works by Monet.
Metropolitan Museum of Art - http://www.metmuseum.org
Collections contains more than two million works of
art spanning more than 5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory
to the present.
Armand Hammer Museum - http://www.hammer.ucla.edu
Permanent collections include the Armand Hammer
Collection of Art which is primarily composed of Impressionist and
Post-Impressionist works.
Philadelphia Museum of Art - http://www.philamuseum.org/
Seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret the visual
arts to a diverse audience as a source of delight, illumination, and
lifelong learning.
Kyoto National Museum - http://www.kyohaku.go.jp/
Ceramics, sculpture, paintings, calligraphy, and
metalwork. The masterworks section contains both good enlargements
and good explanatory text.
The Ruth and Sherman Lee
Institute for Japanese Art - http://www.shermanleeinstitute.org
Collection of paintings, sculpture, and decorative
arts representing artistic activity in Japan from the 10th into the
21th century. Includes virtual tour and membership application.
Located in Hanford, California.
The National Museum of Modern
Art, Tokyo - http://www.momat.go.jp/
Japan's first national art museum includes the
collection and preservation of works of art, craft, and film as well
as of related materials; surveys and research on these works; and
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Maps
ViaMichelin
http://www.viamichelin.co.uk/viamichelin/:
street map, maps, map UK, route finder, route planner,
directions, road map, route map ViaMichelin provides you with maps
all over Europe (street map, map UK ...).
Discover our special tools: prepare your travel with our route
planner and finder. Find the shortest directions by creating your
detailed road / route map - street map, maps, map UK, route finder,
route planner, directions, road map, route map. street map,
street maps, map, maps, map UK, maps UK, route finder, route planner,
routes finder, routes planner, directions, road map, route map,
roads map, routes map.
http://www.viamichelin.co.uk/__Budapest
Eniro kartat
http://kartat.eniro.fi
http://kartat.eniro.fi/_VANTAA
Maporama
http://www.maporama.com/share
Google Maps
http://maps.google.com
maps.google__helsinki
www.020300200.com
http://www.suomi-info.net
Google Maps - http://maps.google.com/
Provides directions, interactive maps, and satellite/aerial
imagery of the United States. Can also search by keyword such as
type of business.
MapQuest - http://www.mapquest.com/
Find directions for and explore towns and cities
worldwide. Display addresses on a map, view nearby businesses, get
driving directions and maps, and plan a trip with city information.
Also includes aerial photographs of selected areas.
Maporama - http://www.maporama.com
Generates maps for a desired address or point of
interest. Output is also viewable on handheld computers.
CIA World Factbook - Reference
Maps - http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/docs/refmaps.html
Various maps of the world in both jpeg and pdf
format that are updated annually.
United Nations: Cartographic
Section - http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/htmain.htm
General country and special issues maps.
Multimap - http://www.multimap.com/
Global mapping service including street maps of
Europe, North America and Australia.
MSN Virtual Earth - http://virtualearth.msn.com/
Provides directions, interactive maps, and satellite/aerial
imagery of the United States. Can also search by keyword such as
type of business.
TerraServer - http://terraserver.microsoft.com/
View maps and aerial photos of various parts of the
Earth.
Rand McNally - http://www.randmcnally.com/
Online maps, driving directions, and travel store.
Expedia Maps - http://maps.expedia.com/
Offers searchable listing in the United States and
Europe by address and driving directions.
Atlapedia Online - http://www.atlapedia.com/
Contains full color physical and political maps as
well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.
TerraFly - http://www.terrafly.com/
Searchable aerial views of cities and towns in the
United States.
Maps of World - http://www.mapsofworld.com/
Online maps showing countries of the world and
continents. Too wide for smaller monitors.
Atlas of the Biosphere - http://www.sage.wisc.edu/atlas/
A collection of maps, schematics, and information
about human-environment interactions, directed at the education
community.
Cornell's Digital Earth - http://atlas.geo.cornell.edu/webmap/
Use this interactive atlas to create maps displaying
land, oceans, borders, roads, lakes, rivers, roads, railroads,
faults, mines, seismic, and other geological, geographical, and
geophysical data.
Great Circle Mapper - http://gc.kls2.com/
Shows great circle path between specified points on
the globe with an aviation focus.
Readmap Project - http://www.readmap.com/
Online maps collection with political and economical
overview of each country.
The British Museum - http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/
Houses a vast collection of world art and artifacts.
A large part of the collection can be viewed online.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - http://www.mfa.org
International museum of fine art.
National Gallery of Art - http://www.nga.gov
In Washington,D.C. houses one of the finest
collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting,
sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to the present.
J. Paul Getty Museum - http://www.getty.edu/museum/
Collections comprise seven areas of art: Greek and
Roman antiquities, Medieval manuscripts, European paintings,
sculpture, drawings and decorative arts, and photographs.
Vatican Museums - http://mv.vatican.va/StartNew_EN.html
Houses a 500-year-old art collection. Includes
virtual tours with the ability to zoom in, details of selected
highlights, history of the collection, and events.
The Vienna Kunsthistorisches
Museum - http://www.khm.at
Features the Hapsburgs Collection of Art, including
paintings, sculpture and decorative arts. Artists include Lipizzaner,
Rubens, and Velazquez.
The Tokugawa Art Museum (Nagoya) - http://www.cjn.or.jp/tokugawa/index.html
Collection based on the personal holdings of the
Owari branch of the Tokugawa family (furniture, armor, swords, fine
art, and the items of daily life). Artifacts are displayed in
galleries which reconstruct their original settings in order to
accord with the importance of the sense of placement in Japanese
aesthetics. |
