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Reference Universe 
(The best place to begin your research. Find an authoritative introductory article and establish a solid foundation for your research.)
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
Biography
American National Biography Online
(Biographies of 17,400 significant people in United States history)
Biography.com - Biography Channel
(" Over 25,000 of the greatest lives, past and present.")
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
(An index to more than 13.6 million biographical sketches found in a variety of reference sources)
Contemporary Authors
(Biographical and bibliographical information for 120,000 international authors.)
CREDO reference
(Online biographical articles from dozens of reference sources.)
Dictionary of
Canadian Biography Online
(Biographies of significant Canadians who lived between the years 1000 and 1930.)
Dictionary of Literary Biography
(lives, works, and careers of 10,000 influential literary figures from all places, eras and genres.)
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
(Country, city information from the encyclopedia plus full-text articles from current periodicials.)
Infoplease Almanac Biography
(30,000+ biographies)
Internet Public Library: .. Biographies
(Dozens of online biography collections by theme)
MagillOnLiterature Plus
(biographies and literary critical analyses for thousands of authors)
Marquis Who's Who
(1.3 million current biographies of men and women in all fields of endeavor)
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
(55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond.)
Oxford Reference Online
(Online biographical articles from dozens of reference sources)
Reference Universe
(Search names to find biographies in specialized reference works)
Search Chambers
(includes Chambers biogrpahical dictionary)
Zárate's Political Collections (ZPC)
(Biographies and dates for figures in worlwide leadership since 1945. Mostly in Spanish.)
see also: How to find biographies
Country and Travel Information
BBC News: Country Profiles
(Concise information on countries, territories, and international organizations)
Country based search engines
(4000 search engines covering 222 countries, territories, islands and regions)
Country Profiles (Foreign Affairs & International Trade Canada)
(Maps, facts, statistics and social and cultural insights for each country from a Canadian source)
Country Profiles (Library of Congress)
(Brief updated summaries of country information)
CREDO reference
(Onine geographic articles from dozens of reference sources.)
Economist Intelligence Unit
(Provides access to Country Profile, Country Report and ViewsWire)
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
(Country, city information from the encyclopedia plus full-text articles from current periodicals)
Encyclopedia of the Nations
(Complete source for detailed information about 193 countries in the world.)
Ethnologue: Languages of the
World
(Encyclopedic reference work "cataloging all of the world's 6,912 known living languages".)
Europa world plus
(One of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories.)
Frommer's Travel Destination
("The best trips start here.")
Infoplease - countries of the world
International Travel Information (U.S. Dept. of State)
(Travel warning, country background notes)
NationMaster.com
("massive central data source" to compare nations)
Oxford Reference Online
(Online geographic articles from dozens of reference sources.)
Portals to the World (U.S. Library of Congress)
("selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world")
Rough Guides Travel
(worldwide destinations, flights, food and more)
World Factbook (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
(Current geographic, economic, demographic and political data for every country.)
World Guide
(Intute guides for over 270 countries and territories. Include interactive world maps, satelllite photos and compare data service)
World Statesmen
(detailed chronologies, flags, maps and anthems for each country)
World Time Server
(Current Time in Countries and Cities Around the World)
World Travel Guide
(country guides, city guides, airport guides, attraction guides and more)
Looking For Places
Columbia Gazetteer of North America
Geographical Names of Canada (Natural Resources Canada)
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names® Online
Global Gazetteer Version 2.1 (Falling Rain Genomics)
(Directory of cities and towns in the world.)
Google Earth
(explore, search and discover)
Internet Country Codes( University of California at Irvine)
MapMachine (National Geographic)
(satellite images, street maps and more)
multimap.com
(Provides Maps and Other Information for Countries, Cities and Places in
Europe and Throughout the World)
Surface Distance Between Two Points of Latitude and Longitude and Great Circle Distances Between Cities
(Country, state, city information from dozens of full-text online reference sources)
United Nations Cartographic Section
(maps and GIS resources)
U.S. Gazetteer
(search for a place in the United States)
World Gazetteer
(population data arranged by country)
September 28, 2011
Dianne Taylor-Harding
