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1. Women & the Economy
   Focuses on the position of women in the economy. Includes a brief history of economic thinkers; background about money, banking, debt, economics and war, and feminist economics; women's economic contributions and economic inequality; women and globalizati
   03-03-2008 : barter systems, biographies, business, economics, economists, food buying clubs, globalization, history, people, women
2. The Academy of American Poets
   Poetry exhibits, discussion forums, and an index of poets with biographical information, photos, and poetry selections. There are sound files for more than 100 poets. Links to poetry bibliographies and places to buy books, including small publishers.
   02-08-2007 : biographical information, biographies, books to buy, buy books, literature, people, poetry, poets, publishers, small publishers
3. Library Spot
   Many helpful resources for reference information, how to find information, shortcuts, and more.
   01-25-2007 : acronyms, almanacs, ask an expert, biographies, business, calculators, calendars, countries, current events, dictionaries, directories encyclopedias, genealogy, government, grammar, historic docs, legal, maps, medical, music, people, public records, quotations, societies, states, statistics, style, synonyms, thesaurus, time, white pages, yellow pages, zip codes
4. Biography.com
   Under the classroom tab, there is a database of 'over 25,000 of the greatest lives, past and present.'
   01-24-2007 : biographies, databases
5. World Biographical Index
   Contains over 3.5 million short biographical entries for eminent individuals worldwide. In English, German, French, Spanish and Italian.
   01-16-2007 : abstracts, biographies, databases, indexes
6. LibrarySpot: People
   Has biographies, statistics, media, and ways to find people: through directories or by profession.
   01-16-2007 : biographies, finding people, media, people, statistics
7. University of California Press: Public Only Subject List
   Free online books available to the public, listed by subjects.
   01-16-2007 : aboriginal peoples, africa, african american studies, african history, aging, agriculture, american literature, american studies, ancient history, anthropology, archaeology, architectural history, architecture, art, art criticism, art history, art theory, arts, asian history, asian literature, asian studies, autobiographies, autobiography, biographies, biology, bisexual studies, botany, buddhism, business, california and the west, central america, central american history, chicano studies, china, christianity, cinema, classical history, classical literature, classical philosophy, classical politics, classical religions, classics, comparative literature, composers, computer science, contemporary music, cooking, criminology, cultural anthropology, dance, demographics, east asia, eastern european studies, ecology, economics, education, english literature, environmental studies, ethics, ethnic groups, ethnic studies, ethnomusicology, european history, european literature, european studies, fiction, film, folklore, food, french studies, gay studies, gender studies, geography, geology, german studies, hinduism, history, history and philosophy of science, indigenous peoples, indigenous religions, intellectual history, islam, japan, jewish studies, judaism, labor studies, languages, latin america, law, lesbian studies, letters, linguistics, literary theory and criticism, literature, literature in translation, marine and freshwater sciences, mathematics, media studies, medical anthropology, medicine, medieval studies, men and masculinity, middle ages, middle eastern history, middle eastern studies, military history, music, musicology, mythology, native american studies, opera, pacific rim studies, performing arts, philosophy, physical sciences, physics, poetry, political theory, politics, popular culture, postcolonial studies, print media, psychiatry, psychology, public policy, religions, renaissance history, renaissance literature, rhetoric, russian studies, science, social and political thought, social problems, social science, social theory, sociology, south america, south asia, southeast asia, technology and society, theater, tibet, travel, tribes, twain, united states history, urban studies, victorian history, water, western history, wine, women's studies
8. Anthropology Biography Web
   Biographies with links for further reading.
   01-16-2007 : anthropologists, anthropology, biographies, people
9. Basque Oral History Project
   Audio interviews with Basques in the American West, accompanied by brief text biographies. Browsable by last name. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)
   01-16-2007 : basques: united states, biographies, oral histories
10. History of the Sikhs
    Covers 6 categories: Sikh gurus, Sikh martyrs, Sikh warriors, historical events, modern Sikh personalities and Sikh institutes.
    01-13-2007 : biographies, historical events, history: sikhism, sikh gurus, sikh history, sikh martyrs, sikh warriors
11. Biographies
    Has much more in-depth biographies for a limited number of current and historical people. Also has teacher's guide.. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)
    01-12-2007 : albert einstein, andrew carnegie, ansel adams, benjamin franklin, biographies, bonhoeffer, c.s. lewis, churchill, citizen king, deford bailey, einstein's wife, eleanor roosevelt, elie wiesel, ella fitzgerald, ernest hemingway, f. scott fitzgerald, fidel castro, frank lloyd wright, gene kelly, george wallace, george washington, harry houdini, hawaii's last queen, huey long, huey p. newton, ig kurchatov, jazz, jesse h. jones, joe dimaggio, joe hill, john brown, john dillinger, john gardner, joseph smith, lawrence of arabia, lewis and clark, lews: clive staples, lindbergh, macarthur, marcus garvey, mark twain, martin luther, mary pickford, muhammad, napoleon, nikola tesla, presidents, queen victoria, ralph bunche, ralph ellison, richard rodgers, rockefellers, sam goldwyn, samuel clemens, sigmund freud, stephen foster, theodore roosevelt, thomas hart benton, thomas jefferson, thomas jefferson's blood, truman, woodrow wilson, wright stuff
12. iTools: Quick Access to the Best Internet Tools
    Includes search engines; subject directories; looking up words or translating them; currency converters; encyclopedias, biographies, quotations, legal; maps and driving directions; and Internet tools such as ping, nslookup, DNS check, traceroute, link popularity, and HTML validators.
    01-12-2007 : biographies, currency converters, dns check, driving directions, electronic reference sources, encyclopedias, html validators, internet tools, legal, link popularity, looking up words translationing them, maps, nslookup, ping, quotations, search engines: general, subject directories, traceroute
13. Encyclopedia of the Celts
    Has alternative spellings and selected biographies. Browse or search by name.
    01-11-2007 : biographies, celtic studies, celts, humanities encyclopedias
14. Famous Canadians Theme Page
    Biographies and lesson plans.
    01-11-2007 : biographies, famous canadians, teaching resources (lesson plans)
15. Crazy Horse, Tashunca-uitco (1849-1877)
    Biography of the 'visionary leader committed to preserving the traditions and values of the Lakota [Indian] way of life.' Has links to related information. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)
    01-10-2007 : biographies, crazy horse, fort laramie treaty, lakota indians, little bighorn, native americans, oglala indians, people, tashunca-uitco (ca. 1842-1877)
16. Congressional Directory
    Browse or search the official directory of the U.S. Congress, including short biographies.
    01-10-2007 : biographies, congressmen, congresswomen, court officials, d.c. government officials, directories, federal departments and agencies, foreign diplomats, government, governors, media, members of the press, military establishments, politics, radio, senators, u.s. congressional directory
17. Biography Center
    Search or browse over 25,000 biographies (over 10,000 in English).
    01-10-2007 : biographies
18. The Venerable Bede
    Covers the life and works of this ancient historian.
    01-10-2007 : bede, biographies, catholics, church history
19. Almanac: Biography
    Has over 30,000 biographies, usually very brief. Also lists others (for example, a country's rulers) with birth and death dates, even if there is no biographical information on their site.. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)
    12-14-2006 : african americans, american indians, architects, artists, asian pacific americans, athletes, biographies, business leaders, entertainers, explorers, filmmakers, hispanic americans, people, poets, presidents, recent deaths, scientists, supreme court justices, u.s. congressional biographies, vice presidents, women: biographies, world rulers, writers
20. Washington D.C. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial
    Official website for this memorial that will be located on a 'four-acre plot on the north east corner of the Tidal Basin within the precinct of the Jefferson Memorial and north of the memorial to President Roosevelt' in Washington, D.C. Features maps, a description of landscape elements, and more.. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)
    11-28-2006 : biographies, black resources, martin luther king jr., people

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