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Dictionaries/Thesauri

Cambridge Dictionaries Online

This web site features the favorite learner dictionaries such as Cambridge Dictionaries of the Advanced Learners, Learners, American English, Idioms, Phrasal Verbs, Spanish/ English, Klett Compact French-English and many others.

Merriam-Webster OnLine Dictionary

Search more than 160,000 entries in one of the web's most up-to-date dictionary and thesaurus.

OneLook Dictionaries

Allows you to search for multiple definitions of a word from a variety of online dictionaries.

Thesaurus

Thesaurus.com

Allows you to search thesauri or to browse thesauri by headword and category.

Fact Books

Guinness World Records

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Acronym Finder

Almanacs

50 States and Capitals

Information Please

Biographies

Biography.com

Distinguished Women of Past and Present

Nobel Prize Internet Archive

Presidents of the United States (POTUS)

Weights and Measures

Asknumbers.com

The website provides online conversions for different kind of metrics such as length, weight, temperature, area, volume, speed, frequency, light, cooking, currency and many more with pictures to allow easy access the menu items and some explanations.