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American Rhetoric
Featuring full-text, audio, and video clips of the top 100 significant speeches of the 20th century, movie speeches, and an Online Speech Bank database of over 5000 speeches, sermons, lectures, debates, etc. Cited by the American Library Association as a "Best Free Reference Website" in 2006.
Speech Writing Tips from Scholastic Magazine
HowStuffWorks
Founded by Professor Marshall Brain in 1998, HowStuffWorks is now a subsidiary of Discovery Communications. Expert advice is provided by the HSW editorial staff on a variety of topics.
How To Do Things.com
"How-to" articles on a variety of topics provided by expert professionals and hobbyists in a variety of fields.
QUOTATIONS
Bartlett's
Familiar Quotations
Online
version of the 10th edition (1919) of this reference book searchable
by keyword.
Famous Quotes and Authors
Collection of over 25,000 quotes from over 6,000 famous authors.
Movie
Quotes Browser
From the Internet Movie Database (IMDB): Browse for quotes from a specific movie or do a keyword search
in the Quotes section.
The
Quotations Archive
Search by keyword or by author.
The
Quotations Page
Searchable database of 15,000+ quotations from 2321 authors for
classic to contemporary.
Respectfully Quoted
A dictionary of quotations requested from the Congressional Research Service.
OPINION
POLLS
Polling
Report.Com
Results of recent polling.
FOOD
RESOURCES
America's
Test Kitchen
Epicurious
Food Network
(especially the program Good Eats)
Food Reference
Gourmet
Sleuth
Leite's
Culinaria
Practical
Pantry
Passionate
About Food
Reluctant
Gourmet
Science
of Baking (Article in two parts)
Science
of Cooking
Top Secret
Recipes
BIOGRAPHICAL
RESOURCES
Biography.Com
Database of 15,000 biographies from A&E searchable
by person's name, keyword, or category.
Distinguished women
Biographies of famous women--living and deceased--from various walks
of life and countries. The database is searchable by name
or by field.
First
Ladies of the United States
The National First Ladies Library is sponsored by the National First
Ladies Museum. For biographical information, click on the
portrait then click on the Biographical Information button.
First Ladies
White House website with information and portraits of the nation's
first ladies.
Inventor's
Hall of Fame
Search by inventor, invention, or decade for information about the
inventor and the impact of his/her invention.
Nobel
Prize Internet Archive
Check out the Nobel Gossip Bulletin Board for an alphabetical list
of winners and an alphabetical list by category as well as other
interesting information about the prize and its winners.
Presidents
of the United States (POTUS)
"...background information, election results, cabinet members,
notable events, and some points of interest on each of the presidents.
Links to biographies, historical documents, audio and video files,
and other presidential sites are also included."
Presidents
of the United States
White House website with information and portrait's of the nation's
chief executive.
Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame
Biographical and career information about all inductess
since the Hall of Fame was established in 1986.
Who2.com
Search or browse brief biographies of famous people.
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