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• - United Nations produced Web K-12 site with lesson plans for teachers and activities and games for students. The InfoNation is a kid-friendly interface for viewing official UN country statistics.
  
• - Provides detailed information about countries and non-self-governing territories around the world.
  
• - Online version of America's oldest source of weather, folklore, gardening and other information.
  
• - Provides access to a variety of topical almanacs.
  
• - The online version of one of America's oldest publications. Includes gardening tips, helpful hints, weather forecasts, and folklore.
  
• - Baseball Almanac is filled with awards, records, stats, quotes, feats, facts and a book full of baseball history!
  
• - Offers games, quizzes, contests, homework help, and reference facts on topics such as space, presidents, the environment, animals, geography, and historical birthdays.
  
• - complete geographical handbook, featuring 267 full-color maps and flags of all nations. Each country profile tracks such demographics as population, ethnicity and literacy rates, as well as political, geographical and economic data
  
• - An archive of seasonal activities. Some geared toward classroom use.
  
• - On-line reference to the of the Afro-American experience in America provides a historical overview from the beginning of the slave trade to the present. Also includes sections on historical events and documents, biographies, and folk tales.
  
• - Web directory of links specific to individual countries.