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Information Please
Contains online versions of the Information Please Almanac, the Entertainment Almanac and Sports Almanac, the Columbia Encyclopedia, and the Random House College Dictionary. These reference works can be searched together or separately by subject (Quick Search) or full text keyword. In addition, the site contains a weekly feature story (Spotlight) covering a topic in the news, with hypertext links to pertinent Almanac content.

Farmer's Almanac
An online version of the well-known almanac.
 
Statistics Canada
Provides statistical information profiling Canada's business, economy and society. This informative site provides a wealth of information about Canada and Canadians.
 
Fugitive Fact File 
A browseable or searchable fact file created by the Hennepin County Library containing hard-to-find answers in many topics.

Nations of the World: Anthems, Flags, Maps, Weather (E-Conflict)
This site gives information on each country's map, flag, economy, defence, geography, government, and people. In addition the site contains links to the current weather conditions for cities within each country and to the news and local information. Most of the information presented is from the World Factbook.
 
Map Machine
Created by the National Geographic Society, this site contains maps, profiles, and facts about the countries of the world.

Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
This site, from the CIA, contains listings of Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members by country.

Consulates and Embassies
A directory from Yahoo of consulates and embassies with Web pages.

CIA World Factbook
This annual release from the CIA is an excellent resource for basic information about countries.

Country Studies (from the Library of Congress)
An online continuing series of books containing studies of 91 countries. Each study is written by a multidisciplinary team of social scientists. Most books in the series deal with a particular foreign country, describing and analyzing its political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions.

Currency Converter
Contains the exchange rates for 164 different currencies. The site also has a Historical Currency Converter where you can view any exchange rates among the 164 currencies for any day since 1 January 1990 through to today. Currency News also available.
 

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