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General Reference: Encyclopedias

Columbia Encyclopedia
Hosted by bartleby.com, this site contains the complete text of the 6th edition (2001) of the Columbia Encyclopedia.

Encarta Online Research
A portal to the full-text of the Encarta Concise Encyclopedia, this page offers searching capability and access to a dictionary and maps.

Wikipedia
Claiming to be the Internet's largest free reference Web site, Wikipedia boasts over 1 1/2 million articles written and edited by contributers from around the world. Wikipedia users should beware that "newer articles may still contain significant misinformation, unencyclopedic content, or vandalism."

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