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3D Atlas Online - What on earth are you looking for? It doesn't matter--you'll find it here. Check out research links for every country, current news, and a geographic glossary. For example, in Zimbabwe, you can see a photo of a mud hut home with a thatched roof, learn about the country's plateau and savanna, view its colorful flag, and link to other Zimbabwe sites. Also find an index to maps for each country and resources for students and teachers.
Architecture Through the Ages - Punch your own ticket and you're off to see some of the world's greatest architectural wonders. Choose from Mesoamerican, European, Chinese, District of Columbian, Islamic, or Egyptian architectural history. You can also explore castles and cathedrals. Learn about gothic vaults, flying buttresses, and building materials. This site was created by students for the ThinkQuest competition.
Classic 164 Currency Converter - When is a dollar not a dollar? Wait a minute. Where did you get that dollar? Is that a U.S. dollar, or an Australian dollar, or a Namibian dollar? If it's a Namibian dollar, then it is likely worth less than half the U.S. dollar. The Australian dollar is worth more than the Namibian dollar but is still not worth as much as the U.S. dollar. Confused yet? What about the German mark, the Japanese yen, or the Slovenian tolar? Whoa! This stuff can get confusing. Luckily, at this site, with just a couple of clicks, you can compare 164 currencies all over the world, from their values in 1990 through today. Try it!
DeLorme-CyberMaps - DeLorme's powerful and easy-to-use computer mapping products make it easy to plan trips, find people, places and businesses and, with their "Earthmate GPS Receiver" and GPS compatilble products, you'll never get lost again!
Down and Dirty Story of the Panama Canal - It seemed like a great idea in the 1870s: cut a water passageway through Panama in order to create a shortcut to the Pacific or the Atlantic Ocean. It became a marvelous feat of engineering, but took a toll in lives lost as well as financial cost. Explore a time line of events here, and ponder why the original French construction team might have ordered 10,000 snow shovels to continue its work in the jungle.
E&P Online Media Directory - has been around for a long time, providing information for the news industry. Now they've got this great online media directory for you to use! You will find associations, city guides, magazines, newspapers, news services and syndicates, and radio and television Web sites listed both geographically and by media type. Check it out and find the newspaper in your community, the community where you used to live, or the community you're moving to. If you've got a homework assignment about current events in, say, Bermuda, you can read the daily news from local newspapers there.
Excite Travel: Destinations: Countries & Territories - World geography homework never had it so good! Enjoy touring the world, looking for interesting places for that class project. Inside each country page are links sorted by categories, such as country information, culture and language, maps, and travel. At the bottom of each country page is an additional choice that lists links to all the countries in the same region or continent. Happy trails.
Festivals.com - Parental advisory: Please preview this site. Festivals.com offers a fascinating look at more than 26,000 seasonal celebrations around the world. Click on any area of the Big Map and search for festivals there. You can even add information on festivals in your area. You'll find lots of features and fun, but we haven't looked at everything on the site, so browse with care.
Flags of the World - If you were going to design a flag for an Internet flag page, what would it look like? Fans of this site have chosen one--see what you think. We liked one of the losers (Jan Oskar Engene's, with the two crossed computer mice), but there is no accounting for taste. You'll also find pages and pages of flags of the world here. An extra bonus: you'll see national symbols, anthems, and other patriotic links for many countries.
Geo-Globe: Interactive Geography! - This ThinkQuest contest finalist site, built by kids, will rock your world! How much do you know about geography? In Geo-Find, you can play at the beginner, intermediate, or advanced levels. Is Santiago the capital of Chile? What countries contain part of the Sahara Desert? Is Egypt south or north of the equator? Right or wrong, you'll get more links for you to explore on that topic. Geo-Quest involves ten questions: try to guess the right animal or bird, based on the answers to the questions you pose. Don't stop there--you'll find several more games that will test your knowledge of the seas, lands, and skies of Planet Earth.
Geographica Homepage - The Interknowledge Corporation presents this professional-looking site that contains country-specific pages on many countries around the world. Each country site is both a pleasure to look at and a treasure chest of comprehensive information. This is a don't-miss site for worldly info-seekers.
Governments on the WWW - And now for the political side of the Web: here is a collection of government sites for all the countries of the world. Links are included on parliaments, ministries, agencies, law courts, embassies, consulates, political parties, parliamentary groups, and youth organizations of political parties. All the government sites are grouped by continent, but you can also browse other categories such as multinational organizations and institutional sites on broadcasting, elections, statistics, tourism, and more.
Holidays Around the World - From Christmas and Hanukkah to Our Lady of Guadelupe Day in Mexico, Guy Fawkes Day in the United Kingdom, and New Year's Eve, November and December are full of revelry, celebration, and solemn religious occasions.
Hostels.com - The Internet Guide to Hostelling - The world's #1 hostelling resource featuring stories, advice, news, tickets, gear, and the web's best hostel database!
Infonation - This very interesting site lets you campare statistics on up to seven different countries at a time. Select the countries you want. Then click on up to four data sets. These can be things like population, unemployment, life expectancy, or more than 40 other choices. Then click on View Info to see how your countries compare with each other. Amazing! If you need a descripion of a category item, there's a Definition of Terms that describes them all.
Jubillenium - Peace for a Thousand Years - Pause for a minute and light a candle for world peace! The global organizations Jubillenium and Sister Cities International are launching an unprecedented worldwide initiative to promote a culture of peace among all natioins and people.
Kidlink Small Flag Icons - Here you will find more than 116 tiny flag icons representing countries participating in the KIDCAFE and KIDLINK discussion list projects. This page loads rapidly, since the GIFs are so small. You can use these to dress up your school reports or home pages.
Kidproj's Multi-Cultural Calendar - Around the world, every day is a holiday somewhere, and kids just like you are celebrating something. Now kids have a place to tell the rest of the world about their holiday foods, decorations, parades, songs, and other ways they make this day special from all the others. You can look at the holidays by month, by country, or by name. Do you have a special holiday you want to talk about? Add it here!
Library of Congress - Country Studies - Country Studies is part of a continuing series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program. This series presently contains studies of 90 countries. You will find accurate and detailed historical information. Learn about the people who make up each country's society, their origins, dominant beliefs and values, and their common interests, as well as the issues on which they are divided.
Micronations - If you've ever dreamed about starting your own country, this collection of micronation Web sites is the place to visit. Of course, once you get started, you'll need to write a constitution, create some holidays, design a flag, schedule summit conferences, print some money, and, well, you get the idea. Actually, there are many justified reasons for some of these micronations to be in pursuit of sovereignty.
Multicultural Home Page - This site offers just what it says: a sampling of different cultures from all around the world. Hear Chinese folk music, or learn more about the history of the Canadian fur trade or details about historic Canadian women. How about a recipe for brigadeiro (a delicious Brazilian dessert) or a visit to the Taj Mahal in India? Not every country is listed here, but you'll find a good selection of diverse cultures from around the world, each listed with a color picture of the country's flag. If you haven't found the information you are looking for somewhere else, check out this site compiled by Purdue University.
Professor's Postcards - The Professor takes trips to UNESCO World Heritage sites all over the world, and she's great about sending postcards back to her friends. Unfortunately, she always seems to leave out the most important words--like where she is! Can you figure it out from the clues on the postcards?
Rainforest Alliance - Keep up with current news about the rain forest and those who are trying to save it at the "Rainforest Alliance" level of this site. Below is the URL for the kids' section, where you can learn about all kinds of frogs, make rain forest crafts, print out coloring pages, and find out where to get more information on everything from leaf cutter ants to medicinal plants.
Richard Robinson's Tunebook - Haul out your fiddle (or flute, sax, or tuba) and try some of these great tunes. This is real sheet music. If you hang out with acoustic or traditional musicians, you'll recognize some of these tunes. Jigs, reels, polkas, schottisches, and more were selected from France, Finland, Turkey, and Cape Breton, as well as lots from the British Isles. There's bound to be some bourr e or other you've never played before. The real fun comes when you share the tunes with other players. Anybody can play them. If you've been taking Suzuki method lessons for a while, try something new. It's the 32-bar pause that refreshes!
Royal Families of the World - This resource has collected official (and not so official) home pages of royalty in Europe, the Middle East, the Far East, and even--Canada (it's OK, it's all about Queen Elizabeth II). By the way, if you ever meet the queen and her husband the duke, here's what to do: "The Queen is called `Your Majesty' initially and `Ma'am' (rhymes with `jam') as the conversation continues. The Duke of Edinburgh is called `Your Royal Highness' initially and `Sir' as the conversation continues."
Shades of Green: Earth's Forests - Learn about all different types of forests: tropical and temperate rain forests, broadleaf forests, and coniferous forests. Find out what types of trees, plants, and animals live in them. Explore a virtual forest walk and examine diagrams such as a cross-section of a tree. What threatens these forests today? Pollution, fire, deforestation, erosion, and climate change are only a few of the problems you can learn about here. This site was created by students for the ThinkQuest competition.
The EmbassyWeb - Countries that are friendly towards each other often set up embassies in each other's countries, to help continue their good relationships. The embassies provide a place for businesses and individuals to get accurate and authoritative information about the other country. Embassies also provide a place for their own citizens to get help when they are away from home and for travelers to get visas (entry permits, not the credit cards) to the other country. Since embassies are in the information business, they can also be a valuable resource for researching facts about their countries.
The FlagWire Channel - Just as you're putting the final touches on your school report about the flag of Zaire, you hear on the radio that they have not only just changed the name of the country, but it has a new flag! No worries. This site keeps up on all flag changes, and you can find a picture of the new banner here. There are also special reports on various flag topics and current news involving flags of the world.
The Heraldry and Vexillology Page - Discover why flags are flown at half-mast, which flags get to fly higher than others, and more on this neat page. There are links to pages throughout the world, including one that features heraldic clip art. There's a heraldry dictionary, a collection of flags, and so much more that you'll be waving a flag of your own for this site.
The Web of Culture - From this site you can explore world religions, currencies, recipes, holidays, headlines, embassies, and the etiquette of body language, or gestures. There are also contests and chat sessions with people from other countries. The whole idea of this site is to help us to learn about other cultures from the folks who know them best.
The Worldwide Holiday & Festival Site - The United States celebrates its birthday on July 4. There are parades, picnics, and at night--fireworks. Most countries celebrate national holidays that are their equivalents of the American Independence Day. You'll find a searchable list of many national and religious holidays here.
Tourism Offices Worldwide Directory - Where do you want to go on vacation? You have a lot of possible choices; where can you go to get information on each? You want official material, too, not just brochures from hotels and resorts. The same thing applies if you're doing a report on a state or a country: you want information from some authoritative source. Here it is! Just select the country or state you want, and the contact information (and sometimes, the Web page location) will appear on your screen. It will also tell you the last time the address was verified.
United Nations CyberSchoolBus - It won't take you 80 days to go around the world at this site, but you'd find plenty here to keep you busy if you wanted to take that long! Besides learning all about the United Nations and how and why it began, you could check Resource Source and learn about special celebration activities for days that are relevant to the entire world, such as World Environment Day. The City Profile section includes descriptions of cities around the world and an urban fact game. The Country At a Glance section contains information about all member countries of the United Nations. Quiz Quad offers several games. Test your knowledge of flags with the Flag Tag game or take quizzes from Doctor Data. The Professor's global quizzes on UNESCO's World Heritage site are lots of fun, too. Periodically, the Professor goes on a seven-week tour of historically and culturally significant sites around the world. Based on the hints from the postcards, you have to figure out where the professor has been. If you uncover all seven destinations, you'll win a prize and get your name listed on the Photo Quiz site. You'll also find lots of information on Model U.N. activities here.
Virtual Tourist - Virtual Tourist is a way to find Web pages around the world. You're first presented with a clickable world map. Pick a continent or region and zoom in to a more detailed map showing the countries. Click once more on a country, and you'll see a list of Web servers located in that country. The server may have information about that country along with other subject matter.
WashingtonPost.com: International - Try the Search the World database to find news, reference materials, and Internet resources for more than 220 countries and territories. This is a great place to look if you need the very latest information on a country! You can type in the name of a specific country or territory or just browse the countries alphabetically. Regional sections are updated weekly, with news and features from six different regions of the world.
World Heritage Center - What do the Grand Canyon, the Galapagos Islands, Moenjodaro, Volklingen Ironworks, the Island of Gore, and the Citadel of Haiti all have in common? Though each of these sites is located in a different part of the world, they share a common heritage as unique treasures. If environmental or political situations cause them to disappear, it would be a loss for each and every one of us. UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) believes that preservation of this common heritage concerns us all. They have established a list of these sites, recognized as exhibiting "outstanding universal value." At press time, the World Heritage List included 582 cultural and natural sites. Find out if your country has any special sites on this list. Maybe your school can become part of the World Heritage Youth Project. Check the Just for Kids section, where you'll find out What Makes a Site and what a World Heritage site manager does, and take some Virtual Tours in the Let's Visit section.
WorldSkip.com - WorldSkip Provides News, Information, Products and Services From Every Nation On This Planet! Just select a country or click on a continent to skip around the world!
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