Guinness Worlds Records
The Guinness Worlds Records site contains “selection of records found in the Guinness World Records database.”
Information Please Almanac
This is the online version of the Time Almanac. It is a comprehensive reference source that “allows searching along with the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas, and several almanacs containing statistics, facts, and historical records.”
Encyclopedia.com
Encyclopedia.com gives free access to nearly 200,000 reference entries from sources you can cite. Plus, more than 50,000 topic summaries feature related pictures, videos, topic summaries, and newspaper and magazine articles from around the world. Encyclopedia.com also provides innovative tools that allow you to rate and sort the reference content you find to be the most useful.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
An online version of the widely-used Encyclopedia Britannica. It contains more than 120,000 articles, thousands of images and videos, online dictionary and many more.
Google Maps
Based on the widely-popular software Google Earth. Contains high quality pictures of some portions of the world.
Atlapedia Online
Atlapedia Online contains full color physical maps, political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.