ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Grolier - Full online database of various different encyclopedia sets (General Encyclopedia, People and Places, Popular Science, Spanish version, etc.)  Ask your Media Center staff for the password to use at home.

MSN Encarta - MSN offers a condensed version of this encyclopedia.

Infoplease.com almanacs - Almanacs on every imaginable subject!

Old Farmer's Almanac online!

CNN Daily Almanac - Read a historic quote and learn about significant events that took place on a given date in years past.