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International House of Logorrhea, at The Phrontistry, a free online dictionary of weird and unusual words to help enhance your vocabulary.
New works in the public domain since 1987.
International House of Logorrhea, at The Phrontistry, a free online dictionary of weird and unusual words to help enhance your vocabulary.
Wikipedia DVD Selection is a free, hand-checked, non-commercial selection from Wikipedia, targeted around the UK National Curriculum and useful for much of the English speaking world. It has about 5500 articles (as much as can be fitted on a DVD with good size images) and is about the size of a twenty volume encyclopaedia (34,000 images and 20 million words).
Poor use of the English language but excellent tutorial.
The Oxford English Dictionary comments that the word pie itself (in the culinary sense) may be connected with ‘pie’ as the name of a variety of birds, in particular the magpie, and also comments on a putative relationship between the similar terms haggis and haggess (another obsolete name for a magpie).
Deletionpedia is an archive of about 63,555 pages which have been deleted from the English-language Wikipedia.
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Enter a term, see how google and yahoo deliver it to you.
Aquila non captat muscas – The eagle does not catch flies. Aut inveniam viam aut faciam – I shall either find or make a path. Omni solum forti patria – Every land is a brave man’s country. Su se robore firmat – He strengthens himself by his own might. Latin sounds smart.
Smugopedia is a collection of slightly controversial opinions about a variety of subjects.
This website is devoted to academic research into Traditionalism and–especially–into the Traditionalists themselves.
A knol is an authoritative article about a specific topic.
The Ancient web is an online resource for Students, Teachers, and anyone interested in the cultures of the ancient world.
in Writer, you can select the default, heading, list, caption and index fonts in Tools -> Options -> Text Documents -> Basic Fonts.
to collect and celebrate personal memories of all integrated circuit-based consumer products from the electronics revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.
Vintage Electronics Have Soul – The Pocket Calculator Show Website