Historical Census Browser

Historical Census Browser, from the University of Virginia Geospatial and Statistical Data Center, is an interactive tool which plots historical census data by topic and geography. The map it! option plots data visually on a map of the United States.
The data and terminology presented in the Historical Census Browser are drawn directly from historical [...]

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Ethnologue – all of the world’s known living languages.

http://www.ethnologue.com
The Ethnologue is an encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 6,912 known living languages. The purpose of the Ethnologue is to provide a comprehensive listing of the known living languages of the world. Search by language or country.
The web edition of the Ethnologue contains all the content of the [...]

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Google Earth – the world’s geographic information at your fingertip

http://earth.google.com
Google Earth is a stand alone application that combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings. The result is a sophisticated visual mapping tool which can be used to view geography and plot data. A powerful version of this tool is available for free download.
Reference Librarian, Deb [...]

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The Presidential Timeline Project

Twelve presidential libraries spanning the Herbert Hoover to Bill Clinton administrations have teamed up to create the Presidential Timeline of the 20th Century, a multimedia online archive.
The project currently contains 700 primary and secondary documents, some of which were previously available only to scholars. Contributing archivists estimate that continual updates will eventually bring the website’s [...]

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