To search this resource, either browse the boldface headings, or type your
search terms in the “search in document” box in the upper right-hand corner.
AUTHORS
http://libraries.maine.edu/mainedatabases/#L
The Literature Resource Center from Gale/Cengage.
BUILDINGS
http://digproj.libraries.uc.edu:8180/luna/servlet/univcincin~27~27
A photographic archive of architecture and urban planning based at the
University of Cincinnati.
http://content.lib.washington.edu/buildingsweb/
A photographic archive of landmark buildings located around the world,
based at the University of Washington.
COUNTRIES
www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html
Statistical and factual information about every country in the world.
CULTURES
http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?lg=EN&pg=00107
UNESCO’s World Heritage Organization maintains a listing of cultural
practices (called, “Intangible”), which are evocative of the cultures from
which they spring. This database has not only descriptions, but links to video
and audio footage.
HISTORY
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/
Paul Halsall’s Internet History Sourcebook project based at Fordham
University. It is an extensive collection of public domain and permitted
primary source documents.
INDIA
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/index.html
Entitled, “Manas; India and its neighbors,” and maintained by Vinay Lal, an
Associate Professor of History at UCLA. It specializes in the history,
culture, art and society of India and its environs.
LANDMARKS
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list
The United Nations’ World Heritage site, documenting all 900+ established
UNESCO World Heritage sites, with their history, conservation issues, and
plans for future preservation.
MIDDLE EAST
www.iranicaonline.org
An international, collaborative encyclopedia of Iran, based at Columbia
University.
MUSEUMS
http://www.britishmuseum.org/
The British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
http://www.deutsches-museum.de/index.php?id=1&L=1
The Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany (the world’s largest collection in
Science and Technology).
http://www.louvre.fr/en
The Louvre, Paris.
http://www.metmuseum.org/
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
http://www.museodelprado.es/en
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain.
http://www.moma.org/
The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/
The National Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
http://www.nga.gov/
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
http://www.tate.org.uk/
The Tate, London, United Kingdom.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom.
NATURAL SCIENCE
http://www.eoearth.org/
An online encyclopedia of earth sciences, under the aegis of the National
Council for Science and the environment.
NEWSPAPERS
http://bangordailynews.com/
The Bangor Daily News.
http://www.csmonitor.com/
The Christian Science Monitor.
http://www.nytimes.com/
The New York Times.
http://www.pressherald.com/
The Portland Press Herald.
http://libraries.maine.edu/mainedatabases/#N
Proquest Newspapers in the MARVEL databases.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
The Washington Post.
PHOTOGRAPHS
see also: BUILDINGS
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
American Memory, a Library of Congress collection of historical images
(including, but not limited to, photographs).
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/
The home page of the photograph collections at the Library of Congress.
POPULATION STATISTICS
www.census.gov
SCIENCE
see also: NATURAL SCIENCE
http://www.accessscience.com.ursus-proxy-10.ursus.maine.edu/
The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, available free
to Maine residents via the MARVEL databases.
STATISTICS
see: POPULATION STATISTICS
TRUST NO ONE (aka, hoaxes and/or jolly pranksters)
http://www.bigredhair.com/boilerplate/intro.html
“Boilerplate,” a robot built in the Victorian era.
http://www.dhmo.org/
The Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIS5n9Oyzsc
The entabulator.
http://www.golfcross.com/home.html
Golfcross, a New Zealand import.
http://www.umich.edu/~engtt516/index2.html
Jacopo di Poggibonsi, Painter, 1418-1449
http://www.monpa.com/
The Museum of Non-Primate Art.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27ugSKW4-QQ
The Swiss Spaghetti harvest, April 1, 1957.
http://www.ovaprima.org/
Which really did come first?