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Abbreviations, Grammar & Quotations
Country Information
- BBC News Country Profiles
Full profiles provide an instant guide to the history, politics, and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions. They also include audio and video clips from BBC archives.
- CIA World Factbook
History, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
- Google Earth
Free high-resolution mapping software with satellite imagery.
Calculators, Converters and Currency
- CalculateMe
Conversions and calculations for temperature, weight, exchange rates, etc.
- Current World Time
Based on Greenwich Mean (or meridian) time and located at the Royal Observatory in England, GMT is World Time and the basis of every world time zone
- KnowledgeDoor
Unit and base conversion as well as an extensive library of units and constants
