dic*tion*ar*y (dksh-nr) n. pl. dic*tion*ar*ies A reference book containing an alphabetical list of words, with information given for each word, usually including meaning, pronunciation, and etymology. A book listing the words of a language with translations into another language. A book listing words or other linguistic items in a particular category or subject with specialized information about them: a medical dictionary .
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Time Lines & Historical Data
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DMarie.com is famous for it's Time Capsule database - put in a year, and it will tell you what happened - predominantly US data.
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Pure 1950's - this site has black and white clipart in 50s style, fonts, decor, and a timeline for the 50s.
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Find out what happened on certain days of any year.
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People Stuff
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Look up details behind a name - some European, African, Biblica and Mythological Names
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28,000 biographies online
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Make some pretty cool anagrams of your names.
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Work out what celebrities share the same birthday as you.
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Dictionaries & Thesauruses
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Dictionary and Thesaurus database
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Webster's Dictionary Online
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Includes a translation dictionary - German, Italian, Spanish
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Dictionary database to find synonyms and rhyming words
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Oxford English Dictionary - sign up for the Word of the Day email also.
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Mirium Websters Dictionary Fun Word site. Build your own dictionary, or find the buzzword of the day.
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Lookup the meaning of the word Knackered or Naff off.
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Miscellaneous
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Baby Tooth chart online here, useful.
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This site provides some good research on the history of Santa / Father Christmas and Xmas Traditions, as well as most well know Christmas poems and a few lyrics
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A searchable index of calendar events per country. Look up national or public holidays, and some different event days too.
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Many links to different calendars to tell you what daily celebrations are scheduled worldwide. Includes a hippy calendar - important days in hippy history! And another listing all the Catholic Saints days.
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Lisha posted a list of definitions on a 2Peas in the Bucket thread. Print off and use.
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Take a peek at the movie, television, radio, plays and muscial scripts on this site, and consider presenting a layout in a similar format. You can download scripts from here also - Will Smith's Enemy of the State is available, for instance.
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More movie scripts to print out, including Psycho.
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Jokes for any occasion, to brighten up a layout?
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Look up words or phrases and find common symbols for these.
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Where did all those idioms come from?
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The meanings and origins of phrases, idioms, quotes and sayings.
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Languages
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Includes a translation dictionary - German, Italian, Spanish
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Translate German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portugese. Google has just released some Japanese, Korean and Chinese beta translations too.
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Lyrics & Music
I would normally use google to first search for a song title with artist name, but these two normally appear at the top of the search list.-
Lists the top singles by the decades - 1950s to 1990s. Once you choose the single you want, you can look at the lyrics and never be lost for words again.