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	Encylopaedia Britannica Online - the entire encyclopaedia on your desktop plus many extra features

Articles, images, audio, video, web links Thousands of articles and illustrations; specially reviewed web sites; video and sound clips; full text magazine articles Biography of the day A feature about someone connected with today's date This day in history Click the link for events with anniversaries today. You can then also scroll to the bottom of that page to find biographies, events and facts for other dates World atlas Has political, physical, land use, peoples, population, precipitation and vegetation maps of continents; country maps; links to related articles and maps Timelines Key events in all subject areas from earliest times to the present The year in review Reviews of each year back to 1993 A dictionary and thesaurus As well as the full version there are student, elementary and concise versions, so you can find the level of information that suits you		Video collection Short media clips providing quick topic overviews and full-length videos providing in-depth coverage World data Country snapshots and masses of country statistics. You can view and compare country data from across the world Gateway to the classics Over 220 works by 140 of the western world's most influential and well-known authors Notable quotations Over 4000 quotations. You can browse them by subject or by author News feeds The Britannica Online homepage also includes current headlines from the BBC and the New York Times Subject browse Enables you to find information on major subject areas systematically Personalised workspace You can store articles and retrieve them later from any PC using your own username and password

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