Announcement
Man and Mollusc has a new venture: Man and Mollusc Books!
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I'm
proud to announce my first book in a proposed series of children's books;
"Sammy's Adventure".
For more story details and the costs of purchasing "Sammy's Adventure"
please go to the promotional
flyer.
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Stations / Tides /Time / and Other Tidbits of General Interest
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Computer
Virus Information:
- About
Antivirus Software: From antivirus.guide@about.com, your Guide to
Antivirus Software: A good site to learn which viruses are out there and
how to recognize and treat them.
- Repair
and Download Center
Use the Virus Encyclopedia to check out the details on latest threats,
or double check the Hoax Encyclopedia before forwarding that bogus warning.
Need repair tips for the MTX virus? It's all in the Repair and Download
Center.
http://antivirus.about.com/library/bldownld.htm
- For more information
on Viruses, go to Man and Molluscs: The
Web Designers Helping Hands Sites.
Currency Converters
International:
Dictionaries Online:
- Computer
Currents On-line Dictionary - searchable glossary
of computer and Internet words, acronyms, and abbreviations.
- Dictionary.com: Dictionary, Translator,
Fun and Games with words and much more:
- Goldy International, Inc. - features
the Language Teacher, a line of talking pocket electronic dictionaries, translators,
and organizers in many languages.
- Library
Spot: Good research library of sites.
- Merriam-Webster Dictionary: This is a SPLENDID
dictionary (and Thesaurus also!!), which even gives the origins of all the
words!
- On-line Medical Dictionary
- OMD is a searchable dictionary of terms relating to biochemistry, biology,
chemistry, medicine, molecular biology, physics, plant biology, radiobiology,
zoology, science and technology.
- Words of Art:
An On-line Glossary of Theory and Criticism for the Visual Arts
- Whatis: Virtually any computer-related
term you want to know about, it is here
- Your Dictionary.com: Dictionary
and Thesaurus in over 200 languages. Over 50 specialty dictionaries. Incredibly
cool language tools. Plus word-of-the-day, fun & games with words, stories
& articles and much more.
Discover
the World: A
Regional Directory of all countries
eCard Greetings:
Encyclopedias Online:
Many of these links are actually search engines
- Britannica.com
- access to the full contents of the encyclopedia, as well as news and links.
- Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
- complete contents of the year 2000 publication of the largest one-volume
general encyclopedia available. Full-text searchable.
- E-Conflict World Encyclopedia - information
on the nations of the world, including national anthems, maps, flags, geography,
economy, people, government, and defense.
- Encarta & MSN.com: Encyclopedia Dictionary
Atlas
- Encyclopedia.com - provides more
than 17,000 short articles from the Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia,
Third Edition.
- Everything2 - aims to catalog all
human knowledge and show the interconnections between all the people, places,
things, and ideas.
- Information Please - from the print
reference database, offering millions of useful and interesting facts on a
wide range of topics online. Also includes a dictionary and encyclopedia.
- Web Directory: Encyberpedia
- Information website which links together encyclopedias throughout the internet.
- World Book Encyclopedia
Euro Dollar:
Do you know and understand it? Beginning on New Years Day there will be a two
month transition period where national currencies like the franc, drachma, and
lira can still be used, but by 1 March 2002 euro banknotes and coins will become
the *ONLY* currency accepted in the 12 countries of the euro area (Austria,
Belgium, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands,
Portugal, and Spain.)
- Press
Kits
- The
Euro: multilingual page: "On 1 January 2002, the euro banknotes and
coins will be introduced in 12 Member States of the European Union. There
will be seven different banknotes and eight coins..."
- Conversion
Rates: The conversion rate for the euro for each
participating currency is irrevocably fixed and is the only rate to be used
for conversion either way between the euro and the national currency unit
or for conversion between the national currency units.
- The Euro by Yahoo
Free Downloads you might
require for viewing some files:
Holiday Dates:
Man and Mollusc: Internet
Resources Section
Maps:
Miscellaneous sites of
interest:
- African
American Networking - links to current topics.
- Friends-Partners.org: Welcome
to Friends and Partners, jointly developed by friends in the US and Russia
to promote better understanding between the people of our countries.
- Grant Writing Tutorial:
by the US Environmental Protection Society. This interactive software tool
walks the user through the grant-writing process and helps them learn to write
more competitive grants.
- Nature International Weekly Journal
of Science and now with a daily science and nature online update
- NEWS of the WEIRD:
News
of the Weird (founded 1988) is the longest-running, most widely-read bizarre-but-all-true
news feature in the United States--indeed, the gold standard of weird-news
reporting. The principal work-product of News of the Weird is the weekly column
that appears in more than 250 newspapers in the U.S. and Canada. Proof that
true stories are weirder than made-up stories.
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For the younger crowd:
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News for
Everyone:
- All Africa.com: Africa News Online - Welcometo
allAfrica.com, incorporating Africa News Online. Everyday
we post nearly 400 stories from more than 60 African publications -- and we're
adding new features regularly.
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Canada:
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CBC.ca
(Canadian Broadcasting Corporation): Canadian Daily News
- Central America:
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Europe
daily news:
- Mexico;
- South
America:
- USA:
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Scanners and Scanning tips:
Science Links:
Student's
Page:
Teacher's
Page:
Tides:
Time International:
Translators:
- BABELFISH.ORG:
A good source of online web translators and dictionaries.
- FreeTranslation.com - free translation
of text and web pages from English to Spanish, Portuguese, French, German,
and Italian.
- Free Translator
Page: Translator In English, Traducteur En Francais, Ubersetzer Auf Deusch,
Traduttore En Italiano, Traductor Em Portugues, Traductor En Espanol. Webmasters
Take The Translator With You! Here Is The HTML Code available on site. Just
paste it onto your page!
- InterTran (tm) - translate between
729 language pairs! InterTran (tm). InterTran (tm), short for Internet Translator,
is a free web translation service that can translate single words, phrases,
sentences and entire web sites.
Weather:
- World:
Another Man and Mollusc page
by Avril. World maps, geographic and
political information
This
page was last completely editied
September 04, 2002
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