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Search for people or businesses; E-mail, FAX, and Toll Free Number information . Includes reverse lookups, street proximity listings for business or residential; match for last name lookups, maps of the address.

People and business directory, with e-mail and web sites.

Online encyclopedia features articles and content from premier titles like The Columbia Encyclopedia, Oxford’s World Encyclopedia, and the Encyclopedia of World Biography.

The world's largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms.

Also includes French, German and Italian.

Create a calendar for any year and country; shows holidays per country and phases of the moon.

Search listings of public holidays by country and year.

Full-text info on countries and international organizations; organized by region and country or organization. History, government and political conditions, economy, foreign relations and basic travel information. Also lists principal U.S. officials and consulate officers.

Information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

Includes: latitude and longitude, birds, colleges/universities, constitutions, flowers, genealogical resources, mottos, national forests/parks, newspapers, nicknames, nonprofit organizations, populations, state/federal representatives, songs, and the date of entry into the union.

Includes the Information Please Almanac, the Entertainment Almanac, Sports Almanac, the Columbia Encyclopedia, and the Random House College Dictionary online.