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  • FactMonster.com - Countries of the World: Geography, maps, flags, history, and more
  • World Quizzes - Africa, Asia, Auto World, Business World, Central America Caribbean, Cities of the World, Colleges Univ...: Trivia Questions, Facts
  • World Culture - Resources on the cultures of the world including things like languages, customs, religions, holidays, and more
  • Learning Things - Help kids learn more about cultures around the world with these social studies lessons
  • Ohio's Amish Country - The Official Ohio Amish Country Publication for the Ohio Traveler - Your source for information on everything Amish, including Amish culture, Amish living and Amish tourism
  • Culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  • eCulturalResources.com - eCulturalResources.com offers daily updated cultural resource management, historic preservation, and museum jobs, news, events, and consultant listings
  • Global Gateway - Global Gateway is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture. The site offers more than 80 thousand digital items. In addition, it is a portal to international research centers, collections, and other resources available at the Library of Congress and through its Web site
  • EServer - The EServer publishes over 30,000 works in the arts and humanities free of charge to readers online
  • Cultures - This site is devoted to cultures, living and ancient, and the promotion of world communication. Featured topics include the Amistad slave ship rebellion, the Hopi and their Anasazi ancestors, the Greek shrine of Dodona, the Muwekma Ohlone and their Pacific Islander cousins, Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Timbuktu, Great Zimbabwe and Afropop
  • The Library of Congress - Country Studies - A continuing series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of the Army. This online series presently contains studies of 100 countries. Countries that were previously in multi-country volumes are now available individually.
  • Festivals.com - Festivals.com is the center of the events world with more than 25,000 festivals and events to search by keyword, geography or date. They are organized by art, culture, children, motor sports, music and sports. News, Features and the Event of the Day are added services. Travel resources and merchandise for sale are additions to Festivals.com.
  • Culture Connect - World community focusing on travel, news, webcams, culture, and lifestyle.
  • Mesoweb - An exploration of Mesoamerican cultures
  • Holidays on the Net - Holidays on the Net is a beautifully done collection of multimedia holiday celebrations
  • Indianz.com - Our mission is to provide you with quality news, information, and entertainment, from a Native American perspective
  • Collapse - Why Do Civilizations Fall? - Explore the fall of civilizations through four examples: the ancient Maya, Mesopotamia, the Anasazi, and the medieval African empires of Mali and Songhai. Learn about important concepts in archeology such as interpreting evidence and dating artifacts. In a web-based activity, search for clues to what happened at the Maya center of Copan
  • The Earth Calendar - Every day is a celebration. Every day, someone, somewhere is celebrating something. Find out more about holidays today & every day all over the world
  • Odyssey Online - Odyssey Online leads users on an exploration of Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and sub-Saharan African cultures
  • Filipino-Americans.com - Filipino-Americans.com is a one-stop site for information and resources about Filipino Americans, Filipinos, and the Philippines. Dedicated to people of Filipino heritage, particularly American-born Filipinos, this site offers information pertaining to Filipino history, customs, and traditions. Filipino Americans are sometimes called Pinoys, Pinays, Fil-Ams (Filams), and Flips
  • Hellenic Culture - This site attempts to depict Greek Culture as to "the millennia of artistry, the centuries of outstanding art, the achievements of the human spirit, and the routes on which the western civilization strode in order to reach its current form
  • National Anthropological Archives - The National Anthropological Archives collects and preserves historical and contemporary anthropological materials that document the world's cultures and the history of the discipline
  • Cultures on the edge - CULTURES ON THE EDGE is an online magazine dedicated to opening a dialogue and increasing global awareness about indigenous cultures
  • Desert People and Cultures - Many links to people, cultures and characters of the Desert Southwest, including desert explorers, Native Americans, historical figures, gunslingers and settlers
  • Japanese Culture - This site is to familiarize you with a few basic characteristics of Japanese culture and behavior that the Westerner will encounter
  • Afghan Magazine - Publisher Farhad Azad started AfghanMagazine.com in 1997 "to help bring awareness to the arts and culture of the Afghan people
  • Portals To The World - Portals to the World contain selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. They are arranged by country or area with the links for each sorted into a wide range of broad categories. The links were selected by Area Specialists and other Library staff using Library of Congress selection criteria