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Adherents.com

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Adherents.com
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http://www.adherents.com/

Comprehensive source of statistics for world religions.

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Comprehensive source of statistics for world religions. "Adherents" is defined as followers, and this site includes 43,870 adherent statistics and religious geography citations, referencing published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc.

Alabama Mosaic

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Alabama Mosaic
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http://www.alabamamosaic.org/

Digital collection from libraries and museums across Alabama.

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Digital collection from libraries and museums across Alabama. Alabama Mosaic is a repository of digital materials on Alabama's history, culture, places, and people. Its purpose is to make unique historical treasures from Alabama's archives, libraries, museums, and other repositories electronically accessible to Alabama residents and to students, researchers, and the general public in other states and countries.

Alaska Digital Archives

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Alaska Digital Archives
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http://vilda.alaska.edu/index.php

Over 5,000 images of Alaska's heritage.

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Over 5,000 images of Alaska's heritage. Alaska's Digital Archives presents a wealth of historical photographs, albums, oral histories, moving images, maps, documents, physical objects, and other materials from libraries, museums and archives throughout Alaska.

American Memory Collection

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American Memory Collection
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http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

Primary sources including media, posters, music, letters, diaries, books and other digitized items from the Library of Congress.

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Primary sources including media, posters, music, letters, diaries, books and other digitized items from the Library of Congress.  American Memory is a gateway to the Library of Congress’s vast resources of digitized American historical materials. Comprising more than 9 million items that document U.S. history and culture, American Memory is organized into more than 100 thematic collections based on their original format, their subject matter, or who first created, assembled, or donated them to the Library.  The American Memory portal provides free and open access through the Internet to primary source material including written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

Calisphere

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Calisphere
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http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/

Collection of digitized primary materials from California libraries, archives and museums.

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Collection of digitized primary materials from California libraries, archives, and museums. Includes themed collections such as the Gold Rush and World War II. Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 150,000 digitized items — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts — reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history.

CIA The World Factbook

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CIA The World Factbook
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https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

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The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. The World Factbook contains maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map.

CultureGrams

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CultureGrams
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http://0-online.culturegrams.com.oswald.clark.edu/
Reference book articles with demographic and cultural information.
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Reference book articles with demographic and cultural information. Brief articles cover world countries and U.S. states. Includes maps, statistics and data as well as cultural information such as famous people, recipes and photographs. Covers world countries as well as U.S. states (including state symbols and audio files for state birds).

Keywords: culture grams, culture gram, culturegram

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Economic Mobility Project

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Economic Mobility Project
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http://www.economicmobility.org/

Pew's Economic Mobility Project (EMP) focuses public attention on economic mobility in the U.S.

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Pew's Economic Mobility Project (EMP) focuses public attention on economic mobility---the ability to move up or down the income ladder within a lifetime, or from one generation to the next. By forging a broad and nonpartisan agreement on the facts, figures and trends in mobility, the project is generating an active policy debate about how best to improve economic opportunity in the United States and to ensure that the American Dream is kept alive for generations that follow.

Keywords: Pew Charitable Trust, Social Mobility, class warfare, middle class, social class

Encyclopedia Britannica Online

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Encyclopedia Britannica Online
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http://0-www.britannica.com.oswald.clark.edu/
Complete Encyclopedia Britannica full-text, and more.
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Complete Encyclopedia Britannica full-text, and more. Fully searchable and browsable collection of many authoritative references, including Britannica's latest article database, articles not yet in the print Encyclopedia Britannica, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (tenth edition), and the Britannica Book of the Year. New resources added frequently. More complete information than what is available free on the Internet.

Keywords: streaming video, videos, images, photographs, photos

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