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February 5 - Misc
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America's Cup
Follow race coverage and all the trimmings; available in German, Spanish, and Italian as well. You never know what you might have to translate. There is a glossary of sailing on the site, too.
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February 4 - Searching
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Rigmatch
Specialized search engine for the energy industry.
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February 4 - Words
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Spoonerisms
Just for fun, from "fun with words."
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February 3 - Social
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Crosspoint Anti-Racism
"The Crosspoint is the Net's biggest collection of links in the field of of Human Rights, Anti-Racism, Refugees, Women's rights, Antifascism, Shoah, etc.. Also we list links to Jewish organizations, Migrant organizations and others."
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February 3 - Economics
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Worldlink Online
Online edition of the magazine for the World Economic Forum: "the foremost international foundation integrating the leaders from business, government, academia and other parts of civil society into a global partnership for economic and social progress."
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February 2 - Environment
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Environmental Media Services
"EMS is a nonprofit communications clearinghouse dedicated to expanding media coverage of critical environmental and public health issues."
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February 1 - Biosafety
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Biosafety Protocol
This site presents the press statement issued by the head of the US delegation regarding adoption of the biosafety protocol at the conference in Montreal. There are also links to a biotechnology glossary as well as other related topics. The information is available in French as well.
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February 1 - Misc
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Brunching Shuttlecocks
Not quite sure how to describe this site, but if you have time to waste it's as good a place as any in which to do it...,-)
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February 1 - Reference
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World Atlas
These maps are provided by MCCIS, a "Military Maritime Command and Control System which has been developed and maintained for members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)." Maps of continents, individual countries, more.
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January 31 - Sound
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Film Sound Terminology
This comes under the heading of " you never know when you might have to translate about it;" terminology related to sound, as well as articles about film sound theory.
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January 31 - Misc
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Ad Access
A searchable, browsable database of "advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University. "
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January 31 - Misc
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Threatened Animals of the World
The World Conservation Monitoring Centre provides information based on the 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals, and includes "taxonomic, conservation status and distribution information on species that have been evaluated using the new IUCN Red List Category System. This system is designed to determine relative risk of extinction, and the main purpose of the Red List is to catalogue the species that are regarded as threatened at global level, ie. at risk of overall extinction."
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