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General Bangladeshi Sites
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iBooks
If you've decided to venture into the world of electronic books, check out ibooks.com. This site presents plenty of books, all on computers, software, programming, or other technological matters, so it isn't the place to look for an online version of "Moby Dick." However, with such choices as "Learn Computers In A Day," you may find something you like here. There are also several free books offered, which can allow you to explore the possibilities of electronic books and decide whether you like them or not. I'm one of those people who prefers a book that sits in my lap with pages that I turn by hand, but I'm not opposed to checking out the selection here and seeing if it's something I could get used to. Check it out!
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http://www.bestfreebies.com
BestFreebies.com lets you browse the Internet's 30 million pages of free offers and enable you to get what you want in less than a minute.
Anyone can claim big savings by clicking on user-friendly links
representing 30 categories of free, discounted, and exclusive offers. Learn
the top ten ways to get a raise, find out how to never wait for an arrival
flight again, get nationwide movie tickets for $3.79, a $200 discount on
groceries, and even have the groceries delivered to your home at no extra
charge.
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Fabulous Foods Cooking School
So you want to learn more about cooking but you don't have the money to take cooking lessons? Check out the online cooking school offered by Fabulous Foods. You can get information on kitchen basics, ingredients, and techniques, and plenty of recipes are provided as well. There are also interviews and recipes from celebrity chefs on the site. Hundreds of kitchen and cooking tips are provided. This is a good site for anyone wanting to brush up on basics, learn new cooking techniques, or just get recipes. Check it out.
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http://www.whatis.com
Do you have any type of computer questions ?
This site is a great quick reference site for looking up this type of info. You can use it frequently at work and home.
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http://www.copykat.com
This is a Recipe site.... It's called copy kat. Recipes from your favorite restaurant's. What about getting an Italian extravaganza. Marinated and grilled Italian style chicken breasts (from my new 44,000 btu gas grill....hohoho), and fettuccine w/ the Olive Garden's alfredo sauce, an Olive Garden salad with bread sticks that will have the homemade Olive Garden garlic butter.
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Graphics4free.com
Great gratis images - A solid collection of various free graphics for use on your Web site. Here, you'll find over 34 pages of backgrounds, as well as 400 3D balls, 150 3D bullets, 300 arrows and 20 pages of bar lines. Other goodies here include buttons, fonts, icons, space images and more.
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TIME TRAVEL
Whether you believe that time travel is possible or not, this is a fascinating site, full of research and history, with a detailed analysis of the nature of time. The Time Travel Research Institute is a privately owned research laboratory managing the world's largest collection of information related to time travel. If there's anything to know about time travel, you can probably find it here.
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THE ENCYCLOPEDIA MYTHICA
This site is an encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and legend, and it presents an extensive variety of cultures, from Aztec to Latvian. The information available to browse through includes "lists of over 5,500 articles, 300 illustrations, maps, genealogy tables, and more." Obviously, this site is fantastic for any student writing a paper on one of these cultures, but anyone can learn here. Go to the Image Gallery if visual is your thing, or browse through the Genealogy Tables to get complete lists of the principal gods of Norse mythology or of Greek mythology. The Miscellanea site provides such things as a list of Greek deities and their Roman counterparts, a pronunciation guide, or a MythQuiz. This is definitely a site to bookmark for you or for your children.
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Free Shop Site
The best things in life are free? That could be the motto of the FreeShop site. The site claims to have over 1,000 free and trial offers. I didn't have time to send off for some of them in order to tell you if you actually get the stuff or not, but a recent news report complained that Web sites offering freebies often didn't come through. Then again, you haven't lost anything by trying. Of course, most of the freebies here are such items as free catalogs, free quotes on insurance or prices, free coupons, etc. But these items shouldn't be underestimated. I remember spending $20 to $30 on gardening and seed catalogs one year. Here I can get a large variety of those same kinds of catalogs for free. When you browse through the categories, read through the offers carefully, to make sure you aren't signing up for something you don't want, or obligated to anything beyond the free item you're supposed to receive. And when you go to each item, you should get a description and an expected arrival date. So go on. Get yourself some free stuff.
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The Unsinkable Stone
This is the home page for Kathy Stone-Kojis, an artist with athetoid-spastic cerebral palsy. You can do two things on this site: buy her book or buy her paintings. The paintings are done in the folk art tradition and there are many to choose from. Stone-Kojis' book tells of her life with cerebral palsy, and includes her stories of dating, disabled camping, and the handicapped programs that have benefited her. Click on the link below to learn more about this artist's inspiring story.
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About.Com's Web Clip Art
Some people can never have enough clip art. And for those people, here is a fantastic site where you can find just about any kind of clip art you like. There's an extensive list of categories to start you off, and if other people's art isn't your thing, take a tutorial to learn how to create your own. I, not being much of an artist, went into the Fantasy category, then chose the first alphabetized list, and clicked through to a page of 13 sites. (Different sites may have different rules about using the clip art, so make sure you read those when you find something you want.) I think the idea of clip art on the Internet is wonderful. You wanna be an artist? Put some clip art on the Web and allow anyone to use it as long as they credit you for it. (That's what most of the sites require.) Check it out.
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http://www.artchive.com/
Speaking Of Art Museum, Mark Harden's Artchive is a virtual museum of art history. This is not a commercial site, where you can buy reproductions of fine art. But the Artchive site is the place to view fine art throughout history. You can search a database for particular artists, styles, or periods. Or you can simply spend some time browsing through the collection. For example, click on Ancient Art, choose Ancient Greek Art, then choose Venus de Milo. You'll get a thumbnail photo of the statue, along with a brief list of facts. Then you can click on the picture for a wonderfully large view that almost makes you feel like you're standing in front of her. Click on one of the artists in the alphabetical list on the left of the site and you'll get a good bio of that artist. There's so much that's excellent about this site, not possible to fit it all in a short tip. Just go to the site and see for yourself.
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Ancient Inventions
One can be fascinated with any inventions. This site provides a nice list of ancient inventions, along with photographs of those items. Such diverse items from antiquity as a potter's wheel, the distaff, eyeliner, and the stringed skirt are represented here. When you click on each photo, you get an encyclopedia-like description of the item, the date of the item, and a larger photo. You can also go back to the Smith College History of Science's home page for the museum and find out more about the museum itself. But the inventions are the fascinating part of this site. This is another good one for family fun time.
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The Last Word From New Scientist
The Last Word site, from the science and technology magazine New Scientist, presents the answers to over 600 questions on scientific phenomena, with answers provided by readers of the magazine. Do you want to know how fish get into mountain lakes? The answer is here. How about why people stick their tongues out when they're concentrating? Yes, indeed, all of these fascinating questions and more can be answered on this site. Once again, it's kid-friendly, and may actually answer more questions than they can ask.
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Museum of Questionable Medical Devices
Like a chamber of horrors in Frankenstein's castle, this collection of 250 quack medical devices both thrills and scares you. You have to wonder who would have bought the foot-operated breast enlarger, or the Timely Warning (a device you'll just have to see for yourself when the kids are not around), or the several devices used in ancient times for bloodletting. This is one of those strange fascination sites that you just have to look through (without the kids).
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University of Life Tests
The University of Life site has tests "ranging from serious IQ tests to the Sexual Color Test." Judging from a not-so-official poll I've taken, these type of sites provide a lot of fun and a great way to waste your time. This one is no exception. One cool aspect of the site is Beat Tests, which provides practice tests and tips for the ACT, SAT, GMAT, etc. Of course, that's only fun for someone getting ready to take those tests. The rest of us will simply want to have fun finding out what our soup personalities are.
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Nag Hammadi And Knowledge
The Gnostic Society Library and Nag Hammadi Library site explains gnosticism and examines the texts found at Nag Hammadi Egypt by an Arab peasant. The jar the peasant discovered in 1945 contained thirteen papyrus codices containing fifty-two sacred texts (the long lost "Gnostic Gospels"), probably hidden around 390 from the threat of Orthodox Christians, who considered the Gnostics heretical. Follow the Nag Hammadi Library link to browse through the codices. A wonderful search feature allows you to use keywords or phrases. For anyone who enjoys studying theology or the Bible or just the roots of Christianity, you really should visit this site.
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MediaTrip.com
If downloading a few files in order to enjoy some short films, music, TV, or other entertainment format online is your thing, then check out MediaTrip.com. This site has clips of upcoming films, short animated features, interviews, news, music videos, and more. You need a nice, fast computer. It's quite addictive to see film clips, even feature films, on your computer. It's easy to use too. You should try it out.
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The Family Fun Zone
The Family Fun Zone site has everything from employment and career information for working parents to a Virtual Schoolhouse. There's a game arcade, a link to Blackfamilies.com, a link to the Sesame Workshop (under Children's Television Workshop), and much, much more. The Family Fun Zone is really a place where other links are collected, so there are many places to go from this site that are mostly family-related. This is an excellent starting point for families who have children on the computer.
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Magazines A to Z
One way to find out if you want to subscribe to a particular magazine is to check out that magazine's Web site. Even for the sites that only provide you with a little information, (preferring instead that you buy the magazine subscription), you can usually get enough of a feel for that publication to decide if you want it or not. And many magazine sites offer you at least one issue's worth of articles and information. The Magazines A to Z site has helpfully collected all of the hyperlinks to take you directly to magazines online. The site is very simple. It doesn't do anything else (other than providing shopping links as well), but that's a benefit. It's like standing in front of a virtual magazine rack and looking through all the magazines before buying any, and that makes it fun.
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