Bartleby

Columbia Encyclopedia 2001, English Dictionary, Roget´s Thesuras, the Bible, Shakespeare, Volumes of Poetry(Dickinson, Elliot, Keats, Wordsworth), Fiction (Aesop, Hans Christian Anderson, HG Wells, Dickens, Scott, Stevenson, etc.), non fiction (Darwin, Einstein, Plato) are all available subscription free at this excellent American site

Hurricanes

Luckily the waters around Europe are not warm enough to create a true hurricane even though we may have the ocasional storm which is just one step down from a hurricane. Find out more at this excellent site.

English and World History

Topics covered in depth with eye witness accounts, photographs, etc. include:
First World War, Second World War, Cold War,
Assassination of John F. Kennedy, British Prime Ministers,
Black People in Britain, English Civil War, American West,
USA Political Figures, The United Kingdom, Tudors,
British History:1700-1900, Russia 1860-1945, USA 1840-1960,
The Medieval World, American Civil War, Germany 1900-45,
Civil Rights Movement, Nazi Germany, Slavery,
Railways:1780-1900, McCarthyism, Vietnam War,
Emancipation of Women, American Journalism, British Art,
Parliamentary Reform, The Textile Industry, The New Deal,
Child Labour:1750-1900, Trade Union Movement, td>
Religion and Society, History Timelines, Scotland,
Cartoonists: 1700-1980, Spies and Spymasters, Wales,
Russian Revolution, Spanish Civil War, Newspapers,
Novelists & Poets, Cold War, France,
Immigration to the United States, Famous Criminal Cases,
Political Events & Issues: 1940-1980 , History of Aviation,
The Monarchy, Towns & Cities, Theatre & Cinema.

Greek Legends

With the recent film "Troy" in mind here´s a site where you can check up on Achilles, Paris, Hector, Helen, etc.

Encyclopedia Brittanica 1911

What was the world like 94 years ago? This free archive of the 1911 edition of Brittanica gives an idea. It filled 29 volumes and contains over 44 million words. It contains over 40,000 articles written by over 1,500 authors within their various fields of expertise. What was particularly remarkable was that many of the entries were written by the most famous people of the age. Henry Ford, for example, wrote the article on mass production. As such, it was considered to represent the sum of human knowledge at the beginning of the 20th Century.