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20Q.net
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20Q.net is an experiment in artificial intelligence. The program is very simple but its behavior is complex. Everything that it knows and all questions that it asks were entered by people playing this game. 20Q.net is a learning system; the more it is played, the smarter it gets.
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Absolute Anime
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Here you will find hundreds of anime profiles, each containing information about anime characters, movies, OAV (Originally Animated for Video) series, and TV shows. There is also a section dedicated to anime that has been shown on U.S. television.
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All The Lyrics.com
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Here you can find a lot of well organized song lyrics. If you cannot find what you're looking for, there is a Request lyrics form. You can also share lyrics that are not on the site. For adding there is a Submit lyrics form.
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All-Music Guide
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This site reviews and rates all music in print or out of print. The database covers both current and historical music data, and also includes over 111,000 music reviews and more than 27,000 separate artist biographies.
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Anime Cafe
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The Animé Café's goal is to provide comprehensive episode-by-episode analysis of animated Japanese features. These reviews are further augmented by cross-referencing cast and production information. They're also the home of A Parent's Guide to Anime.
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Anime News Service (ANS)
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Look here for information on anime and manga, and Japanese popular culture. The goal of the service is to collect information on related topics and provide the central internet clearing house for all news surrounding anime (Japanese Animation) and manga (Japanese Comics).
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Artistdirect
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Tons of info on all kinds of music. Search for videos, audio, news, and concert details.
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Astraweb
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A large search engine of song lyrics--find out what your favorites singers are really saying.
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BAMboozled.org
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BAM is a hive of teenagers, congregating at the Sunset Neighborhood Beacon Center in San Francisco with one mission: to Find Truth in Youth. BAMboozled.org is their vehicle, a web site that publishes their lives. Their goal is to present an alternative and more authentic view of teen life than the stereotype on network television and in most Hollywood movies.
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BET music
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Catch up with your favorite R&B and rap stars.
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Billboard Online
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All the latest music charts of hits from Billboard Magazine.
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Biography Reference Bank Select
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For biographical information on people from ancient times to the present, use this database of more than 46,000 in-depth profiles and 26,000 images (photographic portraits or artists' renderings). Searching can be done by keywords, date of birth, profession, place of origin, gender, ethnic background or any combination.
Library subscription.
Available for use within City of Milwaukee libraries
and by remote access to City of Milwaukee library
cardholders.
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Biography Resource Center & The Complete Marquis Who's Who
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Use this Gale database to find biographies and periodical articles on over 1 million people using search criteria such as name, birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender. This database combines more than 300,000 biographies on 200,000 people from: Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Newsmakers, Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television, Contemporary Musicians, Historic World Leaders, Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, Contemporary Black Biography, Religious Leaders of America, International Dictionary of Art and Artists, Writers Directory, and more, with nearly one million biographies from The Complete Marquis Who's Who®. The database also includes full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals. [For a full description of this database, go to Gale Group's Product Fact Sheets to link to a PDF format file. The Acrobat Reader plug-in is loaded on the MPL PCs.] Click here to view requirements and tips for remote access to library databases.
Library subscription.
Available for use within City of Milwaukee libraries
and by remote access to City of Milwaukee library
cardholders.
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Blastro.com
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Videos of the latest popular hip-hop and R&B songs.
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Books for the College Bound
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The books on this list will give you the opportunity to see yourself and the world in a new way; to reconnect with memories; and open doors to discovery, knowledge, adventure, and enchantment. They will inspire you to think about life, universal truths, and the human experience.
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CheatPlanet.com
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The source for game cheats and hints; including Dreamcast, Gameboy/Advance, Gamecube, Nintendo 64, PC Games, Playstation, Playstation 2 and Xbox.
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Comic Art and Graffix Gallery
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A site all about comics, their history and their art.
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Comics.com
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The Home of Comics on the Web includes such favorites as Get Fuzzy, Dilbert, Pearls Before Swine and Jump Start. The site includes new comics, e-cards, comic bios and an archive of recent comic strips searchable by date.
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Cosmo Girl
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The fashion magazine for the in-the-know teenager. The site is full of current, interesting information about fashion, style, stars and popular culture.
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DC Comics
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Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, etc.
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DearReader.com
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Sign up for one of these free book clubs and every day you'll receive an email of a chapter from a book. The emails take about 5 minutes to read. After two or three chapters from a book, a new book begins.
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Dragon Ball Z
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Use the official Dragon Ball Z site to find out about all your favorite good and bad guys and read all about their adventures past and present.
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DVD Review-Easter Eggs
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Have you heard of Easter Eggs? The kind on DVDs? This site tells you in detail how to find the Easter Eggs on current DVD releases.
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ESPN Sportzone
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A players paradise! The 411 on any game to be played is found here. From hockey to baseball to college sports. This is sports central.
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FestivalFinder
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Here you will discover the latest details on more than 2,500 music festivals in North America. Click on your favorite music type, or use the search feature to locate festivals by date, location, performers or festival name. Updated daily.
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Game FAQ
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A place to find cheat codes and video game walkthroughs for all the major systems. Includes a Top 10 FAQ Pages and Top 10 Wanted FAQs.
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Genrefluent
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Teens who read should visit this site regularly. It is overflowing with reviews and other interesting information about books and reading.
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Global Youth Action Network
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GYAN is a youth-led organization that unites the efforts of young people working to improve our world. The Network connects many thousands of organizations in over 190 countries and a growing membership is now helping to shape the future direction of GYAN.
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Greg's Previews of Upcoming Movies
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Get all the gossip, rumors, and news you can handle about movies due out soon. The site allows you to search by title, actor, release date and more. (HINT: click on what you want to search by, then scroll to the right.)
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Happy Puppy Games
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Reviews of all the newest games for PlayStation, X-Box, GameCube, Nintendo 64, and more. Some demos and shareware games are also available here.
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Hip-Hop Reader
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Hip-Hop Reader is an interactive Web site created to increase and enhance the reading habits, Internet usage, and civic engagement of urban high school students.
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ign.com
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One of the largest collections of cheat codes and game FAQ's on the Internet.
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Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
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This enormous database stores information about movies, characters, actors, and TV shows. Find out what films your favorite stars have played in, discover little-known trivia, and find links to official movie sites.
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Internet Public Library - TeenSpace
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IPL hopes to make the Internet a more useful place for teenagers, by collecting and creating information resources of interest, and by giving teenagers the opportunity to shape the direction of the Division by serving on our Advisory Board.
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Lit Finder
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Searching for just the right words? Lit Finder can connect you with them fast! Using the tabs along the top of the page, choose from Poem Finder (100,000 full-text poems/800,000 poetry citations and excerpts), Story Finder (thousands of full short stories online), or Essay/Speech/Play Finder (easily searchable by topic or type of work, with biographical information about the author). From ancient times to the present day, there's a way to express it in Lit Finder. Provided as part of Wisconsin's BadgerLink program.
Library subscription.
Available for use within City of Milwaukee libraries
and by remote access to City of Milwaukee library
cardholders.
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Marvel Comics
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Spiderman, X-Men, Fantastic Four, and more.
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MidLink Magazine
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The mission of MidLink Magazine is to highlight exemplary work from the most creative classrooms around the globe.
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MP3.com
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A popular source for free MP3 music downloads. Account registration required.
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MTV.com
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MTV's official site for all kinds of info on music and MTV shows.
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Music From TV Commercials
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What's the song in that one commercial? Find out from this site, which lists songs used in commercials from the current time back to 1996.
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Nintendo.com
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Get the scoop on new games, along with tips and secrets for existing games.
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No Flying, No Tights: graphic novel reviews for teens
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Superheroes, fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, crime and suspense, and just plain realism.
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NoveList
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An entire suite of readers' advisory products, NoveList contains not only a core of 150,000 fiction titles, but 4,000 articles and lists, book talks, and book discussion guides (great for book groups!). Many genres, from graphic novels to Christian fiction are included here. An EBSCO product, NoveList also offers avid booklovers author read-alikes, readers' advisory training content and a variety of other reader and staff materials. With books for all ages, lists of award winning titles, a guide to books in series, attractive cover images, and a colorful design, NoveList has something to appeal to every reader! Provided as part of Wisconsin's BadgerLink program.
Library subscription.
Available for use within City of Milwaukee libraries
and by remote access to City of Milwaukee library
cardholders.
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OHHLA.com
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"OHHLA" is the Original Hip-Hop Lyrics Archive with LOTS of LYRICS! Also has info on artists.
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Otaku World
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Otaku World is dedicated bringing fans fun anime and manga computer toys, detailed information and pointers to great sites about the anime and manga titles you're interested in.
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Reading Rants! Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklists
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This site exists "Because I think some librarians, teachers, book publishers and other adults don't give teens enough credit when it comes to reading tastes. I think that sometimes teens want books that ask a little more of them than Sweet Valley High or Fear Street..." (from the Webmaster).
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Seventeen
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Glamour, goods and girls. This well-known magazine shares the important info for teens on their way to adulthood.
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Smilie Games
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Play pool, chess, Galaga, PacMan, bowling, or other fun games
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Sports Illustrated
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CNN and Sports Illustrated team up to make sports news your news.
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Star Seeker
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This resource covers thousands of TV, movie and music stars from around the world. The entertainment information here includes links to up-to-date fan sites, official celebrity sites, industry organizations, festivals, entertainment news, and newsgroups.
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Teen
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Although you can no longer get a subscription to Teen magazine, this Web site provides access to tons of cool information. Everything from dating advice to homework help.
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Teen Consumer Scrapbook
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This Teen Consumer Project was funded by the Washington Sate Attorney General's Office. The goal is to educate teenagers about the marketplace and other consumer issues of interest. Teenagers, who spend billions of dollars in the marketplace, should learn to be market and media wise.
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Teen People
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The stars are out tonight. Not the ones in the sky, but the ones in your eyes. If you want to find out what's happening with the rich and famous. TeenPeople.com has the 411.
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Teen Voices Online
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Teen Voices is a magazine by and for teenage girls that goes beyond advice about clothes and makeup. TV looks at issues such as self-confidence, media influence, and achieving goals and how they affect today's young women.
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The Librarian's Guide to Anime and Manga
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Are you new to anime and manga, or want to give friends an introduction? This is a great place to start.
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ThinkQuest
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A Global network of students, teachers, parents and technologists dedicated to exploring youth-centered learning on the Net.
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