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Countries and Cultures--Selected Databases

Britannica Library
Includes Compare Countries, World Atlas,
Culturegrams
CultureGrams provides country reports that go beyond mere facts and figures to deliver a one-of-a-kind perspective on daily life and culture, including the background, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people.

Unavailable on community college campuses.
National Geographic Virtual Library
The complete archive of National Geographic magazine - every page of every issue from 1888 to the present.
Middle School (Gale in Context)
Select Topics: Cultures, Geography, or World History
Pronunciator Language Learning
Courses for 315 languages, many with live teachers to help you one-to-one. Pronunciator also has ESL support for speakers of 51 non-English languages.
World History (Gale in Context)
From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance, an array of primary sources, images, maps and charts provide expansive geographic and chronologic research materials for the study of world history.

CIA World Fact Book The World Factbook provides basic information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 258 world entities.