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BookBrowse.com - carefully selected from the most interesting current books this site provides multiple reviews and an excerpt of each. The site can be browsed by titles or genre and contains lists of 2003 Favorite Books. The interview section, contains interview sessions with authors such as Isabel Allende, Harold Bloom, Geraldine Brooks, J.A. Jance, and 226 others.
http://www.bookbrowse.com/ 

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Chocophile.com - "Because Life Is Too Short For Anything But The Best Chocolate!"
http://www.chocophile.com/

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Comics.com - "The home of comics on the Web." View your favorite comic strip online, including Dilbert, Peanuts, plus editorial cartoons and New Yorker cartoons. http://www.unitedmedia.com/index.html

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dMarie Time Capsule - Look up a date in history (from 1800 to 2001) to see the headlines of the day, a list of people whose birthday it was, the top songs of the day, the cost of everyday items, and lots of other fun trivia.
http://dmarie.com/timecap/step1.asp

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Home Film Festival- Mail-order rental of movies you always wanted to see, based here in Scranton.
http://www.vlibrary.com/vlibrary/

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HowStuffWorks - A useful collection of articles describing how various things work -- from technology, to the body, to games. Also provides links to Internet sites for additional information.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/

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Internet Movie Database - An excellent source of information on movies and television series, past and present. A must for all film fans.
http://www.imdb.com/

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Metacritic: film - using a large range of daily and magazine film critics provides a metascore for a film.
http://www.metacritic.com/film/

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NetLingo - The site is essentially an online dictionary of thousands of terms pertaining to the Internet, including definitions of online acronyms (e.g. BTW, LOL, etc.) and examples of emoticons (e.g. : - ) etc.).
http://www.netlingo.com/inframes.cfm

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ThreeStooges.net - online filmography, videography, message boards, chronology, routines, etc. dedicated entirely to the Three Stooges.
http://threestooges.net/

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United States Genealogy Sleuth - A collection of genealogy links compiled by ProGenealogists, helpful for researching your ancestors. http://www.progenealogists.com/genealogysleuthb.htm

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          Updated February, 2004 by Clara Hudson