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Anglicans
Online is a world wide site devoted to Anglicanism
The Church Times is a site
supported by the well known Anglo-catholics paper the Church Times.
Ship of Fools is a light-hearted
look at the Church.
Adam's Navel, a magazine,
forum, what-you-will of Christian opinion and cultural interaction,
articles and ideas.
Imogen de la Bere's sermons
can be viewed on-line.
Crosswalk.com provides basic
tools for Biblical analysis and searching.
Churchmusic.org.uk is
a site devoted entirely to Church Music...
Oremus
is a site based around prayer.
The Jesuits have a portion of their site called the Sacred
Space, which is mostly about prayer.
News
The BBC site
is huge, and provides current information updated all the time.
For independently sourced information consult the Independent
Media site - it provides grass-roots reporting from anywhere in
the world, and often has the latest breaking information.
Arts and Letters Daily is a rich
compendium of interesting new articles and book reviews garnered lovingly
froim the corners of the literary and humanities worlds.
Shopping
For books, consult amazon.co.uk
- they provide a good service for books, CDs, games etc.
jungle.co.uk is another shopping
mall site.
kelkoo.co.uk provides comparative
shopping over a collection of retailers in the UK based on product
comparisons.
John Lewis stores have a
very good online site.
For expensive electronic eqipment you can sometimes get this very
easily via insight.com - the
successor to action.co.uk.
Information
For health information, visit bupa.com
For maps of anywhere in Europe and much of the rest of the world,
visit multimap.com
For the current state of the motorways in the uk, consult the
AA website
Or perhaps use the traffic
master website. These people want you to pay for the privilige
of using their information.
The Encyclopedia Britiannica
provides some information free online.
Dictionary buffs will enjoy the site dictionary.com
which provides access to online definitions and slang terms newly
current.
Also a great online resource (although tricksie to move around) is
the classics site Perseus.com
- authoritative on Greek and Latin texts up to a certain date. For
translations from Greek and Latin into English, there is a fast path
here.
Many literary and other texts are available from the Project
Gutenburg site - for download or for searching, Be warned - these
texts are often only lightly edited and contain errors. Project Gutenburg
has its objective the transference of all (significant) literature
to online formats.
The site International Movie Database
has information and ratings on films.
The National Trust (the largest organization in the world in terms
of membership) has a wonderful site here.
You can locate properties online, determine opening hours, preview
the places they maintain, and much more...
Job seekers
Each of the following sites has a database
or databases of jobs for all sorts of ages and skills. If you are
looking for work, this is a good way to do it - whether contract or
permanent positions. Sites include jobserve,
jobsearch, totaljobs.com,
workthing.com.
Travel
For railway timetables, go to the National
Rail Enquiries Online site.
For online bookings on the Eurotunnel service, use
this site.
For last minute bookings, try lastminute.com...
For room bookings at the last minute another site is Late
Rooms.
Lonely Planet is good for
interesting holidays.
