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- Legends of Forever - Explores many world cultures. Click on any part of a world map to be transported to information about that region. Then explore the gods, legends, and culture of that area.
- Cultures - Devoted to cultures, living and ancient, and the promotion of world communication. Includes photos, drawings, animations, sounds, links to encyclopedias.
- Mysteries of the Ancient High Cultures - Similarities in artifacts from ancient Old World and New World cultures.
- CIA - The World Factbook -- Guinea - Offers map and brief descriptions of the geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, and culture.
- World Cultural Foundations - Non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote cultural understanding throughout the world. PenFriends is now regarded as the world's largest pen pal program with over one million members.
- Macdonald Drive Elementary Multicultural Website - Contributions from students include profiles of world countries, cultural and traditional beliefs, folktales from around the world and basic phrases in different languages. School located in St. John's, Newfoundland.
- World Cultures - An electronic journal that features articles, databases, programs and manuals for comparative and cross-cultural research.
- UNESCO Cultural Heritage - The tangible and intangible heritage of the world, and UNESCO's work in preserving and enhancing it through the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage.
- Native American Cultures - Description of nine different Native American culture areas in the United States with a map, definitions and review questions.
- People and Culture of Senegal - Provides visitor information along with background material on the people and culture including their music, cuisine, festivals, arts and crafts.
Wikipedia Articles
- House of World Cultures - The House of World Cultures in Berlin is Germany's centre for non-European art. It presents cultures from outside Europe via contemporary art exhibitions, films, theatre- and dance performances, lectures, concerts and congresses.
- World cultures - World Cultures is an electronic and paper journal of cross-cultural studies. It was founded in 1985 by Douglas R.
- Constructed world - A constructed world (also conworld or sub-creation) is an imaginary world, usually associated with a fictional universe, built via a world building or conworlding process. A constructed world typically has a number of constructed cultures and constructed languages associated with it.
- World Digital Library - The World Digital Library is a project of the Library of Congress to make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non- ...
- Mesoamerican world tree - "World trees" are a prevalent motif occurring in the mythical cosmologies, creation accounts and iconographies of the pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica. World trees embodied the four cardinal directions, which also serve to represent the four-fold nature of a central world tree, a symbolic axis mundi which connects the planes of the Underworld and the sky with that of the terrestrial realm.