Educational content ideas/reference works

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Reference works can include:

List of Words in Spanish: http://www.datsi.fi.upm.es/~coes/espell_leame/espell_leame.html

Grady Ward's dictionaries:

Moby Hyphenation List (English), http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3204
Moby Multiple Language Lists of Common Words (English), http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3206
Moby Part of Speech List (English), http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3203
Moby Pronunciation List (English), http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3205
Moby Thesaurus List (English), http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3202
Moby Word Lists (English), http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3201

The Logos multilingual dictionary, a GFDL dictionary in 200+ languages.
The Indic Family of Languages project
I am thrilled by this project. I make available my multi-lingual comparative dictionary for over 25 ancient languages with hundreds of thousands of words for use on the laptop. I also offer this to google for use since google supports the one laptop per child project. Congratulations, Nicholas Negroponte and his team for initiating this project. Best wishes for a successful launch.

-- S. kalyanaraman, Ph.d. Sarasvati Research Centre, Srinagar Colony, Chennai 600015 kalyan97 at gmail.com
African Language Bilingual (with English) Dictionaries - Hausa, Akan, Ewe (West Africa)- from kasahorow.com

Wikipedia (and subsets of it)
- The Wikipedia Schools CD (2006 articles)
- The One encyclopedia per child project to design a concise snapshot of Wikipedia content
Other encyclopedia projects...

The 2006 CIA World Factbook is a superb atlas and reference document for statistics of every country in the world. It also includes appendices of International Organizations and Groups, Selected International Environmental Agreements, Weights and Measures, and more. The Zip file of its contents (including GIF but not PDF maps) is only 18.8 MB, and should compress a bit smaller using a bzip2 or 7zip. It is public domain.

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