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Find connections between your favorite authors at Literature Map
Digital Comic Museum features public domain comics from the Golden Age
Theoi is an encyclopedia of Greek gods/goddesses (and Encyclopedia Mythica offers pronunciation guides!)

Find open-source and copyright-free media at CreativeCommons search
Digital Public Library of America amazing resource of historic materials
The British Library has digitized many historic texts and images
Europeana historical documents and lots of art
Personal record of London Jews in WWI
Ancient History Encyclopedia is a curated resource with plenty of maps, articles, and images of historical media.
Northwestern University's collection of posters from WWII

Encyclopedia of Life seeks to collect information and pictures of all forms of life on Earth

Free Documentaries
SnagFilms lots of free documentaries here, too, as well as low-budget short films to inspire
TED—always worth your time
Cinemetrics, an incredible database of cinema data: length, average shot length, number of shots. Also offers free software to measure your own videos

Eloquent Javascript, open source textbook on Javascript for beginners and advanced coders.
Amazing book by Daniel Shiffman on the mathematical principles of nature and how to represent them in code: The Nature of Code
Daniel Shiffman's Programming from A to Z. Worth your time
RAW turns spreadsheet data into vector graphics
Turn your Google Drive folder into a PDF
Use Git to get your code to others easily tutorial/intro here
Dirty Markup will clean up your code

Don't Fear the Internet is a beautifully clear series of tutorials (written and video) that can guide you in how these webpage things work
Web design in 4 minutes. It shouldn't work, but this is a really great introduction.
If you liked that, check out his code on GitHub.

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 * [http://www.ancient.eu/ Ancient History Encyclopedia] is a curated resource with plenty of maps, articles, and images of historical media.
 * [https://www.library.northwestern.edu/libraries-collections/government-collection/index.html Northwestern University's collection of posters from WWII]
+==Advertising==
+* [https://adland.tv/ Archive of advertisements], both television and print
+* [https://repository.duke.edu/dc/adaccess Ad*Access], Duke University's archive of advertisements from 1911-1955
+* [AdAge], an online advertising magazine
+* [http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/ Vintage Ad Browser], over 100,000 categorized print ads
 ==Science Materials==