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Answers.com as a source – for an entire book!

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Many of you have used Answers.com for writing research papers, settling heated trivia battles or just plain browsing. But what about using Answers.com to write an entire book?

Harold Kirsh, a retired physician and longtime user of Answers.com, recently did just that. To write Thank You America, Kirsh referenced our “encyclo-diction-almanac-apedia” heavily using 1-Click Answers.

Thank You America, a reader-friendly overview of American history, follows the travels of Dr. Kirsh and his wife (more than 14,000 miles total!) as they visit every American president’s birthplace, burial site, and over one hundred associated museums and memorials. Among the highlights of their journey were: sitting in John Adams’ pew in his church, touring Truman’s library with Harry Truman himself, meeting the man who made FDR’s leg braces, and spending a day poring over scrapbooks with Eddie Jacobson’s 16-year-old daughter.

The result is a proud, heartfelt American journey, packed with historical gems and anecdotes.

“Almost all my Internet searches were performed by utilizing Answers.com,” Dr. Kirsh said. “When I began writing the book I found out how useful a function it was since I could easily improve my writing while on the word processor.” 1-Click Answers allowed him to define words, check spelling, find synonyms and reference American history articles.

Answers.com is very proud to be mentioned in the acknowledgements of Thank You America! For more information on Dr. Kirsh and his book, visit haroldkirsh.com.

Have you used Answers.com as a source recently? Let us know about it in the comments.

Tax Day Delayed! (You still have to pay them though.)

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If you woke up last night in a cold sweat realizing April 15th is fast approaching and you haven’t filed your taxes yet, we have some good news for you. Your tax return isn’t due until next Monday! Why did Uncle Sam cut us Americans some slack this year? You can thank a little known holiday, Emancipation Day, celebrating the abolition of slavery. This year it falls on a Saturday but will be officially observed in Washington, D.C. on Friday, April 15th, closing many federal buildings. As a result, the IRS pushed the income tax deadline to Monday, April 18th.

Haven’t filed yet? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. The IRS estimates “20 to 25 percent of all taxpayers file in the final two weeks of the tax season.” The average individual spends upwards of 14 hours on his tax return, so an extra weekend should be plenty of time, right? Check out this clip from Video Answers for tips on how to prepare your tax return this year.

Angry that you had to cough up more cash to the government? Hey, at least America’s tax rate isn’t close to 50 percent like other countries!

Some more helpful answers to prepare you for Tax Day:

Heal what ails you: whether with words or medicine.

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I’m delighted to announce two more licensed titles added to Answers.com’s reference collection. Which one speaks to you more?

Modern English Usage, the classic authority on grammar and style.

Should you use a split infinitive, or a preposition at the end of a sentence? Is it infer or imply? Who or whom? What are the main differences between British and American English? Here are clear recommendations on issues of grammar, pronunciation, spelling, confusable words, and written style. Includes examples drawn from classic and contemporary literary sources, newspapers and magazines, and the internet.

An A-Z of Medicinal Drugs, a reference source for the wide range of medicines available today.

This dictionary covers over-the-counter, pharmacy, and prescription medicines, listing side effects and interactions with other medicines; there are entries on conditions and the medicines used to treat them. See juniper berry oil, quinine, or abacavir.

Happy reading!

Check stock quotes on your phone, from Answers.com.

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Did you know? You can easily check company stock quotes, charts and news on Answers.com with QuoteMedia. Aim big and see how Google is doing, or find out the latest news and media for Ethan Allen Interiors.

But wouldn’t it be even better on the go? Yeah, we agree. Check the same data on your phone by going to answers.com in your browser on your Android, iPhone and other handheld devices. Look up the company on Answers.com and get your info, organized in expandable tabs:

Slang, popes and molecular biology: It’s all here.

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We’re proud and pleased to announce that we now have live on Answers.com six new reference titles. We dare you to come up with a common theme for all of them; but even if you don’t, you’ll still enjoy learning to rhyme popes, using modern slang, in British places while pretending to peruse biochemistry textbooks (but really reading Australian literature).

So here they are for your browsing convenience:

As always, we aim to answer. Happy reading.

Cold where you are? Consider 500 other places…

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Last time we announced our publication of Frommer’s Guide to 500 Extraordinary Islands. This time, we’re thrilled to add more destinations for you to consider when planning your next getaway, all covered with the customary Frommer’s expertise and readability.

500 Places to See Before They Disappear

500 Places to Take Your Kids Before They Grow Up

500 Places Where You Can Make a Difference

500 Places for Food and Wine Lovers

500 Adrenaline Adventures

And if those places are too close to home, consider The Universal Book of Astronomy: “Covering everything from major observatories and space telescopes to biographies of astronomers throughout the ages, it showcases an extraordinary array of newfound wonders, including microquasars, brown dwarfs, and dark energy, as well as a host of individual comets, asteroids, moons, planets, stars, nebulas, and galaxies.”

We also have a gorgeous and super-informative Visual Food Guide, which will teach you how to best buy, prepare, serve and store foods, with nutritional info and lovely illustrations thrown in for good measure. See leek, tofu, or foie gras.

And for those who need to know what’s inside, we are pleased to offer an Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Foods, Drugs, and Cosmetics, which reveals the chemical composition, uses, toxicology and pharmacology of items like jojoba, jasmine and Job’s tears.

We aim to answer. Happy reading.

Words, travel, eating; eating words during travel: Brand new content on Answers.com.

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We’re pleased to announce tons of new stuff on Answers.com recently.

Pride of place this month goes to Word Menu. It’s hard to explain how useful this can be when you’re at a loss for just the right word. It’s a reverse dictionary, thesaurus, almanac, and collection of glossaries divided into logical categories to help you find the precise word you are looking for. For example, say you’re writing about questions and answers (now, who do we know who does that?) but need more specific shades of meaning.

Word Menu advises that you can impetrate, implore, importune, inquire, interrogate, or investigate instead of “ask,” and you can react, rebut, refuse, rejoin, reply, respond, retort, or retract instead of “answer.”

Or let’s say you you’re writing a novel and a bunch of your characters walk into a bar. Only you know your characters well enough to know what they would order – but what if you can’t think of it? Word Menu comes to the rescue with more words than you knew existed for types of beer, wine, spirits, mixed drinks and more.

On to other matters. Answers.com invites you to explore 500 Extraordinary Islands. Take a virtual tour of Fraser Island, Kauai, Antarctica and other mouthwatering destinations with the famous Frommer’s Guides.

Speaking of places, we’ve got stats and facts galore about 100 or so U.S. Cities – useful if you’re thinking of relocation or just want to know where to find info on shopping in Charlotte, quality of living in Seattle, or the population of Portland.

Next up we’ve got the Flavors Dictionary – especially for biologists, chemists, pharmacists, etc. See info on cashew, butyric acid or butterscotch.

Also, we’ve got our Oxford Articles, a miscellany of information from the Oxford University Press. Enlighten yourself regarding the Babbage-Chambers Paradox, the baboon watch, and Bach flower remedies.

Kitchen Q&A is a collection of straightforward, clear answers relating to food and cooking. It’s almost impossible to stop reading this one, as questions address need-to-know topics like

Cheers and bon appétit!

As always, we aim to answer. Happy reading.

Diets, literature and counties: New reference content on Answers.com.

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We’re pleased and proud to announce three new collections of information that are now live on Answers.com, each of which can feed a particular type of craving.

  1. Encyclopedia of Diets. Learn the pros and cons of the Chocolate Diet, the Kidney Diet and the Warrior Diet.
  2. Literature and Its Times. From Hamlet through The Little Prince to Angels in America, here are literary classics discussed and analyzed in context.
  3. United States Counties. For lovers of stats, here’s where you can find out the population of Queens County, New York; the average income in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma; and where Coffee County, Alabama got its name.

We aim to answer. Happy reading!

Time to learn Hinglish. And Rhyming Slang. And…

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Today’s a good day if you’re looking for new and unusual ways to express yourself. Answers.com is proud to announce we’ve got three new highly idiosyncratic dictionaries for your logophilic pleasure.

And, on whole other note (ahem) we are also pleased to announce the publication of biographies of contemporary musicians and bands (1980s through 2010). From Abba to ZZ Top, through Madonna and Michael Jackson and thousands of other lesser-known entertainers, even one-hit wonders, these are truly endearing homages.

We aim to answer. Happy reading.

Getting political (Q&A) on Answers.com.

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Answers.com went live this week with two new collections of ReferenceAnswers Q&A – U.S. Politics and the Supreme Court. They answer questions like:

Both sets of Q&A go back to the nation’s founding and continue up to nowadays. They manage to present topics that are quite complex in a very straightforward manner.

In addition, our site now displays the entire contents of Beacham’s Guide to the Endangered Species of North America – 1,200 species of animals and plants facing the threat of extinction. Take a look at the Mariana fruit bat, the black lace cactus, and the quino checkerspot butterfly.

We aim to answer. Happy reading.