It's not as much use if you're looking for pictures, but one web resource that seems to be quite a bit more accurate in its information than the average on the Internet, is wikipedia. At least in the English version, there are now so many entries (and some are updated so rapidly that current events that happened *today* appear before the day ends), that even Google will sometimes list the wikipedia entry as its first hit. It even has useful entries on information so obscure or unique that you won't find it even in a large mainstream encyclopedia such as Encyclopedia Britannica.* And apparently overall, its accuracy rivals that of Encyclopedia Britannica, at least for scientific topics according to the journal Nature which did a test on both of them. Also I got contacted by a guy in Germany who was working on an article for a Lilium species who wanted to use one of my images from the PBS wiki and was asking permission. He even researched the image an informed me of the specific species and subspecies it was after input he got from various Lily experts. Plus, almost all the articles have a host of references at the bottom both from online sources as well as printed sources. So you can investigate both the topic and its accuracy even further. I love it. --Lee Poulsen Pasadena, California, USDA Zone 10a *(For example, I was asking a co-worker (with a PhD in some mathematical science area) originally from China about the characters and names for very large numerical quantities (on the order of the Western system of numbers such as quadrillion, quintillion, etc.) in the Chinese/Japanese system. This was because the names in our system jump in units of 3 zeros (or 6 zeros for the British) while in theirs the names jump in units of 4 zeros. He knew the names up to the equivalent of our trillion, and knew there were at least two characters for names beyond that one, but he didn't know what they were and said it was going to take some time and trouble to try to track even what those two were. Finally, a couple of weeks later he showed me what he had found which wasn't much and he said he had looked in all of his technical and encyclopedic books in Chinese. On a lark, I tried looking up something in wikipedia about large numbers in other language systems and it referenced one of its articles it had, in English!, about the Chinese large number names. It went way beyond what my co-worker was able to find out, had all the characters, in Chinese, as well as transliterated. And explained the entire system! Amazing. And one or more people had put it all together and entered it as an entry. Other friends have found similarly obscure yet accurate information stored there as well.)