Fact Hound (This site is mostly useful if you are using a specific Facts Hound book)

       Be sure to use the alphabetical or category search on this one, not the box

          http://facthound.com/default.aspx

Searching Tips:

To improve your success when searching on line, it is often helpful to use Boolean Terms

to improve the quality of your hit list (not the quantity of hits).

Use an asterick (*) as a wildcard to find all endings (or middles) of a word.  This is especially useful when you are unsure of spelling or whether to enter term as singular or plural.

       Mark McG*  will find Mark McGwire

            Don* McN* will find Donovan McNabb

            Prair* will find prairie, prairies, prairie dogs, etc.

            Farm* will find farm, farms, farmer, farming, farmland, Farmington, etc.

            Fox* will find fox, foxes, foxtail, etc.

Use quotes to find “words” together in that exact order
        “Abraham Lincoln” (Not Lincoln, Illinois, or Lincoln Middle School)
        “New York City” (not a city in New York)
         “prairie dogs”  (not dogs on the prairie)

The following tricks work for some search engines but not for all:

Use the word not or a minus sign (-) to not include certain items.

          “Abraham Lincoln” – memorial           

            fox not television (this will exclude the televsion station)

Use the word and or a plus sign (+) to include all items listed.

                New York Yankees +tickets

                Delaware +history

                Oklahoma +play                           

               “Thomas Edison” and “light bulb”

Use the word or to find either term one or term two.

          Cyclone or tornado             panther or leopard          college or university