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Charlotte Chamber of Commerce
The Charlotte Chamber fosters the growth and development of all
area businesses, recruiting new companies, representing members'
interests in government affairs, and promoting a high quality of
life. |
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Charlotte Convention & Visitors Bureau
The CCVB provides visitors to Charlotte with information on places
to see, dine, stay & shop, as well as meeting & event services. |
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Site
The Official Site for Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina - Local
Government Information & Services |
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
The official site for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system. |
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The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public Library
This award-winning site provides online access to the library catalog
and a calendar of special events at the branches. Special features
include StoryPlace, a bilingual (English/Spanish) site with online
stories and activites, as well as The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Story,
a site providing a synopsis of the history of the region. |
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Mayor's International Cabinet
The Mayor's International Cabinet serves the international community
of Charlotte by being a RESOURCE for information requests, a FOCUS
of international activities, a CONSULTANT to elected officials and
city staff and a REFLECTION of our community's changing face. |
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Community Connections State Department Homepage
The homepage of the nationwide, State Department funded program
Community Connections and links to other related sites. |
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The Library of Congress Country Studies
This website contains the on-line versions of books previously published
in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of
Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored
by the U.S. Department of Army. Because the original intent of the
Series' sponsor was to focus primarily on lesser known areas of
the world or regions in which U.S. forces might be deployed, the
series is not all-inclusive. At present, 101 countries and regions
are covered. The Country Studies Series presents a description and
analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political,
and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout
the world, and examines the interrelationships of those systems
and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors. |
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» Transitions
Abroad Online
Transitions Abroad is a bimonthly guide to practical information
on affordable alternatives to mass tourism: living, working, studying,
or vacationing alongside the people of the host country. The website
contains a wealth of practical information and an extensive list
of resources regarding overseas travel, student exchange programs,
languages schools, and internship, volunteer and employment opportunities
abroad. |
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Electronic Embassy
The Electronic Embassy provides information on each of the foreign
embassies in Washington D.C., with links to Web-based resources
where available. |
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United Nations Cyber School Bus
A wonderful site for young people interested in global issues. Students
can access an easy-to-use database to gather a wide variety of information
(such as average annual rainfall, population, life expectancy, currency,
and major languages) on selected countries, and read articles on
global population, educational, and health trends. Themes including
biodiversity, children's rights, refugees, and international law
are also addressed in briefing papers. Yet while useful for the
researcher, the site also has links just for fun, allowing students
to test their knowledge with the flag tag game and postcard quiz. |
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Flag Institute
The Flag Institute is one of the world's main research and documentation
centers for flags and vexillology (the scientific study of flags
and related emblems). It collects and provides all kinds of flag
information, from past and present, from all over the world. At
this site, you can access the World Flag Database where you'll find
over 260 pages on countries and international organizations. Each
page contains basic information on the country, including its formal
name, capital city, area, population, currency, and languages. The
flags shown include the national and state flags, ensigns, and sub-national
flags. Where countries have changed their flags in the last few
years the old flag is also shown. |
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» Foreignword.com
A fairly comprehensive site for your basic language needs. Foreignword.com
provides you access to useful translation tools to help you find
the right word or phrase in dozens of languages. The "DictSearch"
database allows you to search in 178 dictionaries on the Internet
and translate from 63 source languages into 64 target languages--over
300 language combinations. The "TranslateNow!" machine
translation tool gives you single-point access to 22 of the best
systems for over 30 different languages, enabling you to create
draft translations of brief documents. |
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National Council for International Visitors
This site provides information on the national network that Charlotte's
Council for International Visitors is a part of. It also lists all
the Councils across the U.S. |
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The
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Has many great international aid programs around the world. This
is one of the government agencies that Charlotte's Council for International
Visitors works with. |
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» U.S.
Department of State Exchange Page
This site includes information on the International Visitor Program
(which partly sponsors Charlotte's Council for International Visitors)
and the Office of Citizen Exchanges (which sponsors Community Connections). |
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» National
Geographic Map Machine
You find downloadable political and physical maps of the world,
as well as other geographic resources, at this reference site. |
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» The
Earth Calendar
A nonprofit website, the Earth Calendar offers a daybook of holidays
and celebrations around the world. You can search by date, country,
or religion. |
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» U.S.
Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs
This site provides information on travel abroad, US embassy contacts
and more. |
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The International Relations Unit of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police
Dept. |
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International Center of Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools |
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Charlotte Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee |
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Legal Services of Southern Piedmont
for spanish section: www.union.lib.nc.us/clubs&organizations/legal.htm |
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Goodwill Industries |
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Department of Social Services |
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services |
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Just One Call |
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Charlotte Sister Cities |
