Monday, February 20, 2012

Monday's Fact of the Day

Q: How many convicts were sent from Britain to the Australian colonies during the 18th and 19th centuries?

A: For the answer to today's question, visit the Oxford Reference Online Fact of the Day at http://www.oxfordreference.com/pub/views/fact-of-the-day.html?date=2012-02-20 Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject dictionaries and a host of other reference works (including quotations, maps & illustrations, timelines and encyclopedias) into a single cross-searchable resource. Access it from the TWU Libraries homepage under Research/Databases A-Z List/O.