Almanacs
Bartleby.com - World Factbook 2000
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complete geographical handbook, featuring 267 full-color maps
and flags of all nations. Each country profile tracks such
demographics as population, ethnicity and literacy rates, as
well as political, geographical and economic data.
The CIA World Factbook
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provides information for more than 250 countries, including
geography, map, flag, population, government, economy,
communication, transportation, and the military.
Information Please Almanac
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allows searching or browsing in sports, entertainment, U.S.,
world, people, living, society, business & economy, or science
& technology.
List of Lists - business
and industry rankings from various web-accessible resources.
Gary Price Fast Facts - compilation
of quick reference resources, including almanacs, statistics,
and fact books.
Computer
Industry Almanac - an
annual reference guide to the computer industry.
Encyclopedias
Britannica Online
- is the online version of
Encyclopedia Britannica and includes internet links.
Bartleby.com -
online publication of the
Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition.
Encyberpedia -
electronic encyclopedia with its own content
as well as over 10,000 links to the best reference sites on
the Internet
The Probert Encyclopaedia -
serious reference source with over 60,000
fully hypertext linked entries covering the entire spectrum of
human knowledge, content is aimed at journalists and
researchers.
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Online
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online version of the
popular Grolier Encyclopedia, search for the articles, or
browse by the category.
Microsoft Encarta® - Encarta
Online is the home for the Encarta Concise Encyclopedia, the
Encarta Schoolhouse educational site and Encarta Explore, an
ever-changing resource for exploration and discovery.
Dictionaries and
Thesauri
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Ed.
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allows regular and wildcard searching, so you can find all the
words ending in a given suffix.
Your dictionary.com (A Web of Online Dictionaries)
- provides links to more
than 400 dictionaries in more than 130 different languages.
OneLook
Dictionaries - the
best place to look up a word or term in an Internet dictionary
or glossary. Free search access to a frequently updated
database of words, terms, names, acronyms vs Internet links to
on-line dictionaries or glossaries.
Dictionary.com - free
online dictionary, thesaurus, translator, word of the day,
crossword puzzles and word games, and vocabulary learning
resources for many languages.
Bartleby.com - online
publication of The American Heritage Dictionary, Fourth
Edition. Featuring 70,000 audio word pronunciations, 900
full-page illustrations and over 10,000 new words and senses.
Roget's Thesaurus -
is searchable by headword or full text.
WWWebster Thesaurus - Merriam-Webster
Thesaurus.
Thesaurus.com - Roget's
Thesaurus of English words and phrases.
Webster Gateway -
provides a hypertext point-and-click interface for accessing
various dictionary services on the Internet.
Statistical
Information
Guinness World Records
- providing information on record holders for a variety of
feats and accomplishments.
Global Statistics - general data on selected
countries of the world, including administrative divisions
(provinces) and major cities of each country.
Asia Profiles -
Asian countries only, create customized comparisons
between various statistical data.
(Asian Development Bank) Developing Member Countries
Statistical Data
Chiefs of State & Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
CIA World Factbook-2000
Country at Glance (United Nations)
Country Background Notes (U.S. State Department)
Country Energy Briefs (U.S. EIA)
Country Health Profiles (Pan American Health Organization)
Country Overviews (Canada-Department of Foreign Affairs and
International Trade)
Directory of Economic, Commodity and Development Organizations
(IMF)
Home Office Country Assessments (U.K.)
International Data Base (U.S. Census)
Library of Congress Country Studies
Social Security Programs Throughout the World
SESRTCIC
(Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Center
for Islamic Countries)- basic statistics and
country profiles.
Trends in Europe and North America (United Nations)
UNESCO Statistical Database #1
UNESCO Statistical Database #2 - Worldwide
education statistics.
Worldwide Directory of Population Institutions (UN Population
Information Network)
Your
Nation - create customized comparisons/lists
between various country statistical data.
Directories
Yellow Pages and
Business Directories on Web - directory
listing other directories from over 150 countries of the
world.
Teldir -
International telephone directories on the web
Infobel -
International residence and business listings
for several countries.
WorldPages - International
white and yellow pages search.
All Nations Telephone Search Engine - dialing
codes calling to and from countries of the world. Includes
links to embassy information.
Biography
Biography.Com
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sponsored by the Biography Channel, provides a database of
over 20,000 brief biographies.
Biography-Center - 11134 biographies in different
languages.
Britannica Lives - Biographies from Britannica Online,
arranged by date of birth.
Quotations
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - search
and browse quotations from hundreds of authors,
the searchable online version of Bartlett's 1901 collection.
Motivational and Inspirational Quotes - provides
more than 13,000 quotations, to search by keyword or browse by
subject or author.
QuoteWorld.Org - is an online database with nearly
14,000 quotes that can be searched by person, title, quote,
and exact words.
The Quotations and Sayings Database - comprehensive
site to find quotations, sorted by subject and author.
quotegarden.com
Style Manuals
Writer's Web
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offers suggestions on organizing a paper, punctuation, style
and documentation, including Turabian, MLA and APA.
Columbia Online Style: MLA Style Citation of Electronic
Sources
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provides instructions and specific examples for citing
electronic resources.
NoodleBib - The MLA Bibliography Composer - a
free tool to create, edit, and save your MLA-style
bibliography online, then publish it to a Web page, email it,
or save it as RTF and open it in Microsoft Word.
William Strunk Jr.'s The Elements of Style - online
publication of Strunk's classic guide to the English language.
Guide to Grammar and Style - the
information ranges from copy editing to elements of style to
discussions. Practical information about the writing craft.
Acronym Finder -
searchable database of 80,000+ acronyms and
meanings. Covers: common acronyms, computers, technology,
government, telecommunications, and military acronyms.
Yale Style Manual - a
style manual for the design of Web pages and Web sites. Covers
graphic and information design, page layout, Web graphics,
site organization, navigation, and Web multimedia content.
How to Cite Information From the WWW -
a brief introduction from the American Psychological
Association.
Calculators and
Converters
Universal
Currency Converter
- allows
you to perform interactive foreign exchange rate conversion on
the Internet.
Calculators.Com
- provides
access to all types of calculators -- finance, business,
science, health, cooking and various hobbies.
Martindale's Calculators Online
- contains
over 8,000 various calculators.
Maps
MapQuest
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find directions and explore towns and cities worldwide. Users
can display addresses on a map, view nearby businesses, get
driving directions and maps, and plan a trip with city
information.
Atlapedia Online maps provide information such as
climate, vital statistics, religions, languages, information
on education, economy, trade, transportation, communication,
and military.
Quick
Maps of the World - small
GIF maps of the countries of the world.
World Atlas -
a complete atlas of the world featuring
several thousand place names and colorful, accurate maps.
Worldwide Country Maps - maps
for all countries in the world.
Time
Local Times Around the World
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provides local time for many cities worldwide and provides
descriptions of time zones in various parts of the world.
Will Linden's Today's Calendar and Clock Page
- is a collection of links
to information on every conceivable calendrical quotient, many
tied in to the current date or time.
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