Reference Websites
GENERAL REFERENCE SITES - Great sources for all kinds of information
Refdesk.com
http://www.refdesk
Reference Page http://www.referencepage.com
LibrarySpot http://www.libraryspot.com
Internet Public Library Reference Center http://www.ipl.org/ref
THOR: The Online Resource http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/reference/dict.html

Almanacs
Information Please Almanac http://www.infoplease.com
Old Farmer's Almanac http://www.almanac.com

Atlases -
see also Geographical Resources
Atlapedia Online http://www.atlapedia.com
Historical Atlas of the 20th Century http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/20centry.htm

Biographical Sources
Biographical Dictionary http://www.s9.com/biography
Biography http://www.biography.com
askART http://www.askart.com  Includes biographies on 25,000+ American artists
Lives, the Biography Resource http://www.amillionlives.com
Uncle Sam - Who's Who in the Federal Government http://www.lib.memphis.edu/gpo/whos3.htm

Calendar & Clocks
10,000-Year Calendar http://calendarhome.com/tyc
The World Clock http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock

Dictionaries
Merriam-Webster Online http://www.m-w.com
OneLook Dictionary http://www.onelook.com
Your Dictionary http://yourdictionary.com
Wordsmyth http://www.wordsmyth.com

Dictionaries - Rhyming
Rhyming Dictionaries http://libraryspot.com/rhymingdictionaries.htm

Encyclopedias

A to Z http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/worldbook.html
Encyclopedia.com http://www.encyclopedia.com

Geographical Resources

50 States http://www.50states.com
AsiaSource http://www.asiasource.org
About.com Geography http://geography.about.com
MapQuest http://www.mapquest.com
U.S. Gazetteer http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer
Library of Congress Country Studies http://memory.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
Libraryspot Maps http://libraryspot.com/maps         Great source for all types of maps:  US, world, and specialized (including bike, earthquake, outline/blank, historical, topographical and weather maps)
Map Collections: 1500-1999 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html
Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps

Legal Information on the Internet
Locating the Law http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/scall/locatingthelaw.html
Law.com Dictionary http://dictionary.law.com
Findlaw http://www.findlaw.com

Legislative Information on the Internet
Thomas http://thomas.loc.gov

Quotations
Bartlett Quotations http://www.bartleby.com/100
The Quotations Page http://www.quotationspage.com
Quoteland http://www.quoteland.com/index.html

Thesauri
Roget Thesaurus http://www.thesaurus.com
Wordsmyth http://www.wordsmyth.com

Translation
AltaVista's Babel Fish http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn

Statistics - see also Social Studies - Statistics page
FedStats http://www.fedstats.gov
Statistical Abstract of the U.S. http://www.census.gov/stat_abstract
Statistical Data Locators http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/stat/statdata.htm
US Census Bureau http://www.census.gov
University of Michigan Documents Center: Statistical Resources on the Web
     http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html

Telephone Directories
Teldir.com

Web Site Evaluation Resources
Evaluating Internet Resources http://library.albany.edu/internet/evaluate.html
Student�s Guide to Research with the WWW http://www.slu.edu/departments/english/research
Media-Awareness http://www.media-awareness.ca
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