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Reference
- 3D Atlas Online - Your ultimate geographical resource!
- 411 Locate.com - Database of e-mail listings, white pages, yellow pages, public records and more.
- A.Word.A.Day - Vocabulary building resource.
- Allexperts.com - A free question and answer service.
- Ancestry.com - A top source for family history online.
- AnyWho - White and yellow pages with over 90 million entries.
- Ask an Expert - Free advice from astronauts to zoo keepers.
- Atlapedia Online - Interactive atlas site.
- Awesome Library - Offers a broad range of reference resources.
- Bartleby.com - Great books online.
- Bigfoot - Offers free people searches, Web searches, white pages and Yellow Pages, as well as e-mail.
- Biography - Boasts biographies of over 25,000 personalities.
- BizWeb - Business directory.
- Calendars - A guide to locating events for each day of the year.
- Careers OnLine - Career classifieds online.
- Census Bureau Digital Map Database - Public map site from the U.S. Census Bureau.
- ClassMates.com - Find the email of high school alumni.
- Color Landform Atlas of the United States - U.S. topographic map site.
- Companies Online - Company profiles by Dun & Bradstreet
- Consumers Digest - Informative information on every retail consumer durable in the U.S.
- Cool Word of the Day - Vocabulary building resource.
- DataChimp - Financial calculator and market analyzer.
- Dictionary.com - Online dictionary, plus fun and games, word of the day and more.
- D-Lib - Digital library research resource.
- drkoop.com - Online health resource from the former Surgeon General.
- eHow - General reference site.
- Electric Library - Subscription-based online library.
- Encyclopedia of Law & Economics - A law and economics literature resource.
- Everyrule.com - Lists rules for different kinds of games, etiquette and other situations.
- Farmers' Almanac - Information on weather, gardening, astronomy and more.
- Fedstats - One stop resource for federal government statistics.
- FindLaw - A general legal resource.
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names - Geographical name database from the Getty Information Institute.
- Global Yellow Pages - Huge worldwide directory of businesses.
- Government Resources on the Web - Comprehensive directory of government resources on the Internet.
- GovSearch - Selection of new government search engines.
- HighSchoolAlumni.com - Locate an old friend from high school.
- Historical Maps of the United States - Historical map collection.
- HowTown.com - "How to do practically everything in 10 steps or less."
- Information Please - "All the knowledge you need"--almanac, dictionary, encyclopedia, weather, and more.
- Internet 800 Directory - Searchable directory of 800 and 888 toll-free business numbers.
- Internet Public Library - "Finding, evaluating, selecting, organizing, describing, and creating quality information resources."
- jobfind.com - Career opportunities online and more.
- Kids Web - Subset of the Web that is very simple to navigate, and contains information targeted at the K-12 level.
- KnowPost.com - Question and answer guide on a variety of topics.
- Learn2.com - Thousands of free tutorials, low cost courses and answers to every day problems.
- Legal Pad - A searchable directory of legal resources.
- Literary Resources on the Net - Massive literary web directory.
- Maps in the News - Highlights maps of regions in the news.
- megaConverter - An ever-growing set of weights, measures and units conversion/calculation modules.
- Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary - Online dictionary.
- MyTravelGuide.com - The Internet's Travel Portal.
- National Archives & Records Administration - Searchable databases of historical government records.
- National Geographic Map Machine - Map collection from the popular magazine.
- National Weather Service - Provides weather forecasts, storm alerts and more.
- OneLook Dictionaries - Look up nearly one of 3 million words in 632 dictionaries with one search.
- OnHealth - A resource for medical needs.
- Oxford English Dictionary - Subscriber-based, definitive dictionary.
- Political Science Virtual Library - Political science web directory.
- Presidents of the United States - Comprehensive site for locating president-related information.
- Project Gutenberg - Makes information, books and other materials available to the general public.
- Quote Land - Huge collection of quotes, plus a reference library.
- ReadersNdex - Literature search engine.
- Refdesk - "The single best source for facts on the Net."
- ReferenceDesk.org - "The Internet's Best Reference Source!"
- Research-It! - "Your one-stop reference desk."
- Researchpaper.com - Excellent help tool for research and writing.
- Retirement Cash Flow Analyzer - Financial calculator.
- Rhyming Dictionary - Find rhymes, near rhymes, homophones synonyms, and semantic siblings of any English word. Ideal for writing poetry and lyrics.
- Roget's Thesaurus - Look up synonyms online courtesy of ARTFL.
- Science Whatzit! - Try to stump the Science Whatzit Gremlin with your science question!
- SearchBug.com - "The Ultimate Reference Tool."
- Standard & Poor's - Stock market news and analysis.
- Study Web - Resources and information on study techniques and research tactics.
- The Best Information on the Net - BIOTN - Collection of informational journals in several subject areas.
- The Celebrity Almanac - Includes information on show business personalities and other high profile personalities.
- The Fix Express - "Startpage for the Smart Surfer."
- The History Net - The History Net is where history lives on the Web -- world history, American history, civil war history, and much more.
- The Library Spot - An extensive online reference desk with everything from dictionaries to genealogy, library links to "Ask the Expert," and government info to reading rooms.
- The On-Line Books Page - Directory of books that can be freely read right on the Internet.
- The Universal Currency Converter - The Universal Currency Converter allows you to perform interactive foreign exchange rate conversion on the Internet.
- THOMAS - Government search engine.
- Today-in-History - Birthdays, events and more.
- U.S Patent and Trademark Office - Learn how to patent your invention or trademark your ideas.
- U.S. Copyright Office - Provides copyright guidelines and an easy-to-use search engine.
- Verizon Superpages.com - Search thousands of US local yellow page directories simultaneously.
- Visa-ATM Locator - Locate ATMs worldwide.
- WebReference.com - Answers to your Internet questions.
- Weeno.com - General reference site.
- Where2Go - Global electronic business directory.
- Word Central - Designed for students, Word Central contains a standard dictionary or the option to build your own.
- Wordsmith - Excellent word building source.
- World Book - Stop looking for answers on the Internet and start finding them.
- World Time Server - "The most accurate source for world time."
- WorldGenWeb Project - A not-for-profit volunteer genealogical organization dedicated to the free access of genealogical information by anyone in the world.
- WWW Virtual Reference Sites - Directory of over 2,500 of the most popular information reference locations and tools on the Web.
- xrefer - Free access to over 300,000 entries about facts, words, concepts, people and quotations.
- Yahoo! People Search - Search 1000's of public databases to find addresses, property, licenses and more.
- yourDictionary.com - Your connection to over 1500 dictionaries in several languages.
- Zip2 - Find a person, business, get directions or a map.
