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Acronym Server
Simplified
Acronym Search
Acronym Finder
Good resource, but has lots of pop-up ads.
The Old Farmer's
Almanac
Fast Facts:
Almanacs/Factbooks/Statistical Reports& Related Reference
Tools
Almanac of Policy
Issues
Attempts to provide comprehensive background information on major
U.S. policy issues in an unbiased manner.
50states.com - States and
Capitals
Information
Please Almanac
Contains ads
Fast Facts:
Almanacs/Factbooks/Statistical Reports & Related Reference
Tools
Biographical Dictionary
Covers more than 28,000
notable men and women. Search by birth years, death years, positions
held, professions, literary and artistic works, achievements,
and other keywords.
Biography.com
Short biographical profiles on over 25,000 notable individuals,
past and present.
Biography
from InfoPlease.com
Lives, the Biography Resource
Links to thousands of biography web sites.
The
Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
Biographical information on "African
American men and women who have contributed to the advancement
of science and engineering." Includes bibliographies.
Librarians'
Index to the Internet: Biography
Links to many sites with biographical information.
Encyclopedia
Britannica Guide to Black History
Includes biographies of famous African Americans.
Calculators
& Converters
Online
Calculators, Conversion Tools, Measurements & Weights
Links to a variety of online calculators and converters.
MegaConverter
2
Measure 4
Measure: Sites That Do the Work For You
Links to sites that convert or calculate. Arranged by categories:
science/math, health, finance, around the house, and "a measure
of everything else."
Martindale's
Reference Desk: Calculators On-Line Center
Contains thousands of calculators, arranged by topic.
Common
Equivalent Weights and Measures
OnlineConversion.com
Over 5,000 units, and 30,000 conversions, e.g., distance, temperature,
speed, volume, weight, angles, cooking, force, finance, etc.
CIA
World Factbook
Source of basic economic, political, and demographic information
for most countries.
Country Background
Notes - U.S. Department of State
Provide information for most countries. Topics include geography,
demographics, government, economy and history.
Library
of Congress Country Studies
Presents a description and analysis of the historical setting
and the social, economic, political, and national security systems
and institutions of many countries throughout the world.
Portals
to the World - Library of Congress
Links to electronic resources around the world. Arranged by country.
Country Briefings
News, country profiles, forecasts, statistics, etc. for most countries,
from the Economist magazine.
Human Development Report -
UN
Data on the quality of life in 174 countries including life expectancy,
adult literacy rate, per capita income.
Economist
Country Reports
Requires a King County Library
Card
Provides Country Reports and Country Profiles from the Economist
Intelligence Unit. Accessible anywhere with a KCLS library
card number.
World Flag Database
OANDA Currency
Converter
Currency converter for 164 currencies. Provides the current exchange
rate and allows you to select a specific date for historical exchange
rates. Can also print out cheat sheets.
Universal Currency Converter
What
is a Dollar Worth?
Uses the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to calculate what an item(s)
purchased in any year between 1913 to 2002 would cost in any other
year between 1913 to 2002.
American Heritage Dictionary
of the English Language, 4th Ed.
Cambridge
Dictionaries Online
Merriam-Webster OnLine
your Dictionary.com
Links to online dictionaries of many types - English, foreign
language and specialized subject areas.
Oxford English
Dictionary
Requires a King County Library Card
OED is a historical dictionary of English, covering the language
from the earliest times to the present day. It shows the current
meanings of words, but also traces their development through time.
Encyclopedias
Britannica.com
Britannica.com is the online version of the Encyclopaedia
Britannica, plus selected Internet sites and articles from magazines
and journals. Available to students
currently enrolled at NSCC.
The
Canadian Encyclopedia
Columbia Encyclopedia,
Sixth Edition
Encarta
Concise Encyclopedia
xrefer
Search through 30+ reference books.
Encyberpedia
An annotated list of subject encyclopedias on the Web. Contains
pop-up ads.
Encyclopedia
Smithsonian: The Smithsonian from A to Z
Specialized
Encyclopedias - Librarians' Index to the Internet
Hot
Topics
Best
Information on the Net - Hot Paper Topics
Hot
Topics Supersites
Hot
Topics - University of Louisville Libraries
MapQuest
Enter an addess to get a map, plus driving directions.
Perry-Castañeda
Library Map Collection
Maps of countries, states, regions. Includes political, physical
and historical maps.
How Far is It?
Uses data from the US Census and a supplementary list of cities
around the world to find the latitude and longitude of two places,
and then calculates the distance between them (as the crow flies).
Columbia Gazetteer of
North America
"With 50,000 entries, the Gazetteer covers every incorporated
place and county in the United States, along with several thousand
unincorporated places, special-purpose sites, and physical features,
as well as Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean."
Hargrett
Library Rare Map Collection
Historical maps from the University of Georgia Libraries
Other
Reference Sites
Reference
Shelf - UCSD Libraries
The
Reference Desk - Michigan Electronic Library
Refdesk.com - Site
Map
Refdesk.com
- Home Page
Fast
Facts: Almanacs/Factbooks/Statistical Reports & Related Reference
Tools
CyberTimes
Navigator - New York Times
United States Postal Service
(USPS)
Zip
Code Lookup
AtoZquotes.com
Bartleby.com
Quotations
Insight Quotes.com
(contains popup ads)
Online Dictionary
of Quotations
Quoteland.com
The Quotations Page
(contains popup ads)
IRS
Forms and Publications
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Hope Scholarship
& Lifetime Learning Tax Credits
SuperPages.com - yellow
pages, white pages, reverse directory
AnyWho: Yellow Pages, White Pages,
Toll-Free Numbers
Switchboard.com
Area Decoder - Area Code
Lookup Service
International
Calling Codes
Infobel
World - links to international phone directories
WorldPages.com
US Naval
Observatory Master Clock
Official U.S. Time
Date and Time
Gateway
Local Times Around the
World
"This guide attempts to list all of the world's countries,
and many of its islands, with a pointer to the local time in the
region."
World Time Server.com
Provides accurate current local times. Makes real time adjustments
for Daylight Saving Time.
Time
Zone Converter
Convert time zones between cities; print out a reference card.
The World
Clock - Time Zones
Current local time for over 500 locations around the world. Sortable
by country or time zone.
Java
Perpetual Calendar
Create a calendar for any year.
Internet
Clocks, Counters, and Countdowns
Roget’s
II: The New Thesaurus
Containing 35,000 synonyms and over 250,000 cross-references and
features word definitions and a hyperlinked category index.
Weather.com - The Weather
Channel
USA
Today - Weather Forecasts & News
Yahoo! Weather
National Weather
Service
Online Calculators, Conversion Tools, Measurements & Weights - compiled by Western Washington University Libraires
Measure Converter - allmeasures.com
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