Miscellaneous Reference Pages

General Reference Sites

• RefDesk
• RefrenceDesk.org
• Yahoo!: Reference

Specific Reference Materials

• Writing Tools
  • Dictionaries & Thesauri
    • Bartleby's Online
      • The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language Third Edition. 1996
      • Roget’s II The New Thesaurus Third Edition. 1995
      • The American Heritage Book of English Usage. 1996
      • Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations.  1988
      • Bartlett John. 1919. Familiar Quotations
    • Library of Congress Thesauri
      • Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
    • Merriam Webster Online Language Center
      • Merriam-Webster Word of the Day
      • Merriam Webster Thesaurus
    • The Oxford English Dictionary (Must be subscriber)
      • The OED Word of the Day (public)
      • OED Find Word (Must be subscriber)
    • Thesaurus.com (Roget's)
    • Wordsmyth - The Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus
      
  • Style Guides
    • The American Heritage® Book of English Usage (from Bartleby’s)
    • The MLA Style Guide (Modern Language Association)
    • Strunk & White’s Elements of Style (from Bartleby’s)
    • Guide to Grammar and Style (Jack Lynch)
      
  •  Encyclopedias
    • Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition (Bartleby's Online)
    • Britannica Online

    • Encyclopedia.com (from Electric Library)

    • Tech encyclopedia
      

  • Almanacs
    • The Farmer’s Almanac
    • Information Please
    • The CIA World Factbook
      
  • Quotations
    • Aphorisms Galore!
    • Bartlett’s Quotations (1919 Ed.) (from Bartleby’s)
    • The Phrase Finder
    • Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations (from Bartleby’s)

•  Foreign Language Tools
  • travlang's Translating Dictionaries
  • AltaVista’s Babelfish
  • Systran 
    
• Miscellaneous
  • The Acronym Finder              
  • The WorldWideWeb Acronym and Abbreviation Server

• Telephone Directories

  • 555-1212.com

    • Personal

    • Business

    • Reverse Look-Up

  • AnyWho (AT&T)           

    • Yellow Pages

    • Toll Free

    • AnyWho Reverse LookUp

    • email lookup

  • Switchboard

    • Switchboard – Business Directory

  • White Pages.com

  • WhoWhere? (formerly Lycos PeopleFind)

  • WorldPages.com (Alta Vista search)

  • Yahoo! People Search
    

• Business - Toll free numbers
  • AT&T Toll Free Internet Directory
    

• Miscellaneous Telephone References

  • Telephone Rates

    • 10-10 Phone rates

    • Country Code Numbers
      

• People - Privacy Violations
  • AnyBirthday.com (Find a person's birthday)
    
• Schools
• American School Directory

• Universities
• College and University Home Pages - Alphabetical Listing
• American Universities (University of Florida Listing)
  
•  Computers
• BABEL: A Glossary of Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms
  
• Almanacs, etc
• CIA World Factbook
• Inter-Links Perpetual Calendar
• World Holiday and Time Guide (J.P. Morgan & Co.'s)
  
• Biographies
  • A&E's Biography.com
  • Lives
  • Uncle Sam - Who's Who in the Federal Government
    
• Financial Information
  •  The Universal Currency Converter
  • Yahoo Financial Information (Stock Quote search)
    • Yahoo! Market Overview
      
• Health and Medicine
• RX.com
• The RxList
  
• The Internet
• The ISP Directory (from Boardwatch)
  
• Legal Resources
• American Law Sources OnLine
• FindLaw: Internet Legal Resources
• West's Legal Directory
 
• Mail

  • US Postal Service

    • Zip Code look-Up

    • City & State Zip Code Associations

    • Postage Rates

  • PackTrack (Package tracking Web site)
    

• Maps
• US Census Maps
  • 1990 Census maps
    • 1990 State and County Outline maps
    • 1999 Metropolitan Areas Page Sized Maps
    • 1999 U.S. based Metropolitan Area Page Sized maps
  • Census 2000 Redistricting Data Map Products
  • Tiger Map Server Browser
• USGS Geographic Names Server
• David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
• How far is it?
• Mapquest
• The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection (University of Texas - Austin)
• UN Cartographic Section
• Xerox PARC Map Viewer
• Yahoo! Maps Generate Street Maps Online

 
• Time

  • Clocks

    • Greenwich Mean Time

    • The Official US Time

    • US Naval Observatory
      • USNO Running Clock (Netscape Only) 
      • USNO Static clock
        
  • Calendars
    • Phases of the Moon
    • One World Global Calendar
    • The 10,000 Year Calendar
    • Today in History - Historic Events and Birthdays
    • Any Day in History
      
• Travel and Airlines
• Expedia
• Travelocity
• theTRIP.com
• US State Department Travel Advisories
  
• Weather
  • The Weather Channel
  • The Weather Underground
    
• Weights and Measures
  • A Dictionary of Units
  • Common Weights And Measures
  • How Many?
    
• Miscellaneous
• The Barcode site
  • UPC Barcode reference
• Flags of the World
• Learn2.com ("The Ability Utility")
• Lottery results from USA Today
• Morse Code
• Project Gutenburg (Literature)
• Robert's Rules of Order (from Bartleby's)
• Symbols.com (Symbols Search Engine)
• VISA ATM Locator

• The Visual Elements Periodic Table
  

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Page last revised: 06/01/2007