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Acronym Finder - search for acronym using wildcard or "begins with" options, reverse search by exact phrase or boolean 'AND'
Acronym lookup - search for acronym or a word in the expanded name
StarBits searchable multilingual database of abbreviations, acronyms, contractions, symbols ...
SYMBOLS.com - encyclopedia of Western signs and ideograms
Anybirthday.com Birthdate Search Engine - Data from public records. Lists of names with dobs and zip code is free, with a free reminder service associated. Results are not sorted alphabetically, making this cumbersome for common names. No further id. Address search is $$.
Author Pseudonyms - from the Books and Book Collecting website
Best Information on the Net - Biographical (St. Ambrose University) links to biographical reference sites
The Biographical Dictionary (formerly Notable Citizens of Planet Earth) "notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day"; plus a selected group of links to other biographical pages
Biography.com - search briefs from A&E
Canadian Who's Who - searchable online version is 1997 edition
Dead People Server - dead or alive? browse for the years 1994 to the present; plus links to other (friends of dps) dead sites ; a Quash Those Dead People Rumors! page.
Forbes Lists - the richest, the best ..., including the Forbes Four Hundred - full article, or, create a custom list from The Forbes Four Hundred database of rich Americans, 1996 to the present
GoodBye! The Journal of Contemporary Obituaries - Profiles - 1996 to the present
Health Data Analysis System - VitalNet - For-profit site offers free access to California and Texas birth, death and various other health data. Also available are links to state health agencies and other official health data.
Legacy.com: ObitFinder.asp - A searchable index to recently announced deaths as reported in hundred's of newspapers across the U.S.; Links to online newspapers listing current deaths.
Lives, the Biography Resource - guide to biography sites on the web
The Nobel Prize Internet Archive - Biographies and Links for Nobel Prize winners
Obituary Daily Times (GEN-OBIT) a daily index of published obituaries. Search the archive; receive index lists by email.
Social Security Death Index: - Searchable by name (with or without Soundex), birth or death date, state of death, zip code, social security number, etc. Use caution: there are about 55 million names in the index, clearly NOT a complete record of everyone who has died since 1933 when the SSA began keeping records. They have also been know to include living people on their list of the dead!
Social Security Numbers - First three digits, as issued to various locations in the United States and its possessions. There is a link to the HighGroup list which indicates the group numbers currently being issued for each region.
Who's Alive and Who's Dead - celebrities, athletes, politicians, and various other categories; search by TV show name, provides dates of birth / death and sometimes more.
Who2?: Find Famous People Fast - "Classic authors, movie stars, famous frauds, kings and queens, mythical gods, cartoon dogs..." Each entry includes birth and death dates, birthplace, what the person is best known for, a couple of paragraphs with assorted other biographical information, and four links to good Web sites. Who2 Loops includes dozens of eclectic lists of people who share something in common, such as Death by Car, Celebrity Beekeepers, and May-December Presidents.
World Biographical Index by K.G. Saur Publishing - based on the 5th edition. Contains the name, variations of the name, pseudonymes, the years of birth and death or years mentioned, occupation, source quoted (archive, fiche-no and page) and bibliographic information about the sources used. Search aids online.
Measurement Units Translation - including translating acres to square miles
Metric Conversion Factors - formulas and equivalents
Online Conversion - Convert anything to anything else - (Robert Fogt)
Percent Change Calculator (NewsEngin)
Resource Central - Calculations
Weights & Measures conversion factors (Infoplease.com)
The Book of Days (UW-Madison Libraries) - 1879 edition
Calendar - perpetual (java)
DAILY BLEED: Calendar of Eclectic events, Public Secrets: Events Calendar, TIMELINE, CHRONOLOGY, DATES ON THIS DAY Literary, Art, history, labor, politics, radical, biography, baseball, sports, beats, science fiction, poetry, Sixties, Cold War, sponsored by Recollection Used Books
Daylight Saving Time -- Saving Time, Saving Energy
dMarie Time Capsule - What happened on a particular day plus top songs, cost of items, birthdays
Encyclopedia of Days - a work in progress that includes descriptions of holidays from all over the world
Festivals.com - Celebrating the World of Festivals and Events
It's about time — mainly calendars (Bill Hollon) (formerly "A Base for Calendar Exploration thru Time")
Sunrise/Sunset Information (Javascript - calculates for any desired location on Earth)
Sunrise/Sunset/Twilight, Moonrise/Moonset/Phases, Eclipses
Sunrise/sunset by latitude, longitude
Those Were the Days - What happened today in history
timeanddate.com (Steffen Thorsen) - world clocks (sort and personalize), time calculators (same day differenct cities, duration between two dates, date in x number of days), countdowns, time zone abbreviations, and daylight savings time information
Timezones, Map of Earth's (U.S. Naval Observatory)
World Events Calendar-- The Traveler's Guide to the World's Greatest Events
World Time Zones - (U.S. Naval Observatory) - map of time zones, US law on time zones and other information
The American Heritage Book of English Usage. 1996
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. 2000
American Sign Language Aid, A Basic and Alphabet
Business Glossary (Washington Post)
Cambridge Dictionaries online - (Cambridge University Press) - Search for British and American English, Phrases and Idioms.
Beginner's Yiddish Dictionary (Al Merkrebs)(formerly called dayn khaver)
Dictionary.com - look up meaning of words for English words and a few cross-language dictionaries (German, Latin, Spanish and Greek), or use translator
Ethnologue - Languages of the world
The Exploding Dictionary - The basic idea was to take a set of publicly available dictionaries, index them into a SQL database, and then cross-reference them to near death. Sources are identified. Technojargon, a recent adjunct to the dictionary, contains a very large collection of technology words and phrases, and may be browsed alphabetically or keyword searched.
Glossary Agent™ - gateway to online glossaries in Computers, Construction, Business, Employee Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources, Environment, Finance and Management, Fire Prevention, Insurance and Surety, Law, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Engineering, Reinsurance, Risk Management, Shipping and Transportation, Statistics and Weather. Single and multiple languages.
HandSpeak: A Sign Language Dictionary Online - animated sign language words. fairly extensive.
iTools! Language Tools - - Dictionaries, Thesauri, Translaters, click to hear pronunciation
Jargon File Resources - links to various versions of the computer glossary online and for download. The printed version also online: The New Hacker's Dictionary
The Kosher Nosh's Yiddish Dictionary with sound
Lexicate Online Dictionary - Matthew Brett - dictionaries to look up meanings and synonyms, translate languages, and and define subject terms
Linguistics Resources - (Summer Institute of Linguistics, International Linguistics Center in Dallas, Texas) Focuses on the study of minority languages and cultures around the world. Resources include linguistics, anthropology, translation, literacy, language learning, and computing. Computing resources (including links to text and speech analysis, morphology and phonology, and lexical software); journals and newsletters; conferences and meetings and electronic texts, dictionaries and data.
The LOGOS Homepage - dictionary with foreign word translations. Listen to the pronunciation too.
OneLook Dictionaries, The Faster Finder - Superb site with 800 plus dictionaries; subject categories include, Art, Business, Computing, Medicine, Miscellaneous, Religion, Science, Slang, Sports, Technology, and various languages
Oxford English Dictionary (requires account)
Roget's Thesaurus
Russian Dictionary (Stanislav Sinyagin)
Translating Dictionaries (travlang)
Web of On-line Grammars - Compiled by Robert Beard, Bucknell University Linguistics Program
Word2Word Online Dictionaries and Translators
WordNet at Vancouver Webpages - look up synonyms, antonyms and related words.
Wordsmyth - American English dictionary with an integrated thesaurus
The Word Spy - Home Page - recently-coined words, existing words that have enjoyed a recent renaissance, and older words that are now being used in new ways
Yiddish-Hebrew-English-German-Russian Picture Dictionary
COLUMBIA ENCYCLOPEDIA, SIXTH EDITION (Bartelby.com)
Encyclopaedia Britannica - now free!
1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica
Directories of Experts in Agriculture (AgNIC)
GreenBook® & Focus Group Directory
GuestFinder: The Media's Finest Source for Guests, Experts, and Story Ideas - Better for story ideas than experts
National Press Club's Directory of News Sources - Expert's Database; browse or search
ProfNet Home Page - Profnet request form or search experts database yourself.
Scholarly Societies Project, Overview of the
Sources and Experts for journalists - Special Libraries Assn, News Division
World Directory of Think Tanks (NIRA) Japanese National Institute for Research Advancement - various editions
Yearbook of Experts, Authorities & Spokespersons (Broadcast Interview Source)
American Community Network - Community Profiles - searchable online database of statistical information for all U.S. counties and Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) (free access requires registration)
Area comparisons (CIA World Factbook)
Canadian Geographical Names - Natural Resources Canada
Cornell's Digital Earth - interactive atlas creates maps with your choice of land, oceans, borders, roads, lakes, rivers, roads, railroads, faults, mines, seismicity, and other geological, geographical, and geophysical data.
Geographic resources on the net (Luigina Vileno) - from College & Research Libraries News
Geographic Name Servers:
Heavens-Above - International search for longitude and latitude. Satellites locations.
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).
Latitude and Longitude Look-Up
Map Quest - street maps generated on the fly.
Maps - All The Worlds Maps - national and city maps, plus directories of embassy and consulate locations, dialing codes, telephone directories, visa requirements, voltage requirements, ...
Maptech Mapserver - Free Topographic Maps, NOAA Nautical Charts. Huge selection of three types of government issued charts: topographical, nautical, and aeronautical, including places like cemeteries, towers, schools, airports
PCL Map Collection (Univ. of Texas)
TopoZone - The Web's Topographic Map
U.S. Gazetteer (WWW) - (Maps With Census data, TIGER mapping server prints on-the-fly maps which can be enlarged, shifted ...
USGS Geographic Names Information System; direct links to Query Form - Query Form For The United States And Its Territories (has bridges, dams, mines, churches, - buildings, airports ... and geographic features of this type) and Feature Class Types definitions
U.S. Postal Service City State / ZIP Code Associations
ZIP Code / City State Associations (USPS)
Gateway to Associations - simple keyword search, or browse categories. Associated with the American Society of Association Executives
Associations on the Net (Internet Public Library)
Citation Style Guides, Karla’s Guide to
Foreign Name Pronunciation Guide (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)
Everyrule.com - "Every Rule in the Universe-All Categories"
Information Today, Inc. - publication
iTools variety of search tools on one page
netLibrary - online books; register free
organizations (contact.org)(searchable)
Serials in Microform Catalog (UMI)
The Society of Florida Archivists
The Spire Project - pathfinders to help you do research for various information types. Links to free and commercial sites as available.
Stumpers-L - electronic mailing list where reference librarians can help each other find the answers to difficult questions.
Webcite - An experimental Internet MLA-style citation generator
FindArticles.com / A LookSmart Service - More than 300 Gale publications. Free. Available soon.
magOmania - the Canadian magazine search engine - Canadian Magazine Publishers Association
MediaFinder from Oxbridge Communications, Inc. - Oxbridge Directory of Newsletters, Standard Periodical Directory, National Directory of Catalogs, National Directory of Magazines, and the National Directory of Mailing Lists.
Periodicals.net - (Nuchine Nobari, editor, Library Technology Alliance) - searchable index of publications whose content is available through online vendors or that are published online.
PubList.com - to find periodicals/ publishers
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (10th ed.) - Bibliomania
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898 edition)
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable - First Hypertext Edition is taken from Dr. Brewer's substantially revised and extended edition of 1894. (Bartleby)
Phrase Finder - Search High and Low
quoteland.com - Quotations on every topic, by every author, and in every fashion possible
Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations - The Most Notable Quotations: 1950-1988
Ye Olde English Sayings - origins of lots of sayings
Created by Barbara Gellis Shapiro (barbara@gate.net)