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or bit of trivia.
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Almanacs
Book
and Film Reviews (Full Text Archives)
Book Reviews - General
Book Reviews – Subject
Specific
Film Reviews
Bibliographies
Biographical
Resources
Consumer
Information
Conversion
and Computing Tools
Country
Information
Dictionaries
Standard Dictionaries
Language
Dictionaries
Utility
and Phrase Finding Dictionaries
Quotation
Resources
Subject Dictionaries
Trivia Sources
Directories
Encyclopedias
General Encyclopedias
Subject Encyclopedias
Fact Checking Sources
Geography
Resources
Government
/ Political Science
Handbooks
Indexes
Online Reference
Desks
Statistical
Sources
Virtual
or Online Libraries
General
Subject
Weather
Almanacs
CIA World Factbook
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook
Farmers Almanac
http://www.farmersalmanac.com
Fast Facts
http://www.freepint.com/gary/handbook.htm
Information
Please
http://www.infoplease.com/
Old Farmers' Almanac
http://www.almanac.com/
World
Almanac for Kids
http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com
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Book and
Film Reviews (Full Text Archives)
Book Reviews - General
Booklist (American Library Association)
http://www.ala.org/ala/booklist/booklist.htm
BookPage
http://www.bookpage.com/archive.html
New York Times Book Review Index (must set up free login account)
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/index.html
SanFrancisco Chronicle
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artlist.cgi?key=RV&directory=Reviews
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Book Reviews
– Subject Specific
The Bryn Mawr Classical Review
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/archive.html
H-Net Reviews
http://www.h-net.org/reviews
The Medieval Review (Previously The Bryn Mawr Medieval Review)
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/t/tmr/
Review of Biblical Literature
http://www.bookreviews.org
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Film
Reviews
The Film File
http://www.newyorker.com/online/filmfile/?030317onremo_index
Movie Review Query Engine
http://www.mrqe.com/lookup
New York Times Movie Reviews (must set up free login account)
http://movies.nytimes.com/ref/movies/reviews/index.html
Women's Studies Database
http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/FilmReviews
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Bibliographies
Aurthuriana/Camelot Project Bibliographies
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/acpbibs/bibhome.stm
Bibliography of the Vietnam War
http://www.clemson.edu/caah/history/FacultyPages/EdMoise/bibliography.html
Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/biblio.html
Roman Army: A Bibliography
http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/armybibl.html
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Biographical
Resources
Academy of American Poets
http://www.poets.org/
Biography.Com
http://www.biography.com
Dying Words of Famous People
http://www.corsinet.com/braincandy/dying.html
Find a Grave
http://www.findagrave.com
National Inventors Hall of Fame
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/1_0_0_hall_of_fame.asp
The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
http://www.almaz.com/nobel/nobel.html
Presidents of the United States
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents
The Pulitzer Prizes
http://www.pulitzer.org
Rulers
http://rulers.org
4000 Years of Women in Science
http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/4000WS.html
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Consumer
Information
Consumer.com
http://www.consumer.gov
ConsumerReports.org
http://www.consumerreports.org/main/home.jsp
Consumerworld
http://www.consumerworld.org
Edmunds - Auto Consumer Information
http://www.edmunds.com
Kelley’s Blue Book
http://www.kbb.com
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Conversion
and Computing Tools
Go Currency
http://www.gocurrency.com
OANDA, The Currency Site
http://www.oanda.com/
OnlineConversion.Com
http://www.onlineconversion.com
Time and Date Gateway
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/xtra/tzdate
Universal Currency Conversion
http://www.xe.com/ucc
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Country
Information
Atlapedia
http://www.atlapedia.com
CIA World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
CountryReports.Org
http://www.countryreports.org
Country Facts & Information
http://geography.about.com/cs/countryfacts
Country Studies - Library of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
Geographic.Org:
Country Profiles
http://www.geographic.org/countries/countries.html
Infonation
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm
NationMaster
http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php
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Dictionaries
Standard Dictionaries
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
http://www.bartleby.com/61
Merriam-Websters Online
http://www.m-w.com
OneLook
Dictionary Search - simultaneous searching of 972 dictionaries
http://www.onelook.com/
Your
Dictionary: the Last Word in Words
http://www.yourdictionary.com/
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Languages
& Translation Dictionaries
American
Sign Language Dictionary
http://www.masterstech-home.com/ASLDict.html
American
Slanguages
http://www.slanguage.com
ARTFL
Project: French-English Dictionary
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/forms_unrest/FR-ENG.html
Early
Modern English Dictionaries Database
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/english/emed/emedd.html
I
Love Languages: Guide to Languages on the Web
http://www.ilovelanguages.com/
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Utility
and Phrase Finding Dictionaries
The Book of Clichés
http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/sybev/cliche
Dictionary.com
http://www.dictionary.com
A Dictionary of Measures, Units, and Conversions
http://www.ex.ac.uk/cimt/dictunit/dictunit.htm
Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid
http://www.nd.edu/~archives/latgramm.htm
OneLook Dictionaries
http://www.onelook.com
The Phrase Finder
http://phrases.shu.ac.uk/index.html
RhymeZone
http://www.rhymezone.com
Roget’s International Thesaurus
http://www.thesaurus.com
Synonym Dictionary
http://vancouver-webpages.com/synonyms.html
Translator-Dictionary.com
http://translator.dictionary.com/text.html
Vocabulary of Alliteration
http://www.xs4all.nl/~in/Poet/VocAll.htm
Wordsmyth
http://www.wordsmyth.net
yourDictionary.com
http://www.yourdictionary.com
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Quotation
Resources
Bartlett’s Quotations (And Many Other Search Tools)
http://www.bartleby.com/100
BrainyQuote
http://www.brainyquote.com
Dictionary of Quotations
http://www.quotationreference.com
LitQuotes - Quotations from Literature
http://www.litquotes.com/
Qotd - Inspirational Quotes
http://www.qotd.org
Quotable Online - Famous Quotes
http://www.quotableonline.com/
The
Quotations Archive
http://www.aphids.com/quotes/index.shtml
The Quotations Center
http://www.cyber-nation.com/victory/quotations
The Quotations Page
http://www.quotationspage.com
The Quotations Home Page
http://www.theotherpages.org/quote.html
The Quotations and Sayings Database
http://www.quotesandsayings.com/index.htm
Think-Exist
http://en.thinkexist.com/
World of Quotes
http://www.worldofquotes.com/
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Subject
Dictionaries
Artlex: Art Dictionary
http://www.artlex.com
Beilstein Dictionary – Organic Chemistry
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/swain/beilstein/bedict1.html
Biographical Dictionary
http://www.s9.com/biography/search.html
Biotech’s Life Science Dictionary
http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/search/dict-search.html
A Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
http://www.philosophypages.com/dy
Duhaime’s Law Dictionary
http://www.duhaime.org/diction.htm
Early Modern English Dictionaries Database
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/english/emed/emedd.html
FOLDOC: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html
Medterms.com
http://www.medterms.com
ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science
http://www.wcsu.edu/library/odlis.html
Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences
http://socialsciencedictionary.nelson.com
Psychology Dictionary
http://allpsych.com/dictionary
Webopedia: Computer and Internet Technology Terms
http://www.webopedia.com
World of Mathematics
http://mathworld.wolfram.com
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Trivia
Sources
AbsoluteTrivia: Totally Trivia Search Engine
http://www.absolutetrivia.com
Encyclopedia Fun Trivia
http://www.funtrivia.com/
The Envelope: Database of winners & nominees from film, music, television, and theater
http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/
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Directories
BigBook: Verizon Super Pages
http://www.bigbook.com/
NewsDirectory
http://newsdirectory.com
Open Directory Project
http://dmoz.org/
Telephone Directories on the Web
http://www.infobel.com/teldir/default.asp
Zip Code Lookup
http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/lookups/lookup_zip+4.html
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Encyclopedias
General Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia.com
http://www.encyclopedia.com
Fact Monster - Columbia Encyclopedia
http://www.factmonster.com/encyclopedia.html
Top
Subject
Encyclopedias
The Canadian Encyclopedia
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com
Encyclopedia of the Orient (North Africa & Middle East)
http://i-cias.com/e.o/index.htm
Encyclopedia Mythica
http://www.pantheon.org
Encyclopedia Titanica
http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org
Encyclopedia of Psychology
http://www.psychology.org
Encyclopedia of Religion and Society
http://hirr.hartsem.edu/ency/index.html
Encyclopedia Smithsonian
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/start.htm
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep
Musicals 101 – The Cyber Encyclopedia of Musical Theater,
TV and Film
http://www.Musicals101.com
New Advent: Catholic Encyclopedia
http://newadvent.org/cathen
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html
Symbols.com – Encyclopedia of Symbols
http://www.SYMBOLS.com
Encyclopedia of Holidays
http://www.shagtown.com/days
Encyclopedia of Educational Technology
http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet
Encyclopedia of Law and Economics
http://encyclo.findlaw.com/tablebib.html
Encyclopedia of the First World War
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWW.htm
Internet Mental Health
http://www.mentalhealth.com
The Orb Encyclopedia - Medieval Studies
http://www.the-orb.net/encyclo.html
Physics Encyclopedia
http://members.tripod.com/~IgorIvanov/physics
A Shi’ite Encyclopedia
http://www.al-islam.org/encyclopedia/newindex.html
World Wide Encyclopedia of Christianity
http://www.ccel.org/php/wwec.php
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Fact Checking Sources
TruthorFiction.com
http://www.truthorfiction.com
FactCheck.org
http://www.factcheck.org
Hoax Busters
http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/
Symantec Security Response Center
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html
Urban Legends Reference Page
http://www.snopes.com/
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Geography Resources
Acme Mapper
http://mapper.acme.com/
Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/20centry.htm
How Far is it?
http://www.indo.com/distance
Lonely Planet
http://www.lonelyplanet.com
Mapquest
http://www.mapquest.com
Map Machine
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps
National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/
NationMaster
http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php
Perry-Castaneda
Library Map Collection
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html
StateMaster
http://www.statemaster.com/index.php
U.S. Geological Survey
http://edc.usgs.gov
U.S. Gazetteer
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer
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Government
/ Political Science
Findlaw
http://www.findlaw.com/toc.html
IRS: Tax Forms and Publications
http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html
Thomas:
Legislative Information on the Internet
http://thomas.loc.gov
United
States Postal Service
http://www.usps.com/
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Handbooks
Irish Literature, Mythology, Folklore, and Drama
http://www.luminarium.org/mythology/ireland
Occupational Outlook Handbook
http://www.bls.gov/oco/home.htm
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Indexes
Index of Native American Resources on the Internet
http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/
Ingenta
http://www.ingenta.com
LibDex: Index to 18,000 Libraries
http://www.libdex.com
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Online Reference
Desks
DeskRef
http://ansernet.rcls.org/deskref
Internet Public Library: Reference Center
http://www.ipl.org/ref
RefDesk.com
http://www.refdesk.com
The Virtual Reference Desk
http://www.virtualref.com
THOR: The Virtual Reference Desk
http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/reference
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Statistical
Sources
American
Fact Finder
http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en
FedStats:
Gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal Agencies
http://www.fedstats.gov/
GeoHive:
Global Statistics
http://www.xist.org/
Historical
Census Browser
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus
StateMaster
http://www.statemaster.com/index.php
Statistical Resources on the Web
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html
Statistical Abstracts of the United States
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-1995_2000.html
U.S. Census Bureau: Subject Index
http://www.census.gov/acsd/www/subjects.html
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Virtual or Online
Libraries
General
Digital Librarian
http://www.digital-librarian.com
InfoMine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
http://infomine.ucr.edu/
Librarian’s
Index to the Internet
http://lii.org
Library Spot
http://www.libraryspot.com
WWW Virtual Library
http://vlib.org
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Subject
Jewish Virtual Library
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource
Links for Chemists
http://www.liv.ac.uk/Chemistry/Links/links.html
Virtual Library of Sport
http://sportsvl.com
Virtual Library on Genetics
http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/genetics.html
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Weather
Intellicast:
Dallas/Fort Worth Weather
http://www.intellicast.com/IcastPage/LoadPage.aspx
The
Weather Channel
http://www.weather.com/
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