General Reference Sources
ALMANACS
Information Please Almanac: An excellent place to go for basic information about anything..
Old Farmer's Almanac: An online version of the well-known almanac.
DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Britannica Online: The Encyclopaedia Britannica, full-text, with a definition lookup.
Dictionary.com: Word lookup.
Electric Library's Encyclopedia.com: A searchable online encyclopedia with articles from the Concise Columbia Encyclopedia.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary: Word lookup and a thesaurus.
Roget's Thesaurus: Word lookup.
Web of On-Line Dictionaries: Links to all sorts of online dictionaries: foreign language, subject-specific, grammar, more.
AT&T AnyWho: Look up phone numbers and addresses, fax numbers, more - includes an 800 directory, reverse lookup, and subject lookup for businesses.
BigBook: A business directory with maps and customer ratings.
InfoSpace: Contains white and yellow pages, business directories, toll-free and fax directories, email lookup, news, horoscopes, and more.
Switchboard: An excellent online phone and address directory for people and businesses. Business directory includes subject lookup, directions and links to business's Web pages.
ZIP Code Lookup: From the U.S. Postal Service.
Atlapedia Online: Physical and political maps, statistics, and country facts, searchable.
Flags of All Countries:
Type in a country name and get its flag(s), along with maps and country
information.
Google Maps: Moveable, draggable maps, and driving directions
Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century: Maps of trends, governments, wars, and more worldwide over the last century.
MapQuest: Get maps of places, maps of routes between two places, and driving directions.
Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection: An excellent collection of maps.
Calculator.com: Links to all
sorts of online calculators, including regular, scientific, financial,
and fun.
Calendar Zone: A directory of online calendars of all types, including regular, celestial, historical, etc.
Common Weights and Measures: Conversion of many weights and measures, including U.S. to metric conversion.
How Far Is It?: Finds the latitude and longitude of a place and the distance between two places.
MegaConverter: Contains weights, measures, and many conversion modules.
OANDA: Foreign currency exchange rates.
Extreme Weather Sourcebook: Data on U.S. economic losses from floods, hurricanes and tornadoes.
Intellicast: Detailed worldwide weather maps and reports.
National Weather Service: Forecasts, warnings, weather maps, and historical weather information.
Weather Channel: All kinds of weather information and forecasts.
Weather Post: Worldwide forecasts,
historical weather data, a weather glossary, and more.
