Reference Resources     

Collections of Reference Works
Bartleby.com -- Rich collection of reference sources, language reference, & literary works, including: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Roget's Thesaurus, Strunk's Elements of Style, Fowler's English, Emily Post, etc.
Ready Reference -- From the Internet Public Library
Virtual Reference Shelf -- From the Library of Congress

Almanacs
Information Please Almanac
Old Farmer's Almanac

Biographical Sources
Biographical Dictionary -- Brief information on over 28,000 people in all fields, from ancient times to the present.
Biography.com -- Information taken from Cambridge Encyclopedia Database and Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography
Dead People Server -- Who is alive, who is not
InfoPlease People -- Searchable biographical sections of InfoPlease site

Calculators
Calculators On-Line Center -- Hundreds of calculators for virtually every purpose
Currency Converter -- Interactive converter for 164 currencies
Currency Converter-- from Yahoo! Finance
Current Value of Old Money -- Links to websites that calculate relative value for specific time periods or product areas
iFigure -- Nice collection of online calculators and worksheets
Treasury Reporting Rates of Exchange -- from U.S. Dept. of the Treasury (click on Get Rates)
The Universal Currency Converter

Chronologies & Timelines
Anyday -- Extensive listings of birthdays, deaths, & historical events
On This Day in History -- Headlines, top shows, songs, birthdays, & more
This Day in History -- Historical events, from the History Channel
HyperHistory Online -- Click on Events (on the left); then select a sequence of years (on the right); no date-specific searching available
The Food Timeline -- Ever wonder what foods the Vikings ate when they set off to explore the new world? How Thomas Jefferson made his ice cream?
Reference eBooks: Chronologies & Timelines

Dictionaries (For foreign language dictionaries click on the language's link on the Internet Links page.)
Acronym finder -- "The world's largest and most accurate dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms."
Behind the Name -- dictionary of names
Cambridge Dictionaries Online -- Several dictionaries available
Dictionary of Etymology
Encarta World English Dictionary -- From Microsoft
Language Tools -- translation tool from Google.com
Lexicool.com -- Directory of over 1000 bilingual & multi-lingual dictionaries
Merriam-Webster Online -- Collegiate Dictionary, 10th ed.
OneLook Dictionaries -- Simultaneous searching of words and phrases in over 600 dictionaries
RhymeZone --Rhyming dictionary
whatis.com -- A dictionary of computer and Internet terms
Wordsmyth English Dictionary and Thesaurus -- From the Univ. of Chicago
WriteExpress--Rhyming dictionary
YourDictionary.com -- Over 1500 dictionaries covering 230 languages and such dictionaries as name, dance and science dictionaries

Directories: Businesses & Individuals
All Nations Telephone Search Engine -- Dialing information and directory links to hundreds of online telephone directories around the world
Anywho.com -- Search for individuals, businesses, 800 numbers
InfoSpace -- Over 112 million people, businesses, government offices
Your online Yellow Pages -- from SBC

Directories: Individuals Only
WhoWhere -- Find people (e-mail and phone), business addresses, web pages
Yahoo! People Search -- Address and Telephone searches

Directories: Other
Better-Whois.com -- Search all web domain name registrars simultaneously
ZIP Code Lookup -- Enter a zip code & find county name, time zone, area code, latitude, congressional district
Scholarly Societies Project -- Guide to over 1500 scholarly societies, accessible alphabetically or by subject
Zip Code Directory -- Look up zip codes from the U.S. Postal Service

Encyclopedias
Columbia Encyclopedia -- From Bartleby.com
Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia.com

Glossaries
All American: Glossary of Literary Terms
Glossarist: noun, a compiler of textual glosses or topical dictionaries
Literary Glossary of Terms
Literary Terms and Definitions
Literary Encyclopedia
A Literary Lexicon
DICTIONARY OF LITERARY TERMS
SHAKESPEARE GLOSSARY
Chemistry Dictionary
Chemistry & Environmental Dictionary
Chemistry Glossaries and Chemistry Dictionaries
The Great Big Chemistry Dictionary
Online Chemistry Dictionary

Oddities
Acronym Finder -- Over 200,000 computer, technology, telecommunications, and military acronyms and abbreviations.
Awards and Rankings -- Links to lists of numerous award recipients (Pulitzer, Nobel, Academy, etc.) and rankings (top places to live, college rankings, & much more
Earth Calendar -- Holidays and celebrations worldwide
Everyrule -- (You must scroll down past all of the advertisement.) Find rules for nearly everything: sports, etiquette, games, etc.
Perpetual Calendar --Julian and Gregorian Calendars available
Perpetual Calendar--Covers years 0001-9999
Popular Baby Names -- Lists of baby names, by year since 1880, from the Social Security Administration
Symbols.com -- Database of more than 2,500 Western signs
Urban Legends Reference Pages -- Rich source of information, from Snopes.com
World Calendar.com -- National and movable holidays, indexed by country

Opinion Polls
Gallup
Harris Interactive
Pew Research Center
PollingReport.com
RoperCenter

Quotations
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th (1919) ed. -- From Bartleby.com
Brainy Quotes
Quotable Women -- "An archive of memorable quotes by women"
Wisdom Quotes

Thesauri
LexicalFreeNet -- A "connected thesaurus," providing access to word & concept relationships
Roget's II Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1996 -- From Bartleby.com
Thesaurus.com

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