General Reference

General Reference
Almanacs | Encyclopedias | Associations | Census Data & Demographics | Calculator & Currency Converters | Calendars & Current Time | Dictionaries/Language Translators | Geography & History | Names | Postal | Quotations

General Reference

My Virtual Reference Desk
www.refdesk.com/facts.html

Absolute Trivia
www.absolutetrivia.com

Bartleby.com: Standard Reference Sources
www.bartleby.com/reference

Fact Check (Annenberg Political Fact Check)
www.factcheck.org

Federal Stats
www.fedstats.gov

The Librarians' Index to the Internet
www.lii.org

Internet Public Library
www.ipl.org/ref

Infography.com
www.infography.com

Refdesk.com
www.refdesk.com

Almanacs

African American History & Culture (Encyclopedia Smithsonian)
www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/History_and_Culture/AfricanAmerican_History.htm

Chinese Farmer’s Almanac
chinesefortunecalendar.com/almanac.htm

Farmers Almanac
www.farmersalmanac.com

Information Please
www.infoplease.com

Natural Disasters from Fact Monster
www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0775896.html

Old Farmer's Almanac
www.almanac.com

Those Were the Days
440.com/twtd/today.html

U.S. Naval Observatory Almanac
aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.html

Encyclopedias

Answers.com
www.answers.com

Encyclopedia.com
www.encyclopedia.com

Encyclopaedia Mythica
www.pantheon.org

Mythology, folklore, and religion

Encyclopedia Smithsonian
www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/default.htm

Encyclopedia Titanica
www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/

TechEncyclopedia
www.techweb.com/encyclopedia

Information technology terms

Associations/Organizations

Associations on the Net
www.ipl.org/div/aon

National PTA
www.pta.org

National 4-H Web
www.4-h.org

Census Data and Demographics

American FactFinder: Census Info
factfinder.census.gov

Population Reference Bureau
www.prb.org

Public Library Geographic Database
www.geolib.org/plgdb.cfm

U.S. Gazetteer: Census Data
www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer

Calculators & Currency Converters

CalculateMe.com
www.calculateme.com

Online Conversion
www.onlineconversion.com

IFigure
www.ifigure.com

OANDA Currency Converter
www.oanda.com/converter/classic

Universal Currency Converter
www.xe.net/currency

Calendars & Current Time

American Secular Holidays Calendar
www.smart.net/~mmontes/ushols.html

Calendar Zone
www.calendarzone.com

Current Time
tycho.usno.navy.mil/what.html

Diversity Calendar
www3.kumc.edu/diversity

Holidays on the Net
www.holidays.net

Official U.S. Time
www.time.gov

World Time Server
www.worldtimeserver.com

Dictionaries/Language Translators

Acronym Finder: acronyms, abbreviations and definitions
www.acronymfinder.com

Acronyms
acronyms.thefreedictionary.com

From the Free Dictionary

American Heritage Dictonary of the English Language
www.bartleby.com/61

Answers.com
www.answers.com

Babelfish Translator
babelfish.altavista.com

Dictionary of Military Terms
www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/new_pubs/jp1_02.pdf

Published by the Department of Defense. PDF Document.

Dictionary of Spanish
spanishdict.com

MDBG Chinese-English Dictionary
www.xuezhongwen.net

Oxford Dictionary List of Commonly Confused Words
www.askoxford.com/betterwriting/classicerrors/confused

WordNet
wordnet.princeton.edu/

Wordorigins.org
www.wordorigins.org

WordReference.com
www.wordreference.com

Free online translation dictionaries.

YourDictionary.com: English and Foreign Language
www.yourdictionary.com

Geography & History

50 States and Capitals
www.50states.com

Best History WebSites
www.besthistorysites.net/prehistory.shtml

InfoNation: Information About Every Country in the United Nations
cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation3/menu/advanced.asp

Rulers
www.rulers.org

World Factbook
www.bartleby.com/151

World Flags Database
www.flags.net

Names

Baby Names Garden
www.BabyNamesGarden.com

One of the Internet's leading baby names resources, providing a wealth of information about names and their etymology for visitors.

BabyNames
www.babynames.com

BabyNamesWorld.com
www.babynamesworld.com

BehindTheName.com
www.behindthename.com

Postal

PackTrack: Track Your Packages
www.packtrack.com

U.S. Zipcode Lookups
zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp

U.S. Postal Rate
www.usps.com/common/category/postage.htm

Quotations

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
www.bartleby.com/100/

(Includes 10 other searchable sources)

Daily Celebrations
www.dailycelebrations.com/quotes.htm

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations
www.bartleby.com/63

Quotation Center
www.cybernation.com/victory/quotations/subjects/quotes_subjects_a_to_b.html

QuotationLibrary.com
quotationlibrary.com

Think-Exist
en.thinkexist.com

Useful Information: Famous Quotes
www.useful-information.info/index.html

Christian Quotation of the Day
cqod.gospelcom.net/cqodarch.htm

Islamic Quotations of Weeks Past
www.jannah.org/articles/oldquotes.html

Memorable Quotations: Jewish Writers
www.memorablequotations.com/Jewish.htm

African Proverbs
directory.google.com/Top/Society/Folklore/Literature/Proverbs_and_Sayings/African

African-American quotations
www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmquotes1.html

Wedding Toasts
quotations.about.com/cs/weddingtoasts/index.htm

Google Directory-Quotations
directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Quotations

Yahoo! Directory-Quotations
dir.yahoo.com/Reference/Quotations