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Infoplease.com - categories include world, U.S., sports, entertainment, business and finance, society and culture, and more standard almanac topics. Scroll to the bottom of the opening page to find the table of contents
Biography.com
- provides information on 25,000 people. Biography.com has a slant
toward entertainers and current popular figures, but is useful nonetheless
Literary
Index - an online index to the 130,000 biographical profiles offered
in the Gale family of literary publications such as Dictionary of Literary
Biography, Poetry Criticism, and Contemporary Authors
PubList.com,
The Internet Directory of Publications - this searchable "database
of over 150,000 magazines, journals, newsletters, & other periodicals"
is great for finding ISSNs and information about periodical publishers.
Try advanced search
BookSense.com
- the American Bookseller's Association
Barnes
and Noble.com
Amazon.com
- the leading online book seller
YourDictionary.com
- offers dictionaries in over 250 languages and is still growing.
Includes easy to use
Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate Dictionary and Collegiate
Thesaurus on the opening page. Also
includes links to over 80 specialty dictionaries ranging from accounting
and aviation to textiles and trade
Roget’s
II: The New Thesaurus Third Edition - "containing 35,000 synonyms and
over 250,000 cross-references in an easy-to-use format." Courtesy
of Bartleby.com
Acronym
Finder - "The web's most comprehensive database of acronyms, abbreviations,
and initialisms.
198,000+
definitions!"
Brewer’s
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable - "comprises over 18,000 entries that
reveal the etymologies, trace the origins and otherwise catalog '“words
with a tale to tell.'” Courtesy of Bartleby.com
One-Look
Dictionaries - allows one to search multiple dictionaries at once,
including slang and specialty dictionaries. One-Look claims "3210791
words in 726 online dictionaries now indexed" as of June 2001
WordSmyth
Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus - the advanced search feature allows
you to find a word based on words you provide which might appear in a definition.
It works like a thesaurus or reverse dictionary
Anywho
- search for individuals, businesses, and toll-free numbers courtesy of AT&T
SuperPages.com
- personal and business directories provided courtesy of Verizon.
Try the "Reverse Look-up." You provide the telephone number, and
the directory will give you name, address etc.
InfoSpace
- offers white pages, yellow pages, and e-mail lookup - including reverse
look-up and "Search Near Address" which will find a business nearest to
an address you provide
Telephone
Directories on the Web (teldir.com) - "This is the Internet's original
and most complete index of online phone books, with over 400 links to Yellow
Pages, White Pages, Business Directories,
Email
Addresses and Fax Listings from over 170 countries all around the world"
Thomas
Register of American Manufacturers - will provide address, phone, and
fax numbers for over 157,000 American and Canadian companies. Requires
free registration
Foundation
Finder - "Use the Foundation Finder to search by name for basic information
about foundations within the universe of more than 61,000 private and community
foundations in the U.S."
Scholarly
Societies Project - this searchable and browsable site, courtesy of
the University of Waterloo (Canada), provides links to web sites of over
2,200 organizations ranging from anthropology and chemistry to religion
and women's issues
Zip Code Lookup -
courtesy of the United States Postal Service - provides Zip Codes plus four
Columbia Encyclopedia Sixth Edition - provides "51,000 entries (marshalling six and one-half million words on a vast range of topics), and with more than 80,000 hypertext cross-references." Courtesy of Bartleby.com
Internet
Public Library: Reference Resources - perhaps the single
best reference gateway on the WWW, the IPL was started at the University
of Michigan School of Information
Bartleby.com:
Great Books Online - highlights include encyclopedias, dictionaries,
thesauri, several writer's handbooks, Grey's Anatomy, Farmer's
Cookbook, Post's Etiquette, and Bartlett's Quotations
Virtual Reference Shelf:
Selected Web Resources Compiled by the Library of Congress
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Perry-Castañeda
Library Map Collection - is perhaps the single best source of maps
and map information on the Internet. Courtesy of the University of
Texas-Austin
Atlapedia
Online - "contains full color physical and political maps as well as
key facts and statistics on countries of the world"
Color
Landform Atlas of the United States - courtesy of Ray Sterner and Johns
Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, provides beautiful
color relief maps, satellite images, and historical maps of each state
Library
of Congress American Memory Map Collections: 1500-1999 - maps
of discovery, cities, communication and transportation, environmental,
cultural, and military
Mapquest
- "directions, maps, traffic reports and city information"
Geographic
Names Information System (GNIS) - "contains information about almost
2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States.
The Federally recognized name of each feature
described in the data base
is identified, and references are made to a feature's location by State,
county, and geographic coordinates"
TopoZone
- this very easy to use site claims to have every "USGS 1:100,000, 1:63,360,
1:25,000, and 1:24,000 scale topographic map for the entire United States"
U.S.
Census Bureau's Mapping and Cartographic Resources
National
Geographic Map Machine
Quotations
Bartlett's
Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919) - "contains over 11,000
searchable quotations." Provided courtesy of Bartleby.com
Simpson’s
Contemporary Quotations: The Most Notable Quotations: 1950–1988
- "over 10,000 quotations from 4,000 sources." Provided courtesy
of Bartleby.com
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Statistical
Abstract of the United States - "contains a collection of statistics
on social and economic conditions in the United States."
United
Nations Global Statistics - courtesy of the United Nations Statistics
Division
United
States Historical Census Data Browser - "The data presented here describe
the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1790
to 1960."
U.
S. Census Bureau - United States Department of Commerce is now providing
data based on the 2000 census
U.
S. Census Bureau Statistical Agencies (International) - provides links
to governmental statistics agencies all over the world
InfoNation
- "an easy-to-use, two-step database that allows you to view and compare
the most up-to-date statistical data for the Member States of the United
Nations"
CIA
World Factbook - courtesy of the Central Intelligence Agency, provides
a variety of statistical data and maps for countries around the world
Virginia Information Providers Network(VIPNet) - the official homepage of the Commonwealth of Virginia provides information about all facets of Virginia government
Winchester and Frederick County Links
City
of Winchester
Winchester
- Frederick County Economic Development
Frederick
County Government
Winchester/Frederick
County Chamber of Commerce
Winchester
Public Schools
Frederick
County Public Schools
Handley
Regional Library
Winchester
Star
WINC
FM Radio 92.5
Lord
Fairfax Community College