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Acronyms | Top

Acronym Finder - searchable database contains definitions for common acronyms and abbreviations about all subjects.
Acronym Lookup - researches the meaning of acronyms and abbreviations.
Acronyms for Health Information Resources - linked acronyms for information and data resources in the health sciences.
Official Postal Service Abbreviations - researches abbreviations specific to postal service.
Web Directory: Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Initialisms - links to subject-specific lists of acronyms.

Almanac | Top

Almanac of Politics and Government - provides information on U.S. and world politics.
CIA World Factbook - historical overview of the Central Intelligence Agency
Information Please - offers several useful and interesting facts on a wide range of topics online.
Yahoo: This Day in History - find significant facts about any day in history.

Ask Anything | Top

Allexperts.com - covers a variety of topics including music, sports, health, love and romance, and more.
Ask An Expert Page - get answers to questions about science, math, movies, the Internet, and more.
Ask an Expert Sources - links to experts in K-12 curricular related topics.
Ask the Experts - part of the My Virtual Reference Desk collection; provides links to a variety of experts in different fields.

Censusfile | Top

United States Popclock - from the U.S. Census Bureau - contains trivia of the U.S. population, according to time.
World Popclock - from the U.S. Census Bureau - monthly count of the world's population.
World-Village Project - If we were to reduce the world population to a village of 1000 inhabitants; then this would be our reality...

Dictionaryfile | Top

biography.com - biograpies on 25,000 personalities
dictionary.com - provides answers questions about grammar, lanugage and word usage.
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Merriam-Webster Thesaurus - defines words and provides usage in sentences.
OneLook Dictionaries - allows you to search for multiple definitions of a word from a variety of online dictionaries.
Synonyms Dictionary - finds words with similar definitions.
Voycabulary - lets you look up words in online dictionaries and thesauri and translations.
Yahoo: Library of Congress Thesauri
Yahoo: Roget's Thesaurus
Yahoo: Slang - looks up definition of popular American slang.
Yahoo: Web Directories - web list of Dictionaries and Thesauri.

Encyclopedia | Top

Information Please - from the print reference database, offering millions of useful and interesting facts on a wide range of topics online. Also includes a dictionary and encyclopedia.
Encyclopedia Smithsonian - information about a variety of topics, from Smithsonian Institution sources.
Encyclopedia.com - provides more than 17,000 short articles from the Concise Columbia Electronic Encylopedia, Third Edition.
Internet Encyclopedia - Beta Test of Encyclopedia of Information Available on the Internet
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Platonic Realms - math quotes, mini-texts and definitions.
Spartacus Encyclopedias - including British history 1700-1950, and two separate works for World War I.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - contains a quarterly updated, refereed resource for philosophers.
Web Directory: Encyberpedia - Information website which links together encyclopedias throughout the internet.

Etiquette Advice | Top

Etiquette for Today - Peggy Post will answer your questions about parties, family gatherings, invitations, and guests.
Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home - Emily Post, 1922.
National League of Junior Cotillions - organization that licenses directors to establish local cotillion programs. Guidance on ethics and etiquette.
Ultimate Etiquette and Manners Resource Page - dining, wedding, business, children, church, history, cultural, and humor.
Usenet - clari.feature.miss_manners - etiquette advice by Miss Manners.

InfoTrac | Top

A general reference database that contains thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, political and global issues. Go to Infotrac

SIRS | Top

A general reference database that contains thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, political and global issues.

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