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	General Research Accounting Aeronautics & Astrophysics Almanacs Art Astronomy Biography Biology Books & Libraries Online, Book Reviews Cartography Chronology Computers Cryptography Demography . Dictionaries/Thesauri/Encyclopedia ...

(General) http://directory.google.com
http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Online/onlindex.htm Excellent reference site!
http://www.creax.com/resources/creax_net.html Excellent reference site:
www.about.com
Lots of reference material, seems to have an emphasis on healthcare http://www.allrefer.com/
How Stuff Works http://www.howstuffworks.com/
http://reference.com/
http://whatis.techtarget.com/
http://whatis.techtarget.com/resourceCenter/0,289923,sid9,00.html
Access To Archives http://www.a2a.org.uk/ Access hundreds of archive DBs in the UK
Librarians Index to the Internet - Excellent site! - http://lii.org/
Internet Public Library, the librarians index to the internet http://www.ipl.org/
Online Computer Library Center http://www.oclc.org/ "A worldwide library cooperative"
The WWW Virtual Library http://vlib.org/
Digital Library Research and Development http://www.dlib.org

Accounting – Metalinks http://acct.tamu.edu/smith/acctwebs.htm

Aeronautics & Astrophysics
Cambridge Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics http://ads.harvard.edu/books/hsaa/
Nasa publication – Basics of space flight http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Virtual Library http://ads.harvard.edu/books/

Almanacs
State Data http://www.nationsonline.org/


Art
Art on the web http://www.artchive.com/
Artcyclopaedia http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
Famous Artist Search http://www.nakedicon.com/artists.html
Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/ >133,000 terms
Getty Union List of Artist Names http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/ulan/ >225,000 names
National Gallery of Art http://www.nga.gov/
Olga's Gallery - - Excellent site! http://www.abcgallery.com/
Museums
http://www.museumsusa.org/
Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information http://www.cimi.org/old_site/index.html
The Louvre http://www.louvre.fr/louvrea.htm
Toy Museum http://www.toymuseum.com/
Video game museum http://www.vgmuseum.com/
Skyscraper museum http://www.skyscraper.org/
Melbourne Museum of Printing http://home.vicnet.net.au/~typo/welcome.htm

Cinema:
Movie Connector http://www.cinfn.com


Astronomy
U. S. Naval Observatory http://aa.usno.navy.mil/
U. S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applicatons Dept. http://aa.usno.navy.mil/
A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System http://www.nineplanets.org/
Views of the Solar System http://www.solarviews.com/eng/homepage.htm
NASA JPL Solar System Simulator http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/
Phases of the Moon http://www.die.net/moon/

Biography
www.biography.com
Bios of 11k+ notable persons http://www.nndb.com/ "Tracking the Entire World"
Getty Union List of Artist Names http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/ulan/ >225,000 names
Public Information Research http://www.namebase.org/ Searches popular publications for hits on well-known names
Find out who was born on a specific date http://www.born-today.com/
Biographies of significant members of the legislative branch http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp

Bentham, Jeremy http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/bentham.htm
Einstein, Albert Collected Papers http://www.einstein.caltech.edu/
Gide, Andre http://andregide.org


Biology
Zoology
Entemology
How to recognize crickets, katydids, and cicadas http://buzz.ifas.ufl.edu
Good discussion of Proteins http://folding.stanford.edu/science.html
Population Genetics http://waynesword.palomar.edu/lmexer6.htm
Breeds of Dogs http://www.thebreedsofdogs.com/


Books online (reference) (Also see Libraries, below)
Bible
Word/phrase lookup http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible
http://www.searchgodsword.org/
Biblical terminology and persons http://bibletools.org/
Old Testament http://www.rhymezone.com/g/holy/oldtestament
New Testament http://www.rhymezone.com/g/holy/newtestament
Various translations http://bible1.crosswalk.com/ searchable, not browsable
Lots of Bible links http://ebible.org/bible/
Lookup by passage or keywords http://bible.gospelcom.net/

Books/Libraries online
National Network of Libraries of Medicine http://nnlm.gov/members/
DocBook: The Definitive Guide http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/docbook/chapter/book/docbook.html
NetLibrary www.netlibrary.com (requires login ID)
The Online Medieval and Classical Library http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/
UPenn Digital Library http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ A very extensive resource
Banned Books online http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/banned-books.html
British Library http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/digitisation1.html Old volumes online from George III. DaVinci, etc.
Gregg Swem Library at William & Mary http://www.swem.wm.edu/
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library (Williamsburg VA) http://www.history.org/History/jdrlweb/index.cfm
Gutenberg Project http://www.gutenberg.net/ collection of more than 10.000 eBooks
Ibiblio http://www.ibiblio.org/ "the public's library and digital archive"
The Internet Classics Archive http://classics.mit.edu/ Over 400 works from Aesop to Virgil
German National Library of Science and Technology http://www.tib-hannover.de/en/digital_library/metasearch/ "TIB/UB today ranks as one of the world's largest specialist libraries, and one of the most efficient document suppliers in their subject areas."

Books online by author
Dickens, Charles
(Varied works) http://buglet.rcbowen.com/dickens/
Lawrence, D. H.
Lady Chatterly’s Lover http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100181.txt
London, Jack
(Varied works) http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/Writings/
Sanger, Margaret
Family Limitation http://adh.csd.sc.edu/dynaweb/MEP/ms/@Generic__BookTextView/3454;td=2;hf=0
Shakespeare, William
Hamlet http://classics.mit.edu/Shakespeare/Tragedy/hamlet/hamlet.html
Macbeth http://classics.mit.edu/Shakespeare/macbeth/index.html
(complete works) http://classics.mit.edu/Shakespeare/
Twain, Mark
Tom Sawyer http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/People/rgs/sawyr-table.html
Huckleberry Finn http://users.telerama.com/~joseph/finn/finntitl.html
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson http://users.telerama.com/~joseph/puddhead/puddtitl.html

Books online by subject
Windows 98
http://cma.zdnet.com/book/win98prfref/ Windows 98 Professional Reference; view or download
http://cma.zdnet.com/book/ Special Edition Using Windows 98; view or download


Book Reviews
Dr. Dobbs Electronic Review of computer books http://www.ercb.com/

Cartography
Glossary of Cartography http://atlas.gc.ca/site/english/learningresources/glossary/index.html
History of Cartography http://www.maphistory.info/mapsindex.html
Symbology in Cartography http://atlas.gc.ca/site/english/learningresources/carto_corner/map_content_carto_symbology.html


Chronology
Good discussion of many different calendars & date formats http://www.fourmilab.to/documents/calendar/
http://greenwichmeantime.com/info/timefaqs.htm and the sister site http://greenwichmeridian.com/
Online Calendar http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/
International Standard Date & Time Notation http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
U. S. Naval Observatory http://aa.usno.navy.mil/
Various clocks, calendars, counters, time anywhere worldwide, etc. http://www.timeanddate.com/
Excellent set of metalinks for time/date http://www.ecben.net/calendar.shtml
http://www.exit109.com/~ghealton/.dates.html
Current time anywhere in the world http://worldbuddy.com/ takes into consideration DST & recent political changes
Time & Frequency Division of NIST's Physics Laboratory http://www.bldrdoc.gov/timefreq/index.html
Guide to Jewish holidays http://www.chabad.org/holidays/
http://www.whattimeisit.com/ Shows UTC and 4 US zones

Computers
Software Product Finder http://productfinder.infoworld.com/infoworld/MainServlet?ksAction=Home

Cryptography
Introduction to Cryptography ftp://ftp.pgpi.org/pub/pgp/7.0/docs/english/IntroToCrypto.pdf

Demographics
City Data http://www.city-data.com/
Demographic/Geographic statistics http://www.nationmaster.com/
Demographic and Health Surveys http://www.measuredhs.com/
Population Reference Bureau http://www.prb.org/
International demographics from the State Dept http://foia.state.gov/MMS/postrpt/pr_view_start.asp
Politics & policy news, state by state http://www.stateline.org/stateline/
U.S. Census Bureau http://www.census.gov/
U.S. Census Bureau's Mapping and Cartographic Resources http://venus.census.gov/
U.S. Census Bureau State & County QuickFacts http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html
U.S. Voting Populations by State & County http://electionline.org/interactiveMap.jsp?page=Interactive+Map
VA Cities & Counties websites http://www.wowworks.com/wowcity/va.htm


Dictionaries/Thesauri/Encyclopedia (see also language translation below)
Search engine for specialized glossaries http://www.glossarist.com/gsearch.asp
Multiple dictionaries (music, medicine, slang, etc.) http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/
Multiple Glossaies http://www.logosdictionary.com/pls/dictionary/linguistic_resources.linguistic_resource.selezione
Good Collection of Dictionaries http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/ref28.05.00/
Many Glossaries http://www.webref.org/

Abbreviations & Acronyms
http://www.dacs.dtic.mil/databases/acronym/acronym_display.hts
Computer acronyms
http://www.articulates.net/abbrev.html
http://www.articulates.net/txtmsgs.html Text messaging acronyms, e.g. LOL, FWIW
http://www.geocities.com/ikind_babel/babel/babel.html/
Computer terms, definitions and acronyms http://www.cknow.com/ckinfo/index.htm
Abbreviations used in etymologies and dictionaries http://www.etymonline.com/abbr.php
Particle Physics acronyms http://www.interactions.org/cms/?pid=1002285
Apronyms http://apronyms.com/ Tongue-in-cheek acronyms
Radio Spectrum Management acronyms http://www.med.govt.nz/rsm/infolib/acronyms.html

Accounting
http://www.uacpa.org/public/glossary/accounting_terms_a-z/
http://www.nysscpa.org/prof_library/guide.htm

Aeronautics and Space Flight
Space Flight Glossary http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/bsfgloss.htm


Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Annotated Dictionary http://fbox.vt.edu/cals/cses/chagedor/glossary.html

Algorithms and Data Structures http://www.nist.gov/dads/

American Sign Language
http://www.masterstech-home.com/ASLDict.html/

Animals http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/animals/

Apache http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/glossary.html

Art & Artists
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
Graphic arts http://www.goodarts.com/definitions.htm
Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/ >133,000 terms
Getty Union List of Artist Names http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/ulan/ >225,000 names
Japanese woodblock printmaking terminology http://www.woodblock.com/encyclopedia/entries/010_01/010_01_frame.html
Artist's Real-Time 3D Glossary http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/resources/glossary2/index.shtml

Astronomy
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov./docs/dictionary.html
Planetary Society http://www.planetary.org/

Auto Loans http://www.theconsumerbridge.com/auto-glossary.html

Automotive Terms
http://www.autoworld.com/news/glossary.htm
http://www.motorera.com/dictionary/car-dic.htm

Aviation & Aerospace http://www.airport-technology.com/glossary/

Bartending http://www.barnonedrinks.com/tips/dictionary/

Batteries http://www.batteries.com/glossary/index.html

Biblical Terms http://www.read-the-bible.org/glossary.html


Biometrics
http://www.afb.org.uk/docs/glossary.htm

Buddhism http://www.chezpaul.org.uk/buddhism/books/glossary.htm

Cancer http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary/

Cartography http://atlas.gc.ca/site/english/learningresources/glossary/index.html

Cellular Phones http://www.theconsumerbridge.com/cell-glossary.html
Cell phone glossary http://www.mobiledia.com/glossary/index.html

Christianity – Encyclopedia of Christianity http://www.ccel.org/php/wwec.php

Cliches http://www.clichesite.com/index.asp

Cloning Glossary http://whyfiles.org/034clone/glossary.html



Computing
Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html
and an east coast (North America) mirror site http://foldoc.linuxguruz.org/
http://computing-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/
http://www.computeruser.com/resources/dictionary/dictionary.html
http://www.hyperdictionary.com/computer
Computer Design Glossary http://www.xilinx.com/publications/glossary.htm
Computer encyclopaedia http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/
Computer glossary http://www.di.com.tn/computerglossary/ChercherMot.asp
CSS Glossary http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=CssGlossary
Mainframes http://www.mainframes.com/
Computer acronyms
http://www.articulates.net/abbrev.htm
http://www.geocities.com/ikind_babel/babel/babel.html
Dublin Core glossary http://dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/glossary.shtml
German computer glossary http://www.t-lan.de/glossar/glossar.asp
Hutchinson Dictionary of Computers, Multimedia and the Internet http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/computers/
Mathematical Programming Glossary http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~hgreenbe/glossary/index.php
Memory management http://www.memorymanagement.org/glossary/
MS Access Glossary http://www.cs.rtu.lv/PharePub/Microsoft%20Access%2097%20Quick%20Reference/htm/ch09.htm
Net dictionary http://www.netdictionary.com/index.html
Routing http://www.avici.com/documentation/glossary.shtml
Webopedia http://www.webopedia.com/
Web standards glossary http://maccaws.com/kit/glossary/
Compact Disc Terminology http://www.cd-info.com/refs/terms.html
Explanations of common video terms http://www.videohelp.com/glossary Extensive glossary
XML Glossary http://www.zvon.org/index.php?nav_id=173
Glossary of Unicode Terms http://www.unicode.org/glossary/
Optical networking glossary http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=3515&site=lightreading
Web Building Glossary Terms http://www.w3schools.com/site/site_glossary.asp
Network Performance Glossary http://ipnetwork.bgtmo.ip.att.net/pws/glossary.html
Dublin Core MetaData Initiative Glossary http://dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/glossary.shtml
Telecommunications Glossary (ATIS Telecom Glossary 2000) http://www.atis.org/tg2k/



Construction (building)
http://www.c-risk.com/Reference_Library/BC_Glossary_01.htm
https://www.rsmeans.com/login/index.asp?referrer=/dictionary/index.asp
Home building terms http://www.homebuildingmanual.com/Glossary.htm
Construction management http://www.c-risk.com/Reference_Library/CM_Glossary_01.htm

Cryptography
http://www.ciphersbyritter.com/GLOSSARY.HTM

Cybercrime http://www.techtv.com/cybercrime/aboutus/story/0,23008,3363041,00.html

DocBook (related to XML, SGML) http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/docbook/chapter/book/dbgloss.html

Dream
http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dream

Economics
Glossary of Economics http://www.amosweb.com/gls/
Webpedia of Economics http://www.amosweb.com/wpd/


Electronics
Glossary of Electronic Technical Terms http://www.zytrax.com/tech/glossary/gloss.htm

Embroidery Glossary http://www.embroiderist.com/Embroidery_Glossary.htm

English
Princeston's Cognitive Sciences dict: http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn and http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/
Webster's www.merriam-webster.com
Webster's unabridged http://www.merriam-websterunabridged.com/mwol-2b.htm
http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dict-e
American English http://dictionary.cambridge.org/results.asp?dict=A
Antonyms http://www.antonyms.com/
British English http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/browse/ Exhaustive information on each entry
Dictionary of Difficult Words http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/
English idioms http://dictionary.cambridge.org/results.asp?dict=I
English phrasal verbs http://dictionary.cambridge.org/results.asp?dict=P
Google – words and/or acronyms http://labs.google.com/glossary
Multiple dictionary searches:
http://dict.die.net/
http://www.dictionary.com
http://www.onelook.com
Rhymes http://www.rhymezone.com/
Slang:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/
Hyperlinks to many slang dictionaries: http://www.spraakservice.net/slangportal/
British slang http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/
Links to many specialized slang dictionaries http://www.spraakservice.net/slangportal/

Shadowslang http://www.intercom.net/user/logan1/glossary.htm
Synonyms
http://www.synonym.com/
http://vancouver-webpages.com/synonyms.html
Wordsmyth Dictionary/Thesaurus http://www.wordsmyth.net/
WordSpy http://www.wordspy.com/ Focused on words new to the lexicon

Etymology Dictionary http://www.etymonline.com/

Fabrics http://www.carnegiefabrics.com/textile_talk/glossary/body_glossary.htm
Fabric & Lace glossary http://tms.ecol.net/wedding/dr_flg.htm
Fabric glossary http://www.barriepace.com/bp/customer_service/fabric_glossary.asp

Facial hair - minipaedia http://www.worldbeardchampionships.com/Categories/categories.htm
Filemaker http://www.afilemakeraffliction.com/gloss/glossr.html
Firearms
http://w3.agsfoundation.com/safety/gloss_menu.html

Forensic DNA
http://www.forensicdna.com/DNAGlossary.htm

Fraud
http://www.mc2consulting.com/fraudef.htm
http://www.maxima-group.com/ ...Then click on "Glossery"


Gastronomy
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/ck_encyclopedia

General
Britannica http://www2.britannica.com/
1911 Britannica (Sort of) http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/ "based on...eleventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, first published in 1911."
Grolier's online http://www.wrl.org/depts/YS/GROLIER/
Wikipedia http://www.wikipedia.org/
The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

Geography
Former country names http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/hist_country_names.htm
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/

Grain glossary http://www.nutribase.com/grains.shtml

Hacker Slang
http://jargon.watson-net.com/jargon.asp
The New Hacker's Dictionary http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/

Handwriting Analysis
http://www.fbi.gov/hq/lab/fsc/backissu/april2000/swgdoc2.htm

Human Resources
Employee Benefits terms
http://www.ifebp.org/glossary/default.asp
http://www.swerdlin.net/library/glossary/main.html
Pension terms
http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/PensionsA-Z.html


Insurance
http://www.sfs-group.co.uk/frameset-menu_glossary.html
http://insurance.cch.com/rupps/index.htm
Long Term Care Insurance
http://www.aim-aiu.com/glossary.htm
http://www.transamerica.com/insurance_products/long_term_care/glossary/index_glossary.asp


Internet
Hosting Glossary http://www.webhostingratings.com/glossary.html
HTML Metatags http://andrew.triumf.ca/VW/META/
Internet Glossary http://www.theconsumerbridge.com/internet-glossary.html
Glossary of Internet Terms http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html

Kosher Glossary http://www.star-k.com/cons-keep-glossery.htm

Languages (Non-English dictionaries)
265+ online dictionaries for 73 languages http://www.foreignword.com/
Dutch/English http://www.freedict.com/onldict/dut.html
Dutch – DoubleDutch Glossary http://www.taalthuis.com/eng/ddg.htm
French/English http://dictionary.cambridge.org/default.asp?dict=F
Pashtu
http://www.geocities.com/prpakistan_peshawar/pashto_dictionary.htm
http://www.yorku.ca/twainweb/troberts/pashto/pashlex1.htm
Spanish/English http://dictionary.cambridge.org/results.asp?dict=S
Vietnamese-English-French-German on-line dictionary http://gkws0.informatik.uni-leipzig.de:8080/
Related: Languages & Translation


Legal
http://www.nolo.com/lawcenter/dictionary/wordindex.cfm
and their legal encyclopaedia http://www.nolo.com/lawcenter/ency/index.cfm
http://www.duhaime.org/diction.htm
http://dictionary.law.com/
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/

Libraries, Books & Data Processing http://www.cyboerg.de/glossar/index1.htm

Mathematics
Glossary of prime numbers http://primes.utm.edu/glossary/

Medical
http://www.ssgfx.com/CP2020/medtech/glossary/
http://www.hyperdictionary.com/medical
Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID) glossary http://www.biid.org/Glossary.htm
Cancerweb Online Medical Dictionary http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/omd/
Healthcare http://www.academyhealth.org/publications/glossary.htm (downloadable)
Healthcare, managed http://www.pohly.com/terms.shtml
Illustrated Health Encyclopedia http://www.ajc.com/health/content/shared/health/adam_index.html
Mecicare http://www.medicare.gov/Glossary/Search.asp?Language=English
Medcyclopaedia http://www.amershamhealth.com/medcyclopaedia/medical/index.asp
Medical Fraud http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/MA95/davis2.html
Medterms.com http://www.medterms.com/script/main/hp.asp
NIH/NLM Encyclopedia of Medicine http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html
NIH/NLM Medical Dictionary http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mplusdictionary.html
Whonamedit http://www.whonamedit.com/ a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms
http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/


Media
Jones Encyclopedia of Media & Information Technology http://www.jonesencyclo.com/

Meteorology
Weather Glossary http://www.weather.com/glossary/

Multilevel Marketing http://www.mlmwatch.org/01General/glossary.html

Music
thinkquest http://library.thinkquest.org/2791/MDOPNSCR.htm?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0507
Electronic Music http://musicnet.chandra.ac.th/eng/elec-dic.htm

Nautical
Glossary of ship terms http://www.jobxchange.com/shipterms.htm

Networking
http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/glossary.htm

Numismatics
http://www.pcgs.com/lingo.chtml/
Internet Coin Encyclopedia http://www.cointfacts.com/

Occult
http://www.mysticcauldron.com/dictionary.html
http://www.bible.ca/tongues-dictionary-occult-donning.htm#look

Oceanics http://www.beach-net.com/Oceanglossary.html

Opera (browser) http://help.opera.com/Mac/8.0/en/glossary.html

Organ donation glossary http://www.unos.org/resources/glossary.asp

Passover dictionary http://www.chabad.org/holidays/passover/pesach.asp?AID=1847

Philosophy & Religion
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/ also http://www.iep.utm.edu/
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html
Philosophy in Cyberspace http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~dey/phil/
Catholic Encyclopedia http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/

Photography
http://www.iceboxminnesota.com/phototerms.html
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/consumer/glossary/glossaryContents.shtml
http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/glossary/terms_a.htm

Physics http://education.jlab.org/glossary/
Physics Factbook, The; An encylopedia of scientific essays http://hypertextbook.com/facts/
Particle Physics acronyms http://www.interactions.org/cms/?pid=1002285
Physics Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology http://www.physics.nist.gov/lab.html

Phrases and Sayings
http://phrases.shu.ac.uk/index.html
http://www.freesearch.co.uk/

Plants http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/plants/

Plumbing http://www.plumbingstore.com/plumbing_dictionary.html

Printing http://www.articulates.net/printterm.html
Glossary of Printing and Typography http://home.vicnet.net.au/~typo/glossary/glossary.htm

Privacy Issues http://www.kgb.org/kgb/glossary.html

Publishing http://www.rainwater.com/glossary.html

Racquetball http://www.usra.org/usra/pub&ref/factbook/terms.htm

Radio Spectrum Management (acronyms) http://www.med.govt.nz/rsm/infolib/acronyms.html

Screen Printing and Related Technologies http://www.sgia.org/glossary/index.cfm

Social Security
http://www.ssa.gov/glossary.html
http://www.nosscr.org/acronyms.html
http://www.nosscr.org/pomsnyms.html


Encyclopaedia of Spices http://www.theepicentre.com/Spices/spiceref.html

Telecommunications
http://www.carrieraccessbilling.com/telecommunications-glossary-n.asp
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-247863A2.pdf
http://www.atis.org/tg2k/
Satellite terminology
http://www.telesat.ca/satellites/terminology.htm
http://www.satisfied-mind.com/directv/glossary.htm Leaning towards TV satellite reception

Telephony Reference Network Tones, Ring Tones, ISDN, etc. http://www.zytrax.com/tech/telephony/

Theology http://www.datarat.net/DR/FramesLexGloss.html "The Internet's Largest On-Line Theological Glossary !"

Thesauri
http://www.hyperdictionary.com/thesaurus
http://thesaurus.reference.com/
Visual Thesaurus http://www.visualthesaurus.com/online/index.html

Time
Time & Frequency glossary http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/general/glossary.htm

Unicode Glossary http://www.unicode.org/glossary/

Web Glossaries
http://www.learnthenet.com/english/glossary/imho.htm
http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/glossary/0,294242,sid26,00.html
http://www.rustybrick.com/definitions.php

Yiddish Phrases http://www.templesanjose.org/JudaismInfo/writing/yiddishphrases.pdf

Directories
Telephone directories
Lookup by phone#
www.reversephonedirectory.com
http://www.whitepages.com/phone-lookup
http://www.anywho.com/rl.html
http://www.switchboard.com/
http://www.phonenumber.com/10004/reverse_phone.xhtml
http://smartpages.com/%20
Anywho (by AT&T) http://www.tollfree.att.net/
Government listings http://www.usbluepages.gov/
Switchboard http://www.switchboard.com/Switchboard White PagesSwitchboard Yellow Pages
Verizon Superpages http://www.superpages.com/
YellowBook http://www.yellowbook.com/
White Pages/Yellow Pages http://www.infospace.com/
Claremont U. has PDFs of telephone books for several U.S. cities http://www.cuc.claremont.edu/phone/superpages/ebook/vz_main.html
VCU has PDFs of the Richmond phone directories http://www.vcu.edu/richmondphonebook/

Economics
Journal of Law and Economics http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JLE/
Library of Economics and Liberty http://www.econlib.org/
National Bureau of Economic Research http://www.nber.org/
Research Papers in Economics http://repec.org/
Resources for Economists on the Internet http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/EconFAQ/EconFAQ.html
Working Papers in Economics http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/BibEc/
World Wide Web Resources in Economics http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/WebEc/WebEc.html



Engineering
Engineering Fundamentals http://www.efunda.com/home.cfm lots of info!

Genealogy
Determining relationships, particularly cousins http://fp.ayrshireroots.plus.com/Genealogy/Reference/What%20is%20a%20Second%20Cousin%20z.htm

Geography
How to map difference between geographic areas http://odur.let.rug.nl/~kleiweg/kaarten/Afstanden.html.en
City Information http://www.city-data.com/
Lists of Cities
Canada http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-cities-in-Canada
Georgia (US) Cities and Towns http://www.georgia.gov/00/channel/0,2141,4802_5081,00.html
Indiana Cities and Towns http://www.citiesandtowns.org/content/cities/citiesandtowns_DHT.htm
Massachusettes Cities and Towns http://www.state.ma.us/cc/
Wisconsin Cities and Towns, also zip code lookup http://www.daragon.com/zip_list_states.asp
United States
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-cities
http://www.bfcollection.net/citylist.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_the_United_States
http://jobs.searchbeat.com/jobs-by-city.htm
National Atlas http://www.nationalatlas.gov/
Global
http://www.placesonline.org/
CIA World Factbook http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
Degree Confluence Project http://www.confluence.org/index.php Pretty interesting...
Good quick geographical references http://www.ezresult.com/
World Flags http://www.faqs.org/docs/factbook/docs/flagsoftheworld.html
World Flags http://www.flags.net/
USGS Earth Explorer http://edcsns17.cr.usgs.gov/EarthExplorer/
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/

Geology
United States Geological Survey http://www.usgs.gov/
USGS Earth Explorer http://edcsns17.cr.usgs.gov/EarthExplorer/
Ask a geologist http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/docs/ask-a-geologist/
The Federation of Earth Science Information Partners http://www.esipfed.org/

Grammer, English Usage & Style Guides
Punctuation
http://englishplus.com/grammar/contents.htm
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/
Online Style Guides
Columbia Guide to Online Style http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html
NYPL Style Guide http://www.nypl.org/styleguide/
Web Style Guide http://www.webstyleguide.com/

English Usage http://www.yaelf.com/index.shtml http://www.yaelf.com/toc.shtml http://www.yaelf.com/eusources.shtml

List of English prepositions http://grammar.englishclub.com/prepositions-list.htm

History & Historical documents & speeches
Natural History
Wayne's World http://waynesword.palomar.edu/wayne.htm "An OnLine Textbook of Natural History"

World History
Sparticus Educational http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/

American History
Civil War battles by state http://www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/battles/bystate.htm
National Women's History Project http://www.nwhp.org/
Fact Index: Significant events of 1600s, 1700s, 1800s, 1900s Other centuries follow the same pattern of URI.

Catalog of sites on the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine http://echo.gmu.edu/center/
Military History – US Army Center of Military History http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/
Declaration of independence
http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDERAL/independ/declar.html
http://www.rhymezone.com/g/america/decindep//
United States Constitution
http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Constitution.html
and Amendments http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Amend.html
http://www.rhymezone.com/g/america/constitution
United States Presidents, compliments of Encyclopaedia Britannica http://www.britannica.com/presidentsWebapp/home.do
Famous speeches, sermons, Oscar acceptance speeches, & sound bites http://www.americanrhetoric.com/
Currency devaluation over time http://www.aier.org/colcalc.html
Sequence of events surrounding 9/11 http://cnparm.home.texas.net/911/Intro.htm ...
...and links http://cnparm.home.texas.net/911/Links.htm
...and victims http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/
Today in history http://www.tracingservice.com/cgi-bin/weather/hw3.cgi?forecast=pass&pass=today_in_history
International Treaties ftp://ftp.tufts.edu/pub/diplomacy
History of Cosmetology/Hairdressing http://www.hairarchives.com/
Greenwich, England history http://greenwichpast.com/
History of Cartography http://www.maphistory.info/mapsindex.html

1970.05.04 Kent State Massacre

Human Resources
Personnel Today http://www.personneltoday.com/ Excellent source from UK

Industrial Arts
Torx Sizing Guide http://www.aaronstorxscrews.com/free_table.htm

Materials
Stainless Steel Information Center http://www.ssina.com/faq.htm


Journals Online
Many journals http://www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/sage/
Many more journals http://www.ingenta.com/
Many more journals http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/
Criminal Justice Policy Review
http://www.chss.iup.edu/cr/CJPR/Default.htm
http://www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/sage/j506
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) http://www.doaj.org/
Highwire http://highwire.stanford.edu/ largest online repository of free full-text life science papers...journals...
Journal of Law and Economics http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JLE/
also see the Medical Journals entries in Healthcare/Wellness
First Monday http://www.firstmonday.org/ "Peer-reviewed journal on the internet"

Languages & Translation
Translation general:
Babelfish http://www.babelfish.org/ index of language translations
FreeTranslation http://www.freetranslation.com/
Google http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en Translate text or full web pages
Logos http://www.logos.it/dictionary/owa/old_dictionary.sp?lg=EN
http://www.online-translator.com/default.asp?lang=en Xlate text, web pages, or email – russo-centric, a variety of languages
World Lingo http://www.worldlingo.com/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html xlate a page or pasted text

Language-specific:
Dutch http://www.taalthuis.com/index.htm
Greek Primarily Greek; lots of other languages also http://www.translatum.gr/
Spanish-English Business Terms http://www.andymiles.com/
Swedish-English http://lexin.nada.kth.se/swe-eng.shtml

Tabular thesaurus for about 1000 common nouns in 18 languages http://users.otenet.gr/~vamvakos/multilingual.htm

Related: Non-English dictionaries

Legal
Information on Employment Law http://www.lawmemo.com/
Federal Legal Information Through Electronics http://www.fedworld.gov/supcourt/index.htm
Federal Bulletin Board http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/supcrt/index.html or FTP site: http://fedbbs.access.gpo.gov
FindLaw http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html
Geronimo http://www.casefinder.com
HoweData http://www.howedata.com
HyperLaw http://www.hyperlaw.com/index.htm
Info Syntheses http://www.usscplus.com
Law Library Microform Consortium http://www.llmc.com
Legal Information Institute http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct
LexisNexis http://www.lexisnexis.com and http://www.lexis-nexis.com/academic
LoisLaw http://www.pita.com or www.loislaw.com
Nolo http://www.nolo.com/index.cfm Lots of good legal info
QuickLaw Inc. http://www.quicklawamerica.com
The Oyez Project at Northwestern University http://oyez.nwu.edu
United States Code by Title# http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/
US Code Table of Popular Names,e.g Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988 http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/topn/index.html
United States Law Week: Bureau of National Affairs http://www.bna.com
Versus Law Inc. http://www.versuslaw.com
WestLaw http://www.westgroup.com

Libraries & Databases
CiteSeer Scientific Literature Digital Library http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/ or http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/
Kentucky Virtual Library http://www.kyvl.org/
Louisville Free Public Library http://lfpl.org/
New York Public Library http://www.nypl.org/
Virginia libraries http://www.finditva.com/cgi-bin/main.cgi
Selected works of Charles Dickens http://buglet.rcbowen.com/dickens/
Full (I believe) works of Shakespeare phrase lookup http://www.rhymezone.com/shakespeare/
Complete poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay http://silverpoplars.com/standards/millay/millay.html
Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.net/ "present collection of more than 10.000 eBooks"

Library classification schemes
"Using Library Classification Schemes for Internet Resources" http://staff.oclc.org/~vizine/Intercat/vizine-goetz.htm
http://www.tundria.com/GSWebDir/geneclas.htm
Universal Decimal Classification Consortium http://www.udcc.org/
Digital Object Identifier System http://www.doi.org/ "a system for identifying and exchanging intellectual property in the digital environment"
National Information Standards Organisation (NIISO) http://www.niso.org/
The ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) http://www.issn.org:8080/pub/
Library of Congress Classification Outline http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html
UNESCO Thesaurus http://www.ulcc.ac.uk/unesco/
Internet Public Lib http://www.ipl.org/reading/books
ISBN - The International Standard Book Number http://www.isbn-international.org/en/index.html
ISBN in the US http://www.isbn.org/

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions http://www.ifla.org/


Linguistics & Lexicography
http://www.linguistlist.org/
Language alternatives for the 21st century http://www.niestu.com/languages.html
Word relationship site http://www.lexfn.com/
Wordsmith – a variety of services http://wordsmith.org/
...including a cool anagram generator http://wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html

Manufacturing
How Everyday Things Are Made http://manufacturing.stanford.edu/ Requires high-speed connexion


Maps & Cartographpy
www.mapquest.com and driving directions http://www.mapquest.com/directions/main.adp
http://maps.yahoo.com/
http://mappoint.msn.com/
www.multimap.com
Aerial photo & topographical maps from USGS http://terraserver-usa.com/
http://yp.superpages.com/supermaps/mapform.phtml?SRC=by&STYPE=S
National Geographic Online Atlas http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/
Street maps of Great Britain http://uk.multimap.com/
Street maps of US http://www.mapblast.com/
Satellite imaging http://www.spaceimaging.com/
A variety of maps & resources http://www.odt.org/
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ Vast collection of worldwide maps
Map of Vietnam cities with .wav pronunciation http://www.seasite.niu.edu/vietnamese/VNMainPage/VN_map.htm
Map of Vietnam showing cities, provinces, bodies of water http://www.vietnamembassy-usa.org/learn/geo-map-mainland.php3
The National Atlas of the United States http://nationalatlas.gov/ A variety of maps from the USGS

Mathematics
Good discussion of Minus Zero, Signed Magnitude, Two's Complement, One's Complement
http://www.fourmilab.to/documents/univac/minuszero.html
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/
Ask Dr. Math http://mathforum.org/dr.math/
Formal Methods http://www.chezpaul.org.uk/fm/index.htm
Simple Geometric formulas &Mac246; perimeter, area, volume http://www.functionx.com/geometry/index.htm
Numbering systems (bin,dec,hex) tutorial, including conversion info http://www.functionx.com/references/numsystem.htm
Good discussion (and lists) of prime numbers http://primes.utm.edu/primes/home.php including Mersenne primes

Measurements
http://www.wolinskyweb.net/measure.htm
Energy (BTU/sec, HP, etc) conversion tool http://www.zephyr.org/power.html
Area, Length, Weight, etc. http://www.allconversions.com/
many, many units http://www.unit-conversion.info/index.html
Measurements used in physics and aeronautics http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/units.html
NIST on units of measurements http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/index.html

Medicine
National Library of Medicine http://www.nlm.nih.gov/

Meteorology – In the Travel & Transportation section

Military
Ranks and insignia http://www.clancyfaq.com/milranks.htm

Music
Music charts (international) http://www.lanet.lv/misc/charts/ Beyond Billboard – all genres
Free music lessons (voice, winds, brass, keyboard, etc.) from the Berklee College of Music http://www.berkleeshares.com/
International Standard Music Number ( ISO Standard 10957) http://ismn-international.org
International Federation of the Phonographic Industry http://www.ifpi.org/
Portal devoted to electronic music http://www.synthtopia.com/
Excellent compendium of contemporary, popular music http://ectoguide.org/ "Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music"

Song Lyrics:
http://www.webfitz.com/lyrics/Tbl1966.html
http://classicrock.about.com/library/misc/bltop500a.htm
http://www.nighthawk.co.nz/lyrics.htm
http://www.leoslyrics.com/
Love Song Lyrics http://www.links2love.com/love_lyrics.htm
http://www.lyricstime.com/lyrics/8065.html
http://www.lyricsxp.com/ seems to be on a real slow server
http://www.elyrics4u.com/
http://www.azlyrics.com/
http://www.lyricscafe.com/
http://www.boingo.org/lyrics.html Limited Selection
Christmas carols http://home.att.net/~quotesexchange/christmascarols/
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/
Stories behind the hits www.bobshannon.com/
Christian Hymn Lyrics http://my.homewithgod.com/heavenlymidis2/index.html

Scores
Score and Lyrics http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/
Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary http://www.ccel.org/cceh/cceh_map.htm


Discographies:
http://www.rockonthenet.com/

Mythology
Egyptian http://egyptmyth.com
Greek http://www.thanasis.com/homewk01.htm
The Muses http://www.thanasis.com/muses.htm
Norse
Roman http://romanmyth.com


Numismatics
British coin information http://www.24carat.co.uk/index.html
Prices online http://www.ecoinprices.com/
Internet Coin Encyclopedia http://www.cointfacts.com/
Paper money gallery http://tomchao.com/
Paper Money & Bank Note WWW Directory http://webhome.idirect.com/~mjp/mjpwww.html

Philosophy
http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~dey/phil/
Guide to philosophy on the internet http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/gpi/dicts.htm
Good list of fallacies http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html and find "List of fallacies"
The [Jeremy] Bentham Project http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/index.htm
Essays in Philosophy http://www.humboldt.edu/~essays/

Photography
Good photo resource http://photonotes.org/

Physics
Electromagnetic spectrum http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/ems1.html
A more granular chart as well as the U.S. allocation of frequency bands http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/allochrt.html
Institute of Physics http://www.iop.org/
Measurements
Time – See chronology
Oak Ridge National Laboratory http://www.ornl.gov/
Nuclear resource metalinks http://www.fas.org/nuke/links.htm
Unit conversion http://www.megaconverter.com/Mega2/index.html
Particle Physics acronyms http://www.interactions.org/cms/?pid=1002285
Particle Physics News and Resources http://www.interactions.org/cms/
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility http://www.jlab.org/
CERN – European Organization for Nuclear Research http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Welcome.html
The Physics HyperTextbook http://hypertextbook.com/facts/ "An Encyclopedia of Scientific Essays"

Psychology
The Psi Cafe http://www.psy.pdx.edu/PsiCafe/ A psychology resource site
Key Theorists/Theories in Psychology http://www.psy.pdx.edu/PsiCafe/KeyTheorists/index.htm

Publishing
History of Greeking http://www.lipsum.com/
Good publishing resources http://www.worsleypress.com/format/index.html
Related:JournalismTypography


Q & A sites
http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/0,5753,184276,00.html

Quotes/Quotations
http://www.brainyquote.com/ (& get ready for popups)
http://www.quotationspage.com/
http://www.freemaninstitute.com/quotes.htm Good source for inspirational quotes
http://wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://home.att.net/~quotesexchange/Lots of quotes
http://en.thinkexist.com/ A very good quote site

Seismology
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology http://www.iris.edu/

Serials Online (Periodicals, Magazines)
LookSmart's FindArticles http://www.findarticles.com/PI/index.jhtml Lots of serials, lots of back issues.

Space Flight http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/index.html Basics of Space Flight

Symbology
Burial Symbols (modern) http://www.oldcem.bc.ca/gp_arts.htm
Symbology in Cartography http://atlas.gc.ca/site/english/learningresources/carto_corner/map_content_carto_symbology.html
Celtic Symbology and Motifs http://www.draeconin.com/database/celtsymb.htm


Telecommunications
Amateur Radio QSL Lookup http://www.qrz.com/
Communication Radio frequency by state, city http://www.cityfreq.com/
Radio Station Lookup www.radio-locator.com/


Think Tanks
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research http://www.aei.org/
Annenberg Public Policy Center of UPenn http://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/
National Annenberg Election Survey http://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/naes/index.htm
Annenberg Political Fact Check http://www.factcheck.org/
Brookings Institution http://www.brook.edu/
Center For American Progress http://www.americanprogress.org/
Center For Global Development http://www.cgdev.org/
Conference Board, The www.conference-board.org
Heritage Foundation http://www.heritage.org/ "...formulate and promote conservative public policies..."
Hoover Institution http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (focusing on the major health care issues facing the nation)
Institute for Policy Studies http://www.ips-dc.org/
http://www.kff.org/ and http://www.kaisernetwork.org/
Pew Center for Research http://people-press.org/, http://www.pewinternet.org/
Rand http://www.rand.org/
Rockbridge Institute http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org/
The Henry L. Stimson Center http://www.stimson.org/

Typography
Counterspace http://counterspace.motivo.com/
Fontspace http://www.fontscape.com/ typeface directory
Identafont http://www.identifont.com/
International Typeface Corporation http://www.itcfonts.com/
MagazineDesign – History of Greeking http://magazinedesign.weblogsinc.com/entry/6796137614858915/
download the Greeking text http://www.iampariah.com/downloads/misc/lorem.txt (28kb)
Upper & Lower Case Magazine http://www.itcfonts.com/ulc/
Related:Journalism, Publishing

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