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General

Yahoo! - Reference (Online Ready Reference Desk)
iTools.com (Search tools, language tools, research tools,  financial tools, map tools, internet tools)
My Virtual Reference Desk (Comprehensive listing of sites by topic)
LibrarySpot
Bartleby Library (Searchable.  Bartlett's Quotations, Inaugural Addresses of U.S. Presidents, Poetry, more)
Martindale's The Reference Desk
Hotsheet (Organized by subject.  Many links.)
Reporter's Desktop (Links to variety of tools)
SharpWriter (Writer's & reader's resource page)

Almanacs

Information Please (Encyclopedia, Almanacs, Dictionary)
Old Farmers Almanac 
Netstate.com  (Symbols, Almanacs, Geography, Maps of various types, Famous People, Newspapers, State Rankings, Tourism sites, Printable Flags, State Quarters)

Atlases and Maps

bulletWorld Atlas (Includes graphic maps; top 100 cities & countries; continents;  many lists:  largest, tallest, deepest, hottest, etc.; much more)
bulletTennessee Electronic Atlas
bulletTennessee Maps

Biography

Biography.com (A & E's Biography database)
Biography Center
Biographical Dictionary
The Nobel Foundation (Winners of the Nobel Prize, Nobel Foundation information)
Biographical Directory of U.S. Congress 1774 - present
Dead People Server (Find out if a noted personality is alive or dead)
Death List (predictions, actual deaths by year and photos)
Federal Judges Biographical Database
Inventors (Includes black inventors, women)

Calendars

CalendarHome.com (Perpetual, Holidays & Celebrations, This Day in History, much more)
Calendar Zone (Directory of calendar-related resources on the Web)
Diversity Calendar (Ethnic, national holiday, religious, more)
Today-in-History (Birthdays, major events in history for every day of the year)
 Black Facts:  Black History Information (Searchable by date or word)

Currency Converter

Foreign Currency Converter

Dictionaries/Thesauri

Merriam-Webster Online (Dictionary, Thesaurus, International Business Communications)
One Look Dictionaries (Many special subject dictionaries)
Thesaurus.com
Acronym Finder (Acronyms and abbreviations)
American Sign Language Dictionary
Indo European Languages
Online Language Dictionaries and Translators (Large List of Dictionaries Online)
YourDictionary.com (Translation dictionary links, thesauri, specialty tools, links to more than 1,000 dictionaries in over 200 languages Afrikaans to Yiddish)
Translating Dictionary (German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Frisian, Afrikaans, Hungarian, Czech, Esperanto, English)
Transparent Language Free Translations (English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese)
Rhyme Zone
Glossarist (searchable directory of glossaries and topical dictionaries)
Know Play (dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, world atlas, quotations, rhyming, artists, acronyms)
World Wide Words (History and curiosities of the English language)

Directories/Phone Books

    Supersites

Superpages (Search for residential & business phone numbers)
Yahoo! - Reference:  Phone Numbers and Addresses
Switchboard (Find people, businesses, e-mail)
ATT Directories (People, Business, Reverse lookup and Toll-Free directories from AT&T)
The Ultimates (white, yellow, e-mail)
Infobel.com (Search by country and language)

      Area Codes

Area Codes.com

      Business

AnyWho (Business)
Big Book powered by SuperPages.com
 Yellow Pages.com  
Yellow Page City:  the official U.S. yellow pages
Yellow Pages (Canada) - Find a Business

      Celebrities

Celebrity Addresses  (links to network addresses)
Fansites
TV Program and Star Contacts

       E-Mail

E-Mail Washington  (Pres, V.P., senators & representatives; e-mail addresses & forms)

       People

AnyWho (People)
Yahoo People page
AOL.com White Pages

       Reverse Lookup

AnyWho
Infospace
Reverse Address Directory

       Toll Free

AnyWho (Toll Free)
800 Directory ( A simple to use, searchable 800 directory for businesses)

       World

World Telephone Directories (Detailed listing of online white pages, yellow pages)

        Zip

U.S. Postal Service Zip+4 Lookup

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia.com
Encarta.com (MSN Learning and Research)
Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Mythica (Mythology, folklore, legend)
LookLex/Encyclopaedia  (formerly Encyclopedia of the Orient)
Encyclopedia of Symbols (Allows word search or graphic search)
Infoplease
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Sponsored by UT at Martin)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy   

Libraries on the Web

Library Web Pages Around the World
Public Libraries.com
Library of Congress
Tennessee State Library and Archives

Parliamentary Procedure

Robert's Rules of Order

Poetry Index

Bartleby.com/verse (Indexed chronologically and by author, title, first line)

Quotations

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.1919 (Bartleby.com)
Creative Quotations
Literature Quotations
Quoteland.com (Contemporary notables)
Quotations Page
Yahoo! - Reference :  Quotations (Links to many sources of quotations)

Statistics

U.S. and World Population Clocks   (Source for Global Population Information)
Library of Congress Country Studies
Religious Statistics Worldwide (from Adherents.com)
Fedstats: One Stop Shopping for Federal Statistics (Links to statistics produced for or by the Federal government)
Bureau of Justice Statistics Home Page (Crime, crime prevention, other statistics pertaining to justice:  national, state, local)
NSC Statistics (National Safety Council statistics, including accident statistics)
Monthly Economic Indicators (Latest Indicators from U.S. Census Bureau)
Social Statistics Briefing Room
Statistical Abstract of the U.S.
U.S. Gazetteer
U.S. Historical Census Data Browser
American FactFinder (From U.S. Census Bureau.  Searchable. Community Profiles, more)
Census of Agriculture:  1987, 1992, 1997 (Last three agricultural censuses)
National Center for Educational Statistics (From U.S. Department of Education)
U.S. Census Bureau's Tennessee County Census and Statistical Information
Uniform Crime Report
Price's List of Lists (Catalog of 100s of lists & ratings)
World Atlas (Many lists of rankings: countries, cities, largest, deepest, tallest, hottest, etc.)

Style and Citation

Style/Usage Manuals (Resources for Writers:  English grammar,  style manuals, research guides, information on how to cite sources including electronic ones; MLA, APA, much more.)
Citation and Bibliography Formats (Style Manuals, APA, MLA, electronic sources)
Chicago or Turabian Style
Grammar Slammer 

Time

Greenwich Mean Time
 

Weights and Measures

Measure 4 Measure -Calculators and Estimators (Links to sites that estimate, calculate, evaluate, translate, etc., for you)
Calculate Me (temperature, weight, exchange rates and more)
Asknumbers.com  (conversions between different metrics of length, weight, temperature, pressure, energy, frequency and more)

Images

bulletDigital Gallery (275,000 images from New York Public Library)

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