General Reference
Tools
Dictionaries
Word
Origins - Phrase Finders - Abbreviations - Symbols
Encyclopedias
Addresses
- Phone Numbers - Zip Codes
Conversion
Tools
Quotations
Biographies
Atlases -
Maps
Countries -
Gazetteers
General Reference
Tools
- Refdesk.com
- lengthy list of reference tools to search
- Virtual
Reference Desk - search numerous reference
sites
- Research
It - search dictionaries, thesaurus, biographical
dictionaries, quotations, atlases, and many other types of
information sources
- Fact
Monster - reference information from many sources
available here
- Information
Please - search almanacs, dictionary, encyclopedia and
atlas
- xref -
cross-referenced encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri & books
of quotations
- Old Farmer's
Almanac - search the famous almanac
- AbsoluteTrivia.com
- search tool for trivia
- Fast
Facts - find facts on a great variety of
topics
- Ivy's
Bookcase - reference bookshelf of links
- Know Play:
Reference - dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia and
other reference links all in one place
- Gary Price's List of Lists - ranked lists of companies, people and resources
Dictionaries
Word
Origins - Phrase Finders - Abbreviations - Symbols
Encyclopedias
Addresses
- Phone Numbers - Zip Codes
Conversion
Tools
Quotations
Biographies
- Biography -
great source of biographical information
- Biographical
Dictionary - very brief biographical reference
- Homework
Center: Biographies - great list of links from the
Multnomah County Library
- Time.com
- Person of the Year - Time Magazine's annual choice
for Person of the Year with past choices included
- Academy of
Achievement - famous people in the Arts, Business,
Science, Sports, and other categories
- About Famous
People - limited number of biographies and information
on famous women, frontiermen, composers, authors, female spies,
generals of the Civil War, Presidents, First Ladies, famous people
in Black History, homes and monuments of famous people
- Distinguished
Women of Past and Present - biographies of famous
women
- Inventors
Museum - biographies and other information about
inventors and their inventions
- Nobel Prize Winners
- Look to the Stars - web site featuring celebrities and the charities they support
- SixDegrees - Kevin Bacon's site dedicated to celebrities and the charities they support
Atlases -
Maps
Countries/Gazetteers
- Altapedia
- countries A to Z online
- World
Gazetteer - world population, cities and flags
- U.S.
Gazetteer - figures from the US census Bureau
- World Desk
Reference - over 5,000 illustrations, charts and
diagrams, 600 maps and 25,000 facts and statistics on nations of
the world
- Portals
to the World - links to information on nations of the
world from the Library of Congress
- Aneki - Country
Information - regional and world rankings of over 190
countries including information on wealth, population, size,
cleanest, most expensive, pollution, quality of life and
more
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