General Information

Facts

• Ask An Expert - links to experts in many fields
• Findout - "Ask Us" is a free reference service
• Encyclopaedia Britannica online
• Calculators Online Center - contains over 3,500 calculators. Calculate interest rate repayments, convert recipes, work out your biorhythms, your chances of winning at baccarat or even tune your guitar.
• CalendarLand - links to a variety of celestial, cultural, religious and historical calendars
• The Electric Library - ask a question in English and it searches more than 150 full-text newspapers, hundreds of full-text magazines, two international newswires, two thousand classic books, hundreds of maps, thousands of photographs, and major works of literature and art.
• Global Encyclopedia
• Grolier Online
• The Internet Public Library
• Library of Congress
• Library of Congress Search Form
• The Old Farmer's Almanac
• Public Libraries
• University Libraries
• University Links
• USENET FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) collected
• Virtual Library: Subject Catalogue

Language References:

• Webster's Dictionary
• WWWebster Dictionary
• Roget's Thesaurus
• travlang's Translating Dictionaries
  This site provides an easy means to translate words from one language to another. Supports English, French, Dutch, German, Spanish and Esperanto. The site also has mapping/hotel/directions/general purpose travel data.
• UK - US English Dictionary
• US - UK English Dictionary
• American English Dictionary
• English <--> French dictionaries
• English-French dictionary
• English <--> German dictionaries
• English <--> Spanish dictionaries
• English-Finish dictionary
• English-Russian and Russian-English dictionary
• English-Slovene Dictionary
• Japanese/English Dictionary Gateway
  

People

• WHO is WHO - ON-line Edition

Distance

• How Far is it? - find the distance between cities

Money

• The Universal Currency Converter
• Currency Converter

Place

• Area Code Lookup
• Area/City/Country Code Phone Lookup Service
• Geographic Name Server by City or ZIP code
• (US) National Address Server
• US Address and ZIP+4 Browser
• U.S.Gazeteer - search for a place by entering the name and state abbreviation
• US Zip Codes

Time

• Date and Time Gateway - when you absolutely need to know the exact time
• The World Clock
• Worldtime

Travel

• Virtual Tourist - Worldwide WWW Information - graphical directory
• Weather information by state

Words

• Bartlett's Quotations
• Elements of Style, By William Strunk, Jr
• On-Line Dictionaries Page - a list of online dictionaries
• Roget's Thesaurus
• Webster's Dictionary
• WWWebster Dictionary
• OneLook - searches 81 dictionaries

Reference Sites

• AgDB - The National Agricultural Library
• The Awesome List - list of reference sites, search engines, etc.
• Computer Science Technical Resource Archive Sites
• Electronic Reference Books
• Microsoft's Reference Site
• On-line Dictionary of Computing
• Free Online Dictionary of Computing
• International Financial Encyclopedia/Dictionary of Management and Technology
• Online Resource For Writers
• Reference (Dictionaries, etc..)
• Stat USA - US government server with business and economic information from over 50 Federal agencies
• The Virtual Reference Desk
• World Bank - Publications, research, current events on international finance and economic trends

Computer Terms

• PC Hardware and Data Communications Terms
• The CyberDorktionary
• Hacker's Dictionary
• Hacker's Jargon
• The Jargon File
• Unix and Internet dictionary
• English and Technical Dictionary from CERN
• The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
• Software Engineering Glossary

Acronymns

• Acronym Dictionary and Acronym lookup
• The WorldWideWeb Acronym and Abbreviation Server
• BABEL: A Glossary of Computer-Related Abbreviatons and Acronyms
• CORDIS RTD Acronyms Database
• Acronym Dictionary
• The Acronym Expander
• Akronyme/acronyms

Official Sources

• U.S. Census Bureau Internet Site
• U.S. Gazeteer of placenames, with maps
• IBM Patent Server