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- Abbreviations.com extensive collection of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms
- AF: Acronym Finder searchable dictionary of acronyms, initialisms, and abbreviations
- AIER Cost-of-Living Calculator enter a dollar amount and select years to convert from and to–from the American Institute for Economic Research
- AllAreaCodes.com a listing of United States area codes searchable by city, state, or area code
- The Baby Name Wizard: The Name Experts information on meanings, popularity, find names by your own search criteria
- Bartleby.com searchable database of over twenty standard reference works
- Blue Letter Bible 14 searchable versions of the Holy Bible
- Calendars through the Ages history, explanations of various types of calendars
- Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance database of federal programs available to state and local governments, private profit and nonprofit organizations, and individuals, information on what office to contact and how to apply
- Catholic Encyclopedia “a fifteen-volume encyclopedia covering a broad range of topics, secular and religious, from a Catholic perspective, transcription of the 1913 edition of The Catholic Encyclopedia“
- Chronicling America from the Library of Congress search America’s historic newspaper pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present
- Citation Style Guides from the University of Georgia Library–examples of specific citations for specific citation styles such as Modern Language Association (MLA), Chicago (Turabian), American Psychological Association (APA), and the American Anthropological Association (AAA)
- Crash Course in Copyright comprehensive information on fair use and copyright from the University of Texas
- Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world
- e-How easy to understand and follow instructions on “how to do just about everything”
- ePodunk profiles of cities and towns across the US
- Great Websites for Kids is a compilation of exemplary websites geared to children from birth to age 14 evaluated by Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association
- How Stuff Works a wealth of information on how things work–from the Metropolitan Opera to the Navy SEALS–and how to do things–from getting rid of grass stains to cleaning your furnance–there is quite a bit of advertising
- Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and more
- Lexicool directory of online bilingual and multilingual dictionaries
- Merriam-Webster Online searchable, browseable online dictionary
- Metric Conversions convert length, area, mass,speed, volume and temperature
- NewsEngin’s Percent Change Calculator fill in two boxes to calculate percent change
- New York Public Library Public Domain Collections more than 180,00o of the items in the NYPL’s digital collection available to download directly from the Digital Collections website.
- Official USPS Abbreviations state, street and other postal abbreviations
- The Old Farmer’s Almanac online version of the classic almanac
- OnlineConversion.com measurement conversions for just about everything
- Popular Baby Names rankings for years and popularity of male and female names
- The Pulitzer Prizes searchable database of winners and finalists 1917 to present, history of the prize
- Purdue OWL online writing lab–writing resources and instruction
- The Quotations Page browse quotes by author or subject
- radio-locator radio station search engine
- refdesk.com a searchable collection of links to ready reference sites
- Saving Time, Saving Energy: Daylight Saving Time, Its History and Why We Use It information, history and schedule of daylight saving time
- Test Reviews Online identify tests and instruments used in education, business and psychology
- thetimenow.com provides time zone conversions and weather for countries around the world
- time and date.com create a calendar for any year
- Universal Currency Converter foreign exchange rate calculations
- US and World Population Clocks population estimates from the US Census Bureau
- Greetings in 21 Languages from the Babbel Magazine
- Virtual Reference Shelf extensive list of web resources selected by the Library of Congress
- Wise Old Sayings a database of hundreds of inspirational, humorous, and thoughtful quotes, sorted by category
- Who’s Alive and Who’s Dead keeps track of which famous people have died and which are still alive
- Wordnik: All the Words an interactive online dictionary, also gives words in context
- Wordspy “word lover’s guide to new words”
- Writer’s Web part of the Writing Center of the University of Richmond sections on punctuation and sentence structure and mechanics are especially helpful
- Writing Center help with grammar and punctuation from the University of Wisconsin at Madison
- Zip Code Lookup find a zip code by address or by city, or find a city by zip code
