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Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Calendars, Almanacs & Clocks

xRefer - the Web's reference engine: a great place to start (encyclopedias, disctionaries, thesauri, quotation collections, etc., searchable with a single query)

see also: OneLook On-line Dictionary

Best encyclopedias, almanacs: Columbia Encyclopedia (6th ed.) | Encyclopædia Britannica: the classic 1911 edition) | Information Please Almanac | Internet Public Library | Martindale's Reference Desk | The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (3rd ed.)
Dictionaries: OneLook On-line Dictionary | OED (requires subscription & fee) | On-line Dictionaries (consolidated search engine) | American Heritage Dictionary (unabridged, 3^rd ed., 1996) | Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary | Webster's (1913 ed.) (browsable)| Dictionary.com | WordSpy | Brewer's Dict. of Phrase & Fable (1894 ed.) | Dictionary of Slang | Glossarist.com
Good almanacs: MSN's Encarta Concise | Daily Almanac | Any Day Today-in-History | Almanac of American Politics 2000 | Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology | The Handbook of Texas Online | On This Day . . . N.Y. Times
Calendars: 10,000-year (Javascript) | 10,000-year (HTML, non-frames version) | virtual perpetual calendar | Julian Calendar conversion calculator | Daylight Saving Time information page
Clocks:
- Good sources of accurate time:
- Odd clocks:

General Reference

Library of Congress' Virtual Reference Shelf | xRefer - the Web's reference engine | Ask Jeeves | Bartleby.com | Berkeley Pub. Library Guide to WWW | CEO Express! | Fuld & Co. Competitive Intelligence Library | Desktop Reference Tools | Inter-Links Reference Shelf | Internet Public Library | Learn2.com | Thor (from Purdue Univ.) | Virtual Reference Desk (Home Page) | SMU On-line Resources | Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe | Acronym Finder | HandymanUSA.com | Yardcare.com | How Stuff Works

Statistics

Population, demographic, census: University of Michigan's "Statistical Resources on the Web" | World Desk Reference (thousands of maps, graphs, etc.) | Global Trends 2015: A Dialogue About the Future With Nongovernment Experts (National Intelligence Council/National Foreign Intelligence Board) | Statistical Abstract of the United States | U.S. Census 2000 | CensusScope (let's you drill down through the 2000 Census data) | Uncle Sam's Reference Shelf: County and City Data Book (2000 ed.) | State and County Quick Facts | 2002 Census of Governments | Bureau of the Census International Database | United States Historical Census Data, 1790-1970 | Federal Statistics | American Demographics | White House Health Statistics Page | HHS/HRSA's Community Health Status Indicators | National Center for Health Statistics | American FactFinder (from the U.S. Census Bureau) | Population Reference Bureau | Public Debt On-line | Placesnamed.com | Pew Charitable Trusts
International: Your Nation.com (compare any two countries by any statistic you want) | United Nations Global Statistics | Library of Congress' Portals to the World | CIA's World Factbook | A+ Country Reports | State Dep't Bureau of Consular Affairs | State Dep't's Background Notes | BBC's Country Profiles | Britannica's "Worlds Apart" (expert guidance on 12 trouble spots)
Other: Statistical Concepts Everyone Should Know | Statistics Course Book On-line | On-line Conversion | BMI Calculators (TWM local) (National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute)

History, Social Science

AmDocs: Documents for the Study of American History (1492-present) | The AmericanPresidency.net (good historical resource) | BBC's History Timelines Project | ObitPage.com | Social Science Information Gateway / Social Science Search Engine | Urban Legends | National Security Archives: 13 Days | Infoplease: The 20th Century: history, quizzes

People Finders

U.S. Blue Pages | Switchboard.com | SMU E-Mail Search | Freeality (People Search) (Reverse Lookup & E-Mail) | Anywho | Yahoo!'s People Search | Lycos PeopleFind| Metacrawler's Ultimate Directory | Trackem | Vitalchek.com (birth certificates & other vital records) | Biography.com |
Dead and Buried
- Dead People Server
- Who's Alive and Who's Dead?
- Dead Musician Directory
- Find a Grave
- Where Are They Buried? (politicians only)
- Daily Telegraph Obituaries (requires free registration)
- GoodByemag.com (the Journal of Contemporary Obituaries) (nothing added since Dec 2002)
- Obitpage.com (home of the "Great Obituary Writers' National Conference")

Writers' & Speakers' Aids: xRefer - the Web's reference engine: a great place to start (encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotation collections, etc., searchable with a single query)