Library
Web Reference Sites
Miscellaneous
AllTheTests.com:
An online test search engine and your guide through the
jungle of different tests on the Internet from IQ to Personality.
The Amazing Picture Machine: A database of photos and graphical
representations on the Web
Amusing Facts: Useless information at your fingertips.
Anybirthday.com: Find almost anyone's birthday online (over 135 million
birthdays!)
Behind the Name: The etymology and history of first names.
Bloomsbury Research Centre: Site is a free online database of reference books
of over 17,000 entries, cross-referenced and indexed. A search engine is available
to search on a wide range of subjects including literature, art, myth, human
thought, quotations and a thesaurus or browse through each book at your leisure.
Calendars Through the Ages: Explore the fascinating history of the human
endeavor to organize our lives in accordance with the sun and stars.
Daylight Savings Time:
History and information about daylight savings.
Dictionary of Automotive Terms
dMarie Time Capsule: Enter your birth date and see what was going on then:
news headlines, who was in office, retail prices, average income for the year,
Academy Award winners, and sports headlines.
Emily Post's Etiquette: The 1922 version.
FindTutorials.com: A Web index and search engine dedicated to bringing you
the best of the Web's tutorials and online courses.
Flags of the World: From
CRW Flags.
Guinness World Records
How Stuff Works: Explanations
on the workings of things from computers and electronics to the body's organs.
Measuring Units Conversion
Tables
The Original Tipping Page: Everything you wanted to know about when and how
much to tip.
Parliamentary Procedure
Robert's Rules of Order: From
1915.
Social Security Information: Find out what social security numbers mean,
and do a free instant social security number verification.
Symbols.com: Site contains more than 2,500
Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics.
Ranging from Cro-Magnon carvings to hobo signs and subway graffiti, the signs
are clearly drawn and thoroughly described.
Temperature Conversion Calculator
U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office Databases
Weather.com: The Weather Channel forecasts and weather maps.
Weights and Measures: This conversion calculator can help you convert measurements
for area, length, weight, and volume whether you're using the metric system,
the U.S. system, or both.
The World Clock: Find
out the current local time for cities all over the world. Automatically updated
once every minute.
World Time Interactive: An interactive
world atlas, information on local time as well as sunrise and sunset times
in several hundred cities, and a database of public holidays worldwide.
xrefer:
When you type in a key word the service searches through encyclopedias, dictionaries,
thesauri, books of quotations and other works covering a wide range of subjects.
