- 000's Computers, Information, and General
Reference
- Computer Information
- Finding
Information on the Internet: A Tutorial
- A tutorial from the Teaching Library at the University of California at
Berkeley. This covers information from basic topics such as what is
the World Wide Web to advanced Internet searching techniques.
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- Finances
Social Security Retirement
Estimator
Produce estimates that are based on
your actual Social Security earnings record
- Dictionaries
- IOn-line Medical Dictionary
- Contains more than 15,000 terms relating to biochemistry, cell biology,
chemistry, medicine, molecular biology, physics, plant biology,
radiobiology, science and technology. It includes: acronyms, jargon, theory,
conventions, standards, institutions, projects, and eponyms.
- Rhyming Dictionary
- Includes thesaurus and dictionary.
- Translating Dictionaries -
travlang
- Translates your words from English to German, Dutch, French, Spanish,
Italian, Danish, Portuguese, Finnish, Hungarian, Czech, Afrikaans, Latin, or
Esperanto, as well as from each of these languages to the others. Includes
phrases.
- WWWebster Dictionary
- Based on the Webster's 10th Collegiate edition, 1993. More than 160,000
entries. Each word is accompanied by definition, pronunciation, usage,
grammatical function, and a brief etymology. A thesaurus can be queried for
similar words, hypertext cross references are available, and misspellings
return suggested spellings. Includes an extensive pronunciation guide.
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- Almanacs & Quick Information
- Farmer's Almanac
- Chock full of information, just like its print version.
- Information Please
- The publishers have put the Information Please Almanac, their
Entertainment Almanac and Sports Almanac, the Columbia Encyclopedia, and the
Random House College Dictionary online for searching or browsing. You can
search these ready reference works together or separately and by subject or
full text keyword. Be sure to read their Help section. In addition they do a
feature story each week (Spotlight) covering a topic in the news.
Kelley Blue Book
The Kelley Blue Book online allows
you to enter all pertinent info, then it generates your car's current value
U.S. Bureau of the Census
The most comprehensive site for current U.S. demographic
data.
- United States
Historical Census Data Browser
- Statistics for each state and county from 1790 to 1960
- Calendars
- Holidays and
Other Dates in the U.S. Secular Calendar
- Calculates when federal holidays and other widely celebrated
days fall for any given year after 1776. Includes dates for
daylight savings time.
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