Library:
Reference Resources
Biographical / Historical Information
Infoplease Almanac http://www.infoplease.com/
Online version of the popular almanac that can be browsed by topic or searched. Includes access to a dictionary and the Columbia Encyclopedia.
Old Farmer’s Almanac http://www.almanac.com/
From the Librarian's Index to the Internet: "Since 1792, The Old Farmer's Almanac has published useful and entertaining information that includes tide tables, sunrise tables, planting charts, recipes, and weather. This electronic version answers questions about weather, astronomy, folklore, and history, and provides gardening advice and household hints. Sun and moon rise and set times for any U.S. location are available through a simple 4-step process."
PoliSci.com: The Political Reference Almanac
From the Librarian's Index to the Internet: "Online edition of the print version of this annual compilation of information on United States and world governments and politics. Includes: political calendars (includes independence days, admission days, election dates); political documents; World governments, U.S. legislative, executive, and judicial branches; state and local governments (has mayors of U.S. cities over 50,000); U.S. political parties; economics; and political history (covers governors, presidents, rulers, etc.). Links to hundreds of government Web sites around the world. Formerly the Almanac of Politics and Government."
Biographical / Historical Information
America's Memory (Library of Congress) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mdbquery.html
Biography resources: Finding information on the famous, infamous, and obscure http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ACRL/Publications/College_and_Research_Libraries_News/Back_Issues__2002/January/Biography_Resources.htm
Lives, the Biography Resource http://amillionlives.com/
Great American Speeches http://www.pbs.org/greatspeeches/
Includes a speech archive with text and audio files and background information, critic's comments on some of the speeches, and lesson plans for teachers.
Douglass Directory of Speeches and Historical Documents http://douglassarchives.org/directory/General_Collections_of_Speeches_and_Historical_Docs/
The American Heritage® Dictionary http://www.bartleby.com/61/
Cambridge International Dictionary of English (CIDE) http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
Dictionary.com http://www.dictionary.com/
Merriam Webster Dictionary http://www.m-w.com/
Your Dictionary.com http://www.yourdictionary.com/ The Britannica Concise http://www.britannica.com
Columbia Encyclopedia http://www.bartleby.com/65/
Encyclopedia.com http://www.encyclopedia.com/
xrefer http://www.xrefer.com/
AnyWho: Internet Directory Assistance http://www.anywho.com/
Info Space http://www.infospace.com/
Switchboard http://www.switchboard.com/
The Ultimates (white pages, yellow pages, e-mail directories) http://theultimates.com/
White Pages http://www.whitepages.com/
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations http://www.bartleby.com/100/
Quotations Page http://www.quotationspage.com/
Quote Land http://www.quoteland.com/
Quote World http://quoteworld.org/
Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations The Most Notable Quotations: 1950–1988 http://www.bartleby.com/63/
Lexical FreeNet: Connected Thesaurus http://www.lexfn.com/
Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus http://www.bartleby.com/62/
WordNet - a Lexical Database for English http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn1.7.1