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Table of Contents:
Geography and Travel
Science
U.S National and Government
Miscellaneous
Dictionaries, Thesauri, Acronyms
- English
- Search Webster's Dictionary (from Carnegie-Mellon University)
- Search the American English Dictionary (from the National lnstitute of Health)
- Dictionary Search (from Bucknell)
- Technical English
- Search the Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing (from the United Kingdom)
- BABEL: A Glossary of Computer Oriented Abbr. and Acronyms (by Irving Kind)
- Search the Hacker's Dictionary/Jargon File (from Austria)
- Acronyms
- Search Acronym Dictionary (from Ireland)
- Search an Acronym Dictionary (from the United Kingdom site 1)
- Search an Acronym Dictionary (from the United Kingdom site 2)
- Thesauri
- Search an updated 1911 Roget's Thesaurus (from the National Institute of Health)
- Search Roget's Thesaurus (from ARTFL)
- International
- Estonian-English Dictionary (from Institute of Baltic Studies)
- Euro-Dictionary (from Germany) English to French, German, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, and Portuguese.
- Finnish-English Dictionary (from Finland)
- French-English Dictionary (from ARTFL)
- French-English Dictionary (from Finland)
- German-English Dictionary (from Berlin, Germany)
- Japanese-English dictionary (by jfriedl)
- Russian-English Dictionary(from Russia)
- Slovene-English dictionary (from Slovenia)
- Miscellaneous
- Bartlett's Book of Familiar Quotations
- College Slang Dictionary (from Spies.com)
- See also the human languages page at Willamette.
Copyright Information
Federal Tax Information
- The Department of the Treasury: Internal Revenue Service
- The Department of the Treasury: IRS--Tax Forms and Instructions
- 1040 Express Tax Search Engine
Maps & Travel Information
- How far is it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . calculator for distance between any two cities
- 1994 CIA World Factbook (from CIA)
- Country Studies (from the Library of Congress)
- Map Collection (from the University of Texas, Austin)
- Map Viewer (from Xerox PaloAlto Research Center)
- Geographic database (from MIT)
- U.S. Gazetteer (from SUNY at Buffalo)
- U.S. Gazetteer (from U.S. Census Bureau) This service may be slow to connect but it is well worth the wait. Users have access to the Census Bureau's TIGER map service and the STF1A and STF3A tables form the 1990 Census.
- Canadian Geographical Names (The National Atlas Information Service [Canada])
- U.S. State Department Travel Advisories (Browse) (from the University of Pennsylvania)
- U.S. State Department Travel Advisories (Search) (from St. Olaf College)
- The Universal Currency Converter
- Koblas Currency Converter Currency values are updated weekly (from O'Reilly and Associates, Inc.)
- Daily currency exchange rates between 23 currencies. (European Union's Echo service)
- AMINews Recreational Network
Your 24 Hour Source of Ski, Travel, Leisure, and Outdoor News.
Selected U.S. Documents
- White House Home Page (also gateway to Executive Agencies)
- U.S. House of Representatives (Direct from the House of Representatives)
- U.S. Supreme Court Decisions (Made available by the Cornell University Legal Information Institute)
- Government Printing Office (GPO) Access , is a searchable WAIS index to the Federal Register, Congressional Register, The United States Code and more. This page is limited to ten simultaneous users.
- Thomas, a project of the Library of Congress provides a searchable index to the Congressional Record on a daily basis. It also includes the full text of all bill that have been submitted to the current session of Congress.
- Code of Federal Regulations
- Historical Documents (from the Queens Library NYC)
- Declaration of Independence (from the Queens Library NYC)
- U.S. Constitution (from the Queens Library NYC)
- U.S. Budget (1995) (from the University of North Carolina)
- White House File (from Carnegie-Mellon University)
- 1990 Census data (from the University of Michigan)
- US Census server (from the
Bureau of the Census)
This all important resource has many files availabe to the researcher at the touch of a button. Here is the main Data Bank menu:
Current Industrial Reports, Documents and Publications, Data Access Tools (includes online access to 1990 summaries and much more, Center for Economic Studies - Research Papers, Continuous Measurement Public Use Microdata, County Business Patterns, County and City Data Book (Top 77 City Rankings), Economic Programs Overview, Financial Data for State and Local Governments and Schools, Tips on genealogy, GeoWEB -- making data available geographically, Housing and Household Economics (Income and Poverty), International programs that collect global information, News Releases Hot Off the Press, Population Data, Product Descriptions, Statistical Abstract of the United States, TIGER - Topographically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing System, and U.S. International Trade Statistics. - 1980 & 1990 US Census (from Lawrence Berkely Labs)
- Internal Revenue Service (from the Department of the Treasury)
Periodic Tables and Weights & Measures
- Weights & Measures (from the University of Oregon)
- Weights & Measures (from SouthWest Texas University)
- Weights & Measures (from the Iowa State University)
- Weights & Measures (from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
- Periodic Table 1 (from the Univ. of California at Berkeley)
- Periodic Table 2 (from the University of Kansas)
- Periodic Table 3 (from Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Phone Books & Area Codes
- Selected phonebooks for North American institutions (from the University of Notre Dame)
- University White Pages (from the University of Illinois)
- Airline 800 Telephone Numbers (from Princeton)
- NYNEX Yellow Pages (from NYNEX)
- Telecom Digest Guide to Area Codes (from MIT)
- Search for Area Codes (from Bucknell)
- AT&T 800 Number Directory
- World Wide Yellow Pages
- General WWW to X.500 Gateway (Univ. of Texas)
Government Sites
