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Reference |
| WhitePages.com | Find telephone numbers, addresses, and full zip codes of people and businesses in the U.S.A. |
| Switchboard | Find telephone numbers, addresses, and much more |
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Infobel World Telephone Directories |
Telephone directories worldwide. |
| dict.org | Search many dictionaries all at once, including 1914 Webster's, modern, geographical, and others. |
| WWWebster | The Merriam-Webster Dictionary on the Web. |
| Roget's Thesaurus on the Web | Probably the most powerful thesaurus in the world. |
| travlang's Translating Dictionaries | A great many dictionaries, from many languages to many other languages. |
| MedlinePlus Medical Dictionary | An online medical dictionary at Medline (the U.S. National Institutes of Health). |
| Stedman's Medical Dictionary | Stedman's standard medical dictionary, in online form. |
| Dorland's Medical Dictionary | Dorland's standard medical dictionary, in online form. |
| Yahoo! Maps | Online road maps plus driving directions. |
| MapQuest | Online road maps plus driving directions, one of the first to do it. Very pasteable, unlike the others. |
| Google Maps | Mapping & satellite imagery web site from Google. Very interesting, and often more close up than others. |
| National Geographic Map Machine | An online atlas with lots and lots of good maps of regions and nations around the world. |
| Search Wikipedia at Answers.com | Wikipedia is an excellent and exhaustive general reference. Answers.com keeps a very speedy mirror. The English home page is at en.wikipedia.org, but the Answers.com site is recommended for general use, for speed. |
| Information Please | General reference online. Statistics, maps, dictionary, and encyclopedia. |
| Conversion & Calculation Center | A great place to convert Centigrade to Fahrenheit, gallons to liters, bushels to drams, kilograms to grains, and thousands more. Also delivers currency exchange rates, world time zones, and other useful data. For units of electrical power (kV, kVA, kW, HP, I, etc.), try this link. |
| The Internet Public Library, Reference Center | The IPL is at the University of Michigan School of Information. Their Reference Center has all of the basic reference tools, plus a lot. |
| CIA World Factbook | The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's Factbook, containing much data, especially concerning every nation in the world. |
| RhymeZone | An excellent rhyming dictionary at Lycos. |
| Behind the Name | Origin and history of first names. |
| Behind the Name, Surnames | Origin and history of last names. |
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