Ready Reference
religious holidays, historical notes, proverbs, and astrological and agricultural forecasts.
Contains facts about every state. Homework Help Tool Box also available.
". . . interactive baseball encyclopedia filled with thousands of pages full of in-depth facts and statistics."
"The U.S. Government’s complete geographical handbook, featuring full-color maps and flags
of all nations and geographical entities. Each country profile tracks such demographics as population,
ethnicity and literacy rates, as well as political, geographical and economic data."
Video clips of important news events from 1980 until 1997.
From Information Please.
Accurate to within 0.1 seconds
From the History Channel.
Calendars, time zones, more.
Converts measurements, time, degrees, more.
American Sign Language Dictionary
Choose a word, and a brief clip shows the sign being made. Excellent resource.
From Crosswalk.com. Access to various bible dictionaries.
You may search from various dictionaries including: Learner's Dictionary, Dictionary of Idioms, and
Dictionary of American English.
Free Online Dictionary of Computing
FOLDOC is a searchable dictionary of acronyms, jargon, programming languages, tools, architecture,
operating systems, networking, theory, conventions, standards, mathematics, telecoms, electronics,
institutions, companies, projects, products, history, in fact anything to do with computing.
"Real Life Dictionary of the Law."
Search dictionary web sites for words and phrases.
Online Crossword Puzzle Dictionary
With this online crossword puzzle dictionary, you can find any word that matches a specific
pattern of letters. Great for teachers creating puzzles.
Rhyme Zone.
Altavista's Babel Fish.
The Internet's oldest producer of free electronic books.
From Bartleby.
Subjects from Art to Zoology.
Medical Encyclopedia. From the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.
More than 20,000 information technology terms defined.
Create anagrams! Fun!
Question and Answer Format.
How to cite references. MLA: APA; CBE; Chicago Manual of Style; others
English as a Second Language (ESL) Resources
From Purdue University's Online Writing Lab. Excellent resource.
General Writing Concerns (Planning/Writing/Revising/Genres)
From Purdue University's Online Writing Lab. Excellent resource.
Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling
From Purdue University's Online Writing Lab. Excellent resource.
From Bartleby.
The music and magic of words -- that's what A.Word.A.Day (AWAD) is about.
A community of more than 550,000 linguaphiles in at least 200 countries.
From the University of Texas, Austin. More than 5,000 map images online.
From National Geographic.
Type in an address, receive a map/directions.
Topographic maps, nautical charts, neronautical charts, and more.
" . . . single best Federal source for national maps and geographic information on the Web."
" . . . largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web."
Collection of reference links.
From Bartleby.
From Bartleby.com. "A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources
in Ancient and Modern Literature."
From Bartleby.com
From RhymeZone.com. The most quoted person in the English language, William Shakespeare
wrote over 150,000 lines of poetry and prose. This is a search engine specifically for finding these lines.
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
From University of Albany
Gateway to statistics from over 100,000 U.S. Federal agencies
From the U.S. Department of Labor
Statistical Abstract of the U.S.
From the U.S. Census Bureau
This program allows you to search for relationships between words, concepts, and people. It is a
combination thesaurus, rhyming dictionary, pun generator, and concept navigator. Use it to find words
that fit the needs of whatever writing endeavor you've undertaken, or just to browse concept space.
Roget's Thesaurus.
