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Updated January 20, 1997

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WWWebster

  A Merriam-Webster dictionary courtesy of Encylopedia Britannica.

Acronym Dictionary

  Find out what "ASAP" means ASAP, with search tool; or, find out what the correct acronym is for something you can't quite remember the exact name for.

Bartlett's Quotations

  Get the correct phrasing of that famous old saying you can't quite remember. This is the 1901 edition, News research has the three latest editions plus another twenty or so other quotation books.

Biography 1

  15,000 entries from the Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia, courtesy of the A&E cable network.

Biography 2

  You only get about one sentence of info, but it's fast and can be searched by keyword and date as well. Try velcro in the keyword field.

Ready Reference

  Ready reference links collected by the Internet Public Library at the University of Michigan.

Virtual Reference Desk

  A master list of links to dictionaries, foreign-language tools, and databases of many kinds.

On-Line Ready Reference Gopher

  A gopher listing of dozens of reference sites at universities and elsewhere.

CARL Databases

  Access to huge numbers of articles and documents. This is a pay service, but you can search and get article citations for free.

U.S. Gazetteer

  Find out where any city or town in the country is, and check spellings and so forth.

Zip Code Lookup

  You type in the address, and you get the proper Zip Code, almost every time.

How Far Is It?

  Type in the names of two cities, and get the distance between them as the crow flies. If you want, the site will also generate a map of the route.

Currency Converter

  How many yen to the dollar this week? Or, if you want, how many francs to the peso?

Periodicals Search

  Works best with names and phrases. "And" searches will turn up some articles. Courtesy of the Electronic Newsstand.

Phones 'n' Addresses

Switchboard

  Very good nationwide directory of business and residential phone #s and addresses.

InfoSpace

  Biz and residential phones, addresses, and email.

Yahoo People Search

  Scroll down a bit when you get there and type in phone number to get an address!

Bellsouth

  Bellsouth Yellow Pages plus links to many other yellow and white pages and email finders.

AT&T

  AT&T toll-free (800 & 888) phone directory.

Bell Atlantic

  Yellow pages for Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, MD.

BigBook

  A really cool nationwide yellow pages. Not only will it give you address and phone number, it'll draw a map.

 BigYellow

   Sixteen million business numbers from all over this great land of ours. Courtesy of Nynex.

 YellowNet

   Yet another biz phone directory.

 Telephone Directories on the Web

   Telephone directories, mostly actual phone company directories, around the world.

  Email

 Email

   Yahoo's guide to email address finding services


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