Dictionaries, Almanacs, & Encyclopedias
Dictionaries
Abbreviations
Search for acronyms and abbreviations individually or by category, that include Computing, Internet, Business, Regional, and International subjects.
Acronym Finder
More than 480,000 entries covering acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms including Information Technology, Military & Government and Slang & Pop Culture.
Glossary of Botanical Terms
Contains very basic definitions with hypertext links to other terms for more than 4,400 terms relating to botany, gardening, horticulture and landscape architecture. Updated regularly.
International Law Dictionary
An excellent resource that's much more than a dictionary. This work, by a professor of international business law, is full of hypertext links throughout the dictionary to international legal materials on the topic.
InvestorWords - Investing Glossary
Hypertext dictionary of more than 4,000 investing terms, from InvestorGuide.
LOGOS Dictionary
Multilingual on-line dictionary. Searches on words or phrases. More than 5 million words in the database.
Multilingual Glossary of Medical Terms
This glossary of common and technical medical terms is available in Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. There is an English language dictionary for term definitions. From the European Commission.
NetLingo: The Internet Language Dictionary
Features a listing of hundreds of words that are rapidly evolving into the new vocabulary of the technology industry and the Web community.
On-line Medical Dictionary
Contains more than 15,000 terms relating to biochemistry, cell biology, chemistry, medicine, molecular biology, physics, plant biology, radiobiology, science and technology. It includes: acronyms, jargon, theory, conventions, standards, institutions, projects, and eponyms.
One Look Dictionaries, The Faster Finder
The ultimate Internet dictionary lookup site. Search 460 general and specialized English dictionaries simultaneously, or select the ones you want to search.
Rhyming Dictionary
Includes thesaurus and dictionary.
Translating Dictionaries - travlang
Translates your words from English to German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Portuguese, Finnish, Hungarian, Czech, Afrikaans, Latin, or Esperanto, as well as from each of these languages to the others. Includes phrases.
Webopedia:
Dictionary and search engine for computer and Internet technology.
Whatis.com
Hyper-linked definitions of more than 1,000 Internet and computer related terms. All can be browsed or searched.
What's the Meaning of This?
Origins and theory of origins about "Ye Olde English Sayings" and "Amerispeak."
Wordsmyth English Dictionary Thesaurus (WEDT)
This is an original standard dictionary-thesaurus of American English with definitions and pronunciations, an integrated thesaurus, and usage examples. A nice feature is the Approximate Search, which will find words that are close in spelling to your word. The database has approximately 50,000 headwords, and nearly 13,000 of these have thesaurus entries.
WWWebster Dictionary
Based on the Webster's 10th Collegiate edition, 1993. More than 160,000 entries. Each word is accompanied by definition, pronunciation, usage, grammatical function, and a brief etymology. A thesaurus can be queried for similar words, hypertext cross references are available, and misspellings return suggested spellings. Includes an extensive pronunciation guide.
Your Dictionary.Com
Internet directory of dictionaries with more than 800 dictionaries in over 160 different languages. Contains the following sections: languages; multilingual; specialized, thesauri and other vocabulary aids; and an index of other dictionary indexes.
Almanacs & Quick Information
Country Reports
Each entry includes a map, flag, and midi sound file of its national anthem. Also information about the country's economy, defense, geography, government, and people is given. Links to the National Weather Service current weather conditions for cities within each country, as well as news & local information are also provided. Much of the info is from the World Factbook.
Country Studies
Each study is written by a multidisciplinary team of social scientists. Most books in the series deal with a particular foreign country, describing and analyzing its political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions. From the Library of Congress.
Farmer's Almanac
Chock full of information, just like its print version.
The 50 States of the United States: Capital Cities and Information Links
This site lists the fifty states and information on their locations (latitude and longitude), birds, colleges and universities, constitutions, flowers, genealogical resources, geological formations, geographical features, mottos, national forests and parks, newspapers, nicknames, non profit organizations, populations, state and federal representatives, songs, and the dates of entry into the union. All facts are linked to over 1529 governmental or authoritative web pages.
Flags of the World
Comprehensive site that allows you to search by country, keyword or title. Contains over 1500 images
Fugitive Fact File
The Hennepin County Library (MN) staff's fugitive fact file contains hard-to-find answers in thousands of topics -- browseable or searchable. Results include answer, source, date, and web site, if pertinent. Some of it is MN specific, but there's something here for everyone!
Information Please
The publishers have put the Information Please Almanac, their Entertainment Almanac and Sports Almanac, the Columbia Encyclopedia, and the Random House College Dictionary online for searching or browsing. You can search these ready reference works together or separately and by subject or full text keyword. Be sure to read their Help section. In addition they do a feature story each week (Spotlight) covering a topic in the news.
Internet Movie Database
Contains over 1 million filmographies, and information on more than 300,000 actors and actresses. Provides an excellent search engine.
Kelley Blue Book
The Kelley Blue Book online allows you to enter all pertinent info, then it generates your car's current value.
Map Machine
The National Geographic Society's map and geographical information site contains maps, profiles, and facts about the countries of the world and the U. S. states.
“Mapblast!” by Vicinity
A free, interactive street atlas of the continental United States does everything but drive you there.
MapQuest
Another free, interactive street atlas of the continental United States does everything but drive you there.
Nation Master
Large data source gathered from cited authoritative resources that allow users to compare all types of statistics on countries. Fun to browse for interesting statistical facts.
Price's List of Lists
The List of Lists is a database of ranked listings of companies, people and resources available on the Internet.
Reference.com
A categorized list of links to specific reference sources such as dictionaries, calculators, almanacs, foreign language dictionaries on innumerable subjects.
Rulers
This site contains lists of heads of state and heads of government going back to 1900 of all currently existing countries and territories. Therefore for Soviet Union, see Russia.
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Complete list with pictures of these Wonders.
U.S. Department of State Background Notes
Background notes is an official United States Government publication which profiles countries and organizations of the world. Each entry generally includes the following on each country: Profile, People, Government, Economy, History, Political Conditions, Economy, Foreign relations, Principal U.S. Officials.
World Factbook
Published annually, by the Central Intelligence Agency, this is a handy reference work for basic statistical data on the countries of the world.
Calendars
Calculation of the Ecclesiastical Calendar
Calculates Easter on the Julian, Gregorian and other calendars.
Calendar Zone
Provides links to many celestial, holiday, cultural and religious calendars.
Holidays and Other Dates in the U.S. Secular Calendar
Calculates when federal holidays and other widely celebrated days fall for any given year after 1776. Includes dates for daylight savings time.
Printable Calendar
Finished Microsoft Word calendars for any date.
World Dates Archive
Database of important dates, listed by month. Have to choose month and can then use your browser's Find feature to search for an event. Great, if you don't have Chase's Annual Events handy and can guess the month you want.
World Wide Holiday and Festival Page
National and religious holidays - moveable holidays are by religion, the rest are alphabetical by country.
Converters
Currency Converter
This currency converter contains the exchange rates for 164 different currencies beginning on January 1, 1990. The converter is updated every day at 8:00pm EST.
Entisoft Units Conversion Calculator
Enter what you want to covert and what you want it converted to, then the calculator does its thing. Also does time zone conversions.
Measurement Converter
Weight, Capacity and Volume, Length, Area, Speed Pressure, Temperature, Circular Measure, and Time.
Timezone Converter
Converts the time and date in one part of the world to the time and date in another part.
Languages
iLoveLanguages
Catalog of language-related internet resources.
Translation Software
Type in text and see results in German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and/or French.
Encyclopedias
Wikipedia
A free content online encyclopedia where anyone can post and edit an article on any subject