1st Headlines - News headline from multiple sources.

Four11.com - Find e-mails, addresses

555-1212.com - Phone Book

50States.com - Learn more about your home state and neighbors than you ever thought possible.  

Acronictionary - is a dictionary of acronyms used in over 3,000 industries. Drawn from over 300 industry    publications, and written by Joseph Wheatley, Acronictionary(tm) includes over 50,000 acronyms in 500+ discrete categories.

Acronym Finder - Type in the acronym and the site searches through nearly 70,000 known acronyms and returns what it finds. We tried to stump it on computer arcania and scientific esoterica, but it had us in every instance.

All Media Guide - The world's largest and most comprehensive entertainment information database for music, videos, DVDs and video games; offers expert reviews, biographies, ratings, images, titles, credits, and thousands of descriptive categories.

APA Electronic Reference Formats - Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Association

Artcyclopedia - guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet, with directory of both artist and museums.

Bartleby's Reference's -   publishes the classics of literature, nonfiction, and reference free of charge for the home, classroom, and desktop of each and every Internet participant.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations- The well-known reference volume that answers the question, "Who said that"? Search by words, phrases or author.

Consumer Law Page - Check for info on protecting yourself against consumer fraud and what to look for when hiring a lawyer. If you've been injured by a car, consumer product, food, etc., or defrauded by anyone, visit the consumer complaint center, and the lawyers will tell you if you have a case.

Dictionary of Military Terms - From this page you can either browse the dictionary or search for the definition and usage of individual terms

Economics Network - Dr. Ed Yardeni, chief economist and managing director at the respected Wall Street investment banking firm Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown, offers a wealth of informative data and analysis on key US business trends, stock and bond markets and a weekly economic briefing on timely subjects.

Education Testing Service (ETS) - information for parents, students, researchers, and educators. In addition to the sample test questions (including the SAT, GMAT, GRE, PRAXIS, and TOEFL), the organization provides useful links to college sites, financial aid, and job search information.

Encyclopaedia of the Orient - is a one-stop online resource which covers all countries and cultures between Mauritania in the west and Iran in the east, Turkey in the north and Sudan in south.

Encyclopedia.com - a simple, one-stop site to begin their research and answer basic questions. Composed of high-quality articles from The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Third Edition.

Ethics Update - site is meant for instructors and students, but then the rest of us could probably benefit from occasionally becoming at least part-time students of the subject. Theory and Applied topics ranging from egoism to race to environment are covered by both text and multimedia resources.

EverythingBlack - EverythingBlack is a directory of more than 1,600 links to information on black history, business, education, entertainment, and more. Each link is accompanied by a capsule comment about the site. There's also news especially for people living in some of the largest urban areas in the U.S., including Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. You can also find bulletin boards and chat areas through the directory.

Financial Aid Information Page - Link to a searchable database of more than 180,000 private sector scholarships, fellowships, grants and loans for college students. Links to resources for special students: International, disabled, older and addresses of student aid offices.

FindLaw - the leading Web portal focused on law and government, provides access to a comprehensive and fast-growing online library of legal resources for use by legal professionals, consumers and small businesses.

Flagnet - has much of the information you might want to know about flags.

French-English Dictionary

Gale Group Free Databases - free access to specially selected free information from the Gale Group databases

Gateway to Art History - This is a great find for art history or western civilization teachers! Designed as an online supplement to the textbook Gardner's Art Through the Ages, this hotlist's links lead to all the major periods of art studied in most western art history courses.

Global Intelligence Update - a daily dispatch from Stratfor.com, a global news and analysis service with a fiercely independent streak. Each day's mailing is an analytic report of geopolitical, economic, or military events drawn from a different region of the world.

Great American Speeches - Eighty years worth of great speeches are captured here, as well as some interesting exercises for students of speech and American History.

Guinness World Records - This site, designed primarily to promote the Fox TV show, isn't a complete online listing of world records. But the entertaining "Previews" section does spotlight a few amazing world records and strange facts every week.

Handspeak - A practical sign language online dictionary. Contains some signs not found in other online dictionaries. Approximately 2800 signs and growing daily.

Harcourt - opens doors for you to browse materials available in all areas of expertise within the Harcourt family

HealthandAge - an educational webcenter focusing on issues related to gerontology and aging. Links to age-specific information on Alzheimers, Diabetes, Heart Disease and more.

How Stuff Works - is a site that explains the technology and biology that surrounds us.

Information Please - integrates various Information Please Almanacs on sports, entertainment, and general knowledge with the Random House Webster's College Dictionary and The Columbia Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition. 

Internet Glossary of Statistical Terms

Internet Public Library - The Internet Public Library (IPL) is a free service hosted by the University of Michigan. It serves as a central reference resource for links to sites in all major areas of research: Law, politics, government, science, technology, business, economics, health and medical science.

Internet Scout Project - Points out excellent resources on the Internet. Most useful to higher education faculty and staff, the site includes the weekly Scout Reports and KIDS Report (also available by e-mail subscription), searchable Signpost, and much more.

Learn2.com - Useful, entertaining, and practical, 2torials offer concise, step-by-step help with many of life's most common issues and questions.

Learning Online - The Exhibits section offers multimedia presentations on topics ranging from Personality to Amusement Park Physics.

Library of Congress - This vast storehouse of American history vows to "sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations." You'll find the library's catalogs, research services, exhibitions, special collections, and much more.

Map Machine Atlas - The maps show major physical elements, such as mountains and rivers, as well as political boundaries. And a fact sheet shows you key information about countries and states, plus pictures of their flags.

MegaConverter - With more than 40 conversion categories, there's precious little you won't be able to change from "this" to "that."

Merriam-Webster - Of all the online dictionaries, few can compete with the extensive definitions and an easy-to-use interface.

My Virtual Reference Desk - offers dozens of links—to dictionaries, encyclopedias, reference/research materials, thesauruses, atlases, sports, entertainment, and much more—as well as a search engine for locating more information.

Netlingo - "Jargon" refers to the acronyms created from the first letters of words and is useful for e-mail or for chat because it cuts down on typing time. When used sparingly, jargon shows that you are an experienced e-writer. 

Old Farmer's Almanac - Since 1792, readers have relied on the almanac's tide and sunrise tables, planting charts, recipes, and weather predictions.

OneLook Dictionaries - Here's the ultimate dictionary site, with an index of over three million words from more than 560 dictionaries.

Oxford English Dictionary : Word of the Day - Build up your vocabulary with help from the Oxford English Dictionary, which presents each of its "Word of the Day" selections complete with a pronunciation guide, etymology, quotations, and more.

Plant Dictionary

PubList - This site provides quick and easy access to detailed publication information including, titles, formats, publisher addresses, editor contacts, circulation data, and ISSN numbers. Each periodical listing also includes a link to the source records.

Roget's Thesaurus Search Form

San Francisco MOMA - This online exhibition features 15 short videotapes on how technology has influenced our perception of the world. Each of the videos has a photo album, notes and drawings, and interview clips allowing greater understanding about the making of the films.

Searchopolis -   is the most powerful Web portal ever designed specifically for education.

Self-Help Law Center - Handling one's own legal proceedings can be confusing @ even for lawyers. This friendly legal resource site cuts through the confusion with trustworthy, plain-English legal advice about everything from cleaning up your credit and starting a business to probate and divorce law.

Social Critic - Selected readings in social criticism. What this entails is the editor compiling essays on many topics, from authors whose voice may differ from the voices we often hear in the mainstream media.

Study Guides - College success guides.

StudyWeb - has created a collection of more than 73,000 links to informational sites arranged by topic.

Texas Information Literacy Tutorial - (TILT) - a Web-based, educational site designed to teach undergraduates fundamental research skills.

Thomas Register - one of the leading directories of manufacturing companies used by buyers worldwide. Get addresses, phone numbers and product information on more than 150,000 manufacturing firms.

UCALC This is a terrific math tool that performs all kinds of useful functions. You can compute compound interest, convert from miles to kilometers, solve quadratic equations and much, much more. 

Virtual Reference Desk - Powerful reference resources packed into one great site, including dictionaries and thesaurus, maps and travel information, science data.

W3C - Sponsored by US and European universities, this site helps beginners learn the basics of communicating on the Web and setting up their own Web sites.

Webopedia - 

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 1913

WorldWide Web Acronym and Abbreviation Server - This site will help you find the meaning of an acronym (a word formed from the initial letters of several words). You can also search for an acronym and even submit a new one that doesn't appear in the database.

YourDictionary - the world's most comprehensive, and authoritative portal for language, and language-related products and services on the world wide web (more than 1500 dictionaries representing more than 230 languages).