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Automobiles
Kelley Blue Book--car prices from 1977 - present
Edmund's Automobile Buyer's Guides
Nadaguides.com provides car pricing, classic car pricing, and pricing for boats, manufactured housing, airplanes, powersport vehicles, and more.
Consumer Information
U.S. Consumer Gateway, "your link to federal consumer information"
Calendars
The Calendar Zone -- a directory of calendar related resources on the Internet
Timeanddate.com -- time zones, calendars, and more
Dictionaries
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed., 2000.
Cambridge International Dictionaries Online You may search the Cambridge International Dictionary of English, Cambridge Dictionary of American English, Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs or Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms.
Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
Medical Dictionary courtesy of CancerWeb
Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
OneLook Dictionaries lets you look up a word from 100's of dictionaries
Oxford English Dictionary You'll need a password from off-campus.
Oxford [Bilingual] Language Dictionaries--French, German, Italian, and Spanish
The Wordsmyth English Dictionary and Thesaurus
Encyclopedias
Britannica Online--the complete Encyclopedia Britannica and more
Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., Columbia University Press, 2000.
Encarta--an abridged version of Microsoft's Encarta
Funk and Wagnalls encyclopedia, dictionary, news, and more
Wikipedia, "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit."
Fast Facts
Bartleby.com makes available the Columbia Encyclopedia, 2000 ed., along with the American Heritage Dictionary, 4th ed.; Roget's II, The NewThesaurus; two books of quotations; the King James Bible, Oxford Shakespeare, Gray's Anatomy, and Strunk's Elements of Style. And that's just some of the reference book section. Complete texts of fiction and non-fiction works are also available.
Fugitive Fact File from Hennepin County Library. More than just trivia, really, but a great place to track down miscellaneous factoids.
Information Please -- search
almanacs, plus the Columbia Encyclopedia and
Random House College Dictionary
An online reference book of over 9,000 [rock and roll] song quotes.
The Straight Dope--Cecil Adams, "world's smartest human being", answers all kinds of questions put to him, and archives the results at this site. Maybe you'll find your answer here, too.
xrefer -- 50 reference titles containing more than 500,000 entries in short encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject specific reference works on art, technology, health, music, and more.
Image Resources in the Public Domain
Public Domain Image Resources list and article from Wikipedia
Maps
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection This collection has access to over 10,000 maps online. "The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented. Collection categories include antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall, childrens and manuscript maps. The collection can be used to study history, genealogy and family history."
Find the distance between any two places in the world
Geodata.gov : United States maps and data
Holt Reinhart Winston World Atlas
Maptech MapServer Online USGS Topo Maps, NOAA Nautical Charts, Aerial Photos
National Geographic Map Machine
TerraFly -- take a flyby through one of the finest collections of aerial panoramic and satellite imagery posters online
Terraserver -- high resolution USGS aerial imagery and USGS topographic maps
TopoZone--the Web's first interactive topographic map of the entire United States
Movies
Quotations
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Quotations and Proverbs Search from Fagan Finder
Quoteworld provides a searchable database of thousands of quotes
Tax and Other Government Forms
FedForms--provides online access to forms needed for the top 500 Government services used by the public.
State Tax Forms --links to tax forms for states across the country
Tax Forms from the IRS (Federal Tax Forms)
Time
www.timeanddate.com provides links to a world clock, times in cities around the world and lots more.
World Time Server not only provides the time but displays a map location of selected major cities and countries.
Weights and Measures
Convert It! includes acceleration, area, energy, length, mass, pressure, temperature, fluids, velocity, and volume equivalents.
Zip Codes
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This page last updated 10-13-06.