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Acronyms & Abbr. Almanac Bibliography
Acronym Expander

MEGATERMS: Military Terms and Acronyms

Official Postal Service Abbreviations

CIA World Factbook

Daily Almanac

Old Farmer's Almanac

Arthurian Novels

Cultural Studies

English Language & Literature

The Later Crusades

Masculinity

Medieval Medical

Mysteries

The Sixties , Groovy, man!

Viet Nam War

Women in Byzantium

Calendars Dictonaries and Thesauri Indexes
Aztec

Calendar of the Dead

Calendar Studies

Ecclesiastical Calendar

English Calendar

Festivals & Holidays

Roman Calendar

Dates
(links to celestial, cultural, religious, and historical calendars, interactive calendars and download sites for calendar software)

On-Line Dictionaries
Linked to over 350 Dictionaries

One Look
Search multiple dictionaries

Roget's Thesaurus

travlang's Translating Dictionaries

Webster Dictionary

General Reference
(links to newspapers, search engines, weights and measures, 'this day in history' trivia, etc.)

Word Play
(links to places that have fun with words)

Yahoo's Reference Index

Genealogical Resources Interesting Stuff Language & Grammer Stuff
Cyndi's List of Web Resources
(Over 23,050 links, categorized & cross-referenced, in over 70 categories)
Ask an expert
(links to home pages and e-mail addresses of experts on a wide variety of subjects)

Findout
(free reference service, professional researchers will tackle the first 100 questions they receive each day)

InfoJunkies
- Major site!

Inquiry.com

How-To
(how to tie a necktie, fix a leaky faucet, carve a turkey, and other real-life things)
Researcher's Toolkit

British Slang

Common Errors in English

Elements of Style

Foreign languages for travelers

Language News and Notes

FAQs Libraries Mapping Services
Internet Research FAQ

Hytelnet

Library Resource List

Geographic Names Information System
- Online Data Base Query Form

Medical Information Names
Med-Line On-Line
Analyze names

Parent Soup's Baby names

Phone Books & People Finding Quotations Bookfinders
City.Net
(destination information including maps, people-finder, yellow pages, city guides)

Postal
(find zip codes with the address, or parts of the address)

Who's Who
(searchable database of 15,000 people, past and present, from A&E'sBiography series)

Yellow Pages On-Line

Bartlett's

Words, Wit, and Wisdom

BiblioFind Search Form


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