Reference
Almanacs and Encyclopedias
Information Please: On-Line Dictionary, Internet Encyclopedia, & Almanac
Find answers to your questions in this wide ranging reference work, which
includes an almanac, encyclopedia, and dictionary
Britannica.com
A complete encyclopedi and more, including articles from 70 magazines, the Books in Print database, and 125,000 recommended web sites.
Wikipedia
A decentralized, collaboratively constructed, free encyclopedia
Biography
Gale Biography Resource CenterDatabase
AnyWho
AT&T's phone book on the internet, you can use it as a reverse directory .
Biographical Dictionary
This dictionary covers over 28,000 men an women from ancient times to the present day, and is searchable by birth years, death years, positions held, professions, literary and artistic works, achievements, and keywords.
Biography.com
25,000 biographies of notable people from antiquity to the present.
Lives, the Biography Resource
LIVES Links to thousands of biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, letters, narratives, oral histories.
USA: index to biographies
An A-Z index to links of people important in American history
WIC - Biography Index
Short biographies of women from the Women's International Center
Dictionaries
Acronym and abbreviation list
Enter an acronym or abbreviation to retrieve the meaning.
Behind the name
A list of first names and their derivations
Concise Dictionary of first Names
OneLook® Dictionaries
Searches specialized dictionaries and returns the definitions in categories.
ROGET'S Thesaurus
An online, searchable version of Roget's Thesaurus will find synonyms for words entered in the search screen.
Wordsmyth: Welcome!
A dictionary and a complete thesaurus, integrated into one work, with hyperlinks to synonyms, and similar or related words.
WWWebster Dictionary
An excellent hypertext, online dictionary, from the Merriam-Webster Company.
Maps
Outline Maps
A collection of continent and hemisphere outline maps
Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
More than 5,000 online maps ordered geographically.
State Outline Maps
Each map has the capital indicted by a star, and each major city is indicated with a dot
Xpeditions Atlas
At this site you may both the country and type of map you wish to view.
Quotations
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
The ninth edition of John Bartlett's classic collection of quotations contains over9,000 selections from Hesiod and Plutarch, through Chaucer and Thomas à Kempis, up to the contemporary statesmen of the day.
A Short Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
Key quotations about science from scientists and other writers.
Simpson's Contemporary Quotations
With over 10,000 quotations from 4,000 sources organized into 25 categories and 60 sections, this comprehensive reference contains words of wit and wisdom from such modern notables as Ezra Pound, Henry Kissinger, George Orwell, Dorothy Parker, and Desmond Tutu.