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Language

Dictionaries - English Language

DICT Online (English/8 Dictionaries)
http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict

Merriam Webster
http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm

Dictionary
http://dictionary.reference.com

The Word Spy (new words)
http://www.wordspy.com

Computing

FOLDOC (Computing terms)
http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html

Webopedia
http://www.pcwebopedia.com

Rhyme

Rhyme Zone
http://www.rhymezone.com

Pronunciation

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict

Grammar

Elements of Style
http://www.bartleby.com/141/

The Tongue Untied
http://grammar.uoregon.edu

Thesaurus

Merriam Webster
http://www.m-w.com/mw/netdict.htm

Thesaurus.com
http://thesaurus.reference.com

Translator (Universal)

Logos
http://www.logos.net

Language Identifier

XRCE
http://www.xrce.xerox.com/competencies/content-analysis/tools/guesser

Anagrams

Internet Anagram Serve
http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/

Anagram Genius
http://www.anagramgenius.com

Acronyms

Acronym Finder
http://www.acronymfinder.com

Acronym Search
http://www.acronymsearch.com

Acronym Server
http://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/acronym

Quotations

Bartlett
http://www.bartleby.com/100/

Quotable online
http://www.quotableonline.com

The Quotations Page
http://www.quotationspage.com

People

Ancestry.com
http://www.ancestry.com

Biographical Dictionary
http://www.s9.com/biography/

Who2?
http://www.who2.com

Facts

CIA - The World Factbook 2002
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

Encyclopedia.com
http://encyclopedia.com

Information Please
http://www.infoplease.com

Project Wombat
Project Wombat is a free, e-mail discussion list for difficult reference questions. Project Wombat continues the many fine traditions started by the Stumpers list once offered by Dominican University with some helpful new options.
http://project-wombat.org

Currency Converters

Oanda
http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic

xe.com
http://www.xe.com/ucc/

Stocks and Corporate Information

Hoover's Online
http://www.hoovers.com/free/

A searchable database of company profiles and corporate information.

Corporate Information
http://www.corporateinformation.com
A great resource for national and international corporate research information (100,000 company profiles worldwide). U.S. News & World Report agrees: "Good starting point to find corporate information from around the world."

European Governments on the WWW
http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/europa.html
links to all official European government sites. Unlike other directories, this site tells you the number of pages at each site, and when it was last updated.

Quote.com: Stocks & News
http://finance.lycos.com

Maps

United States

Color Landform Atlas of the United States
http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html

U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer

Zoomable U.S. Map with Overlays
http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapsurfer?lon=96&lat=37&wid=50&ht=24.1

U.S. Streets

Maps On Us
http://www.mapsonus.com

MapQuest
http://www.mapquest.com

Yahoo! Maps
http://maps.yahoo.com

World

Earth and Moon Viewer
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html

Earthquake Hazards Program
http://gldss7.cr.usgs.gov/neis/qed/qed.html

Perry-Casteneda Map Collection
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html

Other

Historical Maps of the U.S.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/histus.html

International Boundary News Database
http://www-ibru.dur.ac.uk/database/data.html
The International Boundaries Research Unit (IBRU) at the University of Durham `maintains the International Boundary News Database, which consists of more than 10,000 documents related to international boundaries.

Map & Atlas Page
http://www.payles.com/maplinks.html

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