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- The 50 States of the United States: Capital
Cities and Information Links This site about the states and the U.S.
commonwealths and territories has information about location, birds,
colleges and universities, constitutions, flowers, mottoes, national
forests and parks, newspapers, nicknames, populations, state and
federal Representatives, songs and much more.
- Information Please Almanac: You can browse by topic or search. Also included are the Random House Webster’s College Dictionary and the Columbia Encyclopedia.
- The Old Farmer's Almanac: Like
the print version, the online version includes information about
astronomical events, weather conditions and forecasts, recipes, and
gardening tips.
- Britannica Online: Search
and read the full text of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. A search on
Britannica’s site will produce results from the Encyclopedia, as well
as Britannica’s directory of web sites, selected articles from
magazines like Newsweek, and a version of Books in Print.
- The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth
Edition This version of the current (year 2000) edition of the Columbia
Encyclopedia is a one volume, short-entry encyclopedia with over 50,000
entries.
- Encarta: An abridged version of the software product.
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- State Legislators' Email Directory Find out who your legislators are and how to contact them. See a district map. View pending bills.
- Arizona Legislative Information System Official site. See bill and the session calendar, request to speak, contact your legislator.
- Arizona Revised Statutes Searchable site to look up state laws.
- Arizona State Home Page Official
site of the State of Arizona. Includes road conditions, marriage and
birth certificates, EZ Voter Registration, National Do Not Call
Registry, and much, much more!
- Arizona State Library, Archives, and Public Records Find public records, Law and Research Library, Braille and Talking Book Library, History and Archives, and other services.
- Online Law Forms Legal forms specific to each state.
- Attorney General Office Fill out a living will online, scam alerts, and lots of information.
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- Biographical Dictionary Covers more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day.
- Buscabiografias This
Spanish-language resource contains biographies of famous people from
all over the world. Biographies are included on royalty and world
leaders, writers, actors, musicians and singers, artists, athletes,
philosophers, and scientists.
- Find a Grave Contains
information about “Where everybody who was anybody is buried…” Includes
photos. Searchable by name, location, birth dates and death dates.
- The Nobel Prize Internet Archive Provides
a collection of information about all of the past Nobel Laureates,
organized by prize and year. Entries include brief biographical
information plus links to related Internet sites.
- Presidents of the United States (POTUS) Contains
all the information you may need about all 41 presidents. You can
locate biographies, speeches, and writings and where possible, audio
and video clips, election results, odd facts and presidential term
highlights. Also included are First ladies, cabinet members, and
additional important members of presidential life.
- MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive Contains a collection of over 1000 biographies of mathematicians and other math related information.
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- Leadfusion Tools - Calculators Provides
calculation tools for various personal finance issues, including
mortgage and home loan calculators, automobile loans. Choosing credit
cards or credit lines, investment, retirement and savings options and
insurance and budgeting choices.
- How Far Is It? Allows
you to calculate the distance (as the crow flies) between two places.
Very few places outside the United States are included.
- Kelly Blue Book Since
1926, Kelly Blue Book has been the nation’s de facto standard in
automotive pricing and value information. As an automotive icon, Kelley
Blue Book maintains some of the strongest brand equity and name
recognition in the world.
- megaConverter.com Is
an ever-growing set of weights, measures and units
conversion/calculation modules. Allows users to discover things like
how many seconds old they are, the difference between a gallon in the
USA and a gallon in the UK, how many nanometers in an inch, how many
quarts in a chaldron, and more. Every module has its own on-line info
system built in.
- NADAguides.com Find
out used prices on anything that rolls, floats, or flies. Get a guide
for used cars, truck, vans, SUVs, motorcycles, snowmobiles, boats, RVs
and more…
- The Original Tipping Page Provides
information about appropriate amounts to tip people who provide
different kinds of services, including in barbershops and hair salons,
casinos, cruise ships, restaurants, and trains.
- The Universal Currency Converter Perform
interactive foreign exchange rate conversion on the Internet. Enter the
amount and select the currency and your conversion is done.
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- The Calendar Zone You
will find all kinds of calendars, such as Celestial Calendars, Cultural
and Religious Calendars, Holidays, Millennium Info, Calendar Reform,
Today Calendars and Web & Interactive Calendars.
- The Daily Globe World Dates Archive A browseable calendar of world events. Select a month and day and events that happened on that day will appear.
- World Public Holidays Database Find
the date and day of the week for the national holidays of dozens of
countries around the world for the years 2001-2003. Search by country,
year, and/or month.
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- Bureau of the Census The
Bureau of the Census collects data about the people and economy of the
United States and produces a wide variety of statistical data products.
- FedStats: One Stop Shopping for Federal Statistics
FedStats’ major features include: An ‘A to Z’ index that provides
direct access to detailed listings in 275 categories; An ‘Agencies’
heading that allows users to link to the Web sites of Federal Agencies.
- Money: Best Blaces to Live Profiles
America’s 300 largest metro areas. Money’s Best Places search engine
allows you to search a database in order to find the best places to
live, work, or play.
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- Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary This
dictionary and thesaurus, based on the Merriam-Webster dictionary,
allows use of advanced search techniques including wildcards and
truncation. A help page and pronunciation guide is included.
- allwords.com This
dictionary contains all definitions in English. Also provides the
ability to search for a word in English, French, German, Dutch,
Italian, and Spanish. Additionally, there is a pronunciation file for
each English word.
- Cambridge International Dictionaries The
idiom dictionary provides examples of over 7,000 idioms currently used
in American, British and Australian English. This site includes
thousands of example sentences, and etymological information to help
readers understand the meanings of the idioms.
- Dictionary.com A
general English-language dictionary online. Its simple search form
hides a sophisticated multi-source search of Webster’s Revised
Unabridged Dictionary, WordNet, The Free Online Dictionary of
Computing, Jargon File, The Elements, Easton’s 1897 Bible Dictionary,
Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary, U.S. Gazetteer, and the CIA World
Factbook.
- Encarta World English Dictionary “All
of Encarta World English Dictionary has been written in the last four
years…” Its vocabulary has been newly selected from sources showing how
modern English is used internationally, in print and on broadcasts and
over the Internet.
- OneLook Dictionaries This
dictionary allows you to look up a word in 350 different dictionaries
simultaneously, or pick specific dictionaries from grouping or
subject-specific ones, including science, Internet, computer and
technology.
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- MSN Learning & Research Atlapedia
Online contains full color maps as well as key facts and statistics on
countries of the world. The Countries A to Z section provides facts,
figures and statistical data on geography, climate, people, religion,
language, history, economy, etc.
- CIA World Factbook
Provides Quick facts on countries of the world and is compiled annually
by the CIA for the use of U.S. Government officials. Facts cover such
topics as geography, political conditions, populations, land, and
industries. Includes appendix of acronyms and definitions.
- Country Reports.org Profiles
the nations of the world and includes maps, flags and national anthems.
Also included are thousands of pages of text written about these
nations.
- Map Quest
- Map Blast
- Zip Code Searching
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- AZHealthInfo.org Locate
information about your own health and the health of your Arizona
Community. Health Information that can be searched by topic or
geographic location within Arizona.
- MEDLINEplus Accurate,
current information. Includes health topics, interactive tutorials,
encyclopedia, drug information, clinical trials, and directories of
doctors, hospitals, and libraries.
- National Library of Medicine World’s largest medical library.
- Clinical Trials.gov Provides
regularly updated information about federally and privately supported
clinical research in human volunteers. Gives information about a
trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for
more details.
- Alternative Medicine Homepage Sources
of information on unconventional, unorthodox, unproven, or alternative,
complementary, innovative, integrative therapies. It provides links to
other alternative medicine sites, including several research centers.
- Ask Dr. Weil This
popular question-and-answer publication focusing on natural and
preventive medicine is authored by UA College of Medicine faculty
member, Andrew Weil.
- Holistic-online.com This
very comprehensive website about holistic and complementary medicine
offers information about herbs, diseases and conditions, alternative
therapies, a preferred provider directory, warnings about commonly used
substances, and links to databases.
- American Diabetes Association This
resource offers general information on diabetes, information on healthy
living, Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, links to community resources and
information for professionals.
- Arizona Diabetes Control Program Maintained
by the Arizona Department of Public Health, this website offers
diabetes warning signs, free literature, a flu alert, advocacy, and
information in Spanish as well.
- Center for Disease Control and Prevention This site includes health and safety topics, data and statistics, and information on public health issues.
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- ABCNews.Com ABC’s
news site features recaps and transcripts and selected video clips from
both national and international news. Also provided are news programs,
including Nightline, 20/20, and PrimeTime Live.
- BBC News The
site is updated daily and includes these sections: World, UK, UK
Politics, Education, Health, Business, Sci/Tech, Sports, and
Entertainment. News is available in several languages and in audio and
video.
- CBS Sportsline This
site will keep you up-to-date about all sporting events, including
news, standings, box scores, injury reports, statistics, and game
recaps. Included are all professional sports, college sports and much
more.
- CNN.com This
site contains headlines and stories from CNN, including US News, World
News, Business, Weather, Sports, Entertainment, Sci-Tech, Food, Health,
Nature.
- The Economist This
site features selected articles from the current issue, an archive of
past issues, a style guide, and a library of key articles from past
issues. This is a good source for news and discussion of events
happening all over the globe.
- MSNBC This site provides the latest news and feature stories. Including business, sports, technology, and weather.
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- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations Browse by author (chronologically or alphabetically) or search by keyword.
- Famous Quotations Network This
site contains famous quotes by historical figures, writers, and
entertainers (and some fictional characters). Biographies are included
for some of the authors.
- Quoteland.com This
site contains sections of literary and humorous quotations. Discussion
groups are available for visitors to share favorite quotes or find the
source of a quote.
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- The Internet Public Library –
The IPL General Reference Collection is a collection of Internet
resources chosen to help answer specific questions quickly and
efficiently. Sources are selected according to ease of use, quality and
quantity of information, frequency of updating, and authoritativeness.
- Refdesk.com –
VERY comprehensive site of resources. It is the winner of several
awards from Yahoo, Forbes, and U.S. News & World Report. There are
links from this site to hundreds of information providers.
- Internet Library for Librarians
– Provides links to ready reference resources such as almanacs,
biographies, dictionaries, directories, encyclopedias, maps, news,
thesauri, and weather.
- Ready Reference Using the Internet –
Consists, with a few exceptions, of full-test sources and data suitable
for ready reference. Subject headings are a modified Library of
Congress arrangement.
- Ancestry Search-Database Search Index
- Internet Movie Database
- Hoover's Online - company information
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- Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by APA Provides
information on how to cite various types of electronic sources,
including email messages, web sites or specific documents within web
sites, articles or abstracts from electronic databases, and web
citations in text.
- Writer's Handbook Includes
instructional materials used in the Writing Center. Sections include
Academic Writing (Literature, Reviews), Grammar & Style, Peer
Reviews, Documentation Styles (APA, MLA, Turabian, etc.), and Letters
& Application Essays.
- MLA-Style citations of Electronic Sources Information on how to cite electronic sources using the MLA style.
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- Internet 800 Phone Directory
- Big Book Yellow Pages directory
- Internet 800 Directory
- Switchboard USA – white pages directory
- Telephone Directories on the Web
- AnyWho Directories – Contains
business and consumer white and yellow pages telephone listings with
enhanced, Internet-based contact information such as E-mail addresses
and website URLs. Toll free and FAX numbers may also be listed.
- Super Pages.com –
Includes listings for businesses in the United States. You can search
by business name, location, and/or category. Listings include address,
phone number, and a street map showing the business’ location. Reverse
Lookup also available.
- Infospace: The Ultimate Directory –
Includes white pages, yellow pages, email addresses, classified ads,
e-shopping, government, city guide, and international information.
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