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Please Almanac:
Brief facts on many topics, searchable by subject or keyword.
InfoPlease -This
Day in History:
Significant events by date, searchable by month, date, and year.
Automotive
Chilton
Automotive Repair Database: Step-by-step procedures,
photos, wiring diagrams, troubleshooting guides and spec tables
can be accessed. A password is required which can be obtained from
a librarian.
Biography.com
Wisconsin
History:
The dictionary gives brief lives of more than 2,000
famous Wisconsin people (and many not so famous).
Biographical
Dictionary:
This biographical dictionary covering 28,000+ personalities
has advanced search capabilities.
Presidents of the United
States:
Research your favorite President on the Internet.
Virtual Reference-Science &
Technology- Biographical Sources:
A directory of biographical information about scientists and
mathematicians.
Calorie
And Fat Gram Chart For 1000 Foods:
Includes fat, calorie, and cholesterol counts for common foods.
Fast Food Facts:
For fast food products.
Financial
Planning Toolkit: Financial Calculators:
Calculators for loan rates, mortgages, refinancing comparisons,
amortization, debt consolidation, and more.
The Inflation
Calculator
What is a Dollar Worth?
MegaConverter2
Conversion of Anything:
Convert length, time, distance, weights and measures, and more.
OANDA Currency
Converter:
Easily convert between any of 164 currencies.
Calendar
Zone:
Links to hundreds of calendars, including celestial, event,
cultural, daily, and interactive.
Virtual Perpetual Calendars:
Includes calendars for every year in the 20th and 21st centuries,
as well as holiday dates, leap year information, and more.
TimeandDate.com:
Offers a variety of calendars and clocks for reference or personal
use.
World Time Server:
See current time and deviation from GMT for all countries and many
large cities.
Economist.com
Country Briefings:
Country Briefings section provides news, profiles, forecasts
and statistics on 60 major countries.
Flags of the World:
Each country's flag is pictured in color, with a description of
the significance of the colors and symbols, and a brief history.
Nationmaster.com:
NationMaster is a central data source to graphically compare facts
about nations.
Nations of the
World:
Provides links to each country's constitution and selected
legal guides along with access to the executive, legislative, and
judicial branches of government.
Portals
To The World:
Offers selected links to 214 countries, chosen by LOC subject
specialists.
World
Factbook:
U.S. government profiles on countries, complete with small map and
picture of flag.
Library of Congress
American Historical Information:
Profiles of books on American politics, arts, culture,
architecture, etc..
Acronym
Finder
Bartleby.com:
Find quotations, poetry, English language style and usage,
thesauri, encyclopedias and much more in this comprehensive
reference resource.
The Glossarist:
Topical dictionaries and glossaries for many different subjects.
Merriam Webster's Dictionary:
This easy-to-use dictionary includes multiple meanings (including
British usage), as well as etymology and pronunciation of words.
On-line Medical
Dictionary
Quotations:
"Key word, author, title and subject access to a number of
major quotation sources in the public domain, including Bartlett's
Familiar Quotations, the King James Bible, Roget's Thesaurus and
others."
Roget's Internet Thesaurus
Wordsmyth:
A dictionary/thesaurus with exceptional searching capabilities for
hard-to-spell or frequently misspelled words and over 50,000
entries.
YourDictionary.com:
Links to 1,500 dictionaries covering 230 separate languages, from
Afrikaans to Xhosa, plus specialized dictionaries, multilingual
dictionaries, verb conjugators, translators, thesauri, synonyms
and homonyms, quotations, etymology, and more.
American Rhetoric:
This site is a valuable resource for finding some of the most
famous -- and infamous -- speeches ever made.
Language Maker:
Fun site for language conlangs, neologisms, babel texts and
neographies.
Banished Word List:
Words and Phrases Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use,
Over-Use and General Uselessness.
Encyclopaedia
Britannica:
Links to Encyclopaedia Britannica articles and similar web sites,
by general category or specific search topic.
Encyberpedia:
The Living Encyclopedia:
A voluminous listing of online encyclopedias.
The
Knot:
Wedding etiquette.
Getting
Through Customs:
International customs for business travel.
Comcourse
GED program: The Comcourse's GED program is available
for free for students seeking to enter college. The system
provides a complete course of study in all of the subject areas.
It is self-paced and requires only an Internet connection. It is
open to anyone.
Wisconsin
Department of Justice (DOJ):
This resource is designed to assist you with information covering
all aspects of the role of the Department – from legal services
to consumer help for seniors to crime prevention and law
enforcement services, victims rights and environmental
enforcement.
Wisconsin
Court System for the Public:
Wisconsin Court System designed this web site for use by people
representing themselves in divorce/separation, complaints against
judges, complaints against interpreters, lawyer regulation, and
more.
Maps
& Locators
Google
Street Maps:
Physical and geographic country maps.
Topo
Maps:
Topo maps of country.
Atlapedia Online:
Physical and geographic country maps, complete with statistics and
factoids.
How Far Is It?:
This easy-to-use site calculates distance (as the crow flies)
between any two points in the world and includes a map for further
reference.
MapQuest!:
Interactive street atlases of the continental United States gives
you mileage, door-to-door or city-to-city, and street maps with
driving directions.
National Atlas:
Create your own maps based on information such as agricultural
production, crime, geographic features, population, and more.
Perry-Castañeda
Library Map Collection:
Historical, countries and world.
TerraServer-USA:
Free public access to a vast data store of maps and aerial
photographs of the United States."
Topozone:
Every USGS topographic 1:100,000, 1:25,000, and 1:24,000 scale map
for the entire United States.
Topographic
Map Symbols:
Help in interpreting the maps.
United States Geography:
USGS geographers monitor the changes on the land surface by
observing the Earth with remote sensing satellites, studying the
connections between people and those changes with careful
geographic analysis, and providing society with relevant science
information they can use to manage the consequences of those
changes.
Google Earth:
Google Earth puts a planet's worth of imagery and other geographic
information. Free program that must be downloaded but worth the
effort. High speed internet access and a monitor resolution of at
least 1024 by 768 is needed.
Wisconsin
State Government:
Links to Wisconsin State offices, public services, state facts and
more.
50 States and Capitals:
Information for all fifty states and seven territories, including
state flags (picture and description), state symbols, political
and geographical information, and a direct link to the state's
official web page.
Official City Sites:
Links to official state and city web pages in the U.S. and several
European countries.
Sperling's Best Places:
Compare over 3,000 U.S. cities in housing, costs of living, crime,
education, economy, health and climate.
Townhunter:
Compare over facts about U.S. cities.
United States
Gazetteer:
Locate a city, township or county by name or zip code. Brief data
includes 1990 population, as well as an interactive map of the
area.
Consumer
Price Index:
Get the most current CPI press release, or look at an overview of
CPIs from 1913-present.
Demographic
Services Center:
(WI Dept. of Administration) Links to Wisconsin demographics,
including WisStat.
Wisconsin
Labor Market Information:
Access statistics about the Wisconsin work force, including the
county snapshots, County
Workforce Profiles of Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Office of
Economic Advisors:
The Office assists economic data users to better understand the
relationships between labor markets and other economic and
demographic specifics.
FedStats:
Statistics from 70 U.S. government agencies, searchable by keyword
and agency.
Nationmaster.com:
NationMaster is a central data source to graphically compare facts
about nations.
United States Census Bureau:
Searchable site with many statistics for the U.S., including the State
and Metropolitan Data Book and the Fact
Finder: Contains, under "Other Official Statistics,"
links to state and international data centers, and the department
of commerce. For the latest 1990 census reports see Census
2000 Gateway.
U.S. State
Fact Sheets:
Basic and agricultural statistics on every state in the U.S.,
compiled by the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department
of Agriculture.
University
of Michigan Documents Center's Statistical Resources on the Web:
Provides links to many of the same sources as the U.S. Census
Bureau and FedStats.
Wisconsin
Blue Book:
The Blue Book contains facts and statistics on Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Health
Statistics:
Statistics on Cancer, Health Care Providers, Health Surveys,
Health Insurance, Population, and Vital Statistics (Births,
Deaths, Marriages, Divorces, Life Expectancy).
Big
Charts:
Provides interactive charts for stocks and mutual funds, as well
as current and historical quotes.
Quote.com:
Thorough and detailed quote coverage.
Altavista's
Babelfish translator
Free Translation
WorldLingo (Translation,
Localization, Globalization)
Symbols.com:
Common symbols from a variety of cultures are searchable by
graphic element or meaning.
Weather
Forecasts and History
National
Weather Service Radar Image
National
Weather Service Point Forecast
National
Weather Service Telecommunication Service Center
Weather
Ungerground
Weather
Channel
Historical
Climate Summaries:
(Midwest Regional Climate Center) Historical highs, lows,
and precipitation records from weather stations around the
Midwest.
Wisconsin State
Climatology Office
Wisconsin
Road Conditions:
From the Dept. of Transportation. Not updated during the summer.
Wisconsin
Construction and Detours
Agribiz
Weather:
Agricultural weather at worldwide locations.
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