Encyclopedia Britannica

This link to OneLook Dictionary searchs many dictionaries at once to bring you your definition.

Meriam-Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus

Hyperdictionary of English - lean and mean. The site shows connections to other words based on their meaning.

The Free Dictionary has the meaning of the word, a set of thesaurus results, etimology, it's use in classical literature, and other links, all on one page. Includes foreign words, acronyms, idioms, and grammar. Also has a forum.

OneLook Reverse Dictionary - the word is on the top of your tongue but you can't nail it down. Try this. It lets you type in the meaning, and then it gives you associated words.

This link to Bartlett's Familiar Quotations includes a search facility. The quotations are rather extensive.

QuoteDB is a database of quotes (when it works)

Wikiquote is a large collection of quotes.

Visual Thesaurus is interactive and shows connections between words.

Visuwords - is a pictorial representation of links between words. It is a graphical thesaurus.

Tip-Of-My-Tongue This site helps you find the word that is on the tip of your tongue. Surprisingly effective.

Library Spot is a reference 'portal' with links to lists of libraries, reference sites, search engines, etc. plus tips and tricks.

Fact Monster is a reference site for kids.

Martindale's Reference Center has links to all kinds of reference material. Site is very clean looking without a lot of fluff.

The Lexical Freenet's Connected Thesaurus shows connections between words along with origins and other related characteristics. Great site for curing word block.

Strunk's Elements of Style

Manuals The archive.org folks have a database of manuals for an awful lot of devices.

B. J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper has links to source materials for students and teachers.

Repository of Primary Sources has hundreds of links to library and museum resources. The only problem is that the site is organized by geographical location rather than by subject matter. Note: this site is no longer updated as of 2015.

The Internet Public Library as its name implies, has connections to a multitude of reference works.

Research and Writing for High School and College Students helps you figure out a topic and then find information on it.

InfoPlease sports stats, country profiles, theories, and other almanac-like material.

Encyclopedia.Com lets you search the Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia. Very readable with a good search engine.

Queen's Library - very nice library site with some basic tutorials on using the Web. Kid-friendly site.

Acronym Finder translates acronyms.

Symbols is an encyclopedia of Western signs and ideograms.

Cambridge History of English and American Literature

Bartleby's Gray's Anatomy

Encyclopedia of Delay-Insensitive Systems is a collection of links to material on various areas of knowledge like botany, economics, mathematics, etc.

Encyclopedia of Life - one page for every species of plant, animal, etc.

Currency Converter - helps if you need to know what the exchange rate is for pounds to euros to dollars.

My Virtual Reference Desk has many links to various resources including dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedia, quotations, etc.

Multilingual Translator translates english into many other languages.

Translate is a multilanguage translator.

HandSpeak gives motion videos of sign language.

Brewer's Phrase and Fable by E. Cobham Brewer, from the Oxford Reference.

The CIA World Factbook includes what all decent operatives should know about the local environs. This is also a classic compendium of facts about countries.

The Bartleby Project is a collection of links to literary resources including reference as well as collections of classic literature.

New York Public Library

Martindale's Calculators has links to all kinds of calculators: calories, loans, investment, etc.

Calculator has calculators for a bunch of subjects including financial, unit conversion, time, etc.

Omni Calculator has calculators for a bunch of subjects including electricity, food, math, etc.

Internet Movie Database is advertized as a comprehensive database of stuff related to movies.

Encyclopedia Mythica is a great source for mythology, magic folklore, etc.

Starlingtech Quotes has an advanced search which lets you pick from a list of sources.

Quotations Page is a large, searchable database of quotes. It appears to be last updated around 2018.

Nolo Lawyer Site has good advice. This is the best of the law sites.

Free Advice from lawyers. Question and answer format.

LegalZoom has advice and info.

City and State Laws has city and state laws.

FindLaw - advice, information, etc. There are sections for the public, business, and the professional.

100 Free DIY Legal Resources on the Web

National Emergency Library This site is making millions of ebooks available especially for students who are restricted to home schooling. Great source of reference books.

Baseball Hall of Fame

Baseball Almanac

National Geographic Map Machine has pretty detailed topographical maps. Also has a 'Map Machine' that lets you see road-level maps all over the world.

Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Index

Music Lyrics

FAQ Archives has Frequently Asked Question documents on a myriad of topics.

Farmer's Almanac

National Security Archive includes stuff that has been recently declassified including material from WWII.

Internet.com has data on Internet usage.

ShortCourses has a short course on just about everything.

Time and Date This site has clocks, timers, and count downs. You can print calendars for a whole year or just a month. Weather forecasts and sunrise and sunset times. Pretty much anything to do with time or dates, all freely available online.

The Tech Museum

World War II Resources and Pearl Harbor Attack Hearings includes text of political documents related to WWII as well as documents and interviews related to the attack on Pearl Harbor. The site also includes documents covering "Ultra" and pre and post-war policies,

HyperHistory is a series of timelines of the last 3000 years of history.

Periodic Table of Elements

How Stuff Works Ever wonder how something works? Search for answers here.

Print-A-Calendar - very simple calendar print service with plenty of space in the squares for notes

OnLine Clock displays the current time. You can also set an alarm. The site bans access through a VPN.

Calendar Zone has links to all kinds of calendars (holiday, religious, celestial, etc.) as well as links to topics related to calendars (software, reform, etc.)

Time Zone Information from the US National Observatory. Moon phases, what's in the sky this week, sun rise and set, etc.

City Time is a list of cities around the world with the current time.

Time Servers has a list of time servers where you can update the precise time for your computer.

The American School Directory has information on every school in America. Go on. You don't believe it, so see if it lists your grade school.

Awesome Library has links to various types of reference sources in about a dozen categories.

Online Exhibits - a GREAT collection of archives and library exhibitions. The list goes on forever. Check out American Originals (which has pictures of original historical documents like Nixon's letter of resignation) or Mechanical Marvels which describes DaVinci's invention of a robot.

Geneology Data This links to the Wikipedia entry for the Latter-day Saint Online Genealogy Records which has many links to genealogy data.

Cindi's List of Links has over 50,000 links to sites that contain geneology information.

Geneology Toolbox has links to research sites, news, software, etc.

Vital Records has links to sites with geneology data - birth, death, marriage, divorce, etc.

United Nations Cartographic Maps

World Navies has amazingly detailed info on the modern navies of specific countries.

Bar Code 1 has everything you would want to know about bar codes.

Constants has everything you would want to know about mathematic constant values

Food Safety.gov has everything you'd want to know about food safety including current alerts concerning contaminated foods.

School Bytes is aimed at helping high school and college students. It has sections like 'Plotbytes' (kind of Cliff Notes), 'Mathbytes' (how to solve mathematical problems), and 'Historybytes'.

The Library of Congress' Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers has digital impages of Bell's papers.

eHow - a collection of how-to's with links to associated products - how to bike over a curb, how to rappel down a cliff, how to watch olympic diving, etc. - tutorials include video

So You Wanna.com has a lot of little how-to's.

First Gov has links to all kinds of government related or sponsored sites.

International Adoption has info on adopting kids from other countries. Has names of agencies, laws and regulations, travel, and consular information.

Librarian's Index to the Internet has moved to the Internet Public Library. The site makes for very interesting browsing.

RulesCentral has rules for sports, card games, and board games.

Rules has rules for common games

Aesop's Fables

Kids Konnect is a collection of kid-safe reference sites. Very nicely done.

Ellis Island Records is very popular and busy. You can find out info on ancestors.

Manual Shark has some manuals for a limited number of vendors.

UserManualGuide - user manuals for a whole bunch of devices and equipment.

Make Stuff is a collection of formulas for making soap, glue, bubble bath, air fresheners, glass cleaner, insecticide, fertilizer, etc. There are also links to crafts and recipes.

TerraFly unbelievable detail about neighborhoods along with an aerial view. Kind of cumbersome to use but only because of its wealth of data..

The GoogleGuide is a tutorial on how to use Google.

Graph Paper offers up a great variety of customizable graph paper in PDF format.

GetHuman - phone numbers that get you to a human and other tips on how to get through the phone tangle at the help desk of various companies.

BugGuide.net They identify bugs from the pictures that folks send in. Nicely organized.

What's That Bug - you send in a picture of the bug and they identify it. They have a bunch of stuff already identified that you can look through.

The Straight Dope is an archive of questions and answers on a whole bunch of topics. Does sex make your acne worse? Why is the 'missionary position' called that?

Online Educational Database - a lot of 'deep' Web search engines.

Scribd - collects documents (all kinds, including manuals) that the public submits and makes them available to everyone. What happened to copyrights?.

WikiHow - is a how-to wiki where the public submit instructions on how to do a variety of thinks from dealing with noisy neighbors to programming in PHP.

Elevation Finder is a map application that shows you the distance above sea level at any point.

Day Of Week A simple display of the day of the week, for those who find it a useful reminder.

Day Of Week with Weather A simple display of the day of the week, along with the weather forecast for Abington, for those who find it a useful reminder.

Day Of Week with Weather III A simple display of the day of the week, along with the weather forecast for Abington, for those who find it a useful reminder.

Day Of Week with Weather IV A simple display of the day of the week, along with the weather forecast for Abington, for those who find it a useful reminder.

Day Of Week with Weather V A simple display of the day of the week, along with the weather forecast for Abington, for those who find it a useful reminder.

Day Of Week with Weather VI A simple display of the day of the week, along with the weather forecast for Abington, for those who find it a useful reminder.

Big Day Of Week with Weather VI A simple display of the day of the week, along with the weather forecast for Abington, for those who find it a useful reminder. Day of week is bigger in this version.

Big Day Of Week with Weather III and No Time A simple display of the day of the week, along with the weather forecast for Abington, for those who find it a useful reminder. Time is omitted to save space.

Day Of Week No Weather with Time Autorefresh A simple display of the day of the week, along with time and autorefresh

Day Of Week No Weather with Time Autorefresh A simple display of the day of the week, along with time and autorefresh

Day Of Week No Weather with Time Autorefresh and Dark Theme A simple display of the day of the week, along with time and autorefresh. White letters on black background.

Day Of Week No Weather with Time Autorefresh and Dark Theme This is a simple display of the time and date which autorefreshes for accurate time and auto dims at 11PM to 8AM.

Abington Free Library E-Resources There is an amazing amount of information available through the free library system.

EurekAlert has links to the latest research in various scientific areas.

Spies Online has links to sites related to investigative resources like Motor Vehicle and Others, Resources for Adoptees (Includes Databases), State Parole Boards, Scanner Frequencies, etc. First stop when you want to research someone or some business.

Finding Public Records aka Background Records Blog, has links to all sorts of public databases and data resources.

Investigator's Tookbox has links to all sorts of public databases and data resources.

PA Gov Datasets Someone did a great job of making a bunch of Pennsylvania state government datasets available. Each dataset pertains to a stated PA governmental goal. Some are maps and others are raw data.

USA.gov is a portal site to a very large variety of federal government agencies, services, and data.

National Transportation Safety Board provides material on all aspects of its investigations including air disasters, traffic accidents, etc.

Vanderbilt TV New Archive shows a brief evening news abstract for every day back through 1968.

The Grantsmanship Center has info on available grants.

National Archivesn has old documents such as maps of forts, diagrams, photos, etc. All part of the NARA Archival Information Locator (NAIL).

Hoover's Free Information on Companies

Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS)

Research Buzz - short tips about what's new on the Internet that's associated with research on the Web. Topics like search engines, maps, databases, etc. are covered. Also has an index of research resources.

Directory of Open Access Journals is a curated collection of journals that allow open access to their articles.

Fact Finder- Census Bureau's American Factfinder - stats about any neighborhood.

Association for Institutional Research

National Archives is a huge data collection including armed services records, geneological data, maps, etc.

Bureau of Labor Statistics has comprehensive data on the state of the economy.

CBS News Eye on the Economy has a number of articles on the state of the economy.

Economagic is a site that contains links to all sorts of economic news and data - they are trying to sell you their software that displays the data in pretty pictures.

Economic Indicators brought to us by the government.

Homemetry shows who is living in a given block along with stats on the houses, fire and police incidents, phone numbers, etc. You enter a zip code and it lists the streets. Click on a street to see the details on the housing.

Bureau of Economic Analysis has much data on the economy.

Distressed Communities Index Report shows how distressed and/or financially unequal communities are across the country by zip code.

National Center for Disease Control Data visualization library

Erik Max Francis's 'The Laws List' is a list of various laws, rules, principles, effects, paradoxes, limits, constants, experiments, and thought-experiments in physics.

Cost of Electricity This is a gov site that shows the cost of electricity, including generaton and supply, for each state. Useful if you want to compare.

Eliphind is a search engine for newspaper articles. It's database includes large amounts of time and geography.

YourDictionary.com has all kinds of word reference tools including a language guide.

Miriam-Webster's Dictionary

OneLook Dictionary is actually a series of dictionaries which you can search simultaneously.

WordSmyth is a combination dictionary and thesaurus. Nice combination. There is a children's dictionary here but you have to look for it.

Reverse Dictionary - you enter the definition and it finds the word

WhatIs is a dictionary for the high tech field.

Technical Dictionary

University of Michigan's Statistical Resources has links to all sorts of numeric data sources.

dataUSA is a visualization tool sponsored by Deloitte, Datawheel, and an MIT professor.

US Census has a lot of data and research tools to explore the data

GDP By County and Metro Area from the national Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Bureau of Labor Statistics is highly interactive.

U.S. Census Bureau: County Business and Demographics - annual statistics for businesses with paid employees

Economic Data From Census – gives you all kinds of economic data about a zip code area.

Pennsylvania State Data Center

USAFacts "USAFacts is a new data-driven portrait of the American population, our government’s finances, and government’s impact on society." This site is supported by Steve Ballmer.

Crime Statistics as collected by the Bureau of Justice.

Crime Statistics from the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data.

US Census Bureau

US Census Bureau's State and Metropolitan Area Data Book 2010 (downloadable PDF)

US Census Bureau Data

National Center for Educational Statistics

US Department of Education

CDC Health Statistics

Introductory Statistics by David Lane of Rice University.

OpenDataPhilly is a compendium of datasets (local Philadelphia) that are available to the public.

Department of Justice Data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook

Campus Crime Statistics

Population Reference Bureau has a bunch of stats on world and regional population.

Pennsylania State Data Center

Pennsylania Department of Education

Proximity is about how to use the 2000 census data.

CensusScope - census data in maps and charts, to county level, mostly sex/race/age - 1980/1990/2000

City-Data - city data.

Zip-Codes - has a lot of demographic info about each zipcode.

Netronline accesses real estate and public databases.

Flowing Data Salaries by State and Job lets you play around with graph sliders to see the job categories with the largest median annual salary.

Chart of Job Categories by Growth Rate shows the growth rate of job categories, how many people are employed and the median salary of each category - all on one, interactive chart.

Flowing Data is a site that shows various data visualizations. They have tutorials, book reviews, etc.

Billion Prices Project is an initiative out of MIT to make large financial datasets available for research purposes.

ADP Employment Report - employment stats

Survey of Professional Forecasters - sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - finanical stats

The Straight Dope is an archive of questions and answers on a whole bunch of topics. Does sex make your acne worse? Why is the 'missionary position' called that?

Answers.com is great search engine if you want to find out what an acronym stands for or how something works or even a definition.

Yahoo! Answers - another questions and answer site where users submit questions on a variety of subjects, including technology, and users give their answers.

Answer Bag - question and answer site that allows answers to include video and audio

Google Answers was retired but you can still visit their useful archive.