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Acronyms

• Acronym Finder
• Acronym Server

Addresses & Phone Numbers

• Reverse Phone Directory
• SuperPages.com
• WhitePages.com
• Zip Code Lookup and Address Information - U.S. Postal Service

Almanacs

• Fast Facts
• Infoplease

Biography

• Biography.com
• Biographical Dictionary
• Inventors' Hall of Fame
• Omnibiography.com

Calculators, Converters and Measures

• calculator.com
• The Salary Calculator
• Universal Currency Converter
• Common Equivalent Weights and Measures

Country Profiles

• Atlapedia Online
• CIA Factbook
• Library of Congress Country Studies

Dates, Calendars and Time

• CalendarZone - categorized calendar catalog
• Famous Birthdays
• Old Farmer's Almanac - historical and weather related events
• This Day in History
• World Clock - time zones

Dictionaries

• Dictionary.com
• Glossarist.com - directory of glossaries and topical dictionaries
• Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary Online
• OneLook Dictionary Search - search over 900 dictionaries all from one page
• Oxford English Dictionary

Encyclopedias

• AccessScience
• Answers.com
• Encarta Online
• Encyclopedia Britannica Online
• Encyclopedia.com
• How Stuff Works
• Wikipedia - community-built encyclopedia, use with caution

Engineering

• efunda: engineering fundamentals
• Martindale's Engineering Reference

Libraries

• Brooklyn Public Library
• Library of Congress - largest library in the world
• Lib-Web-Cats - a directory of libraries worldwide
• New York Public Library
• Online Library Catalogs in the NYC Area
• WorldCat - find books, music, journals and more at a library near you

Maps and Directions

• HopStop - door-to-door subway and bus directions
• GoogleMaps
• Map Machine - online atlas from National Geographic

Newspapers and Magazines

• Magportal
• Metagrid: Newspapers and Magazines
• Newsdirectory.com
• NewsLink
• worldNewspapersonline

Statistics

• American FactFinder - population, housing, economic, and geographic data 
• Fedstats - federal statistics
• Finding Data on the Internet
• OFFSATS - statistics from official sources arranged by country, region, or topic
• Statistical Resources on the Web
• United Nations Statistical Division
• U.S. Census Bureau

Quotations

• Bartlett's Quotations
• Brainy Quote
• Quotations Book
• Quotations Page
• Quotations and Sayings Database

Weather

• U.S. National Weather Service
• The Weather Channel

More reference available at  Bobst's Virtual Reference Shelf