Reference Resources

by Peter Y. Chou, Instructor for “Navigating the Internet”
CTIS Division, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California

General References:
My Virtual Reference Desk— http://www.refdesk.com/
(A one-stop site for all things Internet)
Reference Shelf— http://www.netguide.com/Reference/Shelf
(Well organized reference sources from Net Guide)
Information Please— http://www.infoplease.com/
(Search: world, US, living, sports, people, society, entertainment, business, science)
Electronic Reference Shelf— http://www.library.mcgill.ca/refshelf/swsindex.htm
(McGill University Library's Reference Resources from Acronyms to Writing Tools)
Almanacs:
My Daily Almanac— http://www.refdesk.com/quote.html
(165 links to almanacs & calendar web sites)
1997 CIA World Factbook— http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
(prepared by the CIA for US Government officials)
50 States and Capitals— http://www.50states.com/
(Fact sheet on each state of the United States)
Nations of the World (E-Conflict World Encyclopedia)— http://www.emulateme.com/alphanationtext.htm
(Afghanistan to Zimbabwe: Flag, Map, Geography, People, Gov't, Economy, Transportation)
Country Studies: Area Handbook Series (Library of Congress, Federal Research Division)— http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/
(100 countries from Albania to Zaire written by a multidisciplinary team of social scientists)
U.S. Census Bureau— http://www.census.gov/
(Quick facts of 50 states, population clocks, economic census & indicators, maps, gazetteer)
Fedstats (One Stop Shopping for Federal Statistics)— http://www.fedstats.gov/
(70 U.S. Agencies, Search, Fast Facts, Kids Page, Regional Statistics, State Profile & MapStats)
Farmer's Almanac— http://www.farmersalmanac.com/
(Astronomy, Best Days To, Press Room, Weather Forecasts, Farmers' Almanac, General Store)
Old Farmer's Almanac— http://www.almanac.com/
(Garden advice, moon phases, sun rise & set, tide info, weather)
MPR's The Writer's Almanac— http://almanac.mpr.org/
(Daily radio program of poetry & history hosted by Garrison Keillor with archive to 10-2-95)
Calendars:
What Time Is It?— http://www.what-time-is-it.com/
(Find the time in in any city in the world. Select a country & enter a city name in the City field)
Local Times Around the World— http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Slatlong.htm
(Latitude & Longitude of Cities with Local Time)
Time Service Department (U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington DC)— http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/
(What time is it?, USNO Master Clock, Time Zone Conversion, Atomic Clock Research, Cool Links)
U.S. Naval Observatory Data Services— http://aa.usno.navy.mil/AA/data/
(Sunrise, Sunset, Moonrise, Moonset, Moon Phases, Eclipses, Earth Seasons 1992-2005, Easter Dates)
Phases of the Moon (U.S. Naval Observatory)— http://aa.usno.navy.mil/AA/data/docs/MoonPhase.html
(Day, Hour, Minute of New & Full Moon, First & Last Quarter for 1990-2005 or any year from 1700-2035)
Solstice/Equinox Information, 2007-2020 AD (NOAA)—
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ind/print_localdata.php?loc=txtdat&data=seasons.txt
(Vernal Equinox, Summer Solstice, Autumnal Equinox, Winter Solstice, with UTC)
Why do we have the seasons?—
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/fgz/science/season.php?wfo=fgz
(Dates 2001-2005; Standing an egg on end during Spring Equinox)
Dates of equinoxes and solstices, 1997 - 2030 AD— http://www.stonesofwonder.com/stones7.htm
(Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice, Autumn Equinox, Winter Solstice)
Dates of midsummmer and midwinter full moons, 1997 to 2030 AD— http://www.stonesofwonder.com/stones8.htm
(Robert Pollock's Stone of Wonder web site)
Britannica's Lives (Site no longer on web)— http://www.eb.com/lives/
(Enter your birthday & find who's born on your day)
Anyday Today in History— http://www.scopesys.com/anyday/
(Enter your birthday & find who's born & what happened on your day)
Daily Almanac (Infoplease.com) — http://www.infoplease.com/cgi-bin/daily
(Current Calendar, Birthdays, Death Days, Events on This Day, Holidays)
Timelines: Old News— http://timelines.ws/TODAY.HTML
(News highlights from January to December)
Day By Day (DK: Dorling Kindersley)— http://daybyday.dk.com/C20UK/TODAYINHISTORY/01-Jan.htm
(Month by Month, Day by Day, Today in History, Obituaries)
On This Day (from The New York Times)— http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/index.html
(History highlights & birthdays with archive of the previous three months)
This Day in History (History Channel)— http://www.historychannel.com/thisday/
(Arranged chronologically from the Archives of The History Channel)
This Day in History (Information Please)— http://www.infoplease.com/cgi-bin/dayinhistory/
(Brief highlights of events from Information Please Almanac)
Today in History— http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/archive.html
(Historical highlights with archive photos from the Library of Congress)
Author's Calendar— http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/calendar.htm
(Choose writer by birthday or name)
Literary Calendar— http://litcal.yasuda-u.ac.jp/LitCalendar.shtml
(An Almanac of Literary Information)
Liturgical Calendar of the Ecclesia Gnostica— http://www.webcom.com/~gnosis/ecclesia/calend99.htm
(Liturgical calendar from New Year's Day, Jan. 1, to St. Sylvester's Day, Dec. 31)
Masonic Calendar (American Mason)— http://www.americanmason.com/calendar.ihtml
(Chronicle of Masonic Events: January, September, December)
Timelines: Old News— http://timelines.ws/
(Topic Archives by Algis Ratnikas; Big Bang to 2001 arranged by years)
Month By Month: What happened all those years ago— http://www.andibradley.com/whatya/trivia.htm
(Day By Day Events— By Andi Bradley Computer Designs)
A Timeline of OurStory— http://www.eleggua.com/History/History.html
(The 20th Century: 1900-1909, Dates from 1910-2000; 21st Century)
Year By Year: Trivia, world events, historical landmarks, births & deaths— http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andi.bradley/whatya/othertrivia.htm
(2700 BC to 2000 AD Events— By Andi Bradley Computer Designs)
This Week in the History of Chemistry— http://webserver.lemoyne.edu/faculty/giunta/week.html
(Birthdays of chemists January to December with web links)
Timelines: Information Please— http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001196.html
(4.5 billion BC to 2000 AD with illustrations)
Great Voyages Timeline (Prof. Uzgalis, Oregon State University)— http://www.orst.edu/instruct/phl302/timeline/timeline.html
(Arranged by millennia from 1000 to 1984)
Timelines: Technology— http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/telephone/timeline/timeline_text.html
(PBS: 1752 Lightning Rod to 1990 Hubble Space Telescope)
WhoWhatWhen: Interactive Historical Timelines— http://www.sbrowning.com/whowhatwhen/index.php3
(People and events from 1000 A.D. to the present)
Timeline USA (by Alexander D. Gregg)— http://www.gregg1.freeserve.co.uk/TLINEusa.htm
(Chronology of Events from 217 to 1989)
Timeline United Kingdom (by Alexander D. Gregg)— http://www.gregg1.freeserve.co.uk/TLINEuk.htm
(Chronology of Events from 803 to 1997)
Timeline Canada (by Alexander D. Gregg)— http://www.gregg1.freeserve.co.uk/TLINEcan.htm
(Chronology of Events from 1534 to 1995)
Today Date and Time— http://www.panix.com/~wlinden/calendar.shtml
(Links to calendars from many cultures)
Calendrical Calculations (By Nachum Dershowitz & Edward M. Reingold)— http://emr.cs.iit.edu/home/reingold/calendar-book/first-edition-index.shtml
(Book, Sample Chapters, Interview, Calendar Images, Calendar Links)
Calendrical Bookmarks (By Nachum Dershowitz & Edward M. Reingold)— http://emr.cs.iit.edu/home/reingold/calendar-book/calendar-links.shtml
(General, Roman/Julian/Coptic, Persian, Ecclesiastical/Orthodox, Islamic, Chinese, Hindu,
Hebrew, Indonesia, Mayan/Aztec, Astronomical, Holiday/Events, Time, Conversion Progams)
Perpetual Calendars— http://www.vpcalendar.net/
(Find out what day of the week for any date of the year)
Gregorian Calendar for any Month of the Year— http://www.cnd.org/cgi/calendar
(Type the month followed by a space then the year in Search Box)
Aztec Calendar (by Fanya S. Montalvo)— http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/montalvo/Hotlist/aztec.html
(Annotated symbols for the Aztec Calendar, its central disk and four rings)
Chinese Calendar (By Helmer Aslaksen, Math Dept., National University of Singapore)— http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/calendar/chinese.shtml
(Chinese New Year Date, Sexagesimal Cycle, Calendar Conversion, Heavenly Mathematics)
Chinese Zodiac— http://www.goodorient.com/chinzodhorgr.html
(Find out what animal sign you were born and your personality traits)
Lunar to Solar Calendar Conversion (China News Digest)— http://www.cnd.org/Other/calendar.html
(Convert a date between solar and lunar calendars from 1900-2050)
Lunar to Solar Calendar Conversion (Stanford University)— http://umunhum.stanford.edu/~lee/chicomp/lunar.html
(Convert a date between solar and lunar calendars from 1900-2050)
Western to Chinese Lunar Calendar Conversion (Erik Peterson)— http://www.mandarintools.com/calconv_old.html
(Convert a date from solar to lunar calendars from 1911-2050; Links)
Lunar Calendar with Moon Phases— http://www.himpi.demon.co.uk/Fullmoon.html
(Type in Year, Month, Day to get Moon Phases for Local Time)
Calculate Number of Days You've Lived— http://www.himpi.demon.co.uk/Daysold.html
(Type in Year: 1901=1, 1950=50, Month, Day to get # of Days Old)
Free Horoscope Chart— http://www.astro.com/cgi-bin/atlw3/ade.cgi?lang=e
(Enter name, gender, birthdate & birthplace for free horoscope chart & analysis)
Dictionaries:
OneLook Dictionaries: The Faster Finder— http://www.onelook.com/
(Links to 287 dictionaries to search from)
Online Dictionary Net— http://www.online-dictionary.net/index.htm
(Chinese, English, French, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Bible, Dream, Medical)
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4th Edition, 2000)— http://www.bartleby.com/61/
(Over 90,000 entries with 10,000 new words & senses, 70,000 audio word pronunciations)
Oxford Concise Dictionary— http://elza.lpi.ac.ru/cgi-bin/od
(45,898 words dictionary from Physical Institute server in Moscow, removed due to � violation)
WWWebster Dictionary— http://www.m-w.com/dictionary
(Merriam-Webster Dictionary: 70,000 words)
Dictionary.com— http://www.dictionary.com/
(Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, edited by Noah Porter, 1913)
Acronym and Abbreviation List— http://www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/index.html
(15,433 acronyms in the database)
Acronym Finder— http://www.mtnds.com/af/
(Look up 53,842 acronyms, abbreviations & their meaning)
American-British & British-American Dictionary (by Jeremy Smith)— http://www.peak.org/~jeremy/dictionary/
(British-American: afters=dessert, bobby=policeman, lift=elevator, zizz=nap, and hundreds more)
ArtLex: Dictionary of Visual Art— http://www.artlex.com/
(Definitions for 2,600 terms with illustrations, pronunciation notes, quotations, and links)
Astronomy Dictionary— http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/glossary/
(Ablation to Zodiac: astronomical terms with illustrations & links)
Buddhist Dictionary (Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Pali, Sanskrit)— http://libweb.uoregon.edu/asia/dicts/bdict/index.htm
(11 indices: Chinese Radical, Pinyin, Wade-Giles; Texts, Schools, Personal Names)
Chinese-English & English-Chinese Dictionaries (by Erik Peterson)— http://www.mandarintools.com/worddict.html
(Search as English, Pinyin, Traditional & Simple Chinese; Flash Cards; Chinese Culture)
Chinese Characters & Culture (by Rick Harbaugh)— http://www.zhongwen.com/
(Search Dictionary, Dictionary Web, News in Chinese, Online Readings, Vocabulary, Forum)
Chinese Characters Dictionary Web— http://zhongwen.com/zi.htm
(Find the Chinese characters in over a dozen Chinese-English dictionaries)
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable— http://www.bibliomania.com/Reference/PhraseAndFable/
(17,000 words from Brewer's enlarged 1894 edition)
Digital Dictionary of Buddhism (Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Pali, Sanskrit)— http://www.human.toyogakuen-u.ac.jp/~acmuller/dicts/bdict/
(Terms, Texts, Schools, People, Places, Radical Index, CJK Terms, Pinyin, Korean, Japanese, CJK Character Dictionary, Dictionary Introduction, Lexicographical References, Credits)
The Folk File: A Folkie's Dictionary [by Bill Markwick]— http://www.cgrg.ohio-state.edu/~spencer/FF/index.html
(Terms related to folk music, mini-biographies, musicology terms, trivia)
French-English Dictionary— http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/FR-ENG.html
(Mark Olsen, University of Chicago: About 75,000 entries; English-French)
French-English Dictionary— http://sun-recomgen.univ-rennes1.fr/FR-Eng.html
(Over 102,000 entries; French-English & English-French searches)
German-English Dictionary— http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/
(By Frank Richter: About 140,000 entries; English-German; English & German proverbs)
German-English Online Dictionary— http://dictionaries.travlang.com/GermanEnglish/
(Over 170,000 entries; German for Travelers; Handbook of German Grammar)
Greek-English Dictionary— http://www.online-dictionary.net/greek/index.htm
(also English-Greek Dictionary & English to Greek Word Search)
Hackers Dictionary— http://www.mcs.kent.edu/docs/general/hackersdict/index.html
(Computer terms from The Jargon File on gopher server, August 16, 1991)
Hackers Dictionary— http://www.mcs.kent.edu/docs/general/hackersdict/index.html
(Computer terms from The Jargon File in HTML format, June 17, 1999)
Italian-English Dictionary— http://www.aromatic.org/itaeng/
(1700 words compiled by Raffaele Sena)
Kadow's Internet Dictionary— http://www.msg.net/kadow/answers/
(Internet terms from AAA to Zoo)
Latin-English Dictionary— http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/Latin/
(8000 headwords edited by Lynn H. Nelson, University of Kansas)
Online Medical Dictionary— http://www.graylab.ac.uk/omd/index.html
(46,000 medical terms created by Dr. Graham Dark)
Expanded Dictionary of Metaphysical Healthcare— http://www.acsh.org/dictionary/index.html
(Over 1000 terms on alternative medicine & paranormal healing)
Rod's Encyclopedic Dictionary Of Traditional Music [by Rod Smith]— http://www.sussexfolk.freeserve.co.uk/ency/a.htm
(musical terms from "a cappella" to "Zug")
Rhyming Dictionary (Lycos.com)— http://rhyme.lycos.com/
(Results organized by syllables or letters)
Russian Dictionary— http://www.freedict.com/onldict/rus.html
(English to Russian & Russian to English dictionaries)
Sanskrit Dictionary— http://www.alkhemy.com/sanskrit/dict/
(with 9 links to other online Sanskrit dictionaries)
Sanskrit Dictionary— http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/indologie/tamil/mwd_search.html
(160,000 entries from Monier-Williams' Sanskrit-English Dictionary)
Semantic Rhyming Dictionary— http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/dougb/rhyme-doc.html
(Search engine to find rhymes from CMU Pronouncing Dictionary of 115,000 words)
Spanish-English Dictionary— http://www.spanishdict.com/EnglishSearch.cfm
(also English-Spanish dictionary; 54,400 entries with over 10,300 audio pronunciations)
Tibetan-English Dictionary (Nitartha International)— http://www.nitartha.org/Technology/Dictionary/dictionary.html#
(Rangjung Yeshe Tibetan-English Dictionary with 85,000 Tibetan terms in English)
Unix Command Dictionary (By Professor Floyd B. Hanson)— http://www.math.uic.edu/~hanson/UNIX/UnixDictionary.html
(Laboratory for Advanced Computing, University of Illinois at Chicago)
Webopedia— http://www.webopedia.com/
(Online dictionary & search engine for computer & Internet technology)
Yiddish Dictionary— http://www.koshernosh.com/dictiona.htm
(with music & translations from The Kosher Nosh, Inc., Glen Rock, NJ)
Encyclopedia:
Encyclopedia Britannica— http://www.eb.com
(14-day free trial, free sampling of site & search)
Columbia Encyclopedia (6th edition, 2001)— http://www.bartleby.com/65/
(Browsable alphabetic index with over 51,000 entries; Text & Word search)
Encyclopedia.com from Electric Library— http://www.encyclopedia.com/
(Free access to 17,000 articles from Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 3rd Ed.)
Encarta Concise Encyclopedia— http://encarta.msn.com/EncartaHome.asp
(Microsoft's abridged edition of Encarta Encyclopedia online)
Encyberpedia by Bob Kerstein— http://www.encyberpedia.com/ency.htm#menu
(204 topical links from Agriculture to Zoos)
Encyclopedia Smithsonian— http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/start.htm
(FAQ links to Smithsonian web sites for public inquiries)
Encyclopedia Mythica— http://www.pantheon.org/mythica/
(Search for Greek & Roman mythological figures & images)
Encyclopedia of Women's History— http://www.teleport.com/~megaines/women.html
(206 biographies written for & by the K12 community)
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy— http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/
(Timeline of Western Philosophy, Philosophical Texts, Keywords)
Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-1921)— http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/
(An Encyclopedia in 18 Volumes, 303 chapters & 11,000 pages)
The Catholic Encyclopedia (1917)— http://www.knight.org/advent/cathen/cathen.htm
(Religious & philosophical concepts & biographies)
E-Commerce Webopedia— http://e-comm.webopedia.com/
(Source for up-to-date terms, definitions, & acronyms in electronic commerce)
Glossaries:
Glossary of Deities— http://radiant.org/bubastis/deity/index.html
(113 Ancient Egyptian, Tameran and Kemetic deities, as well as a few Roman and Greek deities)
Glossary of Literary Terms— http://www.sccu.edu/faculty/R_Harris/litterms.htm
(Over 100 terms defined with examples)
Glossary of Medical Terms— http://www.wisdomportal.com/Health.html#Health Dictionaries Online
(Health Dictionaries, Glossaries, and Medical References Online)
Shakespearian Glossary— http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/langs/shakespeare-glossary.txt
(Browse through long list from abate to zany)
Siddhartha Glossary (from Hermann Hesse Page)— http://www.ic.ucsb.edu/~ggotts/hesse/works/sidd-notes.html
(Definitions of Buddhist & Hindu terms from Absolute to yoga)
Sivanda Glossary on Yoga (Divine Life Society, India)— http://www.ic.ucsb.edu/~ggotts/hesse/works/sidd-notes.html
(Definitions of Hindu terms from ABHAYAM: Fearless to YONI: Source)
Weather Glossary— http://www.weatherpost.com/longterm/glossary/glossary.htm
(from WashingtonPost.com's WeatherPost)
Web Words— http://www.webwords.net/
(Click a key on the typewriter imagemap to get definition)
Glossary of Stock Investing Terms— http://www.investorama.com/gloss.shtml
(Definitions from "ADR's" to "Yield" by Invest-O-Rama)
Glossary of Stock Investing Terms— http://search.morningstar.com/se/s97is.dll?Sec=InfoDesk&QueryText=&x=11&y=9
(Definitions from "Accounting Notes" to "Volume" by Morningstar)
Glossary of Financial and Business Terms (New York Times)— http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/glossary/bfglosa.htm
(Over 2,500 entries compiled by Professor Cambell R. Harvey, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University)
Internet Glossary— http://www.cnet.com/Resources/Info/Glossary/index.html
(600 network terms from CNET from "AA" to "Zmodem" including latest definitions such as DHTML)
Internet Glossary from the BBC Online— http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/webwise/glossary/
(106 Online terms defined from Academic Usage to Y2K by BBC Education)
Internet Glossary from Solution Islands— http://www.sislands.com/foothill/glossary.htm
(Internet terms defined from "access privilege" to "zip" by Solution Islands, a Bay Area ISP)
Computer Currents High-Tech Dictionary— http://www.computercurrents.com/resources/dictionary/
(6,000 definitions of computer terms from A to YUV)
Computing Dictionary— http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html
(11,000 definitions of computer terms edited by Denis Howe, England)
Maps:
Search Maps at Netscape Netcenter— http://directory.netscape.com/Reference/Maps
(305 links to cartography, historical, map libraries, online maps, regional, virtual tours)
Virtual Atlas (by Shaun Ashdowne, RMIT University, Australia)— http://www.srl.rmit.edu.au/va/
(Maps of the World, Continents, Countries, Cities; Themes, Worldlinks, Search, Index)
Lycos RoadMaps— http://www.lycos.com/roadmap.html
(Create a custom map of your destination when you type in the address)
MapBlast— http://www.mapblast.com/mblast/index.mb
(Quick U.S. map of city, state or zip, Driving directions, Find businesses by name or location )
MapQuest— http://www.mapquest.com/
(Local City Guide, Online Maps, Driving Directions, Real-Time Traffic, Travel Guides)
MapArt: Maps for Graphics Design— http://www.map-art.com/
(Maps of city, state, country, region, globe, world; terrains, antique maps)
How far is it?— http://www.indo.com/distance/
(Type in two cities & find distance between them; latitude & longitude with Xerox PARC Map Viewer)
Latitude & Longitude of Cities— http://www.astro.com/atlas/
(Type in name of city to find latitude & longitude)
Bodleian Library Map Room (Oxford, England)— http://www.rsl.ox.ac.uk/nnj/maproom.htm
(World's 7th largest collection of maps with over one million sheet maps and 20,000 atlases)
Map Links from Bodleian Library (Oxford, England)— http://www.rsl.ox.ac.uk/nnj/mlinks.htm
(Online Maps, Gazetteers, Weather, Libraries & Museums, Online Journals, Map Organizations)
Ryhiner Collection (University of Berne, Switzerland)— http://www.stub.unibe.ch/stub/ryhiner/ryhiner.html
(15,000 maps from the 16th-18th century, covering the whole globe)
Tiger Map Service (United States Census Bureau Map Server)— http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl
(Search by city or zip code to get map, 1990 population data, latitude & longitude)
USGS Mapping Information (United States & Territories)— http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html
(Maps showing location of airports, beach, bridge, building, hospital, lake, park, woods)
Xerox PARC Map Viewer (by Steve Putz, Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center)— http://pubweb.parc.xerox.com/map
(Map image is created on demand from a geographic database; elliptical & rectangular projections)
Names:
Behind the Name: etymology and history of first names— http://www.behindthename.com/
(Search for names & meaning, etymology, sources of first names, most popular names, name days)
First Names & What They Mean— http://www.zelo.com/firstnames/
(Meaning of your first name neatly arranged in tables)
Hall of Names— http://www.infokey.com/
(Commercial site of 650,000 surname family histories)
Eponym: International Names— http://www.eponym.org/map.html
(Index of names from around the world arranged by regions)
Surname Origin List (Family Chronicle)— http://www.familychronicle.com/surname.htm
(List of 2000 names arranged alphabetically)
Chinese Surnames (By Ronald Eng Young)— http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/3919/
(Alphabetical listing of Chinese surnames, pinyin, history, links)
150,000 Baby Names, Nicknames, & Cybernames— http://www.kabalarians.com/gkh/your.htm
(Name analysis based on kabala)
The Love Calculator (By Matthijs Sypkens Smit & Thijs Kinkhorst)— http://www.lovecalculator.com/
(Calculates the probability on a successful relationship between two people.)
Quotations:
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations— http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/
(1901 Edition from Project Bartleby, Columbia University)
Concordances to Great Books— http://www.concordance.com/
(Search for quotes from 150 authors)
Creative Quotation— http://www.bemorecreative.com/home-cq.htm
(Quotes from over 1000 famous people on creativity)
Quotation Center— http://cyber-nation.com/victory/quotations/quotes_menu.html
(Over 13,000 quotes to inspire & empower you from Cyber Nation)
Dictionary of Scientific Quotations— http://naturalscience.com/dsqhome.html
(Quotes by scientists & about science with sources cited)
Quote Ring— http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=quotations;list
(157 quote sites to link and find a quote)
Aphorisms Galore!— http://www.aphorismsgalore.com/ (1725 aphorisms by 704 authors in 16 categories)
Aphorisms— http://www.cyberway.com.sg/~qjason/index_quotes.html
(Quotes arranged in 12 categories)
Inspiring Quotes— http://www.empowerment-now.com/inspiration/quotations/
(340 quotes, thought provokers, & motivators from Empowerment-Now!)
Mathematics Quotes— http://www.wisdomportal.com/MathQuotes.html
(Quotes related to mathematics & mathematicians)
Movie Quote of the Day— http://www.us.imdb.com/quote_of_the_day
(Search quotes from movies from the Internet Movie Database)
Wisdom Quotes— http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/3130/index.html
(78 topics: Quotes from "Action" to "Writing" some with sources cited)
Quotes from Albert Einstein— http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/4360/q-eins.html
(145 quotes from Einstein, some with sources cited)
Favorite Jefferson Quotes— http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/download.htm
(Thomas Jefferson quotes arranged in 6 categories by Eyler Robert Coates, Sr.)
Shakespeare Concordance— http://www.concordance.com/shakespe.htm
(Find quotes of Shakespeare in all his dramas and poems)
Vincent Van Gogh Letters— http://www.vangoghgallery.com/letters/main.htm
(Complete letters from Van Gogh to his brother Theo, sister Wil, and mother)
Thesaurus:
Roget's Internet Thesaurus— http://www.thesaurus.com/
(Find synonyms & nuances of a word's meaning)
The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus— http://www.wordsmyth.net/
(The only integrated English Dictionary & Thesaurus online: over 2,721,609 Definitions)
Moby Thesaurus— http://elza.lpi.ac.ru/cgi-bin/mth
(30,260 main entries with 103,000 synonyms)
Astronomy Thesaurus— http://msowww.anu.edu.au/library/thesaurus/
(Astronomy synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish)
Thesaurus of Geographic Names— http://www.ahip.getty.edu/tgn_browser/
(Search for similar geographic place names; Find latitude & longitude of city)
NASA Thesaurus— http://www.sti.nasa.gov/nasa-thesaurus.html
(Synonym lists for scientific & technical terms)