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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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- Financenter:
Personal Finance & 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 Dictionary of Idioms The 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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