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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.
Global Road Warrior: The
Ultimate Guide to the World. Use Library card
number for access.
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..
FSI Language Courses: This
site is dedicated to making these language courses
freely available in an electronic format. These
courses were developed by the United States
government and are in the public domain.
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.
Encyclopedia
Britannica:
Links to Encyclopedia 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.
Health Finder:
U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services sponsored
source for reliable health information.
Medicine Plus:
Trusted health
information sponsored by U.S. National Library of
Medicine and National Institutes of Health.
Clinical Trials:
ClinicalTrials.gov is
a registry of federally and privately supported
clinical trials conducted in the United States and
around the world. ClinicalTrials.gov gives you
information about a trial's purpose, who may
participate, locations, and phone numbers for more
details. This information should be used in
conjunction with advice from health care
professionals. Sponsored by U.S. National Institutes
of Health.
Marshfield Clinic Health
Information Center:
Marshfield Clinic's
Health Information Center supports individuals in
developing an approach to life that includes
educated decisions and actions to create a balanced
and fulfilling lifestyle. There is a great deal of
health and wellness information, including articles
on nutrition, fitness, patient education, and mental
and sexual health.
Eldercare Planning / Long Term
Care:
Contained here are 34
in-depth chapters, totaling over 690 printable
pages, from 9 experts and covering all areas of
long-term care planning, or as it's more commonly
called, elder care planning.
National Archives Footnote:
For genealogists,
history buffs, and even the average Web passerby,
Footnote is working with the National Archives to
digitize and upload every document it houses. You
will find anything from handwritten notes from the
Continental Congress to Project Blue Book UFO
sightings.
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.
Microsoft Live Maps:
Search for business, people, collections and places. Get
directions. Add your own information about a place.
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.
Science Daily:
ScienceDaily is one of the Internet's
leading online magazines and Web portals devoted to
science, technology, and medicine.
Other science subjects:
Link to other subjects in this web site
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 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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