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Reference Guides

Almanacs, Encyclopedias, Dictionaries and Thesauri

• Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Thesaurus.
• Infoplease.com lets you search its dictionary, encyclopedia ("more than 57,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition) and almanac(s).
• You must see Bartelby.com for a robust reference collection which includes encyclopedias, American Heritage Dictionary, thesauri, English usage, quotations, religion and mythology, literary history, anatomy, cooking, etiquette, parlimentary procedure and government, verse and fiction.

• English
• A list of acronym and specialized glossaries for assorted subjects.
• A fairly extensive list of glossaries arranged by subject.
• OneLook Dictionaries provids access to over 500 dictionaries. You can seach special subjects or (more slowly) seach the entire database.
• Click any of the terms in the top frame of whatis?com to locate definitions which are just a small part of this robust dictionary of computer-related terms. Within the context of the definition are links to related sources. Usually, no term or phrase remains unexplained...
• See Wachowicz's Glossary at Web Sites for Discerning Finance Students for glossaries of financial terms.
• Symbols.com provides access to "more than 2,500 Western signs" by either word or graphic description.
• Many Languages (Glossaries and Dictionaries)
• You will be surprised by the languages represented at the site, Dictionaries and Glossaries - Language Sort.

Phones, Email and Classic Mail

• Index provides "phone books from all around the world. Yellow pages, white pages, fax listings, business directories, email addesses and more. Alphabetic, residential, classified, people, companies, reverse search, search by address, many international countries."
• Another directory of phone directories is Telephone Directories on the Web.
• Telephone area code map.
• At Fone Finder you can find what geographical areas area codes and prefixes serve, for U.S., Canadian and International numbers.
• AT&T's AnyWho is easy to use because three of the directory types (person, business name amd business category) are searchable from one form. Toll-free and reverse lookup are also available.
• 411.com, according to one test, seemed to be more up to date than the other phone directories.
• "White" and "yellow pages" from 3 different vendors which, when used together, will yield comprehensive results.
• Yahoo People Search.
• InfoSpace includes public records and government and reverse telephone number and/or address look-up (for U.S. and Canada only) capability.
• Switchboard.
• Zip codes provided by the U.S. Postal Service

Times, Dates and Measurements

• Official US Time
• Many services concerning times and dates are available from www.timeanddate.com.
• Get the dates for days or days for dates in prior or future years by going to Calendar and scrolling down the page.
• See Today's Calendar and Clock Page for a huge list of calendars from many cultures.
• Science Made Simple presents interactive conversion forms that are easy to use!