Miscellany Links

Links that lead to off-site pages that are references. You may also want to see my English Links.

• General
• Art
• Maps
• Urban Legends
• Miscellany

General

See also English Links for dictionaries.

• 1911Encyclopedia.org. 'The LoveToKnow Free Online Encyclopedia is based on what many consider to be the best encyclopedia ever written: the eleventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, first published in 1911.'
• About.com. Info about nearly anything.
• AcademicInfo.net. "Academic Info aims to be the premier educational gateway to online college and research level Internet resources."
• Answers.com
  • 'a free, ad-supported, reference search service, created to provide you with instant answers on over a million topics. As opposed to standard search engines that serve up a list of links for you to follow, Answers.com displays quick, snapshot answers with concise, reliable information. Our editors take our content from over 100 authoritative encyclopedias, dictionaries, glossaries and atlases, carefully chosen for breadth and quality.'
  • Google points to Answers.com when you type in "define word".
• AskJeeves.com. Ask them nearly anything in plain English.
• Bartleby.com. Quotations, classical references, etc. online.
  • The Harvard Classics and The Shelf of Fiction. 'The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises both the 50-volume "5-foot shelf of books" and the the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction. Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century.'
• Brittanica.com. As of 2003/05 this is $10/month or $60/year.
• Connotea [connotea.org]. Bookmark folksonomy. Sort of like digg for nerds.
• eHow.com. How to do just about anything.
  • wikiHow [wiki.eHow.com]
• eLook.org. 'the place to look for quick and reliable access to information.'
• eServer.com. Writings on various topics.
• Essortment.com, aka PageWise. Little essays on any old thing.
• everthing2.com. User created knowledge base.
• Encarta.MSN.com. An online encyclopedia by Microsoft.
• FAQs.org. Internet FAQ Archive. Find and search all sorts of FAQs (Frequently Asked Question lists).
• FAQTS.com. A knowledge base application.
• Go.HRW.com. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston educational materials.
• Google.com
• HowStuffWorks.com.
• IPL.org. Internet Public Library. A bold attempt by the University of Michigan School of Information.
• LexisNexis.com. "provides authoritative legal, news, public records and business information; including tax and regulatory publications in online, print or CD-ROM formats." Good but not free.
• Librarians' Index to the Internet.
• Library of Congres [LOC.gov]
  • Especially for Researchers
    • Recorded Sound Reference Center 'provides access to the commercial and archival audio holdings of the Library of Congress. The collection dates from 1926 when Victor Records donated over 400 discs to the Library's Music Division to supplement its print and manuscript holdings. In the custody of the Motion Picture Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division since 1978, the collection has grown to include over 2 million items encompassing audio formats from cylinders to CDs. The holdings complement the field recordings of the American Folklife Center and the moving image collections served in the Motion Picture and Television Reading Room.'
      • National Recording Preservation Board 'mandated by the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, is an advisory group bringing together a number of professional organizations and expert individuals concerned with the preservation of recorded sound. The Board is one of three components established by the legislation to form a comprehensive national program to ensure the survival, conservation, and increased public availability of America's sound recording heritage. The other two components of the program are the National Recording Registry and a fund-raising Foundation.'
• MyGradNet.com. "a graduate-to-graduate network that adds value to graduates. It starts up ideas and leverages potential of graduates."
• Open-Site.org. A lame version of Wikipedia.
• Princeton.edu/Siteware/DeskReferences.shtml.
• RefDesk.com. Like it says.
• Reference.com. Encyclopedia, atlas, business, legal, literature, medical, etc. Parent to Dictionary.com.
• SIL.SI.edu. Smithsonian Institute Libraries.
• Soople.com. Exploiting Google in a fast and friendly way.
• The Household Encyclopedia of General Information. An 1881 publication put online.
• UIUC Online Reference Collection.
• Wikipedia.org. A free online Wiki encyclopedia. See also my section on Wikipedia.
• xrefer.com.  An online resource that references over 120 common reference books, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, and subject specific references.

Art

• ArtRenewal.org. Lots of good stuff but boy do they hate modern art!
• CGFA. Site of fine art jpgs maintained as a public service by Carol L. Gerten-Jackson.
• Colored Pencil Society of America [CPSA.org]
• Impressionniste.net (English version). 'Impressionist painting remains the most attractive period in the history of modern art and the most appreciated by the public . Series of exhibitions, an abundant literature and record sales give evidence of today's extraordinary resonance of works of the Impressionist painters, of which a number are engraved on our artistic conscience. At their time, Impressionist works appeared to be so outrageously modern, that it took their contemporaries more than thirty years to finally admit them - if not to like them -.'
• Insecula.com. 'Insecula: L'encyclopédie des arts et de l'architecture is a French language art website containing images and descriptions of thousands of works of art from major museums and collections in France and elsewhere, including the Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay, the Palace of Versailles, the Centre Pompidou, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the MOMA.'
• Musee-Rodin.fr.
• The Art Millenium. 'The Encyclopedia was founded in May 1999. It contains more than 15,000 pictures and overviews of about 1000 artists. Total size is 2.5 Gigabytes. The Encyclopedia contains no external links.'
• The Vincent van Gogh Gallery [vanGoghGallery.com]. 'I'm proud to say that I have the privilege of displaying 100% of Vincent van Gogh's works and letters--a complete, online catalogue raisonné of Van Gogh's oeuvre. As you explore these pages, you'll see the culmination of thousands of hours of work. But that's just the beginning'
• Gallery.euroweb.hu/welcome.html. ' The Web Gallery of Art contains over 11,600 digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures created between the years 1150 and 1800. '

Maps

• Atlas
  • Go.HRW.com. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston educational materials.
    • World Atlas
    • US States Resources
  • WorldAtlas.com
• Driving
  • About.com's Geography section
  • MapQuest.com.
  • Maps.com.
  • Maps.Google.com
    • Wow! Wicked cool. Dynamic interactive searchable maps.
    • I like the keyboard shortcuts too: Arrow keys, page up/down, home/end, +/-.
  • Maps.Yahoo.com.
  • Zip2.com.
• Miscellany
  • Census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer-tbl. Enter a US address or zip code and it returns some census info as well as latitude and longitude.
  • GeoCode.com. They make US postal and GPS software.
    • Test Drive Eagle. Enter a US address and it returns postal information as well as latitude and longitude.
  • Maporama.com. An international mapper. Also provides latitude and longitude.
  • MapSuperstore.com.
  • MapTech.com. Map software including topological, marine, and aeronautical.
  • NationalAtlas.gov. Lots of printable and interactive maps.
  • NationalGeographic.com. The best magazine in the whole world!
    • Map Machine by the National Geographic. Nice geography tool. Includes quick links to the CIA World Factbook.
    • Maps
  • USPS.com/ncsc/lookups/lookups.htm. US Postal Service's Zip Code lookup.
  • www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Slatlong.htm.
    • North of the equator is positive degrees latitude (λ, lambda, lower case Greek L). West of the old Royal Astronomical Observatory in Greenwich, England, i.e. the prime meridian, is negative degrees longitude (φ, phi, lower case Greek F).
    • The site esp. discusses the astronomical equivalent of earth based latitude and longitude: right ascension and declination.
  • ZIP Code Visualizer by Ben Fry [applet]. This is so cool! Click on the map of the US, and start typing in a zip code. It will highlight the zip codes covered until you get to the full zip code.

Urban Legends

• Museum of Hoaxes [MuseumOfHoaxes.com]
• Snopes.com. Find out the truth behind many urban legends.
• UrbanLegends.About.com.  Exploring urban legends.

Miscellany

• AMOnline.net.au. Australian Museum Online.
• ASL Browser. 'Welcome to Michigan State University's ASL Browser web site, an online American Sign Language (ASL) browser where you can look up video of thousands of ASL signs and learn interesting things about them.'
• Archive.org.
  • 'The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) public nonprofit that was founded to build an 'Internet library,' with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.'
  • Their most famous feature is their Wayback Machine" Essentially you search to see if they've archived the contents of an URL and a time period that you specify.
• Astronautix.com. Encyclopedia Astronautica.
• BehindTheName.com. The etymology and history of names.
• Biography.com.
• CIA.gov
  • Publications
    • Chiefs of State
    • World Factbook
• CountryStudies.us
• Courtesy Flush. Etiquette for some earthy things.
• KnowX.com. Access to public records.
• StudentCenter.org. ' the online community for teens and college students. '
• UselessKnowledge.com. Trivia, Quotes, Quizzes, History, Useless Facts and More!
• USPS.com/ncsc/lookups/. Zip code and address look up.
• WikiTravel.org. A wiki-based travel guide.

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