Best of the Web: Reference

Includes a summary of the units of measurement used worldwide, a table of conversion factors, definitions of international standard units, and a powerful conversion tool.

Tremendous resource featuring maps of every corner of the globe. Nicely organized and easy to use.

Comprehensive database of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms.

Airwise is an airport and air travel guide. You can check on flight arrivals and departures and find out the layout of national and international airports. In addition, there are some travel resources such as a currency converter and ATM locators.

A treasure trove of full-text primary sources spanning 500 years of American History. Speeches, treaties, Supreme Court decisions, declarations of war, and other key documents are arranged chronologically in a simple list, making it easy to find the primary source you need.

Calculates the date and day of the week for secular holidays celebrated in the U.S. for any year after 1776.

A network of national service programs offering volunteer opportunities to meet critical needs in education, public safety, health, and the environment.

Political weekly from Ireland.

A searchable directory of associations.

A collection of hypertexted primary documents relevant to law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy, and government.

Yale University's Project Avalon makes available in digital format full text documents in the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. This phenomenal resource includes documents as varied as the ancient Code of Hammurabi, the Communist Manifesto, and the Treaty of Versailles.

This is a custom made program that displays information from the Social Security Administration in a dynamic visual graph form. It requires a Java enabled browser to work.

Provides information on over 100 financial products including mortgages, credit cards, automobile loans, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, checking and ATM fees, home equity loans and online banking fees.

Find the best place to live with bestplaces.net. This site provides city profiles, cost of living and salary calculators, climate, crime, and school statistics. Additionally, there is a quiz to help you determine, which city is most suitable for you.

Multilingual biographical resource.

Comprehensive listings of award-winning books as well as links to book lists prepared by authorities in dozens of fields.

Provides links to free government sites along with some important non-government sites which permit searching for public records.

Although this hypertext edition is taken from the 1898 edition of the book, many of the phrases and fables we encounter today will appear in this classic source. The text is easily searched by keywords.

Hypertext version links relevant points in the text to other authoritative Web resources.

Comprehensive source for geographical, celestial, historic, event, and other calendars.

Enter a type of food into the calculator and it will determine the number of calories in a serving.

List of Canadian newspapers organized by region and maintained by the News Division volunteers of the Special Libraries Association.

News from New York's CBS television station.

The CSPI is a nonprofit education organization, which seeks to improve the "safety and nutritional quality of our food supply." This site contains a link to their monthly newsletter entitled Nutrition Action Healthletter.

Searchable for the past 7 days.

This website from nyc.gov provides the user with detailed information about restaurants and wireless Internet hot spots, as well as detailed images of neighborhoods, and subway locations. An excellent resource with a vast amount of information.

The latest news, with text, audio and video.

Simple lists of the mathematical notations for orders of magnitude, metric prefixes and common U.S. and metric equivalents.

Independent federal regulatory agency dealing with product safety and recalls, public education and research. Find reports on everything from lead paint and toys to microwave ovens and in-line skates.

Seeks to investigate, inform, and improve the quality of information published on the World Wide Web.

Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports, is an independent, nonprofit testing and information organization which provides unbiased advice about products and services, personal finance, health and nutrition, and other consumer concerns.

Copyright basics, forms, Freedom of Information Act requests, copyright law, international copyright. Also, the CORDS project for electronic copyright registration and recordation. Search Copyright Office records from 1978-present available via LOCIS (Library of Congress Information System).

Online tutorial on copyright.

This site tracks whether famous people are still alive or whether they have passed away.

German news in German.

This website focuses on more recent quotes. It also has a search function, and a comprehensive table of contents.

Dictionary.com is a multi-source dictionary search service that also provides links to a thesaurus, encyclopedia and web search service.

Information on a range of topics, such as crafts, gardening, hobbies, woodworking, and living.

Provides consumer electronics information through product reviews, buying advice, and price comparisons of home and car electronics.

Spain's news in Castilian and Catalan.

Examines specific programs and people historic moments and trends histories of major television networks and broadcasting systems around the world and special topics. Sponsored by the Museum of Broadcast Communications.

Latest sports news from this cable network's site.

Features rules on card games, board games, sports, etiquette, kids games, and TV game shows.

A virtual zoo with hundreds of animal photographs.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration provides information for consumers about vaccines, prescription drugs, over-the-counter drugs, recalls, buying medicines online, buying outside the U.S., and a variety of other topics.