Almanacs | Associations & Non-Profit Groups | Biographies | Calculation and Measurement | Calendars/Time Zones | Countries | Dictionaries/Language | Encyclopedias | Etiquette | Maps and Locators | States and Cities | Statistics and Profiles | Stock Quotes | Telephone/Address/Email | Weather Almanacs Daily Almanacs - http://www.dailyalmanacs.com What happened on your birthday? This site lists birth and death dates of famous people, events, holidays, and occurrences for every day of the year, organized in chronological order. Information Please Almanac - http://www.infoplease.com Brief facts on many topics, searchable by subject or keyword. Associations & Non-Profit Groups Biographies Biography.com - http://www.biography.com/search/index.html Dead People Server - http://dpsinfo.com/ Lives, the Biography Resource - http://amillionlives.com/ Biographical Dictionary - http://www.s9.com/biography/ This biographical dictionary covering 28,000+ personalities has advanced search capabilities, but offers brief descriptive information rather than a full biography. Cambridge Biographical Dictionary - http://www.biography.com Part of the History Channel, this site offers a paragraph of information on over 20,000 important people. Presidents of the United States - http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/ Research your favorite President on the Internet. WWW Virtual Library for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine’s Biographical Sources - http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/hstm/hstm_bio.htm A directory of biographical information about scientists and mathematicians available on the Internet. Calculation & Measurement Amortization Table - http://realestate.yahoo.com/realestate/calculators/amortization.html Calculate monthly loan payments and total interest. Calorie And Fat Gram Chart For 1000 Foods - http://www.ntwrks.com/~mikev/chart1a.htm Includes fat, calorie, and cholesterol counts for common foods. For fast food products, check out Fast Food Facts. The Inflation Calculator - http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ What is a Dollar Worth? - http://woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us/research/data/us/calc/ MegaConverter2 - http://www.megaConverter.com/mega2 Convert It! - http://www.microimg.com/science/ At MegaConverter2, select “Mega Converters” from drop-down menu on left-hand side. Convert length, time, distance, weights and measures, wind chill and more. For the less adventurous, Convert It! converts acceleration, area, energy/work, fluid/liquid, length/distance, mass, metrology, pressure, power, or volume/capacity, and is easier to use. OANDA Currency Converter - http://www.oanda.com/converter/classic At this site you can easily convert between any of 164 currencies. Temperature Conversion Calculator - http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/ChemResources/temperature.html Convert temperatures between Celsius, Fahrenheit, Kelvin, Réamur, and rankine. Calendars/Time Zones Calendar Zone - http://www.calendarzone.com Links to hundreds of calendars, including celestial, event, cultural, daily, and interactive. Virtual Perpetual Calendars - http://www.vpcalendar.net Includes calendars for every year in the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as holiday dates, leap year information, and more. TimeandDate.com - http://www.timeanddate.com Offers a variety of calendars and clocks for reference or personal use. World Time Server - http://www.worldtimeserver.com/ See current time and deviation from GMT for all countries and many large cities Countries Economist.com Country Briefings - http://www.economist.com/countries Country Briefings section provides news, profiles, forecasts and statistics on 60 major countries. Main focus is on detailing the political and economic structures of each country. Flags of the World - http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/ Each country’s flag is pictured in color, with a description of the significance of the colors and symbols, and a brief history. Portals To The World - http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html Offers selected links to over 50 countries. Chosen by LOC subject specialists, the project plans to have a webpage for each country in the world by 2003. World Factbook - http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html U.S. government profiles on countries, complete with small map and picture of flag. World Time Server - http://www.worldtimeserver.com/ See current time and deviation from GMT for all countries and many large cities Dictionaries/Language Acronym Finder - http://www.acronymfinder.com/ ARTFL Project: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 Edition - http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/webster.form.html Though this is an older edition, it is exceptionally thorough and gives examples of word usage. American Sign Language Dictionary Online - http://dww.deafworldweb.org/asl/ The Glossarist - http://www.glossarist.com/ Topical dictionaries and glossaries for many different subjects. Merriam Webster’s Dictionary - http://www.m-w.com/ This easy-to-use dictionary includes multiple meanings (including British usage), as well as entymology and pronunciation of words. On-line Medical Dictionary - http://www.graylab.ac.uk/omd Quotations - http://www.bartleby.com/index.html "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 - http://www.thesaurus.com Translators Altavista's Babelfish translator - http://world.altavista.com/ Babelfish - http://www.babelfish.com/Translations.shtml Free Translation - http://www.freetranslation.com Symbols.com - http://www.SYMBOLS.com Common symbols from a variety of cultures are searchable by graphic element or meaning. Wordsmyth - http://www.wordsmyth.net/ A dictionary/thesaurus with exceptional searching capabilities for hard-to-spell or frequently misspelled words and over 50,000 entries. YourDictionary.com - http://www.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. Formerly known as A Web of Online Dictionaries. Encyclopedias Encyberpedia: The Living Encyclopedia - http://www.encyberpedia.com/cyberlinks/links/index.html A voluminous listing of online encyclopedias Encyclopaedia Britannica - http://www.britannica.com Links to Encyclopaedia Britannica articles and similar web sites, by general category or specific search topic. Encyclopedia.Com - http://www.encyclopedia.com Brief information from the Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia (3rd ed.) is supplemented with several cross-references to photographs and text at selected additonal sites. A to Z Encyclopedia - http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/worldbook/ Powered by World Book Online for DiscoverySchool.com, this encyclopedia includes World Book-like articles in three general subjects - geography, history, and science. The search feature does not work. Etiquette The Knot - http://www.theknot.com/k_ETIQUETTE.shtml - (wedding etiquette) Getting Through Customs - http://www.getcustoms.com/omnibus.html (international customs for business travel) Maps & Locators Atlapedia Online - http://www.atlapedia.com/ Physical and geographic country maps, complete with statistics and factoids.  How Far Is It? - http://www.indo.com/distance/ 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. For driving mileage between two cities, try MapQuest or MapsOnUs Maps on Us - http://www.mapsonus.com/ MapQuest! - http://www.mapquest.com/ These free, interactive street atlases of the continental United States gives you mileage, door-to-door or city-to-city, and street maps with driving directions. Also has trip planning information. National Atlas - http://www.nationalatlas.gov/atlasvue.html With a little patience, you can creat your own maps based on information such as agricultural production, crime, geographic features, population, and more. The program requires Netscape 4+ or Microsoft Internet Explorer 4+ with frames enabled. Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html Find world maps, historical maps, and political, topographical, and economic maps. Topozone - http://www.topozone.com/ Every USGS topographic 1:100,000, 1:25,000, and 1:24,000 scale map for the entire United States. If you need help interpreting the maps, try Topographic Map Symbols  from the USGS. Topographic maps are also available at Trails.com. States and Cities 50 States and Capitals - http://www.50states.com 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 - http://www.officialcitysites.org/ Links to official state and city web pages in the U.S. and several European countries. United States Gazetteer - http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/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. Statistics & Profiles Consumer Price Index - http://stats.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm Get the most current CPI press release, or look at an overview of CPIs from 1913-present. Wisconsin Labor Market Information - http://www.dwd.state.wi.us/lmi/ Access statistics about the Wisconsin work force, including the county snapshots, County Workforce Profiles of Wisconsin. FedStats - http://www.fedstats.gov Statistics from 70 U.S. government agencies, searchable by keyword and agency. For an idea of what this site covers, check the A to Z key. Many files require Adobe Acrobat. U.S. State Fact Sheets - http://www.ers.usda.gov/epubs/other/usfact/ Basic and agricultural statistics on every state in the U.S., compiled by the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. United States Census Bureau - http://www.census.gov Searchable site with many statistics for the U.S., including the State and Metropolitan Data Book and the Statistical Abstract. 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. University of Michigan Documents Center’s Statistical Resources on the Web - http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/stats.html Provides links to many of the same sources as the U.S. Census Bureau and FedStats, but links are grouped on the main page by category, and include other non-government sources for statistics. Wisconsin Blue Book - http://www.legis.state.wi.us/lrb/bb/index.html The Blue Book contains facts and statistics on Wisconsin, presented in Adobe Acrobat files. Demographic Services Center (WI Dept. of Administration) - http://www.doa.state.wi.us/ Links to Wisconsin demographics, including WisStat. Wisconsin Health Statistics - http://www.dhfs.state.wi.us/stats/ Statistics on Cancer, Health Care Providers, Health Surveys, Health Insurance, Population, and Vital Statistics (Births, Deaths, Marriages, Divorces, Life Expectancy). Stock Quotes Big Charts - http://www.bigcharts.com Provides interactive charts for stocks and mutual funds, as well as current and historical quotes. Quote.com - http://www.quote.com/quotecom/ Thorough and detailed quote coverage. Thompson Real-Time Quotes - http://www.thompsonrtq.com Free real time quotes. Telephone/Address/Email Weather Forecasts and History Agribiz Weather - http://www.agribiz.com/weather/wthrfram.html National Weather Service - http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/graphicsversion/bigmain.html Weather Channel - http://www.weather.com/ Weather Underground  - http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/ Includes daily historic weather records, Weather Cams, radar and satellite imagery, and other maps.  Wisconsin Road Conditions - http://www.dot.state.wi.us/dsp/roadcond/current.html From the Dept. of Transportation. Not updated during the summer. A listing of construction and detours is also available.  Wisconsin Weather History - http://mcc.sws.uiuc.edu/Summary/Wisconsin.html Highs, lows, and precipitation records from weather stations around the state