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A guide to references on the Internet: The essentials and more

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Abbreviations

The World Almanac for Kids http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/

US Area Codes

Canadian Area Codes

Country Abbreviations - Internet/Domains - http://www.crayne.com/country.html

http://www.greenbuilder.com/general/countries.html

Country Abbreviations - Olympic - http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa081800b.htm

Country Abbreviations - Inter American Telcommunication Commission
http://www.citel.oas.org/country_abbr.asp

Acronyms

Acronym Finder - http://www.acronymfinder.com/ "A searchable database containing common acronyms and abbreviations about all subjects, with a focus on computers, technology, telecommunications, and the military".

Acronymns in Aging http://research.aarp.org/general/acronyms.pdf

Acronyms and Abbreviations Search http://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/acronym

Acronyms for Health Information Resources http://www.geocities.com/~mlshams/acronym/acr.htm

Acronyms Used in the Computer Community http://www.freewarehof.org/acronyms.html

Akronyme/Acronyms Search

Astronomy and NASA Acronyms
NASA space and astronomy acronyms. Presented by About.com

BABEL
- a glossary of computer-oriented abbreviations and acronyms

BioAbacus
"A searchable database of abbreviations and acronyms in Biotechnology that contains terms in such categories as: Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Computers and Internet, Diseases, Grants, Journals, Laboratories, Medicine, Molecular Biology/Genetics, Neuroscience, Other Organizations, Professional Societies and U.S Government."

Department of Defense & Information Technology Acronyms
Acronyms used by the Department of Defense and in Information Technology research and communication. Complied by Lon R. Dean, Data & Analysis Center for Software.

Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms in Geographic Information Systems, Cartography, and Remote Sensing
From the University of Califorina, Berkeley Library.

Glossary of Military Terms, Phrases, Abbreviations, Slang

Jane's Internet Defence Glossary
20,000 defence-related acronyms and abbreviations.

Military Acronyms and Abbreviations

Pharma-Lexicon
A medical abbreviations dictionary and medical terms dictionary.

Stands4.com
Thousands of definitions for acronyms and abbreviations searchable and arrranged by categories.

StarBits
"Database of abbreviations, acronyms, contractions, symbols, and so on providing, expansions/meanings for about 120,000 entries."

U.S.Government Acronyms and Abbreviations
The list reproduces Appendix A: Commonly Used Abbreviations and Acronyms, from the 2002-2003 United States Government Manual. From the University of Washington School of Law Library.

United States Government Acronyms and Abbreviations
"A handy list of acronyms and abbreviations commonly used in United States Government. Where possible, links to related agencies, offices or related information are provided."

World Wide Web Acronym and Abbreviation Server

ASCII Table (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) http://www.asciitable.com/

Biographies

Books and information, free access to : http://www.bartleby.com/

Business

http://www.inc.com/home/

search SEC filings http://www.freeedgar.com/

Gary Price's list of the list http://www.specialissues.com/lol/

"The Scannery is an investor focused search engine that covers the websites of more than 20,000 public companies in over 65 countries, and growing... " http://www.thescannery.com/

http://www.b2byellowpages.com/

http://www.thomasnet.com/index.html

Business Law -

http://www.gigalaw.com/

http://www.sba.gov/library/lawroom.html

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Celsius to Fahrenheit and vice versa - the formula

Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal

Country Codes from ISO 3166-1 - two and three letter abbreviations - ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/doc/iso/iso3166-countrycodes.txt

http://www.spc.org.nc/coastfish/Asides/trigraphs.htm

Country and County Codes - British Isles -- http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/Regions/Codes.html

Conversions to U.S. Clothing Sizes

Conversions, more: http://www.allconversions.com/

Corruption - is being monitored worldwide by http://www.transparency.org/ . If you'd like to know what countries/governments/administrations are the most corrupt.

Computing

Tech Support: Computing Net : http://www.computing.net/

Windows Tips Search Engine finds information for you from more than a dozen sources of reliable, trusted expertise.
http://www.briansbuzz.com/search/

Dictionary -- http://www.webopedia.com/

Domain country codes -- http://www.cknow.com/ckinfo/domaincodes.htm

SlySoft -- AnyDVD - software to crack dvds that are protected

Note: RHT does not condone illegal activities

Dictionaries: Diccionario de la Real Academia Espanola (RAE) online

http://www.rae.es/

http://www.es.educaterra.com

www.yourDictionary.com

The site will return
links to all the creditable dictionaries, glossaries and word lists
available on the Web, along with ways of building vocabularies,
studying grammar and practicing spoken and written languages.

Education

Eurybase - The database on education systems in Europe -

www.Encyclopedia.com

Encyclopedia.com provides visitors with more than 57,000 frequently
updated articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.

Weather Encyclopedia http://www.weather.com/encyclopedia/index.html

Merriam Webster Dictionary & Thesaurus

Everlasting Calender 1801 to 2200

Federal Holidays (USA)

first aid

Multilingual Glossary of technical and popular medical terms in nine
European Languages

Grassroots movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns.

http://www.freecycle.org/

Government agencies

http://www.firstgov.gov/

http://www.searchgov.com/

How-to Solutions - More Than 15,000

http://www.ehow.com/

http://www.howstuffworks.com/

Do it yourself - http://www.diynet.com/

The DEEP Internet

http://www.invisible-web.net/

http://www.researchbuzz.org/

http://lii.org/

http://www.freepint.com/gary/direct.htm

infomine - 139,847 Academically Valuable Resources - http://infomine.ucr.edu/

http://aip.completeplanet.com/

http://turbo10.com/cgi-bin/showdeepnet.cgi

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http://www.geektools.com/whois.php

http://www.betterwhois.com/

http://www.allwhois.com/

http://ww2.arin.net/whois/

http://www.iana.org/

http://www.virtualchase.com/quality/alert.html

How to find (out about) people

http://www.docusearch.com/free.html

Look for a street address at: InfoSpace and 411 Locate. They offer reverse phone number lookup and e-mail address searching. Other sites are AnyWho, Search.com, and Freeality.

Use Meta E-Mail Search Agent for hunting down e-mail addresses.

Search Systems offers public records from every state, including court records.

Political contributors in your neighborhood free at Fundrace.org (free)

Unclaimed-property report : National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators (free)

Death record report: Social Security Death Index. (free)

Satellite photo of a home ImageAtlas (free)

ClassMates.com

People finding: http://www.cotse.net/privacy/people.htm

White Pages

Germany: http://www.teleauskunft.de/

Swiss: http://tel.search.ch/

Austria: http://www.herold.at/

Canada http://www.whitepages.ca/

International Calling Codes : http://www.the-acr.com/codes/cntrycd.htm

The TRUE Stella Awards -- Opportunists vs. the American Justice System - http://www.stellaawards.com/

Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch -- http://www.mlaw.org/

Libraries

Literature

Languages

The MapMachine http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/ax/atlas_mapframe.html

World Maps http://www.graphicmaps.com/aatlas/moremaps.htm

Medicine

Merck Manual - http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual_home2/home.jsp

http://www.mayoclinic.com/

Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - http://www.fda.gov/cder/orange/default.htm

News Search

Search 59000 News Sites, Weblogs and RSS feeds for Current Events and Breaking News

http://www.daypop.com/

Find articles (looksmart) -- http://articles.findarticles.com/?tb=art

Opinion-Pages
"The best access to the most current editorials, opinions, commentaries and columnists from English newspapers and magazines on the World Wide Web" http://www.opinion-pages.org/