Acronym Dictionary

Ask Jeeves
(Ask Jeeves has been created to use the knowledge of a team of real human researchers. So using Ask Jeeves is like having the world's most knowledgeable Internet librarian at your side.)

Awesome Library for Teachers, Students and Parents
(The Awesome Library organizes your exploration of the World Wide Web with 10,000 carefully reviewed resources.   It includes a directory, an index, and a search engine.)

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
(The collection ends with the 19th Century.)

CIA Fact Book
(Facts, photos and other information about every country in the world.)

  Cliché Finder
(Enter any words in the form provided, and this search engine will return any clichés which use that phrase.)

The British Library's Online Information Server

Encyclopedia Britannica Online
(From school reports and academic research to everyday questions and curiosities, Britannica Online is the place to start when you need to know. Seven day trial offer to full access of their site.)

Encyclopedia Encarta Online, Microsoft
(The abridged online version of Encarta Encyclopedia.    Contains 16,000 articles; more than 2200 photos, illustrations, maps, charts, and tables; and more than 13,000 Web links.)

E-Text and E-Books, The Info Service
(On Line books and texts, sorted for easy research.   The site has 34,258 Links - 380 Pages.)

Grolier Online's The American Presidency
(Grolier Online is pleased to present The American Presidency, an exclusive history of presidents, the presidency, politics and related subjects.)

  Old Farmer's Almanac

Research-it!

Rhyming Dictionary

Roget's Thesaurus

Searchable Shakespeare

Smithsonian Institution

Study Web
(This site is exactly what it says it is -- a place for anyone doing research to find the information they need as easily as possible. The categories are sorted according to the approximate appropriate grade level which makes them valuable tools for teachers looking for lesson plan and curriculum ideas.)

The Quotations Page
(Over 1,000 humorous quotations)

Virtual Reference Desk

Webster's Dictionary Services

Why Files
(The Why Files, a web site about the science behind the headline.  Its goal is to uncover the scientific issues in current events, and to serve as a research platform for how people learn about science on the World Wide Web.)

Women In American History
(Britannica Online presents a special multimedia exhibit on women in American history, featuring biographies, interactive timelines, Internet resources, and more.)

World Data
(Country-by-country information.)

WWW Virtual Library
(Directory of the Virtual Library, an expert-run catalog of sections of the web.)