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Almanacs    Atlas    Business/Consumers    Calendars   Clip Art  Conversions    Dictionary/Thesaurus     email Hoaxes    Encyclopedias
Government Info      Legislative Info    Newspapers    
Parliamentary Procedures    Quotations  Street Maps   Telephone/Address            Texas Handbook    Time   Translation     Zip Codes

Almanacs
 http://www.infoplease.com/almanacs.html    Information Please Almanac - Sports, people, U.S. society, and business...

http://almanac.com     Old Farmer's Almanac - Tide and sunrise tables, planting charts, recipes, a day in history, and weather

 

Atlas
http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/     National Geographic Map Machine - Political, physical, and virtual Earth maps

http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer      U.S. Gazetteer -  Search for a map by name or zip code

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html     Wolrld Factbook 2007 - Reference maps, flags of the world

 
http://www.consumersearch.com/index.html      Consumer Search - Named the best expert product review site on the Internet by PC World.

http://www.ipl.org/div/aon     Associations on the Net - From the Internet Public Library -Professional and trade associations, cultural and art organizations, political parties, advocacy groups, labor unions...

http://www.chamber-of-commerce.com/    Chamber of Commerce International Directory -   Search for Chambers of Commerce or Cities-States-Provinces around the world

http://www.kbb.com/     Kelly Blue Book -  Buying guide for cars and motorcycles

http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/      Federal Citizens Information Center -  Free online consumer information

 

Calendars
http://www.iasl-slo.org/today.html     Internet Resources for This Day... -  Numerous links to sites that can tell you what happened on any particular day in history.

http://www.smart.net/~mmontes/ushols.html     American Secular Holidays

http://www.calendarzone.com/     Calendar Zone - "Celestial Calendars, Cultural & Religious Calendars, Holidays, Millennium Info, Calendar Reform, Today Calendars, Web & Interactive Calendars, Y2K, also Calendar Information, Resources, Indexes & Directories, Calendar Software."

 

Clip Art
You must cite (give credit) for each image or picture you obtain from the web or scan from a book and use in your class projects. 

How to cite an image or picture:
Artist if available. "Description or title of image." Date of image.
     Online image. Title oflarger site. Date of download. .
Example:
Smith, Greg. "Rhesus Monkeys in the Zoo." No date.
     Online image. Monkey Picture Gallery. 3 May 2003.
     http://monkeys.online.org/rhesus.jpg.

http://www.pics4learning.com/     Pics4Learning.com - friendly images for education

http://www.sxc.hu/     Stock.exchng - Over 100,000 photos  "Whether you just want to browse our huge image gallery or want to share your personal photos with others, this is the site for you!"

http://classroomclipart.com/     Classroom Clipart - A Source for Free Clip Art, Pictures and Illustrations

 

Conversions
http://www.digitaldutch.com/unitconverter     Unit converter - Converts Area, Bits & Bytes, Density, Energy, Force, Length, Mass, Power, Pressure, Speed, Temperature, Volume

http://convertit.com/Go/ConvertIt/     Convert it.com -   Measurement conversion, Currency Exchange Rates, World Time Zones, Calculators

http://www.xe.com/ucc/     Universal Currency Converter -  Rates updated each minute

http://www.wolinskyweb.net/measure.htm     Measure 4 Measure - "A collection of interactive sites on the Web that estimate, calculate, evaluate, translate, etc..."

 

Dictionary/Thesaurus
 http://www.bartleby.com/62/      Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/index.jsp     Enter a word and view synonyms in either 2-D or 3-d motion

http://www.wordsmyth.net/     Wordsmyth: the educational dictionary-Thesaurus

http://www.yourdictionary.com/     Your Dictionary.com - free dictionary and thesaurus

http://www.wordorigins.org/     Word Origins - Information about where words in the English language come from

http://www.acronymfinder.com/     Acronym Finder

http://www.rhymezone.com/     RhymeZone - Rhyming dictionary and thesaurus

http://www.symbols.com/     Symbols.com- Signs and ideograms.

http://www.pdictionary.com/about.html     The Internet Picture Dictionary is a completely free, online multilingual picture dictionary designed especially for ESL students and beginning English, French, German, Spanish and Italian language learners of all ages.

http://deafness.about.com/cs/signfeats2/a/signdictionary.htm      Sign Language Dictionaries -

Links to several online sign language dictionaries.

http://www.netlingo.com/inframes.cfm      "NetLingo is an online dictionary about the Internet. It contains thousands of words and definitions that describe the technology and community of the World Wide Web."

 


email Hoaxes

http://www.breakthechain.org/     "Though frequently forwarded with good intentions, e-mail chain letters spread lies and half-truths and too often serve as a substitute to personal interaction.  To break the chain of junk e-mail we must each think critically and question everything. This site helps you do just that."

http://www.truthorfiction.com/     "Check out rumors, inspirational stories, virus warnings, humorous tales, pleas for help, urban legends, prayer requests and calls to action to see if they are TRUTH! or FICTION! "

Encylcopedias
http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/start.htm     Encyclopedia Smithsonian

http://concise.britannica.com/      Britannica Concise - "Britannica Concise is a complete, 28,000 article, single-volume encyclopedia..."

 http://encarta.msn.com/artcenter_0/Encyclopedia_Articles.html#tcsel     Encarta Encyclopedia

Government Info
http://www.usa.gov/

Legislative
http://thomas.loc.gov/    Thomas-Library of Congress - In the spirit of Thomas Jefferson, legislative information from the Library of Congress

http://www.vote-smart.org/index.htm     Project Vote Smart - "Described by the New York Times as 'one of the most comprehensive campaign information sites on the web' and by the Philadelphia Inquirer as 'spectacular' for gathering in one place the information any intelligent voter needs."

http://www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm     State and Local Government on the Net

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm      Search fo your Senator & Contact Information

http://www.house.gov/writerep/   Search for your House Representative & Contact Info
 
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/  Today's Front pages from around the world
 
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/    Fort Worth Star Telegram

http://www.dallasnews.com/localnews/     Dallas Morning News

http://www.time.com/time/     Time in partnership with CNN

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/     New York Times Learning Network

http://www.weather.com/index.html     The Weather Channel

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/default.asp?page=2     Newseum - front pages of newspapers from over 50 countries

 

Parliamentary Procedures
http://www.constitution.org/rror/rror--00.htm     Robert's Rules of Order

Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/100/     Bartlette's Familiar Quotations

http://www.quotationspage.com/     the Quotations Page

http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/ref63.00.00/     Links to 16 quotation websites (Scientific quotes, movie quotes, math quotes...

http://www.heartquotes.net/     HeartQuotes - search by catagory

http://www.thinkexist.com/
 

Street Maps
http://www.mapquest.com/     Mapquest

http://maps.yahoo.com/index.php     Yahoo maps

 

Telephone/Addresses
http://www.allareacodes.com/     Look up telephone area or country codes. Enter a code and see what place comes up or enter a city, state, or country and see what code comes up.

http://www.superpages.com/     Listings for businesses in the United States. You can search by business name, location, and/or category. Listings include address, phone number, and a street map showing the business' location.

http://arlingtontx.areaconnect.com/     Arlington, Texas yellow pages

 

Texas Handbooks
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/

 

Time
http://www.time.gov/

 

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Zip Codes
http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp

 

Last Modified on April 2, 2012