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    1. 1001 Best Internet Tips - PC Magazine
    2. 1001 Best Web Sites - PC Magazine
    3. 1001 Best Free Downloads - PC Magazine
    4. 1-800 Toll Free Numbers - AT&T
    5. 1996 CIA World Factbook - current, in-depth data on every country in the world
    6. 1996 Statistical Abstract of the United States - one-stop source for statistical information about the U.S
    7. Acronym and Abbreviation Server
    8. APlus Research & Writing for High School and College Students
    9. Airlines on the Web
    10. All-in-one Cool Sites Page
    11. Altapedia Online
    12. AMTRAK on the Web
    13. American School Directory - database of Web pages for each of the 106,000 K-12 schools in the U.S.
    14. American Universities
    15. Anatomy - 3-D color images of the human body from Colorado State University
    16. Ancestry Genealogy Library - search over 52 million names
    17. Annals of Improbable Research
    18. Anyday - Find out birthdays, death dates, and special events that happened any day of the year
    19. Area Code / Country Code Look-up
    20. Argus Clearinghouse - the premier Internet search library
    21. Ask an Expert
    22. Ask Jeeves - site allows you to enter plain English questions, to which Jeeves serves up suggested web pages.
    23. Astrodienst Atlas Database - atlas and timezone database which returns coordinates based on place-name.
    24. ATM Locator
    25. Atlapedia Online
    26. Atomic Clock - U.S. Naval Observatory
    27. Banking and Trading
    28. Bank Rate Monitor
    29. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - passages, phrases and proverbs traced to their sources
    30. Berkeley Public Library's Index to the Internet - an extensive, classified guide to Internet resources from this California library
    31. Better Homes & Gardens Home Improvement Encyclopedia
    32. Biographical Dictionary - contains biographical information on over 18,000 people from ancient times to the present day
    33. BigBook - a Yellow Pages with all the business information that consumers need
    34. BigFoot - the Internet's largest collection of e-mail addresses and white page listings.
    35. BigYellow - find over 16 million business listings
    36. Biography.com - searchable database of 15,000 names from A & E Television
    37. BookWire - the first place to look for book information
    38. Books On-line: Authors - an indispensable A to Z index cataloging online texts with authors ranging from Aeschylus to Yeats
    39. Browser.com - c|net - download the latest versions of the leading browsers
    40. BrowserWatch - latest news about and links to the latest versions of all the known Web browsers
    41. Calendar - perpetual calendar
    42. CalendarLand
    43. Card Games - Rules and Related Information
    44. CDC Travel Information - Health-related travel advisories, vaccine recommendations, and much more.
    45. Census Bureau Data Maps
    46. CHORUS - A quick reference hypertext for physicians and med students
    47. Citing Electronic Resources in Bibliographies
    48. Clearinhouse of Subject-Oriented Research Guides
    49. College and University Home Page- Worldwide
    50. Company Profiles - information on over 45,000 leading public and private companies in the U.S.
    51. Constitutions, Statutes & Codes (including the full US Code)
    52. Consulates and Embassies - Yahoo
    53. Consumer Price Index
    54. Contacting the Congress - comprehensive contact information for members and committees of the U.S. Congress.
    55. Conversion Tables
    56. Convert It! - Excellent site to convert anything to anything
    57. Country Library
    58. CultureFinder - The Online Address for the Performing Arts
    59. Currency Converter - view any exchange rates among the 164 currencies for any day since 1 January 1990 through today. The currency converter is updated daily at 8:00 p.m. EST
    60. Currency Exchange Rates
    61. CyberAtlas
    62. Cyberguide - sites focused on galleries and museums, the arts, design and photography, culture, history and science.
    63. Date and Time Gateway
    64. DejaNews
    65. Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) Summaries - online summaries of the DDC 21st edition schedules
    66. Driving Directions
    67. Douglass - Archives of American Public Address
    68. Earthquake Information from the USGS - daily and weekly quake reports, geophysical information on earthquakes, and other background information.
    69. EDGAR - WhoWhere - EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering Analysis And Retrieval) is a service of the United States Securities Exchange Commission (SEC)
    70. E-mail Addresses - Find over 7 million e-mail addresses from around the world
    71. Electronic Library
    72. Electronic Newsstand, The - the ultimate magazine site
    73. Elements of Style - William Strunk's classic on proper English usage
    74. Email Search
    75. ETEXT Archives, The - links to 'zines, complete books in electronic form, underground digests, mailing lists, and more.
    76. Ethnologue - Languages of the World
    77. Eurocall World Directories - yellow and white pages from Europe.
    78. European Rail Fares & Schedule Information - utility for finding train fares and schedules for hundreds of cities in Europe.
    79. Fare Tracker - Get the best air fare
    80. FAQ Finder
    81. FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
    82. FedEx
    83. FedNet
    84. Fedstats: One Stop Shopping Federal Statistics - statistics and information from more than 70 federal agencies.
    85. Filez - devoted to searching FTP and Web sites for computer files
    86. Find Art
    87. Find Java Applets
    88. FindLaw - Excellent one-stop source for legal information
    89. FindOut - New York Times - a personalized research help desk
    90. FindOut - research service - free answers via email to first 100 questions
    91. Flags of all Countries
    92. Flyte Trax - In-Flight Tracking - track commercial aircraft in flight over the continental United States.
    93. Fodors - 'Your smart choice for travel'
    94. Forum One - the Web's search engine for online forums
    95. Free Internet Encyclopedia
    96. Frequently Occurring Names in America - from the Census Bureau
    97. Fundamental Physical Constants
    98. GamesDomain - games, games, games, games
    99. Genealogy Home Page
    100. Geologic Time
    101. Global Yellow Pages, The - a collection of phone directories from around the world.
    102. Government Information Sharing Project - collected links to government data including economics, demographics, education, 1990 census, USA counties, School District Data Book, and more.
    103. Government Listings - InfoSpace
    104. Great Books of Western Civilization, The - From Mercer University, modeled after the course of study at St John's College, with links to the text of the Great Books
    105. Harper's Index - statistics that may surprise you.
    106. Health A to Z
    107. Healthfinder - Just about everything to be found on the Internet to do with health is here
    108. Home Improvement Encyclopedia, The
    109. Hoover's Online - information on more than 10,000 of the largest public and private companies in the US and around the world.
    110. Hospital Locator, The
    111. How Far Is It?
    112. Human Anatomy Online - over one hundred illustrations of the human body with animations and thousands of descriptive links.
    113. Human-Languages Page - best language links on the Internet
    114. HYTELNET on the World Wide Web
    115. Imageseek
    116. Image Surfer - Yahoo!
    117. Information & Referral Resource Network, The - lists agencies throughout the United States that provide a wide variety of human services to the public.
    118. Infomine - resources of relevance to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level
    119. International Calling Information - Instructions and codes for dialing 'round the world....
    120. International Data Base - is a computerized data bank containing statistical tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for all countries of the world.
    121. International Directories - International inquiry names, addresses, telephones and faxes.
    122. International Marine Signal Flags - reference site that explains the signal flags and the semiphore flag waving system
    123. International Telephone Directories - Find anyone anywhere in the world. All the white and yellow pages telephone directories available on the web.
    124. International White and Yellow Pages - a collection of phone directories from around the world.
    125. Internet Cafe Guide
    126. Internet Classics Archive, The - provides 184 classical works by 17 different authors
    127. Internet Department of Motor Vehicles
    128. Internet Movie Database - over 1 million filmographies, and information on more than 300,000 actors and actresses.
    129. Internet Public Library
    130. iTools! - Internet Tools
    131. Jane's Information Group - weaponry catalogue
    132. Kelley Blue Book - new and used car pricing
    133. Knowledge Adventure Encyclopedia - A good, concise reference work
    134. Knowledge Source, The
    135. Largest Known Primes
    136. Learn2.com
    137. LegalDocs - Do your own legal papers
    138. Library of Congress Home Page
    139. LibWeb - over 1428 pages from libraries in 62 countries.
    140. Licence Plates of the World
    141. LookSmart
    142. Martindale's Reference Desk
    143. MapQuest!
    144. Measurements Converter - friendly JavaScript interface converts length, weight, area, speed, temperature and more, into different units and unit systems.
    145. MedicineNet
    146. Megasources
    147. Mensa Home Page, The
    148. Merck Manual
    149. MetaCrawler
    150. MoneyClub.com - "The First Stop to Finance on the Net"
    151. Money Daily - enhanced HTML version of Money Daily
    152. Morse Code Translator
    153. Movie Review Query Engine
    154. Museum of Modern Art
    155. My Facts Page - 21 reference categories
    156. My Virtual Encyclopedia - 41 subject categories
    157. National Address Server - input any U.S. address without its zip code and the server will return the zip + 4 code.
    158. NetClock - the TVGuide of the Internet
    159. NetPhone Search
    160. New York Times Books - includes the complete Sunday Book Review, daily book related news and reviews, a searchable archive of over 50,000 New York Times Book Reviews, and more.
    161. Nine Planets, The - a multimedia tour of the solar system with pictures, text, sound and references to other Net resources.
    162. Nobel Prizes - Comprehensive historical list of winners in all categories
    163. Notable Citizens of Planet Earth
    164. NOVA Reference Shelf
    165. Occupational Outlook Handbook - reference tool used to research job information and trends
    166. Old Farmer's Almanac
    167. Online Calculator
    168. Online English Grammar - hypertext guide to the parts of speech, words, and their usage
    169. OneLook Dictionaries - over 640,000 words in 109 dictionaries
    170. Passport Services
    171. Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
    172. Periodic Table - WebElements
    173. Perseus Project, The - detailed searchable library of texts, translations, art and archaeology of Ancient Greece and Rome.
    174. Personal Home Pages
    175. Peterson's Guide to Colleges - information on undergraduate and graduate education in the US
    176. Planet Earth World Numbers - a master list of links to area codes, dates, calendars, population, counters and other such number-related sites.
    177. Price Watch - Street Price Search Engine
    178. Product ReviewNet - dozens of reviews from technical and popular magazines for everything from camping equipment to the latest rear-projection TV
    179. Progress of Nations, The - "The nations of the world ranked according to their achievements in child health, nutrition, education, family planning and progress for women."
    180. Project Gutenburg - 'Fine literature digitally re-published'
    181. PubMed - provides free access to Medline
    182. Pulitzer Prize Web Site
    183. Purdue Univ. Online Writing Lab - over 100 handouts available on all aspects of writing correctly
    184. Random House Dictionary
    185. Random Number Generator
    186. Ready Reference Using the Internet
    187. Reference.com - searchable directories of newsgroups and mailing lists
    188. Reporters Network, The - directory of reporters, editors, freelance writers and other news professionals
    189. Research-It! - collection of online research tools. Search dictionaries, translate words, find quotations and more.
    190. ResearchPaper.com
    191. Reverse Lookup - supply an area code and phone number, and get the name & address of the person associated
    192. Railroad Timetables on the Internet
    193. Roget's Internet Thesaurus - find words relating in six main classes
    194. Rulers - Large listing of heads of state
    195. RxList - the Internet Drug Index
    196. Sallie Mae Financial Aid Calculators - Estimate your college costs
    197. Scholarly Journals Distributed Via the World Wide Web - University of Houston Libraries
    198. Semaphore Flag Signalling System
    199. Shakespeare - The Complete Works
    200. Shareware.com - the way to find shareware on the Internet; over 200,000 listings
    201. Simplifined Rules of Order - simplified version of Robert's Rules of Order, the standards for conducting meetings
    202. Snoopie - the Internet's most comprehensive file search
    203. Social Security Death Index Search - 50 million records on tap from the Social Security Administration.
    204. State and Local Government on the Net - guide to government sponsored sites.
    205. Statistical Abstract of the United States
    206. Study WEB - comprehensive index that categorizes and reviews over 15,000 educational and reference Web sites
    207. Subway Navigator - find routes in subway systems in various cities around the world.
    208. Sunrise/Sunset Computation - Type in a city name and find out times for sunrise, sunset, and more
    209. Swiss Bank Dormant Accounts Web Site - includes the list of accounts and information on how to file a claim.
    210. SwitchBoard - find any person or business listed in the phone book
    211. Taglines Galore!
    212. Telephone Directories On The Web - comprehensive current index of telephone books, yellow pages, white pages, fax, residential and business listings, alphabetic and classified directories from all around
    213. Telephone Search
    214. theTRIP.com - all things travel
    215. TIGER Mapping Service - to provide a public resource for generating high-quality, detailed maps of anywhere in the United States, using public geographic data
    216. Time Around the World - all of the world's countries, and many of its islands, with a pointer to the local time in the region.
    217. Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet