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Please Almanac:
Brief facts on many topics, searchable by subject or
keyword.
InfoPlease -This Day in History:
Significant events by date, searchable by month,
date, and year.
Automotive
Chilton Automotive Repair Database: Step-by-step
procedures, photos, wiring diagrams, troubleshooting
guides and spec tables can be accessed. A password
is required which can be obtained from a librarian.
Biography.com
Wisconsin History:
The dictionary gives brief lives of more than 2,000 famous Wisconsin
people (and many not so famous).
Biographical Dictionary:
This biographical dictionary covering
28,000+ personalities has advanced search
capabilities.
Virtual Reference-Science & Technology- Biographical
Sources:
A directory of
biographical information about scientists and
mathematicians.
Calorie And Fat Gram Chart For 1000 Foods:
Includes fat, calorie, and cholesterol counts
for common foods.
Fast Food
Facts:
For fast food products.
Financial Planning Toolkit: Financial Calculators:
Calculators for loan rates, mortgages, refinancing
comparisons, amortization, debt consolidation, and
more.
The
Inflation Calculator
What is a Dollar Worth?
MegaConverter2
Calendar
Zone:
Links to hundreds of calendars, including
celestial, event, cultural, daily, and interactive.
Virtual
Perpetual Calendars:
Includes calendars for every year in the 20th and
21st centuries, as well as holiday dates, leap year
information, and more.
TimeandDate.com:
Offers a variety of calendars and clocks for
reference or personal use.
World
Time Server:
See current time and deviation from GMT for all
countries and many large cities.
Flags of the World:
Each country's flag is pictured in color, with a
description of the significance of the colors and
symbols, and a brief history.
Nationmaster.com:
NationMaster is a central data source to graphically
compare facts about nations.
Nations of the World
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Provides links to each country's
constitution and selected legal guides along with
access to the executive, legislative, and judicial
branches of government.
Library of
Congress American Historical Information:
Profiles of books on American politics, arts,
culture, architecture, etc..
FSI Language Courses: This
site is dedicated to making these language courses
freely available in an electronic format. These
courses were developed by the United States
government and are in the public domain.
Acronym
Finder
Bartleby.com:
Find quotations, poetry, English language
style and usage, thesauri, encyclopedias and much
more in this comprehensive reference resource.
Merriam Webster's
Dictionary:
This easy-to-use dictionary includes multiple
meanings (including British usage), as well as etymology and pronunciation of words.
On-line
Medical Dictionary
Quotations:
"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
Wordsmyth:
A dictionary/thesaurus with exceptional searching
capabilities for hard-to-spell or frequently
misspelled words and over 50,000 entries.
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.
American
Rhetoric:
This site is a valuable resource for finding some of
the most famous -- and infamous -- speeches ever
made.
Language Maker:
Fun site for language conlangs, neologisms, babel
texts and neographies.
Banished
Word List: Words and Phrases Banished from the
Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General
Uselessness.
Encyclopedia
Britannica:
Links to Encyclopedia Britannica articles and
similar web sites, by general category or specific
search topic.
The Knot:
Wedding etiquette.
Getting Through Customs:
International customs for business travel.
Comcourse
GED program:
The
Comcourse's GED
program is available for free for students
seeking to enter college. The system provides a complete course of study
in all of the subject areas. It is self-paced and requires only an
Internet connection. It is open to anyone.
Eldercare Planning / Long Term
Care:
Contained here are 34
in-depth chapters, totaling over 690 printable
pages, from 9 experts and covering all areas of
long-term care planning, or as it's more commonly
called, elder care planning.
National Archives Footnote:
For genealogists,
history buffs, and even the average Web passerby,
Footnote is working with the National Archives to
digitize and upload every document it houses. You
will find anything from handwritten notes from the
Continental Congress to Project Blue Book UFO
sightings.
Wisconsin
Department of Justice (DOJ):
This resource is designed to assist you with
information covering all aspects of the role of the
Department – from legal services to consumer help
for seniors to crime prevention and law enforcement
services, victims rights and environmental
enforcement.
Wisconsin
Court System for the Public:
Wisconsin Court System designed this web site
for use by people representing themselves in
divorce/separation, complaints against judges,
complaints against interpreters, lawyer regulation,
and more.
Maps & Locators
Google Street Maps:
Physical and geographic country maps.
Atlapedia
Online:
Physical and geographic country maps, complete
with statistics and factoids.
How Far Is
It?:
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.
MapQuest!:
Interactive street atlases of the continental United
States gives you mileage, door-to-door or
city-to-city, and street maps with driving
directions.
National Atlas:
Create your own maps based on information such as
agricultural production, crime, geographic features,
population, and more.
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection:
Historical, countries and world.
TerraServer-USA:
Free public access to a vast data store of maps and
aerial photographs of the United States."
Topozone:
Every USGS topographic 1:100,000, 1:25,000, and
1:24,000 scale map for the entire United States.
Topographic Map Symbols:
Help in interpreting the maps.
United
States Geography:
USGS geographers monitor the changes on the land
surface by observing the Earth
with remote
sensing satellites, studying the connections between
people and those changes with careful geographic
analysis, and providing society with relevant
science information they can use to manage the
consequences of those changes.
Google Earth:
Google Earth puts
a planet's worth of imagery and other geographic information. Free program that must be downloaded but worth the effort.
High speed internet access and a monitor resolution
of at least 1024 by 768 is needed.
Wisconsin State Government:
Links to Wisconsin State offices, public
services, state facts and more.
50 States and
Capitals:
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:
Links to official state and city web pages in
the U.S. and several European countries.
Sperling's Best Places:
Compare over 3,000 U.S. cities in housing, costs of
living, crime, education, economy, health and
climate.
Townhunter:
Compare over facts about U.S. cities.
United States 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.
Consumer Price Index:
Get the most current CPI press release, or look at
an overview of CPIs from 1913-present.
Demographic Services Center:
(WI Dept. of Administration) Links to Wisconsin
demographics, including
WisStat.
Wisconsin Labor Market Information:
Access statistics about the Wisconsin work force,
including the county snapshots,
County Workforce Profiles of Wisconsin.
Wisconsin
Office of Economic Advisors:
The Office assists economic data users to better
understand the relationships between labor markets
and other economic and demographic specifics.
FedStats:
Statistics from 70 U.S. government agencies,
searchable by keyword and agency.
United States
Census Bureau:
Searchable site with many statistics for the
U.S., including the
State and Metropolitan Data Book
and the
Fact Finder. 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.
U.S. State Fact Sheets:
Basic and agricultural statistics on every state in
the U.S., compiled by the Economic Research Service
of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Wisconsin Blue Book:
The Blue Book contains facts and statistics on
Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Health Statistics:
Statistics on Cancer, Health Care Providers, Health
Surveys, Health Insurance, Population, and Vital
Statistics (Births, Deaths, Marriages, Divorces,
Life Expectancy).
Big Charts:
Provides interactive charts for stocks and mutual
funds, as well as current and historical quotes.
Quote.com:
Thorough and detailed quote coverage.
Altavista's Babelfish translator
Free
Translation
WorldLingo
(Translation, Localization, Globalization)
Symbols.com:
Common symbols from a variety of cultures are
searchable by graphic element or meaning.
Weather Forecasts and History
National Weather Service
Point Forecast
National Weather Service
Radar Image
Historical Climate Summaries:
(Midwest Regional Climate Center)
Historical highs, lows, and precipitation records
from weather stations around the Midwest.
National Weather Service
Telecommunication Service Center
Wisconsin
State Climatology Office
Wisconsin Road Conditions:
From the Dept. of Transportation. Not updated during
the summer.
Wisconsin Construction and Detours
Agribiz Weather:
Agricultural weather at worldwide locations.
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