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Quick Facts
- Encyclopedias
- Dictionaries
- Thesauri
- Bartlett’s Quotations
- Calculators & Converters
- Calendars & Time
- Almanacs & Factual Reference
- Phone Directories
Encyclopedias
Nearly 51,000 encyclopedia articles with more than 80,000 hypertext cross-references.
Dictionaries
A database of acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms.
Provides a free, searchable on-line dictionary and thesaurus, word games, a word of the day, and many other English language and vocabulary reference tools and resources.
More than 5 million words in more than 900 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook® search engine.
Thesauri
Lexical FreeNet Connected Thesaurus
Search for relationships between words, concepts, and people. Provides a thesaurus, rhyming dictionary, pun generator, and concept navigator.
Search the headwords or full text of Roget's Thesaurus for synonyms and antonyms.
Find synonyms and antonyms
Bartlett's Quotations
A collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature.
Calculators & Converters
You have free access to online calculators to help you solve problems and answer questions in the home, office, and school. There are calculators for finance, business, and science. There are ones for cooking, hobbies, and health. Some solve problems, some satisfy curiosity, and some just for fun. All put the answer easily within your reach.
Over 8,100 Conversions and Calculators.
Perform exchange rate conversion on the Internet.
Calendars & Time
Sunrise, Sunset, Moonrise, Moonset, and Twilight
Provides data on the sun, the moon, time, solar and lunar calendars and historical events, computation of astronomical phenomena, and other topics.
A guide to time zones, calendars, world clocks, and more.
A link to virtual perpetual calendars, milleniums and centuries, and holidays in the U.S. and Canada.
Almanacs and Factual Reference
A wealth of basic information about most of the countries in the world.
Facts on thousands of subjects including sports, entertainment, technology, business, education, and health.
Authoritative, in-depth information that focuses on a wide range of categories about nations and other areas of the world. When completed, the project will include all the nations of the world. The links have been selected by Library of Congress Area Specialists and other Library staff.
Presents data from the most recent edition of the U.S. Statistical Abstract back to historical abstracts.
Statistical Resources on the Web
Provides statistics for categories from Agriculture through Weather. Includes up-to-date coverage of issues under "What's New".
Phone Directories
Very usable - has white and yellow pages for the U.S. as well as Reverse Lookup (find who called when you only have the number), for personal and business numbers.
Index to Telephone Directories on the Web
This is the Internet's original and most complete index of online phone books, with over 400 links to Yellow Pages, White Pages, Business Directories, Email Addresses and Fax Listings from over 170 countries all around the world.
Yellow pages, white pages, maps, & more.
Includes millions of U.S. and Canadian White and Yellow Pages listings, e-mail addresses, links to international directories and over half a million Web sites and enhanced listings for local businesses.
