A-Z of Useful Web Sites for Quick Reference

 

Although all of these sites have been picked for their longevity as well as their usefulness, sites DO move or get updated from time to time. Some sites may require Adobe shockwave to be viewed properly. I have attempted to use only sites with freely available content, however this is not always possible, so a * indicates that registration (Free) may be required, or that some parts of the site may be fee based. Updated and checked January 2009

 

A

About.com. Useful for ALL general research.    http://www.about.com/

Abramoff, Jack

        Q&A    http://www.alldc.org/abramoff_qa.htm

        Special Report on Jack Abramoff    http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/20305

      

Academic

        Academic Costume & Ceremony Guide   http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Search&template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=10625

        Academic Info. Quality sites for college research .http://www.academicinfo.net/

        Advanced Placement Report to the Nation 2005    http://www.apcentral.collegeboard.com/article/0,3045,149-0-0-41919,00.html

        EBooks Academic Scholarship from U.C. Press Online academic texts.

        http://escholarship.cdlib.org/ucpress/ 

        EdPubs, Free from the US Dept. of Education. 

                    http://www.edpubs.org/webstore/Content/search.asp

        Educator's Reference Desk  (AskEric/EDUREF)   http://www.eduref.org/

        Gateway to Educational Materials    http://thegateway.org/

        National Academies Press -Read Books free online   http://www.nap.edu/

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

        Pinakes: a Subject Launchpad   http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html

        Standards for Success    http://s4s.org/

        Study Guides and Strategies   http://www.studygs.net/index.htm

        University Policy Handbook Index    http://www.campus-adr.org/Staff_Admin_Building/searchpolicies.html

 

Acme Products Illustrated Catalog        http://home.nc.rr.com/tuco/looney/acme/acme.html

Acronyms

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

   

Ad-Aware (a free Windows program that scans your computer for spyware that hackers and marketers use to track your Internet movements)

            http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/

Addiction Search. Addictions & treatment.        http://addictionsearch.com/addictionsearch

Addresses   SEE Directories

Advanced Placement Report to the Nation 2005    http://www.apcentral.collegeboard.com/article/0,3045,149-0-0-41919,00.html

 

Adoption

            International Adoption http://travel.state.gov/family/adoption/adoption_485.html

            Safely Surrendered Baby Law    http://www.babysafe.ca.gov/

Advertising  

            50 Years of Coca Cola Television Advertising  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ccmphtml/   

             Ad Access. 7,000 advertisements that appeared in US newspapers and magazines 

             between 1911 and 1955.                                 http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/

            Ad Flip. Print ads going back to 1940.               http://www.adflip.com/

            This Advertising Century 1900 - 1999  http://adage.com/century

AerialPhoto Sites

            Chicago: Aerial Views   http://www.revealingchicago.org/

             GlobeXplorer    http://www.globeexplorer.com/

             Terra server    http://terraserver-usa.com/

 Aerospace

            Aerospace Web           http://www.aerospaceweb.org/         

Aesop's Fables Online   http://www.mythfolklore.net/aesopica/   

Afghanistan Studies       http://www.academicinfo.net/afghan.html 

Africa     

            Africa Focus. Images & sounds.           http://africafocus.library.wisc.edu/

            African Ceremonies: Photos of Sacred Rituals in Tribal Cultures    http://www.africanceremonies.com/

            African Debt Relief   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4081220.stm

            African Music Encyclopedia    http://www.africanmusic.org/

            African Studies Internet Resources   http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/

            All Africa – African news information plus article archive by topic and region

                        http://www.allafrica.com/

            Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art            http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/inscribing/index2.html

            Congo (Special report following the March 2004 coup attempt)  http://www.guardian.co.uk/congo/

            Echoes of Africa (Musical Instruments)     http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/features/africa/

            Eternal Egypt   http://www.eternalegypt.org/EternalEgyptWebsiteWeb/HomeServlet

            Museum of Africa Dispora    http://www.moadsf.org/

            Music and Dance of Africa     http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/music.html

            PlantZAfrica (Plants of Southern Africa)    http://www.plantzafrica.com/

            Zimbabwe on the Internet    http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/zim.html

 

African Americans      SEE ALSO Ethnic Groups

African American History Month    http://boxer.senate.gov/bhm/index.cfm Also  http://www.loc.gov/topics/africanamericans/

African American Pamphet Collection, 1824-1909. "From Slavery to Freedom"

                                                            http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml

            African Americans in the Sciences Biographies  http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/faces.html

            African-American Popular Fiction Writers    http://www.ocpl.lib.ny.us/website/reading/african_american.htm

            African- American Odyssey     http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html

            Althea Gibson (Tennis) http://www.altheagibson.com

            Black Culture & History - Guide to the Web    http://www.lib.unc.edu/stone/webguide/

            Black History Hotlist    http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/bh_hotlist.html

            Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed     http://blackpast.org/

            Black Press USA  http://www.blackpressusa.com/

            Black Studies Resources    http://origin.admin.ccny.cuny.edu/library/blacks.html

            CORE Congress for Racial Equality   http://www.core-online.org/history/history%20opening.htm

            Cycles: African Life Through Art    http://www.ima-art.org/cycles/

            Freedmen's Bureau Online    http://freedmensbureau.com/

           Greensboro Sitins: Launch of Civil Rights   http://www.sitins.com/index.shtml

            Hall of Black Achievement   http://www.bridgew.edu/HOBA/gallery.htm

            Heart & Soul: African American Music    http://www2.worldbook.com/features/aamusic/html/intro.htm

History of Jim Crow     http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/history/history.htm

JavaNoir   http://www.javanoir.net

Minority Links   http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/afamhot1.html  

Moments in Black History                     http://www.momentsinblackhistory.com

North American Slave Narratives    http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/nehmain.html

Underground Railroad   http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/

Aged

             AARP Research Center           http://research.aarp.org/index.html

            Aging Parents & Elder Care      http://www.aging-parents-and-elder-care.com/

AGRICULTURE

            Farm Bill 2007   http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usdafarmbill?navtype=SU&navid=FARM_BILL_FORUMS

            Farm Bill 2007: a California Perspective   http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/farmbill07/

AIDS

            AIDS at 25    http://www.kff.org/hivaids/aidsat25.cfm

            The Body: HIV/AIDS Resource  http://www.thebody.com/index.shtml 

            Spotlight AIDS    http://www.cdc.gov/HIV/spotlight.htm

Airport Codes

            Airport Codes: an explanation   http://www.skygod.com/asstd/abc.html

Airspace Classes

    US Airspace Classes   http://www.asy.faa.gov/safety_products/airspaceclass.htm

 

 Al Qaeda: Profile & Threat Assessment   http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/RS22049.pdf

Alcohol

         Alcohol: Problems & Solutions    http://www2.potsdam.edu/alcohol-info/

         Temperance and Prohibition    http://prohibition.osu.edu/

Algae  

    Algae Base    http://www.algaebase.org/

    Harmful Algae Page (Red Tide)  http://www.whoi.edu/redtide/

Algorithms, Dictionary of          http://www.nist.gov/dads/

Allergies

            National Allergy Bureau            http://www.aaaai.org/nab/        

Almanacs    

            Almanac of Policy Issues    http://www.policyalmanac.org/

            CIA World Factbook   http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

            Farmers Almanac    http://www.farmersalmanac.com/

            Information Please Almanac. http://www.infoplease.com/

            World Almanac            http://www.2facts.com/WA/WA-main.asp  

      

Alphabet      

Braille Alphabet            http://www.nbp.org/alph.html

Fingerspelling American Sign Language  http://www.duber.com/CALL/asl.html

Greek Alphabet            http://www.physlink.com/Reference/GreekAlphabet.cfm

Omniglot: guide to alphabets...    http://www.omniglot.com/

Phonetic Alphabet- as used by police,etc.

http://www.columbia.edu/~fuat/cuarc/phonetic.html

Sign Language Dictionary. ASL. 

        http://www.masterstech-home.com/ASLDict.html

Alternative Press

            Alternative Press Index. API.    http://www.altpress.org/

            AlterNet.(Alternative Media) An online magazine with independent coverage of issues.

                        http://www.alternet.org

Alzheimers Disease

            Alzheimers: Inside the Brain    http://www.alz.org/brain/  

Amber Plan (Missing Children)  http://www.missingkids.com/

America Under Attack. 120 newspaper front pages re: Sept. 11

             http://www.newseum.org/frontpages/              

American Authors                     http://www.americanwriters.org/

American Catholic. Position papers on Issues.    

            http://www.americancatholic.org/About/sitemap.asp

 

American Fact Finder               http://factfinder.census.gov/

AKC – American Kennel Club http://www.akc.org/index.cfm

Ameristat          http://www.ameristat.org/

American Indians   SEE Native Americans

 

American Revolution

American Revolutionary War   http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/4393/rev_war.html

Revolutionary War Hall  http://www.warmuseum.net/revolutionarywarhall/ 

 

American Sign Language

            ALS    http://www.lifeprint.com/index.htm

            American Sign Language  http://www.duber.com/CALL/asl.html

            American Sign Language Dictionary    

                http://www.masterstech-home.com/ASLDict.html

Amnesty International

            Amnesty International Reports 2008: State of the World’s Human Rights: Zimbabwe  http://thereport.amnesty.org/eng/Regions/Africa/Zimbabwe

Amnesty International USA: Racial Profiling   http://www.amnestyusa.org/racial_profiling/index.do

Anagrams

       Anagram Genius    http://www.anagramgenius.com/

        Internet Anagram Server http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/

Anatomy SEE Human Body

     

ANC (African National Congress)    http://www.anc.org.za/

Ancient World

             Ancient and Classic Cultureshttp://www.multcolib.org/homework/anchsthc.html

            Ancient Rome in 3D   http://earth.google.com/rome/index.html

            Ancient Routes   http://www.ancientroute.com/

            Ancient World Net.      http://www.julen.net/ancient

            Cleopatra: Multimedia Guide to the Ancient World    http://www.artic.edu/cleo/index.html

            Digital Roman Forum    http://dlib.etc.ucla.edu/projects/Forum/

            Egyptians    http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/

            Exploring Ancient World Cultures.        http://eawc.evansville.edu/

            Tutankhamen & the Golden Age of Pharaohs   http://www.kingtut.org/

 

Andersen, Hans Christian, Complete Tales  http://www.andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersholt/index_e.html

Anger Management

        Controlling Anger    http://www.apa.org/pubinfo/anger.html

         Stop Cyberbullying          http://stopcyberbullying.org/

Animals  SEE ALSO Pets, Nature, and Wildlife

      African Wildlife Photography    http://www.mcdcwain.freeserve.co.uk/

      Animal Diversity Web  http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/

      Animal Info - Rare, Threatened…   http://www.animalinfo.org/

      Animal Protection Institute API    http://www.api4animals.org/

      Animal Sound & Video Catalog (Cornell U.)   http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1010

      Animals/Wildlife   http://animals.about.com/            

      Arkive - data/images of endangered species    http://www.arkive.org/         

            California's Wildlifehttp://www.dfg.ca.gov/whdab/html/cawildlife.html

      Census of Marine Lifehttp://www.coml.org/coml.htm

      Enature Fieldguides   http://www.enature.com/        

      Encyclopedia of Life           http://www.eol.org/

      Endangered Species           http://endangered.fws.gov/wildlife.html

      ExZOOberance: Celebrating the Animal Kingdom    http://exzooberance.com

      Guide to the Animal Kingdom   http://www.biosis.org/free_resources/classifn/classifn.html

      Humane Society of America Animal Information Centers  http://www.hsus.org/ace/12104

      Invasive Species Information System    http://www.invasivespecies.gov/

      Merck Veterinary Manual 8th ed   

      North American Mammals    http://web4.si.edu/mna/

    Petscyclopedia   http://www.petsyclopedia.com/

     Primates on the Brink   http://www.iucn.org/themes/ssc/news/primates_on_the_brink.htm

     Rhinos: International Rhino Foundation   http://www.rhinos-irf.org/

Anime

       Librarian's Guide to Anime & Manga    http://www.koyagi.com/Libguide.html

        Manga University Drawing Tutorials    http://www.howtodrawmanga.com/tutorial.html

  

Annotated Bibliographies, How to prepare        http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/skill28.htm

Annual Reports

      Annual Report Service (Free Annual Reports)   http://www.annualreportservice.com/

      Annual Report Service   http://www.wilink.com/annualreportservice.htm

     CAROL Company Annual Reports Online (free registration required)  http://www.carolworld.com/

 

Ansel Adams (Manzanar)  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aamhtml

Anthems & Flags

Anthems   http://www.copcity.com/anthems/anthems.html

 

 

AOL Live8           http://music.channel.aol.com/live_8_concert/home

Appliance 411      http://www.appliance411.com/

Arab Culture, History...SEE ALSO Islam

                Arab Net        http://www.arab.net/

                Arab News    http://arabnews.com/  

Archaeology

            Archaeolink      http://www.archaeolink.com   

            Archaeology   http://www.cyberpursuits.com/archeo/

           ArchNet: Virtual Library of Archaeology   http://archnet.asu.edu/

Aria Database  http://www.aria-database.com/index2.html

Architecture    

            Architect Studio 3D   http://www.architectstudio3d.org/AS3d/

            Army Corps of Engineers Digital Library   http://images.usace.army.mil/main.html

Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online  http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/  

            Cities & Buildings Database    http://content.lib.washington.edu/cities/

            Cupolas of Capitalism : State Capitol Building Histories  http://www.cupola.com/html/bldgstru/statecap/cap01.htm

            Digital Archives of American Architecture  http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/contents.html

            Great Buildings Collection  http://www.greatbuildings.com/gbc/buildings.html

            History of Landscape Architecture    http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/histland.html

            Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture   http://www.moda.mdx.ac.uk/

            Paris Architecture History     http://www.parisnotes.com/architecture/parisbuildings.html

Skyscrapers.com          http://www.skyscrapers.com/   

Victorian Architecture    http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/archov.html

Worldview: perspectives on architecture and urbanism   http://www.worldviewcities.org/

Archives

           "Archive It" Web Archives for Libraries    http://www.archive-it.org/

            NARA on Google Video    http://video.google.com/nara.html

            US Archival databases. 50 million historical electronic records on a variety of topics.

                    http://www.archives.gov/aad

Arias SEE ALSO Opera

            Aria Database    http://www.aria-database.com/

Arms SEE Weapons

 

 

Art (See also under different art styles) 

        Aegean Art & Archeology    http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~ekondrat/aegean.html 

        AMICO Art Museum Image Consortium.  http://www.amico.org/

        Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online  http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/  

        Art History Resources      http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html

        Art Indexes (Biographies)   http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/fineart.htm

        Art Renewal Center                      http://www.artrenewal.org/

        Arts, Essays, and Ideas from German    http://www.signandsight.com/

        Artchive                           http://www.artchive.com/core.html

        ArtCyclopedia      http://www.artcyclopedia.com/index.html

        Ask Art. American Artists Bluebook        http://www.askart.com/

        Center for Latin American Studies Gallery    http://socrates.berkeley.edu:7001/Gallery/

        Coleccion Cisneros - Latin American Art  http://www.coleccioncisneros.org/

        Constable, John The Great Paintings     http://www.huntington.org/Information/constable.htm

        Design Space   http://thedesignspace.net/

        Drawing from Life    http://www.sil.si.edu/ondisplay/caricatures/

        The Fantastic in Art & Fiction    http://fantastic.library.cornell.edu/ .

       French & Italian Painting of the 18th Century    http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/french18.shtm

        Graphic Witness: visual arts & social commentary arranged by broad theme.  http://graphicwitness.org/ineye/index2.htm

        * Grove Art Dictionary     http://www.groveart.com/

        Illustrated Letters. Archives of American Art    http://www.aaa.si.edu/exhibits/exhibit-illustratedletters/index.cfm

        Illustrator Biographies.  http://www.bpib.com/illustra.htm    

        Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art    http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/inscribing/index2.html

        International Dada Archive    http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/

        "Jackson Pollock"     http://www.jacksonpollock.org/   

        Khronos Projector: video time-warping machine    http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/alvaro/Khronos/Khronos_Projector.htm

        M.C. Escher Official Website   http://www.mcescher.com/

        Magazine Cover Art of 19th & 20th Century          http://www.magazineart.org/     

        Mathematical Imagery    http://www.ams.org/mathimagery/           

        Metropolitan Museum of Art. Timeline of Art history.

                    http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm

       Mother of All Art History.  http://www.umich.edu/~hartspc/histart/mother

       Romantic Art & Archeology    http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~ekondrat/rome.html

       Stolen Works of Art          http://www.interpol.int/Public/WorkofArt/

       Tiffany, Louis C (Artist)   http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/Tiffany/index.html

       Timelines of Art History    http://www.art-and-archaeology.com/timelines/tl001.html

        Timelines of Art History   http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm?HomePageLink=toah_l

        Turner Prize (Tate Museum)    http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/2006/

        Undercover Artists’ Sketchbooks   http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/sketchbooks/

        Wet Canvas. Art School Online    http://www.wetcanvas.com/

        The Wooster Collective: a celebration of street art   http://woostercollective.com/

 

Art Deco

            Art Deco from the V&A Museum   http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1157_art_deco/

Arthritis

        Arthritis Society  http://www.arthritis.ca/custom%20home/default.asp?s=1 

 

Arts & Letters Daily (ideals, criticism, debate) http://www.aldaily.com/

Asbestos

            Environmental Working Group on Asbestos: Report.   http://www.ewg.org:16080/reports/asbestos/

Asian Americans  SEE ALSO  Ethnic Groups

             Ansel Adams (Manzanar)  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aamhtml

             Asian American Health    http://asianamericanhealth.nlm.nih.gov/

             Chinese-American Contribution to Transcontinental Railroad

                        http://cprr.org/Museum/Chinese.html  

             Densho: Japanese American Legacy Project  http://www.densho.org/

            Internment of Japanese Aemricans in Concentration Camps

                     http://www.udayton.edu/~race/02rights/intern01.htm  

            Japanese Tea Ceremony    http://www.teahyakka.com/

            KAWWW  Korean-American WWW Sites 

 http://www.duke.edu/~myhan/s-kawww.html

           Media Action Network for Asian Americans  http://www.manaa.org  

           PAIR Portal to Asian Internet Resources    http://webcat.library.wisc.edu:3200/PAIR/

           Separate Lives: the Chinese Exclusion Act         

                        http://www.naatanet.org/separatelivesbrokendreams/

 

Associations of the American Foreign Service    http://www.aafsw.org/

 

Associations on the Net    http://www.ipl.org/div/aon

 

Astronauts SEE ALSO Space Travel

          Encyclopedia Astronautica    http://www.astronautix.com/

 

Astronomy SEE ALSO Physical Sciences, Planets, Space & Space Travel

       The 9 Planets.  http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html

        2009 International Year of Astronomy      http://www.astronomy2009.org/

       AstronomyLinks.com   http://astronomylinks.com/index.htm  

       The Astronomy Net       http://www.astronomy.net  

       Astronomy Picture of the Day    http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

       Astrophotography    http://www.rc-astro.com/

       Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn & Titan               http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm

        Dark Matter Q&A    http://chandra.harvard.edu/resources/faq/dmatter/dmatter-main.html

       Digital Lunar Orbiter          www.lpi.usra.edu/research/lunar_orbiter/

       Encyclopedia Astronautica http://www.astronautix.com/

       Google Moon        http://www.google.com/moon/

       Great Images in NAS        Ahttp://grin.hq.nasa.gov/

       History of Astronomy        http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/hist_astr/ha_pers.html

       Mythology of the Constellations  http://www.emufarm.org/~cmbell/myth/myth.html

       Nine Planets          http://www.nineplanets.org/

       "Planemo" Twins - Double Planetary Mass    http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-29-06.html

       Sky Maps             www.stargazing.net/david/constel/allskymaps.html

       Views of the Solar System    http://www.solarviews.com/ss.html

       Windows to the Universe     http://www.windows.ucar.edu/

Atheists and Atheism

        Investigating Atheism   http://www.investigatingatheism.info/index.html

Athletes SEE ALSO Individual Names

        Fortunate 50 - top earning athletes    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/more/specials/fortunate50/

Atlases    

             Atlapedia Online                      http://www.atlapedia.com/

             Color Landform Atlas of USA http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html

             Online World Atlas      http://www.maps.com/reference/

             World Atlas.com         http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/world.htm

Audio SEE ALSO Speeches

        American Presidency Project     http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/media.php

        American Rhetoric  http://www.americanrhetoric.com/

        Animal Sound & Video Catalog (Cornell U.)   http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1010         

        Audio Ripping Software (EAC)      http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

        Center for Democratic Institutions Audio Archive   http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/csdi/index.html

        Douglass Archives of American Public Address  http://douglassarchives.org/

        Historical Voices   http://www.historicalvoices.org/

        History & Politics Out Loud   http://www.hpol.org/browse.html

        History Channel Great Speeches    http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/

        Librivox - free audio books in public domain  (can be downloaded to MP3)    http://www.librivox.org/

        Vincent Voice Library: US Presidents...   http://www.lib.msu.edu/vincent/presidents/index.htm

        White House Tapes: Presidential Recordings of 6  Presidents   http://www.whitehousetapes.org/

        Women's Speeches from Around the World   http://gos.sbc.edu/

 

Audubon's Birds of America   http://www.audubon.org/bird/BoA/BOA_index.html

Austen, Jane

    Critical essays    http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/austenbio.html

     Jane Austen’s World           http://www.freewebs.com/janeaustenworld/

     Jane Austen’s World           http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/

Australia

    The Dreamtime: Aboriginal Australian Art & Culture  http://www.dreamtime.net.au/dreaming/index.htm

Authors  See also Individual Author Names

          Author Interviews (Center for Book Culture)    http://www.centerforbookculture.org/interviews/index.html

          Author Pseudonyms    http://www.trussel.com/books/pseudo.htm

          Author Sites, Directory    http://www.addison.lib.il.us/6author.asp

          Authors on the Web    http://www.authorsontheweb.com/

          Authors Summer Reading lists

                http://www.authorsontheweb.com/features/summer03/index.asp

          Booknotes. Transcripts of author interviews   http://www.booknotes.org/

          Books A - Z Authors      http://www.booksatoz.com/authors.htm

          Books and Authors    http://www.booksandauthors.net/

          C Span American Writers           http://www.americanwriters.org/

          Great Writers                      http:// www.xs4all.nl/~pwessel/writers .html          

          The Literary Web              http://www.people.virginia.edu/~jbh/books.html             

          Native American Authors   http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/

          PAL Perspectives in American Literature. American Authors   

        http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/alpha.html    

          Powell's "From the Author"    http://www.powells.com/fromtheauthor

         Writers on America    http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/writers/

Automobiles   SEE Cars

 

 Avalanche Center    http://www.csac.org/

 

        Avain Influenza: Fact Sheet    http://www.who.int/csr/don/2004_01_15/en/

        Basic Information About Avian Influenza    http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/facts.htm

Avedon, Richard

        Avedon: The Sixties  http://pdngallery.com/legends/legends9/ 

        Richard Avedon  http://www.richardavedon.com/

       

Aviation

        Aviation Safety Data Analysis Center    http://www.nasdac.faa.gov/

        Aviation Sites    http://home.att.net/~jbaugher/aircraft.html

        Centennial of Flight    http://www.centennialofflight.gov/

 

 Avocados

            All About Avocados     http://whatscookingamerica.net/avacado.htm

 

B

Babies

    Baby Names    http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames

    Baby Names Finder   http://www.babycenter.com/babyname/

    Baby Name Wizard   http://babynamewizard.com/

    Safely Surrendered Baby Law    http://www.babysafe.ca.gov/

 

Banished Words List (Overused & Misused) http://www.lssu.edu/banished/

Banned Books

    Banned Books Online.      http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/banned-books.html

    Banned Books Week Handbook   http://www.abffe.org/banned.htm

Bartleby Books/Reference Online           http://www.bartleby.com  

Baseball

            Baseball Parks          http://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/

BBC

BBC Audio Interviews  http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/

BBC British Broadcasting Corporation    http://www.bbc.co.uk/

BBC On This Day   http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/

BBC Radio2 Songs   http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/soldonsong/

BBC Science    http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/hottopics/

UK TV Comedy Guide   http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/

Beaches

            Dangerous Beaches Mapping Project    http://geography.berkeley.edu/ProjectsResources/DangerousBeaches/DangerousBeaches

The Beats (Literary Movement)

            The Beats & Beyond: Counterculture Poetry 1950 – 1975    http://www.lib.unc.edu/rbc/beats_and_beyond/        

Beer

Real Beer History    http://www.realbeer.com

Bees

Bee Briefs   http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Mussen/beebriefs/

 

Beetles

           Beetle Science    http://explore.cornell.edu/scene.cfm?scene=Beetle%20Science

 

Best Sellers      

Best Sellers   http://www.top100bestsellers.com

Bestsellers UK Bookseller Magazine    http://www.thebookseller.com/?pid=2

Nielsen Bookscan (under construction)    http://www.nielsenbookscan.co.uk/index.html

USA Today Best Selling Books Database         http://asp.usatoday.com/life/books/booksdatabase/default.aspx

Bible.

Dore's Bible Gallery/Illustrations   http://clawww.lmu.edu/~fjust/Dore.htm

King James Bible.                     http://www.bartleby.com/108/

 

Bibliographies SEE ALSO MLA, APA

    Bibliographies Annotated, How to prepare    http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/skill28.htm

    MLA    http://www.mla.org/

    MLA Format Example    http://www.tarleton.edu/~library/document_mlabib_lh.html

    MLA Format Example    http://www.mbaker.com/library/mlaexample.html

Biodiversity Hotspots   http://www.biodiversityhotspots.org/xp/Hotspots

Bill of Rights   http://www.archives.gov/national_archives_experience/charters/bill_of_rights.html

Bioethics

            Bioethics Web  http://bioethicsweb.ac.uk/

Biography (See also Individual Names)

               Academy of Achievement      http://www.achievement.org/

               American Masters    http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/index.html

 *American National Biography ("Current Updates" only)          http://www.anb.org/ 

  Artist Indexes Biographies http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/fineart.htm

  BBC Audio Interviews            http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/

              BBC Historic Figures  http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/

  Biblical Characters

                            http://bible.crosswalk.com/Dictionaries/HitchcockBibleNames            

               Biographical Dictionary          http://s9.com/biography

               Biography Center   http://www.biography-center.com/

               Biography.com                      http://www.biography.com/

               Business Biographies http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0774560.html               

               Chiefs of State     http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/chiefs

               Classical Composers   http://www.classical.net/music/mstrindx.html

               Conversations with History    http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/

               First Ladies Gallery    http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/index.html

               Illustrator Biographies.  http://www.bpib.com/illustra.htm

               Lives                         http://amillionlives.com/

               Malaspina Great Ideas/Great Books page    http://www.malaspina.com/

               Math Biographies Index         http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/BiogIndex.html

   National Inventor’s Hall of Fame    http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/1_1_search.asp

   National Women’s Hall of Fame  http://www.greatwomen.org/

               POTUS (Presidents…United States) http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/

               Prominent Skeptics   http://www.skeptics.com.au/features/links/promskep.htm

               Rulers (Heads of State)   http://rulers.org/

               Scientific Biography   http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/

               Time Peron of the Year Archives  http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/archive/stories/index.html

   Voices from the Archives (Famous biographical profiles)

                            http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews                                   

               Who2 Famous People Fast    http://www.who2.com/

 

Biology   SEE ALSO Animals, Nature, and Zoology

            About Biotechnology    http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/

            Action Bioscience(Chosen by Scientific American Best Science Site of 2003)http://www.actionbioscience.org

            Bio-Interactive   http://www.biointeractive.org/

            BioLinks: Internet Resources for Biology Students   http://www.mnstate.edu/weibust/internetresbiostu.htm

            Biology Online  http://www.biology-online.org/

            The Biology Project (Arizona Univ.)   http://www.biology.arizona.edu/

            Biotech Adventure   http://biotech-adventure.okstate.edu/

            Bio-terrorism: a journalists guide to covering bio-terrorism [from the Radio & TV News     

            Directors Foundation]    56p.pdf file http://www.rtnda.org/resources/bioguide.pdf

            Encyclopedia of Life     http://www.eol.org/

            High School Hub Biology Guide  http://highschoolhub.org/hub/biology.cfm

            NBII National Biological Information Infrastructure    http://www.nbii.gov/

            UCMP Phylogeny Wing           http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/alllife/threedomains.html

            “Virgin Birth” Mammal…[article]   http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994909

Biometrics

        Biometric Consortium    http://www.biometrics.org/

        EFF Biometrics    http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/biometrics/

Birds

       All About Birds (Cornell U)   http://www.birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/

        Audubon's Birds of America   http://www.audubon.org/bird/BoA/BOA_index.html

        Bird Central    http://www.birdcentral.net/

        Bird IQ   http://www.birdiq.com/

        Bird Life International       http://www.birdlife.net/

        Bird Song/Sounds of N. America Guide http://sirismm.si.edu/testperl/nasongkey.pl

        Birding.com    http://www.birding.com/

        Birds        http://www.birds.cornell.edu/programs/allaboutbirds/

        California Birds in your Native Plant Garden   http://www.laspilitas.com/bird.htm

        California's Wildlife: Birds   http://www.dfg.ca.gov/whdab/html/lifehistbirds.html

        Life of Birds    http://www.pbs.org/lifeofbirds/

        Poultry Breeds   http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/poultry/

Black Mask http://www.blackmask.com/cgi-bin/newlinks/page.cgi?d=1  

Blair, Anthony

       Blair, Tony The Blair Years 1997 – 2007   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk_politics/2007/blair_years/default.stm

       The Blair Years    http://politics.guardian.co.uk/tonyblair/ 

Blinkx TV & Video Search    http://www.blinkx.tv/

Blogs/Web Logs

        ACRLogs    http://www.acrlblog.org/

        Blog Search Engine   http://www.blogsearchengine.com/

        Blogbib Articles/Interviews about Blogs/Blogging  http://blog-bib-articles.blogspot.com/  

        Blogspot    http://doc40.blogspot.com/

        Clusty Blog Search   http://clusty.com/

        Daypop    http://www.daypop.com/

        Research Blogs   http://huminf.uib.no/~jill/txt/researcgblogs.html

       Slashdot    http://slashdot.org/

        Tame the Web: Libraries and Technology    http://www.tametheweb.com/ttwblog/

Blood

        Red Gold (PBS)  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/redgold/

BMW Films     http://www.bmwfilms.com/clap.asp?template=international&country=&film=

Body SEE Human Body

Body Art (Tattoo, Piercing...)

    Body Art   http://www.amonline.net.au/bodyart/

Book Clubs

     Readerville Online Book Club    http://www.readerville.com/

Book Lists  

      101 Books Recommended for College- Bound Readers   http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/boost-your-skills/23628.html

      Access the Great Books (full Text)   http://www.anova.org/

       Book Finder, most sought after "out of print "titles http://report.bookfinder.com/ 

       BookList Center    http://home.comcast.net/~dwtaylor1/

       Great Books Index   http://books.mirror.org/

       Great Books Lists    http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/greatbks.html

       International Reading Association Book Lists http://www.reading.org/choices/

       Summer Reading Lists  http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr244.shtml  

       U.C. Berkeley Summer Reading List    http://reading.berkeley.edu/

       USA Today Best-Selling Books Database  http://asp.usatoday.com/life/books/booksdatabase/default.aspx

Books SEE ALSO Authors, E-Books, Graphic Novels, Literature

        4000 Years of Miniature Books  http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/miniatures/

        AbeBooks Book Related Glossary http://www.abebooks.com/docs/HelpCentral/Glossary/

        AddAll. Book Search & Price Comparison. Searches all major bookstores. http://www.addall.com/

        Aesop's Fables Online   http://www.mythfolklore.net/aesopica/   

        AllReaders.com Book Reviews  http://www.allreaders.com/

        Amazon Best Sellers    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/new-for-you/top-sellers/-/books/283155

        Arts & Letters Daily  http://www.aldaily.com/

        Banned Books Online    http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/banned-books.html

        Bartleby Online Reference Books http://www.bartleby.com/reference/

        Bartleby Great Books Online  http://www.bartleby.com/index.html

        BibliOdyssey (Book Illustrations)    http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/

        Bill Thompson's Eye on Books. Audio author interviews   http://www.eyeonbooks.com/

        Book Bytes   http://marylaine.com/bookbyte/index.html

        Book Reviews: Blogging for a Good Book    http://bfgb.wordpress.com/

        Book Trade Labels   http://sevenroads.org/Labels/G.html

        Booklists    http://www.carnegielibrary.org/locations/firstfloor/booklists/

        Booknotes   http://www.booknotes.org/home/index.asp

        California Center for the Book  http://www.calbook.org/

        Classic Reader. Free e-books, can annotate... http://www.classicreader.com/

        Digital Book Index 60,000 volumes   http://www/digitalbookindex.org/

        Electronic Books  http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/

        Fabulous Fiction  http://www.fabfiction.moonfruit.com/

        Free Book Notes. Free Cliffs Notes, summaries, and study guides   http://www.freebooknotes.com/

        Guardian Book News    http://books.guardian.co.uk/

        Juvenile Series and Sequels    http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/series/juv/

        Liam’s Pictures from Old Books   http://www.fromoldbooks.org/

        National Book Foundation   http://www.nationalbook.org/

        New York Times First Chapters (Free registration required)     http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/chapters/index.html

        Nostalgia: Books in High Demand    http://www.waterborolibrary.org/2006/08/nostalgia-books-in-high-demand_30.htm

        Opening Hooks: Literary Beginnings   http://www.openinghooks.us/

        Paperback Revolution   http://www.crcstudio.arts.ualberta.ca/paperbacks/

        Paper Cuts: Book blog   http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/

        Pictures from old Books    http://www.fromoldbooks.org/

        Pop-up & Moveable Books, History   http://www.library.unt.edu/rarebooks/exhibits/popup2/

        Preservation of Materials (Library of Congress)   http://www.loc.gov/preserv/

        Rave Reviews: Bestselling Fiction in America  http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/rave_reviews/

        Readers Read   http://www.readersread.com/

        Series and Sequels    http://www.lapl.org/resources/indexes/sequels.html

        Tech Books for Free   http://www.techbooksforfree.com/

        World Book Day   http://www.worldbookday.com/

        World of Books. Annotated Surveys of Noteworthy Books from Around the Globe. http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/int-world.html

Books: Rare, Used, Out-of-Print

        Abe Books  http://www.abebooks.com/

        Bibliofind (now combined with Amazon.com) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/books/misc/bibliofind.html/102-1016327-7611337

        Books A - Z  http://www.booksatoz.com/authors.htm

        BookSeller.com    http://www.thebookseller.com

        Fetch Book. Compares new/used prices from 110 stores http://www.fetchbook.info/

        Frugal Reader Book Swap  http://www.frugalreader.com/

        Paperback Swap   http://www.paperbackswap.com/

        Rare Book Room    http://www.rarebookroom.org/

Botany SEE Plants

 

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy aka BSE or Mad Cow Disease

    BSE or Mad Cow Disease  http://agr.wa.gov/FoodAnimal/AnimalFeed/BSE.htm

    BSE  http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/bse/references.htm

Bradbury, Ray   http://www.raybradbury.com/

 

Brain Facts    http://web.sfn.org/baw/pdf/brainfacts.pdf

 

Braille

        Braille Alphabet  http://www.nbp.org/

        Braille Bug  http://www.afb.org/braillebug/

        Braille Institute   http://www.brailleinstitute.org/

Brain, Human  http://www.fi.edu/brain/index.htm

Bridges

        Millau Bridge, France Tallest Bridge   http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4091813.stm

            Viaduct de Millau  http://bridgepros.com/projects/Millau_Viaduct/

 

Britain SEE United Kingdom

 

Broadway

        Internet Broadway Database  http://www.ibdb.com/

        Playbill Online  http://www.playbill.com/index.php

Brookings Policy Briefs   http://www.brookings.edu/comm/policybriefs/archive.htm

Bullies and Bullying

            Stop Cyberbullying       http://stopcyberbullying.org/

 

Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest   http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/

Bus Schedules/Maps

        City of Gardena Bus Schedules/ Maps   http://www.ci.gardena.ca.us/government/Transportation/Maps.asp

        City of Torrance Bus Schedules/Maps   http://www.torrnet.com/128.htm

        City of Los Angeles Metro Bus/Rail timetables  http://www.mta.net/riding_metro/riders_guide/planning_trip.htm

Business

        590+ Sample Business Letters   http://www.4hb.com/letters/

        American Customer Satisfaction Index   http://www.theacsi.org/      

        Annual Report Service (Free Annual Reports)   http://www.annualreportservice.com/

        Annual Report Service   http://www.wilink.com/annualreportservice.htm

        Bernanke (Federal Reserve Chair 2006-)   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4374786.stm

        Best Cities for Doing Business    http://www.inc.com/bestcities

        Best for Business (checklists, plans...)    http://www.bestforbusiness.com/Homepage.aspx?id=55

        Bloomberg   http://www.bloomberg.com/

        Bullying in the Workplace  http://www.safety-council.org/info/OSH/bullies.html

        Business Case Studies  http://www.wbs.ac.za/ Also  http://www2.hec.ca/en/casecentre/

        Business.com Business Search Engine   http://www.business.com/

        Business Dictionary   http://www.businessdictionary.com/

        Business Dynamics Statistics   http://www.ces.census.gov/index.php/bds/

        Business 2.0   http://www.business2.com/b2/webguide

        Business Letters Overview   http://writing.colostate.edu/references/documents/bletter/

        Business Plan Center  http://www.businessplans.org/

        Business Planet   http://rru.worldbank.org/businessplanet/?

        California Business Portal    http://www.ss.ca.gov/business/business.htm

        CEO Express   http://www.ceoexpress.com/default.asp

        Consumer Psychology Resources   http://www.psychology.org/links/Environment_Behavior_Relationships/Consumer/

        Dewey Business Advisor    http://faq-libraries.mit.edu/recordList?library=mit_business&institution=mit

        Doing Business: Benchmarking Business Regulations   http://www.doingbusiness.org/

        Economist Business Encyclopedia  http://www.economist.com/encyclopedia/

        EDGARScan  http://edgarscan.pwcglobal.com/servlets/edgarscan/

        EDGAR SEC Filings & Forms http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml

        Encyclopedia of Business & Economic History   http://www.eh.net/encyclopedia/

        Entrepreneur's Startup Kits by Industry  http://www.entrepreneur.com/toolkit/

        FDIC Institution Directory (financial & demographic data)    http://www2.fdic.gov/idasp/

        Finance Site List   http://fisher.osu.edu/fin/journal/jofsites.htm

        Fund Info Service   http://www.wilink.com/fundinfoservice.htm

        Global Business Cycle Indicators   http://www.conference-board.org/economics/bci/

        Global Edge: global business knowledge http://globaledge.msu.edu/

        Global 2000 Forbes http://www.forbes.com/2003/07/02/internationaland.html

        Glossary of Financial & Business Terms    http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/glossary/bfglosa.htm

        Harvard Business School Working Knowledge  http://www.hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/topics/notebook/

        Hoovers Online  http://www.hoovers.com/free/

        International Monetary Fund   http://www.imf.org/external/index.htm

        International Trade Administration  http://www.ita.doc.gov/

        Internet Intelligence Index (Fuld & Co.) http://www.fuld.com/Tindex/I3.html

        Investopedia (Forbes)  http://www.investopedia.com/university/20_investments/

        KnowThis: Marketing, Market Research  http://www.knowthis.com/

        Kompass Business to Business Directory   http://www.kompass-usa.com/

        Krislyn's Strictly Business Sites   http://www.strictlybusinesssites.com/

        Market Segmentation: a Guide to Sources of Information   http://www.loc.gov/rr/business/marketing/

        Minority Business Development Agency   http://www.mbda.gov/

        North American Industry Classification System (old SIC ) http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html

        North American Product Classific. System (begins 2007) http://www.census.gov/eos/www/napcs/napcs.htm

        Other Links: Business & International Business  http://wtfaculty.wtamu.edu/~sanwar.bus/otherlinks.htm

        Pay Wizard: Salary Surveys, Calculators, Minimum Wage...   http://www.paywizard.org/main

        Quick MBA  http://www.quickmba.com/

        Small Business Administration (Free Online Courses)   http://www.sba.gov/services/training/onlinecourses/

        Technical Reports & Working Papers in Business & Economics   http://www.loc.gov/rr/business/techreps/techrepshome.php

        Trendwatching.com: Global Consumer & Marketing Trends  http://www.trendwatching.com/newsletter/newsletter.html

        US Securities and Exchange Commission    http://www.sec.gov/

        US State Govt Webpages with Business Info.  http://www.keytlaw.com/Links/govrecords.htm

        Web 100 Business Sites  http://metamoney.com/w100/

        Women's Business Center (Issues & Tips)   http://www.onlinewbc.gov/

        Workplace Fairness   http://www.workplacefairness.org/

        Yahoo! Finance   http://finance.yahoo.com/search

        Yellowikis: Open Business Listings   http://www.yellowikis.com/

Business Etiquette

        Cultural Savvy: Global Cross-Cultural Training  http://www.culturalsavvy.com/     

        International Business Etiquette, Culture... http://www.cyborlink.com/default.htm

        International Business Culture   http://www.executiveplanet.com/

        Manners International  http://www.ryangrpinc.com/

        Window on the World Country Profiles & Practices http://www.windowontheworldinc.com/countryprofile/index.html

       

Butoh Dance   http://www.butoh.net/

Butterflies

    Al Shapiro's (UC Davis) Butterfly Site   http://butterfly.ucdavis.edu/

    Butterflies http://www.thebutterflysite.com/

    Butterflies and Moths of North America    http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/

    Butterfly Gardening   http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/horticulture/DG6711.html

    Butterfly Rainforest    http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/butterflies/

    The Butterfly Site   http://www.thebutterflysite.com/

    The Monarch Butterfly in North America   http://www.fs.fed.us/monarchbutterfly/

Byron, Lord George Gordon Noel http://englishhistory.net/byron/contents.html

 

 

C

Calculators

        Calculators Online   http://www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators.html

        Enhanced Calorie Calculator   http://www.caloriescount.org/

Calendars

        Daily Almanac of Events   http://www.copi.org/craig/events/today.html

        Datedex: Calendar directory of days, dates, events worldwide  http://www.datedex.com/results.asp

        Today Date & Time  http://www.ecben.net/calendar.shtml

California

        California Bound: Ship and Wagon Trail lists during Gold Rush...    http://www.pt5dome.com/PassHome.html

        Calif. Coast: Early History    http://www.cr.nps.gov/nR/travel/ca/   

        Calif. Coastal Data Information Program    http://cdip.ucsd.edu/

        Calif. Courts Self-Help Center (legal assistance & forms, searchable)  http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp/

        Calif. Digital Library   http://www.cdlib.org/

         Calif. Domestic Partners Registry    http://www.ss.ca.gov/dpregistry/

        Calif. Economy, Center for Continuing Study of   http://www.ccsce.com/

        Calif. Farm Bureau Agriculture Information   http://www.cfbf.com/info/

        Calif. Fiction Golden Gate Mysteries   http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/~rbrandt/sfmystery/

        California Firearms Laws 2005    http://caag.state.ca.us/firearms/forms/pdf/cfl.pdf

        Calif. Geography, Geology, Hazards...    http://education.usgs.gov/california/resources.html

        Calif. Government Glossary   http://www.calchamber.com/biz%20issues/2005/05-glossary.pdf

        Calif. Government Officials  http://www.mcls.org/webpublic/refcenter/gov_ca.cfm

        Calif. History Guide  http://www.nhm.org/education/cahistory/

        Calif. History Lectures (7 hour- long lectures)    http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/info/lectures.html

        Calif. High Speed Rail Authority   http://www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov/

        California Missions Studies Association   http://www.ca-missions.org/

        California Missions Trail    http://www.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=22722

        California Native Plant Pages   http://www.laspilitas.com/nativeplantpages.htm

        California Performance Review   http://cpr.ca.gov/

        California Policy Inbox   http://inbox.berkeley.edu/

        Calif. Political History. Rose Institute Cal. Political History Archive and Database                

                http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/collection.php?alias=/ric

        Calif. Senate Office of Research   http://www.sen.ca.gov/sor/

        California Solutions to Global Warming    http://www.solutionsforglobalwarming.com/

        Calif. State & Local Govt. on the Net  http://www.statelocalgov.net/state-ca.cfm

        Calif. State Assembly   http://www.assembly.ca.gov/defaulttext.asp

        Calif. State Constitution   http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/const.html

        Calif. State Homepage   http://www.ca.gov/state/portal/myca_homepage.jsp

        California State YouTube Channel   http://www.youtube.com/californiagovernment

        Calif. Supreme Court EZLegal File   http://www.ezlegalfile.org/index.jsp

        California's Wildlife   http://www.dfg.ca.gov/whdab/html/cawildlife.html

        California's Wildlife: Birds    http://www.dfg.ca.gov/whdab/html/lifehistbirds.html

        DMV California  http://www.dmv.ca.gov/

        Exploring California's Insects Photobank   http://www.bugpeople.org/photobank/photobank.htm 

        Find Your Representative  (Click on Find My District)  http://www.assembly.ca.gov/defaulttext.asp

        Join California: Calif Election History   http://www.joincalifornia.com/

        Law Help California   http://www.lawhelpcalifornia.org/CA/index.cfm

        Legislation. Official Calif. Legislative Information. Full text of every Assembly & Senate Bill, plus Statutes & Codes   http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/

        Library of California   http://www.library.ca.gov/loc/

        Lighthouses of California    http://www.rudyalicelighthouse.net/CalLts/CalLts.htm

        Literacy. Calif. Literacy http://www.caliteracy.org/

        Los Angeles Almanac   http://www.losangelesalmanac.com/

        LUPIN (Land Use Planning Information Network: Habitats   http://ceres.ca.gov/planning/natural/habitats.html

        Missions. Calif. Missions   http://www.californiamissions.com/

        Municipal Codes. Calif. Municipal & County Codes & Ordinances   http://california.lp.findlaw.com/CA01_codes/municode.html

        NKCA. Neighborhood Knowledge California  http://www.nkca.ucla.edu/     

        Plants. Calif. Plant Names   http://www.calflora.net/botanicalnames/

        Rough & Tumble. A Daily view of Public Policy & Politics in California  http://www.rtumble.com/

        Slavery & the Admittance of California into the Union  http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist5/caladmit.html

        Statistical Abstract, California   http://www.dof.ca.gov/html/fs_data/stat-abs/toc.htm

        Tejon Ranch   http://www.tejonranch.com/

California, Southern

        Major Habitats of S. Cal.: From the Desert to the Sea   http://www.lalc.k12.ca.us/uclasp/local_habitats/habitats/

        Southern California Plant Communities    http://www.calflora.net/botanicalnames/plantcommunities.html

Calligraphy

        Art of Chinese Calligraphy  http://www.chinapage.com/callig1.html

        Calligraphy   http://www.codcottage.freeserve.co.uk/

        Cynscribe Calligraphy Directory   http://www.cynscribe.com/

        IAAO Arabic Calligraphy   http://www.islamicart.com/main/calligraphy/

        Japanese Calligraphy   http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2095.html

Camping

        Campfire Cooking   http://www.eartheasy.com/play_campfire_cooking.htm

        CampNet America. Camping & RV Directory   http://www.kiz.com/campnet/html/campnet.htm

        Go Camping America   http://www.gocampingamerica.com/

        Reserve USA Camping Reservations   http://www.reserveusa.com/

Canada

        Our Roots: Canada's Local Histories Online   http://www.ourroots.ca/

Cancer

        American Cancer Society Statistics   http://www.cancer.org/docroot/stt/stt_0.asp

        Cancer Prevention & Control   http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/

        Carcinogens. Report on Carcinogens 11th ed.  http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/roc/toc11.html

        Inside Cancer    http://www.insidecancer.org/

        National Cancer Institute   http://www.nci.nih.gov/

        Oncology STAT   http://www.oncologystat.com/index.html

Careers

        California Career Zone   http://www.cacareerzone.org/index.html

        California Labor Market Information http://www.calmis.ca.gov/

        Career Infonet   http://www.acinet.org/acinet/default.asp

        Career Voyages (US Dept. of Labor & Education) http://www.careervoyages.gov/

        Occupational Employment & Wages Estimates http://stats.bls.gov/oes/oes_data.htm

        Occupational Outlook Handbook   http://www.bls.gov/oco/

        Pay Wizard: Salary Surveys, Calculators, Minimum Wage...   http://www.paywizard.org/main

        Student Jobs    http://www.studentjobs.gov/

Cars & Driving

        AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety   http://www.aaafoundation.org/home/index.cfm

        California Vehicle License Fee   http://www.igs.berkeley.edu/library/htCAVehicleLicense2003.html

        Car Buying Tips   http://www.carbuyingtips.com/

        Car Care   http://www.carcare.org/index.shtml

        DMV (Dept. of Motor Vehicles) California http://www.dmv.ca.gov/

        Driving Passions:  So Cal cars & Culture   http://kcet.org/explore-ca/web-stories/drivingpassions/

        Edmunds Car Buying Guide   http://www.edmunds.com/

        Edmunds Fuel Economy Center   http://www.edmunds.com/fueleconomy/index.html

        Fuel Economy Site  http://www.fueleconomy.gov/

        Gold Book Classic Cars 1886 - 1997 Price Authority  http://www.manheimgold.com/

        Kelley Blue Book   http://www.kbb.com/

        Lemon Law State Statutes   http://www.carlemon.com/

        Motoring Technology   http://www.newscientist.com/channel/mech-tech/motoring-tech/

        Old Car Manual Project   http://www.tocmp.com/

        Older Adult Drivers Fact Sheet   http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/older.htm

        Safe Senior Citizen Driving   http://helpguide.org/aging/senior_citizen_driving.htm

        Safer Car    http://www.safercar.gov/

        Showroom of Automotive History   http://www.thehenryford.org/exhibits/showroom/featured.html

Cartoons

        Association of American Editorial Cartoonists   http://nieonline.com/aaec/cftc.cfm

        Back to School Cartoons   http://cagle.slate.msn.com/news/BackToSchool2003/

        Big Cartoon Database  http://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/page.cgi

        Cartoon Bank from the New Yorker   http://www.cartoonbank.com/

        Comics.com   http://www.comics.com/index.html

        Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index   http://cagle.slate.msn.com/

        John Leech Punch Cartoons Archive 1841- 1864   http://www.john-leech-archive.org.uk/

        Punch Cartoon Library   http://www.punch.co.uk/punchcartoonlibrary.html

        Tintin/Herge   http://www.nmm.ac.uk/tintinfun/

        Toonopedia   http://www.toonopedia.com/

 

Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn & Titan. Launched 1977, reached Saturn July 2004)  http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm

Catalogs

        Illustrated Catalog of ACME Products  http://home.nc.rr.com/tuco/looney/acme/acme.html

Catholic Church

    Papal Encyclicals Online  http://www.papalencyclicals.net/

CBEST (California Basic Skills Educational Test) Homepage  http://www.cbest.nesinc.com/

Censorship

        Censored: Wielding the Red Pen   http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/censored/

        Project Censored (Year's roundup of "ignored" stories)    http://www.projectcensored.org/

Census Information

        Census Bureau, United States http://www.census.gov/

        Census Bureau, United States Q&A Center  https://ask.census.gov/cgi-bin/askcensus.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php

        Census Finder: a Directory of Free Census Records  http://www.censusfinder.com/

        California 2000 Census Data   http://www.census.gov/census2000/states/ca.html

 

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention CDC   http://www.cdc.gov/

CEO Express: Business Portal for Executives   http://www.ceoexpress.com/default.asp  

Ceramics

    Ceramics Today   http://www.ceramicstoday.com/

Chambers of Commerce

        Chambers of Commerce, USA  http://www.chamberofcommerce.com/

        World Chambers Network   http://www.worldchambers.com/

 

Change This    http://www.changethis.com

 

Cheese

        CheeseNet   http://65.61.15.248/cheesenet/

        Cheese Racing   http://www.cheeseracing.org/

Chemistry

        Chemistry Central (open access journals)    http://www.chemistrycentral.com/

        Chemistry Information    http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/chemical.html

        Chemistry of Isaac Newton    http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/newton/index.jsp

        High School Hub BioChemistry Guide  http://biochemhub.com/biochem/biochemhub.cfm

        Incompatible Chemistry Mixtures   http://chemistry.about.com/cs/toxicchemicals/a/aa603003a.htm#b

        Incompatible Chemical Mixtures    http://www2.biology.ualberta.ca/safety.hp/ChemSafety/Incompatible_Chemical_Mixtures.htm

        Periodic Table of Elements    http://www.vcs.ethz.ch/chemglobe/ptoe/

        Sheffield ChemDex    http://www.chemdex.org/

Chicago

    Chicago: Aerial Views   http://www.revealingchicago.org/

    Encyclopedia of Chicago  http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/

Childbirth

    Postpartum Health Alliance   http://www.postpartumhealthalliance.org/

    Safely Surrendered Baby Law    http://www.babysafe.ca.gov/

Children SEE ALSO Education

        2008 Calif. County Scorecard of Children's Well-Being   

                http://publications.childrennow.org/publications/invest/scorecard08/scorecard_2008.htm

        Child and Family Webguide    http://www.cfw.tufts.edu/

        Childhood Under Threat: The State of the World's Children 2005   http://www.unicef.org/sowc05/english/index.html  

        DayCare/Childcare Directory & Articles   http://www.daycare.com/

        Helping Your Preschool Child    http://www.ed.gov/parents/earlychild/ready/preschool/index.html

        International Save the Children Alliance   http://www.savethechildren.net/alliance/index.html

        National Child Care Information Center   http://www.nccic.org/

        National Child Labor Committee   http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/organizations-nclc.html

        National Children's Study (due 2011)  http://www.nationalchildrensstudy.gov/Pages/default.aspx

        Passport: International Children's Literature   http://passport.imaginarylands.org/

        UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund   http://www.unicef.org/

        Your Child & Television   http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/yourchild/tv.htm

Children's Literature 

    Andrew Lang's Fairy Books    http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/

    Children's Authors & Illustrators on the Web http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/authors.html

    Digitized Juvenile Literature Collection   http://diglib.lib.fsu.edu/ebind/docs/

    Literature for Children   http://susdl.fcla.edu/juv/

    Mother Goose Pages   http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/dreamhouse/nursery/rhymesABC.html

    Mother Goose Rhymes    http://www.ga.k12.pa.us/academics/LS/PreK/MotherGoose/

    Rosetta Project: Children's Books Online   http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/

    Young Readers Full Text Books   http://www.classicreader.com/toc.php/sid.3

Chimney Safety Institute of America   http://www.csia.org/

China and Chinese

        China: 50 Years of Communism   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1999/09/99/china_50_years_of_communism

        China: Civilization, Culture... http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/

        Chinese New Year    http://www.chinapage.com/newyear.html

       Civil Rights Suite: The Chinese of California   http://www.civilrightssuite.org/crs/

        History of China   http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/toc.html

        Military Power of the People's Republic of China 2005  http://www.dod.mil/news/Jul2005/d20050719china.pdf

        Morning Sun: Film & website on the Cultural Revolution   http://www.morningsun.org/

        UCSD Modern Chinese History Site   http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/chinesehistory/

        The US Tiananmen Papers    http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB47/

Chocolate

    Chocolate, History   http://www.fieldmuseum.org/Chocolate/

Christianity SEE ALSO Religions

        Christian Classics Library     http://www.ccel.org/index/subject.html

Christmas

        American Christmas: Decade by Decade (Hoover library)    http://hoover.archives.gov/exhibits/AmChristmas/

        Christmas Carols   http://www.carols.org.uk/

        A Victorian Christmas  http://www.scrapalbum.com/vxhome.htm

        Worldview: Christmas Around the World  http://www.christmas.com/worldview/

Chronologies

        WebChron: The Web Chronology Project   http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/

CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)

    CIA Central Intelligence Agency http://www.cia.gov/index.html

     Federation of American Scientists Intelligence Resource Program   http://www.fas.org/irp/

     CIA FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) Reading Room    http://www.foia.cia.gov/

Citation Style Guides

        APA (American Psychological Association) Style  http://www.apastyle.org/

        Chicago Manual of Style   http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/cmosfaq/cmosfaq.html

        Citation Style Guides  http://dept.sccd.ctc.edu/cclib/Research_tools/Citation_Style_Guides/

        Citing Sources & Avoiding Plagiarism  http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/cite/works_cited.htm

        Karla's Guide to Citation Styles Guide  http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/journalism/cite.html

        MLA Style  http://www.mla.org/

        Turabian Citation Guide   http://library.osu.edu/sites/guides/turabiangd.html

Cities

     Cities around the World   http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/digilib/cities/

     Governing Source Book : State & Local   http://sourcebook.governing.com/

     Historic Cities Maps & Documents  http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/

     Worldview: perspectives on architecture and urbanism          http://www.worldviewcities.org/

Citizens and Citizenship

    US Citizenship Resources    http://sfpl.org/citizenship/

Civil Rights

    Black Studies Resources    http://origin.admin.ccny.cuny.edu/library/blacks.html

    Civil Rights Suite: The Chinese of California   http://www.civilrightssuite.org/crs/

    CORE Congress for Racial Equality   http://www.core-online.org/history/history%20opening.htm

    Greensboro Sit-ins: Launch of Civil Rights   http://www.sitins.com/index.shtml

    Story of the Greensboro Four   http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/februaryone/

Civil War, American

        American Civil War Homepage  http://www.civilwarhome.com/

        Civil War Battlefield Medicine   http://www.ehistory.com/uscw/features/medicine/cwsurgeon/

        Civil War State & Campaign Battles  http://www.cr.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/tvii.htm

Classical Music

        Beethoven, Ludwig von   http://www.raptusassociation.org/

        Classical Music  - Andante  http://www.andante.com/

        The Classical Music Pages   http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/

Classics (Literature & Books)

        Classic Reader Full-text books online  http://www.classicreader.com/

        Internet Classics Archive: "441 searchable works of classical literature"  http://classics.mit.edu/

Clichés

          Cliché Site  http://clichesite.com/index.asp

Climate SEE Weather

 

Clinical Trials http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui

Clinton, Hillary Rodham

     Hillary Rodham Clinton    http://clinton.senate.gov/

Clipper Ships, Era of  http://www.eraoftheclipperships.com/

Cloning

        BBC News: The Cloning Debate  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1130633.stm

        Cloning Fact Sheet  http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/cloning.shtml

        Online News Hour Cloning Debate  http://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/cloning.html

        Scientists Succeed in Cloning Human Embryo   http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1672523

        South Korean Scientists Clone First Puppy Snuppy   http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4742453.stm

Coelacanth "Ancient Creature of the Deep" http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/fish/

Coffee     http://www.nationalgeographic.com/coffee/

Coins

        Coin Collecting & Rare Coin Guide  http://coin-gallery.com/

Cold War

        Cold War  http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ColdWar.htm

        Cold War Museum   http://www.coldwar.org/

 

"Comfort Women" Project http://online.sfsu.edu/~soh/comfortwomen.html

Colleges & Universities

          Academic Ranking of World Universities    http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/ranking.htm

        AllCollege USA    http://www.allcollege.org/

         FAFSA Free Application for Federal Student Aid  http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/

        Grad School Guide & Directory  http://www.gradschools.com/

        Guide to California Colleges & Universities  http://www.cacollegeguide.com/

        HigherEdInfo    http://www.higheredinfo.org/

        Historically Black Colleges (HBC) Mentor   http://www.hbcumentor.org/

        Understanding University Success    http://www.s4s.org/cepr.uus.php   

        Universities Worldwide   http://univ.cc/

Color

        Cause of Color   http://webexhibits.org/causesofcolor/

        Color Psychology  http://www.infoplease.com/spot/colors1.html

        Pigments in Painting  http://webexhibits.org/pigments

Columbia Space Shuttle

        Columbia Shuttle Accident Investigation Board  http://www.caib.us/

        Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster Coverage  http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=19160

Comics SEE ALSO Cartoons

        Comic Art  & Graffix Gallery  http://www.comic-art.com/

        Comics.com  http://www.comics.com/index.html

        Lambiek Comiclopedia of Artists  http://www.lambiek.net/artists/

        True Life 1940's Comics W. Blake Collections  http://www.library.vcu.edu/jbc/speccoll/blake1.html

Communications

    American Communication Association  http://www.americancomm.org/

    Library Resources for Communications Studies   http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/communications/lrcs/

Complaints

    Complaints   http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa043099.htm

Computers

    Computer Science Annotated Links   http://library.albany.edu/subject/csci.htm

    Computer Security Dictionary   http://www.itsecurity.com/dictionary/dictionary.htm

    Digital Footprints: Online Identity Management   http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Digital_Footprints.pdf

    Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation    http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/

    How to Buy a Computer   http://www.askbobrankin.com/how_to_buy_a_computer.html

    In Pictures: Computer Tutorials   http://inpics.net/

    Kitchen Table PC's Build Your Own  http://www.kitchentablecomputers.com/

    Linux Tutorial   http://www.lowfatlinux.com/

    Mac Turns 20   http://www.macworld.com/2004/02/features/themacturns20/

    Mapping the World's Fastest Supercomputers  

        http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/11/17/business/20081118-super-graphic.html?ref=science

    MySpace Generation    http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_50/b3963001.htm

     Tech Books for Free    http://www.techbooksforfree.com/

    Webopedia Dictionary for Computer & Internet Terms  http://webopedia.internet.com/

    WiFi Library    http://67.128.158.165/

Congo, Democratic Republic of   

        Congo History    http://www.un.int/drcongo/history

Congressional Research Reports

    Open CRS (Congressional Research Reports Service)   http://www.opencrs.com/

Conservation

    Biodiversity Hotspots   http://www.biodiversityhotspots.org/xp/Hotspots

Conspiracy Theories

     Top Censored Stories of 2007   http://www.projectcensored.org/censored_2007/index.htm#18

Constable, John The Great Paintings     http://www.huntington.org/Information/constable.htm

 

Constitution of the United States

    Constitution Day   http://public.findlaw.com/constitution-day/

    U.S. Constitution   http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html

    U.S. Constitution   http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDERAL/usconst.html

    U.S. Constitution   http://www.archives.gov/national_archives_experience/charters/constitution.html

    Constitutional Amendments 11 - 27    http://www.archives.gov/national_archives_experience/charters/constitution_amendments_11-27.html

Consulate Offices

    Foreign Consular Offices in California   http://www.ss.ca.gov/business/ibrp/fgncons.htm

    Foreign Consular Offices in the United States   http://www.state.gov/s/cpr/rls/fco/

Consumer Affairs

    100 years of US Consumer Spending    http://www.bls.gov/opub/uscs/

    *Consumer Reports Online   http://www.consumerreports.org/main/home.jsp

    Consumer Law Center   http://www.hg.org/consume.html

    Good Stuff - a Guide to the Things we Buy    http://www.worldwatch.org/taxonomy/term/44

Controversial Topics SEE ALSO Individual topics like Same-Sex Marriage

    About Biotechnology   http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/AB/

    Almanac of Policy Issues   http://www.policyalmanac.org/

    Alt Weeklies   http://www.altweeklies.com/gyrobase/AltWeeklies

    BBC Science   http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/hottopics/

    BNA Web Watch   http://www.bna.com/webwatch/

    City Journal (Manhattan Institute for Policy Research)   http://www.city-journal.org/

    Commentary Today  http://www.commentarytoday.com/

    Congressional Research Service Reports  http://2act.org/p/576.html

    Documents in the News   http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/docnews.html

    Envirolink   http://www.envirolink.org/

    Ethics Update   http://ethics.acusd.edu/index.html

    F as in Fat 2005 Report   http://healthyamericans.org/reports/obesity2005/

    FACSNET Improving Journalism Through Education   http://www.facsnet.org/

    Firearms, State Laws & Ordinances 2004   http://www.atf.gov/firearms/statelaws/25thedition/

    First Amendment Center Topics   http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/about.aspx?item=crs_reports#

    Food Psychology   http://www.foodpsychology.com/

    Frontline TV Reports Online   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view/

    Hazing   http://www.stophazing.org/

    Health Care Costs    http://www.kff.org/insurance/snapshot/

    HigherEdInfo    http://www.higheredinfo.org/

    Hot Topics Bibliographies Air University   http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/bib97.htm

    Juvenile Arrests 2003   http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/ojjdp/209735.pdf

    Jurist Legal Topics & News   http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/

    National Child Labor Committee   http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/organizations-nclc.html

    National Issues Forums http://www.nifi.org/   

    Oakland Institute   http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/

    Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life    http://pewforum.org/

    Pew Global Attitudes Project   http://pewglobal.org/

    Plastic & Cosmetic Surgery   http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/plasticandcosmeticsurgery.html

    Project Vote Smart   http://www.vote-smart.org/index.htm

    Public Agenda.org   http://www.publicagenda.org/

    Racial Profiling   http://www.amnestyusa.org/racial_profiling/index.do

    San Diego State University Hot Topics Supersites  http://infodome.sdsu.edu/research/guides/hot/supersites.shtml

    School Uniforms / Dress Codes   http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/showarticle/ga/361

    Stalking    http://www.ncvc.org/src/

    Status of Women in the States 2004   http://www.iwpr.org/States2004/SWS2004/

    Taking Sides (Companion to Taking Sides Books Series)  http://www.dushkin.com/takingsides/ts-list.mhtml

    Top Censored Stories of 2007   http://www.projectcensored.org/censored_2007/index.htm#18

    Web Active - directory of links to current topics   http://www.webactive.com/page/directory

Conversion of Units

    Conversion  http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/chemistry/general/units_en.html

    Conversions   http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/conversions.html

    Dictionary of Measures, Units & Conversion   http://www.ex.ac.uk/cimt/dictunit/dictunit.htm

    Online Conversion   http://www.onlineconversion.com/

    XE: Full, Universal Currency Converter   http://www.xe.com/ucc/full.shtml   

Cookery SEE ALSO Recipes

    America's Test Kitchen    http://www.americastestkitchen.com/

    Baking911  http://www.baking911.com/

    Cookbooks Online (Searchable)    http://www.cookbooks.com/

    Cook's Thesaurus   http://www.foodsubs.com/

    History of Pumpkin Pie   http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/PieHistory/PumpkinPie.htm

    Medieval Cookery   http://www.medievalcookery.com/

    Not By Bread Alone: America's Culinary History   http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/food/

Copyright

     10 myths about Copyright Explained  http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html   

    Copyright Primer  Interactive Tutorial   http://www-apps.umuc.edu/primer/enter.php#

    Section 108 Study Group 2005   http://www.loc.gov/section108/

    U.S. Copyright Office   http://www.copyright.gov/

    What is Copyright Protection?  http://www.whatiscopyright.org/

     White Paper on Academic Use of Journal Content    http://www.stm-assoc.org/home/stm-aappsp-alpsp-issue-white-paper-on-academic-use-of-journal-content.html

Coral Reefs

    International Coral Reef Information Network  http://www.coralreef.org/coralreefinfo/about.html

    ReefBase: a Global Information System on Coral Reefs  http://www.reefbase.org/

Corn

    Iowa Corn    http://www.iowacorn.org/

Cosmetics

    Botanicals & Ingredients in Cosmetics  http://www.beautyandthebeat.bigstep.com/generic4.html

    Cheap Alternatives to Basic Cosmetics Using  Everyday Ingredients  http://www.hintsandthings.co.uk/bathroom/cosmetics.htm

    Prohibited Ingredients & Safety Issues - Cosmetics  http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/cos-210.html

Cost of Living

    World-Wide 2004 Cost of Living City Rankings   http://www.finfacts.com/costofliving.htm

Costume, History of SEE ALSO Fashion

    Art of Motion Picture Costume Design   http://www.fidm.com/Features/gallery/Hollywood-2005/

    Bissonnette on Costume  http://dept.kent.edu/museum/costume/

    Costume Gallery   http://www.costumegallery.com/

    Costumer's Manifesto    http://www.costumes.org/

    History of Costume by Braun & Scheider  http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/history.html

    Milieux: the costume page   http://www.milieux.com/costume/

    "The Right Chemistry" Colors in Fashion 1704 - 1918  http://dept.kent.edu/museum/exhibit/colors/main.htm

Countries

    Atlapedia   http://www.atlapedia.com/

    Background Notes   http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/

    Country Reports   http://www.countryreports.org/

    Country Studies  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html

    Country Watch   http://www.countrywatch.com/

    Economist Country Briefings   http://www.economist.com/countries/

    Global Gateway   http://international.loc.gov/intldl/intldlhome.html

    Human Rights Watch World Report 2004   http://hrw.org/wr2k4/  

    Portals to the World   http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html

     Rulers: heads of States & Governments   http://www.rulers.org/

    Visual Geography Series   http://www.vgsbooks.com/

    World Factbook: Guide to Country Profiles   http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ 

 

Court Forms Federal State   http://forms.lp.findlaw.com/

Creativity

    Creative Minds    http://www.creatingminds.org/

    Engines of Our Ingenuity   http://www.uh.edu/engines/

    Ingenious: Seeing Things Differently   http://www.ingenious.org.uk/

    SwarmSketch    http://www.swarmsketch.com/

Credit Reports

    Annual Credit Reports (1 free credit report)   https://www.annualcreditreport.com/cra/index.jsp

Crime

    Crime & Victims Statistics    http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/cvict.htm

    Criminal Records in the Legal Research Guide  http://www.virtualchase.com/resources/criminal_records.html

    Firearms, State Laws & Ordinances 2004   http://www.atf.gov/firearms/statelaws/25thedition/

     Interpol   http://www.interpol.int/Public/Icpo/default.asp    OR

                    http://www.interpol.int/Public/Wanted/

    Juvenile Arrests 2003   http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/ojjdp/209735.pdf

    Sex Offender Public Registry    http://www.nsopr.gov/

    Uniform Crime Reports    http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm

Crochet

    Crochet Guild of America   http://crochet.com/index.shtml

    Crochet Pattern Central   http://www.crochetpatterncentral.com/

 

Crop Circles Research   http://www.cropcircleresearch.com/index2.html

Crossword Puzzles

    One Across   http://www.oneacross.com/

    Crosswords by Ray Hamel   http://www.primate.wisc.edu/people/hamel/cp.html

    Crossword Puzzle Games   http://www.crosswordpuzzlegames.com/

Crusades

    History of the Crusades  http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/History/History-idx?type=browse&scope=HISTORY.HISTCRUSADES

    Medieval Crusades   http://www.medievalcrusades.com/

Cuba

    Cuba Documentation Project    http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/latin_america/cuba.htm

    Cuba Maps    http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/cuba.html

    Cuban Missile Crisis aka Bay of Pigs 2004 40th Anniversary   http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/

 

Cultures

    Arab Culture & Civilization  http://arabworld.nitle.org/main_menu.php

    CalPhotos: People & Culture  http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/photos/people/

    Cultural Differences: Food http://www.asfsa.org/meetingsandevents/archive/anc2001/handouts/culturaldifference.pdf

    Global Gateway   http://international.loc.gov/intldl/intldlhome.html

    UNESCO World Heritage Center   http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm

Currency

    FX (Foreign Exchange) Converter/164 Currency Converter  http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic

    Collecting US Currency http://www.currencygallery.org/collecting.htm

    Current Value of  Old Money  http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html

    Know Your Money (history of...counterfeit awareness..) http://www.secretservice.gov/know_your_money.shtml

    Universal Currency Converter  http://www.xe.com/ucc/

    XE: Full, Universal Currency Converter   http://www.xe.com/ucc/full.shtml  

 

Cutty Sark    http://www.cuttysark.org.uk/

 

D

D-Day

    D-Day American Experience  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/

Dadaism

    International Dada Archive   http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/

 

Dan's Guardian (content blocker)   http://dansguardian.org/

 

Dance

    Butoh Dance   http://www.butoh.net/

    CyberDance: Dance Web Sites   http://www.cyberdance.org/sites.html

    Music and Dance of Africa     http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/music.html

Darwin, Charles (2009 =200th anniversary of Darwin's birth)

    200th Anniversary Darwin   http://www.linnean.org/index.php?id=352

    Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online   http://darwin-online.org.uk/

    Voyage of the Beagle (full text)  http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/the-voyage-of-the-beagle/

Day of the Dead/ El Dia de los Muertos

    Day of the Dead   http://muertos.palomar.edu/

    Day of the Dead    http://www.azcentral.com/ent/dead/

DayCare/Childcare Directory & Articles   http://www.daycare.com/

Daylight Saving Time  http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/

Deaf

    Basic Guide/Dictionary to American Sign Language   http://www.masterstech-home.com/ASLDict.html

    Deaf Linx    http://www.deaflinx.com/

Death

    Elisabeth Kubler-Ross   http://www.elisabethkublerross.com/

    Seeing the Difference: Death & Dying   http://seeingthedifference.berkeley.edu/

Death Penalty

    Death Penalty. Amnesty International USA   http://www.amnestyusa.org/abolish/index.do

    US Supreme Court Roper v Simmons Ends Death Penalty for Juveniles 2005  http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=38&did=885

Death Records

    Death Records   http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/deathrecords.html

Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence (NARA)  http://www.archives.gov/national_archives_experience/charters/declaration.html

Deep Impact Mission

      Deep Impact (NASA July 2005 plan to crash a comet) http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html   

      NASA Deep Impact   http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepimpact/main/index.html

Demographics

       Social Explorer US 1790 - 2000) http://socialexplorer.com/pub/home/home.aspx

Derrida, Jacques: Stanford Presidential Lectures in Humanities & Arts   http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/derrida/

Design

      Design Addict   http://www.designaddict.com/

      Design for the Other 90%   http://other.cooperhewitt.org/

      Design Museum, London   http://www.designmuseum.org/

      IDE Virtual Design Museum   http://www.io.tudelft.nl/public/vdm/

      Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture   http://www.moda.mdx.ac.uk/

Design, Fashion SEE Fashion

Design, Home & Garden

      BBC Gardening   http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/design/nonflash_contemporary3.shtml

      Better Homes & Gardens   http://www.bhg.com/

      Home and Garden Television   http://www.hgtv.com/

      Martha Stewart Page   http://www.marthastewart.com/

Diabetes

      Diabetes Information   http://www.fda.gov/diabetes/

      Diabetes Public Health Resource   http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/

Dickens, Charles

     Charles Dickens Museum Virtual Tour   http://dickensmuseum.com/vtour/

     David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page  http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens/index.html

    "Our Mutual Friend" The Scholarly Pages    http://humwww.ucsc.edu/dickens/OMF/

Dictionaries

      American Heritage Dictionary  http://www.bartleby.com/am/

      American Sign Language Dictionary   http://www.masterstech-home.com/ASLDict.html

      Business Dictionary   http://www.businessdictionary.com/

      Cambridge Dictionaries Online   http://dictionary.cambridge.org/      

      Dictionary of Measures, Units, & Conversions   http://www.ex.ac.uk/cimt/dictunit/dictunit.htm

      Double Tongued   http://www.doubletongued.org/

      Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology   http://www.kl.oakland.edu/kraemer/edcm/

      From Noah Webster to Merriam- Webster: 200 years of Dictionary making in America Bicentennial of Webster's 1806 Dictionary  

     http://www.merriam-webster.com/info/webster-reform.htm    

      Internet Picture Dictionary (different languages available)  http://www.pdictionary.com/

      Language to Language Multilanguage Translating dictionary   http://www.langtolang.com/

      Merriam - Webster Online   http://www.m-w.com/

      Visual Dictionary Online   http://visual.merriam-webster.com/

      Word Reference Translation Dictionaries  http://www.wordreference.com/

      World Wide Words - unusual words http://www.worldwidewords.org/

      YourDictionary.com. Subject, multilingual, translations dictionaries, grammars... http://www.yourdictionary.com/index.shtml

 

Did You Ever Wonder?  http://www.lbl.gov/wonder/

Diets

    Diets Guide   http://www.dietsguide.com/

Digital Television DTV   http://www.dtv.gov/

Digitization Projects

    Planning a Digital Project? Best Practices.  http://digitalwa.statelib.wa.gov/newsite/best.htm

Directories

    AnyWho. Internet Directory Assistance  http://www.anywho.com/

    BrainTrack. University Index Worldwide   http://www.braintrack.com/

    InfoSpace. White & Yellow pages   http://www.infospace.com/

    Switchboard Telephone Directory   http://www.switchboard.com/

Disabilities

    AllAbilities  http://www.allabilities.com/

    Disability Resources on the Internet   http://www.disabilityresources.org/

    disABILITY Information & Resources   http://www.makoa.org/

    DisabilityInfo.gov   http://www.disabilityinfo.gov/digov-public/public/DisplayPage.do%3fparentFolderId=500

    National Disability Rights Network   http://www.ndrn.org/

Disasters

    Are You Ready: An In-Depth Guide to Citizen Preparedness   http://www.fema.gov/areyouready/

    Disaster Finder! Disaster Information  http://disasterfinder.gsfc.nasa.gov/

    Disaster Help    https://www.disasterhelp.gov/portal/jhtml/index.jhtml

    Emergency Preparedness: Floods   http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/floods/

    Geographic Distribution of Major Hazards in U.S.   http://www.usgs.gov/themes/hazards.html

    Hurricane Preparedness  http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/HAW2/english/intro.shtml

    Landslides & Mudslides   http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/landslides.asp

Disney, Walt. Walt Disney Family Museum http://disney.go.com/disneyatoz/familymuseum/index.html

Dissertations. Networked Library of Theses & Dissertations.   http://www.theses.org/

Distance Education

    All Learn. Alliance for Lifelong Learning. (Yale, Stanford, & Oxford Universities)  http://www.alllearn.org/

    California Virtual Campus   http://www.cvc.edu/

    MIT OpenCourseware   http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/index.htm

    Resources for Learning About Distance Education   http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~cfche/distance.html

    The Teach Toolkit. Understanding Copyright & Distance Education. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/scc/legislative/teachkit/

DNA

    DNA from the beginning   http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/

    Gene Almanac   http://www.dnalc.org/home.html

Do It Yourself

    DIY Home Improvement   http://doityourself.com/

    DIY Network   http://www.diynet.com/

    eHow. Clear Instructions on how to do Anything!  http://www.ehow.com/

    Handyman USA  http://www.handymanusa.com/

    Plumbing 101   http://www.friendlyplumber.com/plumbing101.html

Documents Center  http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/

Dogs

    American Kennel Club   http://www.akc.org/

    Dog Breed Information Center   http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/

    K-9 History. The Dogs of War.  http://community-2.webtv.net/Hahn-50thAP-K9/K9History/

Domain Name Searches

    All Who Is   http://www.allwhois.com/

    Dialog Intellectual Property   http://openaccess.dialog.com/ip/

    Who Is Source   http://www.whois.sc/

Drama

    Full-text plays online   http://www.vl-theatre.com/list4.shtml

Drawing SEE ALSO Art

Dred Scott Decision 1857 – 2007 150 years Sesquicentennial

     Dred Scott Decision    http://www.dredscottanniversary.org/

 

Drew's Script-O-Rama  http://www.script-o-rama.com/

Driving

    CHP FAQ   http://www.chp.ca.gov/html/answers.html

    DMV California   http://www.dmv.ca.gov/

Drugs/Medications

    Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs   http://www.crbestbuydrugs.org/

    Crystal Methamphetimine FAQ   http://www.thebody.com/sfaf/crystal_meth.html

    DrugDigest (Prescription Drugs)  http://www.drugdigest.org/DD/Home

    Drug Information Portal   http://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov/drugportal/drugportal.jsp

    Drugs @ FDA (Approved, withdrawn drugs...) http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/drugsatfda/

    FDA Drug Safety Initiative   http://www.fda.gov/cder/drugsafety.htm

    Institute for Safe Medication Practices   http://www.ismp.org/

    Marijuana: the Facts   http://www.drugpolicy.org/marijuana/

    National Clearinghouse for Alcohol & Drug Information. Publications, Facts...by Drug Type. http://store.health.org/catalog/drugs.aspx

    Orange Book, Electronic. Drug Approvals   http://www.fda.gov/cder/ob/

    Prescription Drug Abuse    http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/prescriptiondrugabuse.html

    Prescription Drugs: Abuse & Addiction. Natl. Inst. on Drug Abuse      http://www.nida.nih.gov/ResearchReports/Prescription/Prescription.html

    RX Prescription Drug Index  http://www.rxlist.com/

    Safe Medication.com   http://www.safemedication.com/

    Substance Abuse & Mental Health Administration Workplace Programs http://www.drugfreeworkplace.gov/

    United Nations World Drug Report    http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/world_drug_report.html

    US Pharmacopia Patient Safety   http://www.usp.org/patientSafety/

 DVD  

    DVD Help. DVD help, tutorials, FAQ   http://www.dvdhelp.us/

 

 

E

E-Books

    18th Century E-Texts   http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/etext.html

    Aesop's Fables Online   http://www.mythfolklore.net/aesopica/   

    Andrew Lang's Fairy Books    http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/

    Bartleby Books/Reference Online   http://www.bartleby.com/

    Bibliomania   http://www.bibliomania.com/

    Blackmask Online   http://www.blackmask.com/page.php

    Classic Reader: Read free classic books online  http://www.classicreader.com/

    Digitized Juvenile Literature Collection   http://diglib.lib.fsu.edu/ebind/docs/

    eBooks @ Adelaide   http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/

    Eldritch Press   http://www.eldritchpress.org/

    Google Book Search    http://books.google.com/

    Great Books Index   http://www.mirror.org/books/gb.home.html

    "Light and Matter" Free Physics textbook   http://www.lightandmatter.com/

    The Literature Network   http://www.online-literature.com/

    Manybooks. Free e-books for your PDA   http://www.manybooks.net/

    National Academies Press    http://www.nap.edu/browse.html

    * Net library   http://www.netlibrary.com/Gateway.aspx

    Online Books Page   http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

    Perseus Digital Library   http://perseus.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/     OR   http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

    Project Gutenberg  http://promo.net/pg/

    ReadPrint (Free Online Library)   http://www.readprint.com/

    Rosetta Project: Children's Books Online   http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/

    Search E-books   http://www.searchebooks.com/

    Tech Books for Free   http://www.techbooksforfree.com/

    Wikibooks - Open Content Textbooks   http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page

    World E-book Library (searchable, some texts require fee)   http://www.netlibrary.net/

    World Public Library   (Charges a fee)  http://worldlibrary.net/

E Coli (Escherichia Coli)

     E- Coli    http://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/

    

Earth Sciences SEE ALSO Geography

    Earth Science World   http://www.earthscienceworld.org/

Earthquakes

     Great San Francisco Earthquake 1906 (April18th)    http://www.sfmuseum.org/1906/06.html

    Recent Earthquakes in California and Nevada   http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/

     Southern California Earthquake Data Center  http://www.data.scec.org/

     USGS Eathquakes Hazards Program   http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/

 

Eclipse Homepage   http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/eclipse.html

Economics

    Archive for the History of Economic Thought   http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/

    Encyclopedia of Business & Economic History   http://www.eh.net/encyclopedia/

    FRASER Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Resources   http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/

    International Monetary Fund   http://www.imf.org/external/index.htm

    Smart Economist - working papers in economics, finance, business   http://www.smarteconomist.com/

    US Treasury. Sanction Program Summaries  http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/sanctions/index.html

    WWW Resources in Economics   http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/

Education SEE ALSO Learning Strategies, Distance Education ; Colleges & Universities; Home Schooling

    Advanced Placement Report to the Nation 2005    http://www.apcentral.collegeboard.com/article/0,3045,149-0-0-41919,00.html

    The American Student: a CNN Special   http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/back.to.school/

    Applied Math & Science Educ. Repository AMSER   http://amser.org/

    BBC Learning   http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/

    Back to School Cartoons   http://cagle.slate.msn.com/news/BackToSchool2003/

    Brown vs Board of Education 50 Years Later   http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/jan-june04/brown_5-17.html

    California Dropout Research Project   http://www.lmri.ucsb.edu/dropouts/

    California High School Exit Exam CAHSEE http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/hs/

    California Post Secondary Education Commission http://www.cpec.ca.gov/

    California School Finder   http://www.schoolfinder.ca.gov/

    Calisphere http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/

    Centenary of the Montessori Movement    http://montessoricentenary.org/

    Characteristics of Private Schools in the USA 2003-2004 http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2006319

    Claroline Open Source e-learning     http://www.claroline.net/

    Core Knowledge Foundation    http://www.coreknowledge.org/CK/index.htm

    The Condition of Education 2005   http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/

    Digest of Education Statistics 2005    http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2006030

    Dropouts, Completers & Graduation Rates Report   http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/pub_dropouts.asp

    EdPubs. Free from the US Dept. Education.   http://www.edpubs.org/webstore/Content/search.asp

    Educating the Net Generation   http://www.educause.edu/educatingthenetgen

    Educator's Reference Desk  (AskEric/EDUREF)   http://www.eduref.org/

    Free Science & Video Lectures Online   http://freescienceonline.blogspot.com/

    From Cradle to Career: Connecting American Education From Birth To Adulthood   http://www.edweek.org/ew/toc/2007/01/04/

    Gateway to Educational Materials   http://thegateway.org/

    Girls go Tech   http://www.girlsgotech.org/

    Helping Your Preschool Child    http://www.ed.gov/parents/earlychild/ready/preschool/index.html

    High School Hub   http://highschoolhub.org/hub/hub.cfm

    Higher Education Academy Home Page UK  http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/

    HigherEdInfo    http://www.higheredinfo.org/

    HomeSchool Association of California   http://www.hsc.org/

    Homeschooling in California    http://www.hslda.org/hs/state/CA/

    Illinois Early Learning Project    http://www.illinoisearlylearning.org/

    James Burke's KnowledgeWeb Project   http://www.k-web.org/

    Kindergarten Entry Skills   http://ceep.crc.uiuc.edu/poptopics/k-entry.html

    Leaders and Laggards: State by State Report Card on Educational Effectiveness

        http://www.uschamber.com/icw/reportcard/default

    Merlot http://www.merlot.org/

    MIT OpenCourseWare   http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/index.htm

    "A Nation at Risk" (1983 National Report) 25 Years Later  http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/research/pubs/risk25.html

    National Center for Education Statistics (US)   http://nces.ed.gov/

    New SAT's   http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4528303

    New Teacher   http://teacher.scholastic.com/newteacher/

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

    No Child Left Behind Act 2002   http://www.ed.gov/nclb/landing.jhtml

    Pinakes: a Subject Launchpad   http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html

    Raising the Achievement of Students with Disabilities http://www.ed.gov/admins/lead/speced/ideafactsheet.html

    Rubistar (Rubries) http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php

    School and College Directory http://www.allpublicschools.org/ ; http://www.allprivateschools.org/ ; http://www.allcollege.org/

    School Matters http://www.schoolmatters.com/

    School Survey on Crime & Safety   http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ssocs/

    School Uniforms / Dress Codes   http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/showarticle/ga/361

    Science for All Americans. Online Textbook.    http://www.project2061.org/publications/sfaa/online/sfaatoc.htm

    Special Education http://specialed.about.com/

    Stanford Presidential Lectures in Humanities & the Arts   http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/index.html

    Study Guides and Strategies   http://www.studygs.net/index.htm

    StudyStack Flash Cards   http://www.studystack.com/java-studysta/frames.jsp

    Thalheimer on Dale's Cone http://www.work-learning.com/chigraph.htm

    UC Berkeley on Google Video    http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html

    UCLA IDEA Education Opportunities Report 2006 http://www.idea.gseis.ucla.edu/publications/eor06/index.html

Egypt

    Coptic Museum http://www.copticmuseum.gov.eg/

    Egyptians   http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/

    Eternal Egypt   http://www.eternalegypt.org/EternalEgyptWebsiteWeb/HomeServlet

    Tutankhamen & the Golden Age of Pharaohs   http://www.kingtut.org/

Elections 2004

    Hot-Button Campaign Issues  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1599678

    LII Election Featured Collection  http://lii.org/search/file/election2004

    United States Elections 2004  http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/election04/

Elizabethan Times  

    Life in Elizabethan Times  http://renaissance.dm.net/compendium/index.html

 

Ellis Island Records Passenger Arrivals  http://199.106.235.191//

Embassies

            US Embassies/Consulates Overseas   http://www.usembassy.gov/

Embroidery, Cross Stitch, etc

    Beginning Stitchers   http://crossstitch.about.com/od/beginners/

    Glossary of Embroidery Techniques   http://www.dreamscape.com/cnyega/glossary.html

    Wonderful Stitches   http://www.needlework.com/

Emergency Preparedness SEE ALSO Disasters

    72 Hours    http://www.72hours.org/

    Are You Ready: An In-Depth Guide to Citizen Preparedness   http://www.fema.gov/areyouready/

    Disaster Finder   http://disasterfinder.gsfc.nasa.gov/

    CDC Emergency Preparedness and Response Site  http://www.bt.cdc.gov/

    Emergency Preparedness: Floods   http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/floods/

    Hurricane Preparedness  http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/HAW2/english/intro.shtml

    Medline Plus Disasters & Emergency Preparedness    http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/disastersandemergencypreparedness.html

Employment SEE ALSO Jobs, Careers

    Overseas Jobs   http://workabroad.monster.com/

Encyclopedias

    Britannica (brief full text content, pay for detail) http://www.britannica.com/

    Britannica 1911 (fabled edition full text)    http://1911encyclopedia.org/

    Catholic Encyclopedia   http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/

    EH Encyclopedia of Economic & Business History  http://www.eh.net/encyclopedia/

    Encyclopedia.com   http://www.encyclopedia.com/

    Encyclopedia Mythica   http://www.pantheon.org/mythica.html

    Encyclopedia of Business & Economic History   http://www.eh.net/encyclopedia/

    Encyclopedia of Law & Economics   http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~gdegeest/

    Encyclopedia of World War I   http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWW.htm

    Encyclopedia of the Orient (North Africa & the Middle East)  http://i-cias.com/e.o/

    Encyclopedia of Psychology   http://www.psychology.org/

    Encyclopedia Smithsonian   http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/

    Gareth Long's Encyclopedia of Monsters, Mythical Creatures & Fabulous Beasts   http://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/monsters/monsters.htm

Endangered Species SEE ALSO Animals, Plants   

    Endangered Species Information (Animal & Plant) http://endangered.fws.gov/wildlife.html

    Primates on the Brink   http://www.iucn.org/themes/ssc/news/primates_on_the_brink.htm

England SEE United Kingdom

Enron Corporation

    ENRON, Fall of    http://www.chron.com/news/specials/enron/

Entrepreneurs (Harvard Business School)   http://www.hbs.edu/entrepreneurs/

Environment

    Altered Oceans   http://www.latimes.com/news/local/oceans/la-oceans-series,0,7842752.special

    Envirolink   http://www.envirolink.org/

    Environmental Media Services. Climate Change Facts   http://www.ems.org/climate/facts.html

    Environmental Protection Agency. Zip Code Search   http://www.epa.gov/epahome/comm.htm

    Global Warming: Early Warning Signs   http://www.climatehotmap.org/

    The Green Guide   http://www.thegreenguide.com/

    National Environmental Publications (+9000 full-text documents online) http://www.epa.gov/clhtml/pubtitle.html

    Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCP’s)   http://www.epa.gov/ppcp/

    Scorecard: the Community Pollution Information Site  http://www.scorecard.org/

    Surfrider Foundation USA   http://www.surfrider.org/

    ToxMap Environmental Health   http://toxmap.nlm.nih.gov/toxmap/main/index.jsp

Ergonomics   http://www.cdc.gov/od/ohs/ergonomics/ergohome

ERSYS Statistics on Cities   http://www.ersys.com/

Escher, M. C.

    Escher Art   http://home.comcast.net/~eschermc/

    M. C. Escher: Life & Work   http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/ggescher/ggescher-main1.html

    M.C. Escher Official Website   http://www.mcescher.com/

ESL

    Being an American http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13441693/

    Blue Book of Grammar & Punctuation   http://www.grammarbook.com/

    Second Language Teaching Methods   http://coe.sdsu.edu/people/jmora/ALMMethods.htm

    Tower of English   http://towerofenglish.com/

    Word Count: 86,800 most frequently used English words        http://www.wordcount.org/

Estate Planning   http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/estate_planning.html

Ethanol http://www.iowacorn.org/

Ethics

    Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions  http://www.iit.edu/departments/csep/

Ethnic Groups/History SEE ALSO Individual Ethnic Groups

    African-American Pamphlet Collection 1824 - 1909 "From Freedom to Slavery"  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/

    Chinese American Contribution to Transcontinental Railroad   http://cprr.org/Museum/Chinese.html

    CORE Congress for Racial Equality   http://www.core-online.org/history/history%20opening.htm

    Five Views: An Ethnic Historic Site Survey of California   http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/5views/5views.htm

    Foundation for the Advancement of Shepardic Studies & Culture   http://www.sephardicstudies.org/

    Korean-American WWW Sites   http://www.duke.edu/~myhan/s-kawww.html

    LANIC Latin American Network Information Center http://lanic.utexas.edu/

    MANAA Media Action Network for Asian Americans   http://www.manaa.org/

    Middle East History, Society & Culture Resources   http://www.albany.edu/history/middle-east/

    Middle East Institute  http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/regional/mei/

    Moments in Black History  http://www.momentsinblackhistory.com/

    Multicultural Education & Ethnic Groups   http://wwwlibrary.csustan.edu/lboyer/multicultural/main.htm

Etiquette

    Etiquette in Society, Business, Politics & the Home. Emily Post 1922  http://www.bartleby.com/95/

    International Business Culture & Etiquette   http://www.executiveplanet.com/

    Japanese Manners & Etiquette   http://www.geocities.com/japanfaq/FAQ-Manners.html

    Manners International  http://www.ryangrpinc.com/

    Netiquette Home Page (Etiquette on the Web)   http://www.albion.com/netiquette/

     Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs, & Body Language Cues   http://members.aol.com/nonverbal3/refs.htm

Etymology

    Etymologically Speaking   http://www.westegg.com/etymology/

    Online Etymological Dictionary   http://www.etymonline.com/

    The Word Detective   http://www.word-detective.com/

    Word Play   http://www.wolinskyweb.net/word.htm

    World Wide Words    http://www.worldwidewords.org/index.htm

Europe

    Euro Information (Currency)  http://www.euro.gov.uk/home.asp?f=1

    Europa. European Commission Pressroom http://europa.eu.int/comm/press_room/index.htm

    The European Commission (Representation in the UK)  http://www.cec.org.uk/azindex/index.htm

    European Film Treasures http://www.europafilmtreasures.eu/

    European Research Area: Policy in Research   http://cordis.europa.eu/erawatch/ 

    Europeana    http://www.europeana.eu/portal/

Evaluation (Research Materials)

      Pictures That Lie    http://news.com.com/2300-1026_3-6033210-1.html

     Purportal. Web hoax & rumor check  http://www.purportal.com/

Evolution

    Evolution (Site contains full text Darwin's "Origin of the Species")   http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/darwin/

Exploration

    Travel and Exploration stores    http://explorion.net/index.html

Eyes

    Contact Lenses and Eye Infections    http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/contacts.html

 

F

4th July

    4th July Celebrations Database  http://gurukul.american.edu/heintze/fourth.htm

 

Faberge Eggs: Mementos of a Doomed Dynasty  http://www.pbs.org/treasuresoftheworld/a_nav/faberge_nav/main_fabfrm.html

Fads

    Crazy Fads http://www.crazyfads.com/

Fairy Tales SEE ALSO Myths & Legends, Folklore

    Andersen, Hans Christian, Complete Tales  http://www.andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersholt/index_e.html

    Andrew Lang's Fairy Books    http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/

    Folktexts: electronic texts using the Aarne Thompson classification   http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html

    Grimm Index: Tales Collected by the Brothers Grimm  http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~wbarker/fairies/grimm/

    Tales from the 1001 Nights   http://www.mythfolklore.net/1001nights/

Farm Bill 2007

            Farm Bill 2007   http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usdafarmbill?navtype=SU&navid=FARM_BILL_FORUMS

Farm Bill 2007: a California Perspective   http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/farmbill07/

 

Farmers' Almanac   http://www.farmersalmanac.com/

Fashion SEE ALSO Costume, History of, and Shoes

   Art of Motion Picture Costume Design   http://www.fidm.com/Features/gallery/Hollywood-2005/

    Best Dressed: 250 Years of Style    http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/exhibits/best/

    Biba Experience   http://www.thebibaexperience.com/intro.html

    Careers in Fashion & Merchandising  

    Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising Zine  http://www.fidm.com/Common/zinemain.html 

    Fashion Windows  http://www.fashionwindows.com/

    Institute of Draped Clothes   http://www.idcw.org.uk/

    Kimono...Japanese Clothing   http://www.japanesekimono.com/

    Reforming Fashion 1850 - 1914  http://costume.osu.edu/Reforming_Fashion/reformdress.htm

   "The Right Chemistry" Colors in Fashion 1704 - 1918  http://dept.kent.edu/museum/exhibit/colors/main.htm

    The Spectacular Female Body: Dress, Fashion...Victorian..   http://www.fathom.com/course/21701733/

    Timeline of Costume History    http://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/timelinepages/timeline.htm

     Yves Saint Laurent   http://www.mbam.qc.ca/micro_sites/ysl/    Also    http://dept.kent.edu/museum/exhibit/YSL/main.htm

F.B.I. (Federal Bureau of Investigation)

    FBI: Famous Cases    http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/famcases.htm

    FBI, History of   http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/history/historymain.htm

Federal Web Locator   http://www.infoctr.edu/fwl/

Federalist Papers – Complete collection of 85 articles   http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/federal/fed.htm

Federation of American Scientists   http://www.fas.org/main/home.jsp

Film SEE ALSO Oscars

    80 Years of Robots in Hollywood    http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1639033_1639027,00.html

    Art of Motion Picture Costume Design   http://www.fidm.com/Features/gallery/Hollywood-2005/

    BMW Films  http://www.bmwfilms.com/clap.asp?template=international&country=&film=

    British Film Institute Screen Online   http://www.screenonline.org.uk/

    British Pathe Newsfilm Archive   http://www.britishpathe.com/

    Elia Kazan: American Masters  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/kazan_e.html

    European Film Treasures http://www.europafilmtreasures.eu/

    Glossary of Photographic Terms   http://www.kodak.com/global/en/consumer/glossary/glossaryContents.shtml

    Greatest Films  http://www.filmsite.org/

    iFilm Film clips  http://www.ifilm.com/?htv=12

    Internet Archive Movie Archive  http://www.archive.org/details/movies

    Internet Movie Database  http://www.imdb.com/

    Journal of Religion and Film   http://www.unomaha.edu/jrf/

    Metacritic Film, Music, Games Reviews and Criticism  http://www.metacritic.com/

    Public Inform Films (British National Archives) http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/

    Religious Themes in Movies and Television    http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/religiousfilms.html

    Some Enchanted Evenings: American Picture Palaces  http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/PALACE/

    Women Make Movies  http://wmm.com/

Finance SEE Business

Fingerprinting

    California Statewide Fingerprint Imaging System (SFIS)   http://www.sfis.ca.gov/

    Fingerprint Identification Overview    http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cjisd/ident.htm

  Fingerspelling

    American Sign Language  http://www.duber.com/CALL/asl.html

Fire

    How Wildfires Work  http://science.howstuffworks.com/wildfire.htm

Firearms SEE Guns

Fireworks

    American Pyrotechnics Association  http://www.americanpyro.com/

    Fireworks Related Injuries  http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/fworks.htm

First Aid

    Active First Aid   http://www.parasolemt.com.au/Manual/

    First Aid Guide Mayo Clinic  http://www.mayoclinic.com/findinformation/firstaidandselfcare/index.cfm

    Heimlich Maneuver  http://www.heimlichinstitute.org/maneuver.html 

    MedlinePlus Disaster & Emergency Preparedness   http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/disastersandemergencypreparedness.html

    Virtual Naval Hospital Standard First Aid Course   http://www.vnh.org/StandardFirstAid/toc.html

    

First Amendment Center  http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/

Fish

    Australian Museum Fish Site  http://www.amonline.net.au/fishes/

    California Dept. of Fish and Game. Fish Bulletin   http://ceo.ucsd.edu/fishbull/

    California Fish Identification Guides   http://www.dfg.ca.gov/mrd/fishid.html

    Census of Marine Life   http://www.coml.org/coml.htm

    How to set up a Freshwater Aquarium    http://www.pnl.gov/ecology/Rivers/Aquarium/Aqua.html

    Sardine Run Association (South Africa)  http://www.thesardinerunassociation.org/

Fitness

    Family Doctor Physical Activity Factsheets   http://familydoctor.org/x5216.xml

    A History of Fitness   http://www.unm.edu/~lkravitz/Article%20folder/history.html

    Physical Activity for Everyone    http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/physical/

Flowers SEE Plants

Folklore SEE ALSO Myths & Legends, Fairy Tales

    Aesop's Fables Online   http://www.mythfolklore.net/aesopica/   

    American Folklore http://www.americanfolklore.net/

    Folk Medicine  http://www.folkmed.ucla.edu/

    Indigenous Peoples Literature    http://www.indigenouspeople.net/ipl_final.html

Food SEE ALSO Nutrition, Recipes, Cookery

    Brief History of French Food   http://www.waitrose.com/food/celebritiesandarticles/internationalcuisine/0205064.aspx

    Farm Bill 2007   http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usdafarmbill?navtype=SU&navid=FARM_BILL_FORUMS

    Food History Resources   http://www.allbaking.net/history.html

    Food in the Arts   http://www.londonfoodfilmfiesta.co.uk/

    Food Psychology   http://www.foodpsychology.com/

    Food Theme Month Links   http://lancaster.unl.edu/food/ciqlinks.htm

    Foodborne Illness Education Information Center  http://www.nal.usda.gov/foodborne/

    History of Pumpkin Pie   http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/PieHistory/PumpkinPie.htm

    My Pyramid (USDA food pyramid)   http://www.mypyramid.gov/

    What to Eat. Marion Nestle   http://www.whattoeatbook.com/

    World Food Situation   http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/en/

    World's Healthiest Foods A-Z List   http://www.whfoods.com/foodstoc.php

Football, American

    NFL   http://www.nfl.com/

Football, SEE Soccer

Foreign Aid

    African Debt Relief   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4081220.stm

    U.S. Overseas Loans & Grants (Greenbook)  http://qesdb.cdie.org/gbk/

Foreign Languages  SEE ALO Individual Languages –French…

    BBC Languages  http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/

    Dictionary.com/Translator  http://dictionary.reference.com/translate/text.html

    Fokus Deutsch (Free registration for videos on demand)   http://www.learner.org/resources/series104.html

    Foreign Language Teaching Forum  http://www.cortland.edu/flteach/flteach-res.html

    From Language to Language  http://www.langtolang.com/

    Helpful Sites for Students of Language  http://www.oberoi-net.com/language.html

    I Love Languages  http://www.ilovelanguages.com/

    Internet Picture Dictionary  http://www.pdictionary.com/

    LSA/CELP Endangered Languages Database  http://www.indigenous-language.org/endangered/   

    Your Dictionary.com  http://yourdictionary.com/

Foreign Policy  

    Foreign Policy Association  http://www.fpa.org/

    Policy Library  http://www.policylibrary.com/

    Watching America - translated foreign news   http://www.watchingamerica.com/

Foreign Study

    iAgora Work and Study Abroad   http://www.iagora.com/

 

Forms of Address  http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001618.html

France

     Brief History of French Food   http://www.waitrose.com/food/celebritiesandarticles/internationalcuisine/0205064.aspx

     French Culture in the USA    http://frenchculture.org/

     Paris Architecture History     http://www.parisnotes.com/architecture/parisbuildings.html

           

FRASER Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Resources   http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/

Freedom of Information Act

     CIA FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) Reading Room    http://www.foia.cia.gov/

    Freedom of Information Privacy Act  http://foia.fbi.gov/

    FOIAdvocates  http://www.foiadvocates.com/

Freud, Sigmund

    Freud Museum    http://www.freud.org.uk/

Frontline TV Reports Watch Online  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view/

Fuel Economy Site  http://www.fueleconomy.gov/

Fungi

    Fungi of California   http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/

 

 

G

 

Gallup Polls  http://www.gallup.com/

Games SEE ALSO "Just for Fun" at the end of the list

    Archimedes Laboratory: Puzzling and Mental Activities  http://www.archimedes-lab.org/

    Games for the Brain   http://www.gamesforthebrain.com/

    Games Kids Play  http://www.centerofweb.com/kids/games/default.htm

    Hangman  http://www.billsgames.com/hangman/

    One Across: Crossword Puzzle Help  http://www.oneacross.com/

    Pop Cap Games  http://www.popcap.com/

    Scrabble Helper  http://www.wordplays.com/fcgi-bin/scrabble.pl

    Segmentation  http://www.segmation.com/SegPlayChoose.asp#images

    Story Fun (similar to Ad Libs)  http://stuff.mit.edu/storyfun

    Streetplay  http://streetplay.com/

    Twenty Questions http://y.20q.net/

    Wordzap  http://wordzap.com/

Garbage

    Municipal Solid Waste   http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/muncpl/

 

 

Gardening SEE Horticulture SEE ALSO Plants

Gay & Lesbian

    50 State run-down on Gay Marriage Laws   http://www.stateline.org/live/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=136&languageId=1&contentId=15576

    California Domestic Partners Registry   http://www.ss.ca.gov/dpregistry/

    Same Sex Marriage  http://www.sfgate.com/samesexmarriage/

Genealogy

   Ancestry.com  http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3693 

    California Bound: Wagon Train & Ships Passenger Lists   http://www.pt5dome.com/PassHome.html

   Genealogy Learning Center  http://www.genealogy.com/genehelp.html

    Social Security Death Index SSDI  http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/

Genesis Space Mission (collect Solar winds)   http://www.genesismission.org/

Genetics/Genetic Engineering

    DNA from the Beginning   http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/

    DNA Interactive   http://www.dnai.org/index.htm

    Genetic Disorders & Birth Defects Information Center  http://geneinfo.medlib.iupui.edu/

    Genetic Origins   http://www.geneticorigins.org/geneticorigins/

    Genetically Engineered Animals   http://www.fda.gov/cvm/GEAnimals.htm

    GloFish (first genetically modified animal sold to US consumers)  http://www.isb.vt.edu/articles/jun0405.htm

Geneva Convention

    Geneva Conventions, Journalists Guide  http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&aid=27050

    Geneva Convention Links  http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=49&aid=65396

    Geneva Convention, Reference Guide to   http://www.genevaconventions.org/

    Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War  http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/91.htm

Genital Mutilation

    Female Genital Mutilation   http://www.who.int/topics/female_genital_mutilation/en/

Geodes    http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/maps-data-pub/publications/geobits/geobit3.shtml

Geography SEE ALSO Earth Science

    GeoData: US Maps & Data   http://gos2.geodata.gov/wps/portal/gos

    Geographic Distribution of Major Hazards in U.S.   http://www.usgs.gov/themes/hazards.html

    Geography Network  http://www.geographynetwork.com/

    Geography World   http://members.aol.com/bowermanb/101.html

    Geohive: Global Statistics   http://www.geohive.com/default1.aspx

    The Physical Environment: an Introduction to Physical Geography  http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/geog101/textbook/title_page.html

    Physical Geography.net  http://www.geog.ouc.bc.ca/physgeog/home.html

     Visual Geography Series   http://www.vgsbooks.com/

 Geology

    Atlas of Igneous & Metamorphic Rocks, Minerals..  http://www.geolab.unc.edu/Petunia/IgMetAtlas/mainmenu.html

    Calif. Geological Survey: the Geology, Natural Resources & Geologic Hazards of CA)  http://www.consrv.ca.gov/CGS/

    The Dynamic Earth (need Flash)  http://www.mnh.si.edu/earth/main_frames.html

    Geodes    http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/maps-data-pub/publications/geobits/geobit3.shtml

    Geographic Distribution of Major Hazards in U.S.   http://www.usgs.gov/themes/hazards.html

    Image Gallery for Geology   http://www.geosci.unc.edu/faculty/glazner/Images/gallery.html

    Landslides & Mudslides   http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/landslides.asp

    Plate Tectonics   http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/tectonics.html

Geophysics

     International Geophysical Year 2007    http://www7.nationalacademies.org/archives/igyhistory.html

     Rockets, Radar, & Computers: the International Geophysical Year    http://celebrating200years.noaa.gov/magazine/igy/welcome.html

German Language SEE ALSO Foreign Languages

    Fokus Deutsch (Free registration for videos on demand)   http://www.learner.org/resources/series104.html

Germany 

    Germany 1900-1945  http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Germany.htm

   

Gilbert & Sullivan

    Gilbert & Sullivan Archive   http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/

    Gilbert & Sullivan Parody Archive   http://www.luxumbradei.com/parody/

Ginsberg, Allen.

     Howl (2006 50th Anniversary) & other poems   http://www.rooknet.com/beatpage/writers/ginsberg.html

Girls in Literature   

    Beyond Nancy Drew  http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/beyond-nancy-drew.html  

 

Global Policy Forum  http://www.globalpolicy.org/

Global Trends 2015  http://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/globaltrends2015/index.html

Global Warming

    California Solutions to Global Warming    http://www.solutionsforglobalwarming.com/

    Discovery of Global Warming   http://www.nypl.org/research/sibl/guides/

    Global Warming: Early Warning Signs  http://www.climatehotmap.org/

    Global Warming: Facts & Our Future   http://www.koshland-science-museum.org/exhibitgcc/

    Global Warming FAQs  http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html

    Global Warming In-Depth   http://www.pewclimate.org/global-warming-in-depth/all_reports/observedimpacts/index.cfm

    US Climate Action Report  http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/ResourceCenterPublicationsUSClimateActionReport.html

 

Glossarist: a searchable directory of Glossaries   http://www.glossarist.com/ 

Gnosticism

    Gnosis Archive  http://www.gnosis.org/

Gold

     Gold Price   http://www.goldprice.org/

     Gold Rush in California    http://www.calgoldrush.com/

Golf  http://golf.about.com/

 

Google

    Google’s 10th Birthday (2008)  http://www.google.com/tenthbirthday/ten-years-out.html

Gorillas

    Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund    http://www.gorillafund.org/

Gothic

    Literary Gothic   http://www.litgothic.com/index_fl.html

Government SEE ALSO United States

    Capitol Impact Government Gateway  http://www.capitolimpact.com/gw/

    Center for Ethics in Government   http://www.ncsl.org/programs/ethics/

    Google US Government Search   http://www.google.com/ig/usgov

    Gov Engine   http://www.govengine.com/

    Governing.com   http://www.governing.com/idea.htm

    Governing Source Book : State & Local   http://sourcebook.governing.com/

    Government and Geographical Information and Data Services  http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govinfo/index.html   

    Government Gazettes (Worldwide) Online   http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/gazettes/

    Governments on the WWW   http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/

    Open CRS (Congressional Research Reports)   http://www.opencrs.com/

    Unified Agenda (The Unified Agenda (also known as the Semiannual Regulatory Agenda), published twice a year (usually in April and October) in the Federal Register (FR), summarizes the rules and

    proposed rules that each Federal agency expects to issue during the next six months)   http://www.gpoaccess.gov/ua/

    US Government Blue Pages  http://www.usbluepages.gov/

    US Government Manual 2004 - 2005    http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gmanual/

Graffiti

      The Wooster Collective: a celebration of street art   http://woostercollective.com/

 

Grammar

    Blue Book of Grammar & Punctuation   http://www.grammarbook.com/

    Common Errors in English  http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/index.html

    Dr. Grammar   http://www.drgrammar.org/

    Grammar Now!  http://www.grammarnow.com/

    Guide to Grammar and Writing   http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMMAR/

    Sentence Diagramming   http://www.geocities.com/gene_moutoux/diagrams.htm

    Verbix: Online Conjugator    http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/index.asp

Graphic Novels

    Recommended Graphic Novels for Public Libraries   http://my.voyager.net/~sraiteri/graphicnovels.htm

Greek Alphabet   http://www.physlink.com/Reference/GreekAlphabet.cfm

Griffith Park    http://www.laparks.org/dos/parks/griffithPK/

Guevara, Che

     Revolution & Commerce: Korda’s Photos of Che Guevara    http://138.23.124.165/exhibitions/che/

 

Guillotine Headquarters   http://www.metaphor.dk/guillotine/

Guinness World Records   http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/

Guns & Gun Control  

       California Firearms Laws 2005    http://caag.state.ca.us/firearms/forms/pdf/cfl.pdf

       Firearms, State Laws & Ordinances 2004   http://www.atf.gov/firearms/statelaws/25thedition/

 

 

H

 

Hair

    Hair Fashion Images: Preposterous Headdresses....    http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/exhibitions/hair/

Hamas (Palestinian Organization)

            Hamas   http://www.cfr.org/publication/8968

 Harlem Renaissance

            Guide to Harlem Renaissance Materials    http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/harlem/harlem.html

Hate Crime Stats    http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2004/openpage.htm

Hawaii

            2009 Hawaii’s 50th anniversary Statehood   http://statehood.hawaii.gov/  

Hazardous Materials/Waste SEE Poisons

Hazing: Stop Hazing   http://www.stophazing.org/

Health SEE Medical

Heart

    Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery  http://www.tmc.edu/thi/cab.html

     History of Cardiology   http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/medmuseum/galleryexhibits/beatgoesonhistory/beatgoesonhistory.html

Heimlich Maneuver  http://www.heimlichinstitute.org/maneuver.html 

Herbs

    Herbal Safety  http://www.herbalsafety.utep.edu/

    Illustrated Herbal Encyclopedia  http://www.canoe.ca/HealthHerbal/home.html

 

Heroin: "From Flowers to Heroin"   http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/heroin/flowers_to_heroin.htm

Hesse, Hermann  http://www.hermann-hesse.de/eng/

Heteronym Homepage (same spelling/different pronunciation or meaning)  http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cellis/heteronym.html

Hezbollah/Hizbollah

      Background on Hezbollah    http://www.cfr.org/publication/9155/

Hiking Trails, California   http://tchester.org/sgm/hikes.html

Hispanic Resources SEE Latino Resources, SEE ALSO Ethnic 

History

   African- American Odyssey     http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html

    American Cultural History 19th Century http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/19thcentury.html

    American Cultural History 20th Century  http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decades.html

    American 1950’s: Literature & Culture   http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html

    Ancient History   http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/

    Ancient Routes   http://www.ancientroute.com/

    Avalon Project (Yale) Federalist Papers – Complete collection of 85 articles   http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/federal/fed.htm

    BBC On This Day   http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/

    Best of History Websites  http://www.besthistorysites.net/

    Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed     http://blackpast.org/

    British History 1500 - 1980  http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Britain.html

    British History Online   http://www.british-history.ac.uk/

    Civil War (American ) Homepage  http://www.civilwarhome.com/

    Civil War Sites Advisory Commission  http://www.cr.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/tvii.htm

    Civilizations (need  Macromedia Flash 6)  http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/interactive/civilisations/

    Classics Unveiled  http://www.classicsunveiled.com/

    The Cold War  http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ColdWar.htm

     Digital Roman Forum    http://dlib.etc.ucla.edu/projects/Forum/

    Documents in the News. Univ. Michigan   http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/docnews.html

    Documents, Teaching with    http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/index.html

    eHistory  http://www.ehistory.com/

    Elizabethan England  http://renaissance.dm.net/compendium/index.html

    Ellis Island Passenger Arrivals  http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/

    Germany 1900 - 1945  http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Germany.htm

    "Great Awakening" 1730-1760   http://www.great-awakening.com/

    Historic Cities: Maps & Documents   http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/

    Historical Text Archive  http://historicaltextarchive.com/

    Historical Voices   http://www.historicalvoices.org/

    History: WWW Virtual Library  http://vlib.org/History

    History & Politics Out Loud  http://www.hpol.org/

    History Buff  http://www.historybuff.com/

    History World  http://www.historyworld.net/

    Internet Modern History Sourcebook  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html

    Kennedy - JFK Link  http://www.jfklink.com/

    Lewis & Clark (PBS)  http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/

    Lewis & Clark : The Ultimate Adventure (Time)  http://www.time.com/time/2002/lewis_clark/

    Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts  http://www.kb.nl/kb/manuscripts/

    Middle Ages, Exploring the   http://www.skell.org/

    Middle East   http://www.albany.edu/history/middle-east/

    Modern World: Making the   http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/

    Monarchy 1042  -1952    http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/monarchy.htm

    Napoleon Bonaparte Internet Guide   http://www.napoleonbonaparte.nl/

    Old West   http://homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/oldwest/oldwest.htm

    Reading Writing and Researching for History  http://academic.bowdoin.edu/WritingGuides/

    Rulers (Heads of State)   http://rulers.org/

    Shmoop (General History Topics)   http://www.shmoop.com/history/

    Stonehenge Project   http://www.thestonehengeproject.org/

    Trojan War   http://www.archaeology.org/0405/etc/troy.html

    Tudor England 1485 - 1603   http://englishhistory.net/tudor.html

    Twentieth Century Year by Year  http://www.multied.com/20th/

    United States Democracy, Core Documents  http://www.gpoaccess.gov/coredocs.html

    United States Political Figures   http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USApolitical.htm

    Women in American History   http://search.eb.com/women/

    World History  http://www.hyperhistory.com/

    World War I Encyclopedia  http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWW.htm

    World War I Poetry & Literature   http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/projects/jtap/

    World War II Documents   http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/ww2.htm

    World War II Resources   http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/

Hoaxes & Urban Legends

     Top Hoaxes/Urban Legends of 2006    http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/internet/a/2006_top_ten.htm  

Hobo Signs & Symbols   http://www.slackaction.com/signroll.htm

Hockey SEE ALSO Ice Hockey

    Hockey, Science of   http://www.exploratorium.edu/hockey/

Holidays

    Holidays on the Net  http://holidays.net/

    Holidays & Observances   http://lii.org/search/file/holidays

Holocaust

    America & the Holocaust   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/

    Holocaust Encyclopedia    http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/

    Holocaust History Project  http://www.holocaust-history.org/

    Holocaust/Shoah Page  http://www.mtsu.edu/~baustin/holo.html

    Kristallnacht: Nov. 1938 Pogroms    http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/kristallnacht_02/

 

Holy Grail  http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/grlmenu.htm

Home Improvement

    Answers @ Ace   http://www.acehardware.com/infohome/index.jsp?clickid=body_bspot_txt

    DIY Home Improvement  http://doityourself.com/

    Helpful Hints from Heloise  http://heloise.com/

    HGTV  http://www.hgtv.com/

    Plumbing 101   http://www.friendlyplumber.com/plumbing101.html

Home Schooling SEE ALSO Education

     A - Z Home's Cool   http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/

    High School Hub   http://highschoolhub.org/hub/hub.cfm

    HomeSchool Association of California   http://www.hsc.org/

    Homeschooling in California    http://www.hslda.org/hs/state/CA/

    National Home Education Network   http://www.nhen.org/default.asp

 

Homeland Security Institute  http://www.homelandsecurity.org/

Horses

    Equine Info  http://www.equineinfo.com/default.htm

    Equisearch   http://www.equisearch.com/

Horticulture SEE ALSO Plants

    Brooklyn Botanical Gardens: Gardening Topics   http://www.bbg.org/gar2/topics/

    Butterfly Gardening   http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/horticulture/DG6711.html

    Helpful Gardener   http://www.helpfulgardener.com/

Hospice

    Hospice Foundation of America   http://www.hospicefoundation.org/

 

Hospital Compare   http://www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov/

Hot Topics Super Sites  http://infodome.sdsu.edu/research/guides/hot/supersites.shtml

Hoovers Business Info  http://www.hoovers.com/free/

How Everyday Things are Made   http://manufacturing.stanford.edu/

How Products are Made    http://www.madehow.com/

How Stuff Works  http://www.howstuffworks.com/index.htm

How to...

    eHow  http://www.ehow.com/

    Knowledge Hound ; The How-to Hunter  http://www.knowledgehound.com/

    Plumbing 101   http://www.friendlyplumber.com/plumbing101.html

    So You Wanna...?  http://www.soyouwanna.com/

Hughes, Langston

    Langston Hughes @ 100   http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/langstonhughes/web.html

Human Body   

    AMA Atlas of the Human Body   http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/7140.html

    Atlas of Human Anatomy   http://www.vh.org/adult/provider/anatomy/atlasofanatomy/index.html

    Anatomy Atlases    http://anatomyatlases.org/

    Gray's Anatomy   http://www.bartleby.com/107/

    NLM's Visible Human Project  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html

Human Rights

    Human Rights Campaign ((Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Equal Rights) http://www.hrc.org/

    Human Rights Index for Arab Countries   http://www.arabhumanrights.org/en/

    Human Rights Internet  http://www.hri.ca/index.aspx

    Human Rights Watch World Report 2003  http://www.hrw.org/wr2k3/

    Human Security Report 2005   http://www.humansecurityreport.info/

    International Human Rights Documents System  http://www.huridocs.org/

Humanities 

H Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online    www.h-net.org

Humanities Text Initiative   http://www.hti.umich.edu/

Humbul Humanities Hub  http://www.humbul.ac.uk/

Stanford Presidential Lectures in Humanities & the Arts   http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/index.html

 

Humor

    Humor in the Classroom  http://ase.tufts.edu/cae/occasional_papers/humor.htm

    Make 'em Laugh: Humorous Poems & Monologues  http://www.monologues.co.uk/

Hurricanes See Also Katrina, Hurricane 2005

    Historical Hurricane Tracks   http://hurricane.csc.noaa.gov/hurricanes/index.htm

    Hurricane Preparedness  http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/HAW2/english/intro.shtml

 

I

Ice Hockey

    Ice Hockey A - Z  http://www.azhockey.com/body.htm

Ideas

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas   http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/DicHist/dict.html

    Global Ideas Bank  http://www.globalideasbank.org/site/home/

    The World Question Center    http://www.edge.org/q2006/q06_index.html

Identity and Identity Theft

    Digital Footprints: Online Identity Management   http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Digital_Footprints.pdf

    Identity Theft Resource Center   http://www.idtheftcenter.org/index.shtml

Idiom Site   http://www.idiomsite.com/

Illuminated Manuscripts

    "Leaves of Gold" Illuminated Manuscripts  http://www.leavesofgold.org/

Illustration  

    American Illustrators Gallery  http://www.americanillustrators.com/

    American Society of Architectural Illustrators  http://www.asai.org/

    Art of Botanical Illustration   http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/hort/

    Association of Archeological Illustrators & Surveyors  http://www.aais.org.uk/index.asp

    BibliOdysssey; Book Illustration    http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/

    Dickens' Illustrations Page  http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens/illustrations.html

    Dictionary of Illustration   http://www.directoryofillustration.com/

    DiTerlizzi Illustration   http://www.diterlizzi.com/

    Dream Anatomy  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/dreamanatomy/

    Early Illustrators of Children's Books   http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/HistoryofChildLit/illus.html

    History of Illustration  http://www.library.arizona.edu/users/juarezm/History_of_Illlustration.htm

    i Spot  http://www.theispot.com/

    Illustration House       http://www.illustration-house.com/

    Illustrator Biographies   http://www.bpib.com/illustra.htm

    Illustrators Portfolio  http://www.illustrators.co.za/

    Industrial Illustrators   http://ix3.com/

    Liam’s Pictures from Old Books   http://www.fromoldbooks.org/

    Medical Illustration Sourcebook 17  http://www.medillsb.com/

    Medical Illustrators Homepage  http://medartist.com/

    National Museum of American Illustration   http://www.americanillustration.org/

    Society of Illustrators    http://www.societyillustrators.org/

    Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles  http://www.si-la.org/

    Visual Telling of Stories  http://www.fulltable.com/VTS/index2.htm

    Women Painters & Illustrators  http://www.speel.demon.co.uk/femart.htm

Images

    British Library Images online   http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/britishlibrary/

    Common Content   http://commoncontent.org/

    Ditto   http://www.ditto.com/

    Exploring California's Insects Photobank   http://www.bugpeople.org/photobank/photobank.htm

    Finding Images on the Web  http://www.bu.edu/library/instruction/findimages/index.html

    Google Images. Go to Google, choose the Images tab. http://www.google.com/

    Khronos Projector: video time-warping machine    http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/alvaro/Khronos/Khronos_Projector.htm

    Life Photo Archive   http://images.google.com/hosted/life

   Medical Images & Video   http://www.hon.ch/cgi-bin/HONmedia

    NYPL Digital Gallery  http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/

    Old Pictures    http://www.old-picture.com/

    Pixsy Image Search   http://www.pixsy.com/

    TASI: A Review of Image Search Engines  http://www.tasi.ac.uk/resources/searchengines.html

    United Press International Newspictures  http://about.upi.com/products/newspictures/

     Wellcome Images   http://medphoto.wellcome.ac.uk/

    Yotophoto – free images    http://yotophoto.com/

Immigration

    America’s Immigration Quandary    http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=274

     Center for Immigration Studies  http://www.cis.org/

     Immigration to the United States 1789 – 1930   http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/

     Trac Immigration   http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/

    U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services  http://uscis.gov/graphics/index.htm

     U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security: Immigration Statistics   http://www.dhs.gov/ximgtn/statistics/

India

     Salt March, India 1930   http://www.saltmarch.org.in/ 

Indianapolis (Indy) 500  http://www2.indystar.com/library/factfiles/sports/autoracing/indy500.html

Influenza

    Influenza Information  http://www.cdc.gov/flu/

Information

    2004 Information Format Trends   http://www.oclc.org/reports/2004format.htm

    Big Blue: Information Skills Resources   http://www.library.mmu.ac.uk/bigblue/

    How Much Information 2003    http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/

    Infography   http://www.fieldsofknowledge.com/infography.html

    Information Competency in the California Community Colleges  http://www.topsy.org/infocomp.html

    Information Literacy Resources Directory   http://www.infolitglobal.info/

    Information Terms Glossary  http://www.ycp.edu/library/ifl/glossary.html

    Information Literacy Place  http://dis.shef.ac.uk/literacy/

 

Inhalants & Inhalant Abuse   http://www.health.org/govpubs/phd631/

Insects

    Beneficial Insects  http://ag.udel.edu/extension/information/hyg/hyg-14.htm

    BugInfo: State Insects   http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/nmnh/buginfo/statebugs.htm

    California's Endangered Insects  http://essig.berkeley.edu/endins/endins.htm

    Collecting & Preserving Insects & Mites   http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=10141

    Exploring California Insects Photobank   http://www.bugpeople.org/photobank/photobank.htm

    Insect Fact Sheets   http://www.amonline.net.au/insects/insects/factsheets.htm

    Insect Information Sheets http://insected.arizona.edu/info.htm

    Insect Recipes   http://www.ent.iastate.edu/misc/insectsasfood.html

    Insecta  http://www.insecta.com/

    Insects as Human Food  http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2160.html

    Insects at the Smithsonian   http://www.mnh.si.edu/insect/

    Insects Disease & History  http://scarab.msu.montana.edu/historybug/

    Insects Metamorphosis  http://www.uen.org/utahlink/activities/view_activity.cgi?activity_id=2024

    Insects: National Zoo   http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Invertebrates/Facts/insects/

    Insects on the WWW  http://www.isis.vt.edu/~fanjun/text/Links.html

    Keeping Insects as Pets   http://www.amonline.net.au/insects/insects/pets.htm

    Living Jewels Insects Beetles   http://living-jewels.com/

    Very Cool Bugs  http://www.insects.org/entophiles/

    What's that Bug?   http://www.whatsthatbug.com/

Interior Design

    Dezignare Interior Design Collective  http://www.dezignare.com/

    History of Interior Design   http://www.architectureweek.com/2001/0905/culture_1-1.html

International Monetary Fund   http://www.imf.org/external/index.htm

International Relations

   Carnegie Endowment for International Peace    http://www.carnegieendowment.org/ 

   Center for Nonproliferation Studies. Iran Special Collection   http://cns.miis.edu/research/iran/

   Congressional Research Service Reports on the Middle East   http://fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/

   Constitution Finder    http://confinder.richmond.edu/

   Council on Foreign Relations    http://www.cfr.org/

   Diplomacy Monitor   http://www.diplomacymonitor.com/stu/dm.nsf/opener?OpenForm

   Eldis   http://www.eldis.org/ 

    Foreign Policy Association  http://www.fpa.org/

    Guide to Declassified Documents   http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/govdocs/declassdocs.htm

    Institute for Policy Studies  http://www.ips-dc.org/index.htm

    International Relations & Security Trends  http://first.sipri.org/

    International Relations Center: Foreign Policy in Focus  http://www.fpif.org/index.htm

    Power & Interest News Repots (PINR)   http://www.pinr.com/index.php

    US Mexico Border   http://mexico.usembassy.gov/mexico/eborder_mechs.html

Internet

    60 Sites    http://www.virtualchase.com/sla/60sites/60sites2006.html

    Center for Digital Future Internet Report  http://www.digitalcenter.org/downloads/DigitalFutureReport-Year4-2004.pdf

    Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA)   http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.5319.EH:

    Educating the Net Generation   http://www.educause.edu/educatingthenetgen

    Evaluating Internet Health Information: Tutorial   http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/webeval/webeval.html

    Evaluating the Quality of Information on the Internet  http://www.virtualchase.com/quality/

    Future of the Internet III (2009)   http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/270/report_display.asp

    History of Computing & Internet   http://askbobrankin.com/internet_history.html

    Hobbes' Internet Timeline v8  http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/

    Internet Archive/Wayback Machine  http://www.archive.org/

    Internet Librarian 2006 Presentations    http://www.infotoday.com/il2006/presentations/

    Internet Quiz   http://www.internettourbus.com/answers.htm

    Internet Society   http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/

    Internet Tutorial  http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/resources/tutorial/home.html

    Internet Users Report (Pew Institute)   http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/146/report_display.asp

    Internet World Statistics   http://www.internetworldstats.com/

    NetLingo  http://www.netlingo.com/framesindex.cfm

    Pinakes: a Subject Launchpad   http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html

    Pew Internet & American Life Project  http://www.pewinternet.org/

    Researching Medical Literature on the Internet 2005 Update   http://www.llrx.com/features/medical2005.htm

    Search Engine Dictionary  http://www.searchenginedictionary.com/

    State Internet Filtering Laws in Schools & Libraries   http://www.ncsl.org/programs/lis/CIP/filterlaws.htm

    Teens & Technology (Pew Report)   http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Teens_Tech_July2005web.pdf

    Truth or Fiction  http://www.truthorfiction.com/

    Usability of Websites for Teenagers   http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20050131.html

    Webopedia: Dictionary for Computer & Internet Terms  http://webopedia.internet.com/

     World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) History   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/history

Interviews

    Conversations with History   http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/

     Paris Review Online Interviews from 1950 -  Browse by name, decade...   http://www.parisreview.org/literature.php

Invasive Species Information System    http://www.invasivespecies.gov/

Inventions/ Inventors & Innovators

    Black Inventor Online Museum  http://www.blackinventor.com/

    Coolest Inventions of 2001, 2002, 2003  http://www.time.com/time/2003/inventions/invmusic.html

    Crazy Fads  http://www.crazyfads.com/

    Design for the Other 90%   http://other.cooperhewitt.org/

    Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Inventions & Inventors  http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/invent.htm

    History of Inventions  http://www.cbc.ca/kids/general/the-lab/history-of-invention/default.html

    How Products are Made   http://www.madehow.com/

    Innovators of our Time   http://www.smithsonianmag.com/issues/2005/november/thirtyfive.php

    Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies    http://web.mit.edu/isn/

    Interactive Bionics Tour   http://blog.wired.com/images/bionicanimation.html

    Invention Dimension    http://web.mit.edu/invent/invent-main.html

    Inventions/Inventors  http://inventors.about.com/

    Inventor of the Week  http://web.mit.edu/invent/i-archive.html

    Museum of Ancient Inventions  http://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/home.htm

    National Inventors Hall of Fame  http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/1_1_search.asp

    Totally Absurd Inventions  http://www.totallyabsurd.com/

IRS (Internal Revenue Service)

    Internal Revenue Service  http://www.irs.gov/

Iran

    Iran: Special Collection from Center for Nonproliferation Studies   http://cns.miis.edu/research/iran/

Iraq

    American Press Institute: Iraq Resources   http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/content/3949.cfm

    Cost of Iraq War  http://www.costofwar.com/

    Iraq Conflict Tips & Resources  http://www.cyberjournalist.net/features/iraqtips.htm

    Iraq: Denial & Deception (Colin Powell addresses UN Security Council)  http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/02/20030205-1.html

    NPR Report: Iraq    http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1010

    The US War in Iraq  http://www.ips-dc.org/iraq/

Islam

     What is Ashura? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4274749.stm

 

Israel (created 1948) SEE ALSO Jews, Holocaust…

       Israel at 60    http://www.ujc.org/page.aspx?id=162303

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Japan

    Japan Information Network   http://jin.jcic.or.jp/

    Japanese Tae Ceremony   http://www.teahyakka.com/

    Japanese Traditional Crafts, Handbook   http://www.nihon-kogeikai.com/TEBIKI-E.html

    Kimono...Japanese Clothing   http://www.japanesekimono.com/

    Traditional Japanese Music   http://www.indiana.edu/~japan/iguides/tradmusic-pfv.html

    Washi (Japanese Paper making)   http://www.kippo.or.jp/culture_e/washi/

Japanese-Americans - Internment 

    Ansel Adams. Manzanar. "Suffering Under a Great Injustice"  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aamhtml/

    Densho: Japanese American Legacy Project   http://www.densho.org/

Jefferson, Thomas

     Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia   http://wiki.monticello.org/

Jews, History

    Bloom Southwest Jewish Archives  http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/bloom/

    Contemporary Global Anti- Semitism: a report   http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/102406.htm

    Jewish Encyclopedia (12 vols.)  http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/index.jsp

    Jewish Virtual Library  http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/

   

JFK Link  http://www.jfklink.com/

Jigsaw Puzzles  http://www.dltk-kids.com/puzzle.htm

Jobs SEE Careers

Johnson, Samuel (2009= 300 anniversary/Tercentenary)

    Samuel Johnson     http://www.johnson2009.org/

Journalism

    Best of Photojournalism    http://www.nppa.org/competitions/best_of_still_photojournalism/2004/

    Digital Journalist. Feature Presentations  http://dirckhalstead.org/feature.html

    Economist Style Guide  http://www.economist.com/research/StyleGuide/index.cfm

    Homefront Confidential: How the War on Terrorism Affects Access to Information...    http://www.rcfp.org/homefrontconfidential/

    Journalism.org  http://www.journalism.org/

    Journalist's Toolbox. American Press Institute. http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/toolbox/

    Photovoyage. Photojournalism.  http://wpni01.auroraquanta.com/

    Power Reporting. Research Tools for Journalists  http://www.powerreporting.com/

    Society of Professional Journalists. Diversity Toolbox  http://spj.org/diversity_toolbox.asp

Joyce, James

    James Joyce: The Brazen Head  http://www.themodernword.com/joyce/

    From Dublin to Ithaca: Cornell’s Joyce Collection   http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/joyce/introduction/

 

 

K

Kafka, Franz

    Franz Kafka   http://www.themodernword.com/kafka/

    Kafka Project   http://www.kafka.org/

 Katrina, Hurricane 2005

     FEMA Hurricane Katrina Information   http://www.fema.gov/hazard/hurricane/2005katrina/index.shtm

     Hurricane Katrina Aftermath    http://katrina.esl.lsu.edu/katrina/

     Hurricane Katrina CNN Special   http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/katrina/

     Hurricane Katrina Impact Studies   http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/hurricanes/katrina/

Keats, John (Romantic Poet)   http://www.englishhistory.net/keats.html

 

Kelley Blue Book (Cars)  http://www.kbb.com/

Kennedy Family

      Kennedy, John F.   JFK Link   http://www.jfklink.com/

       Robert F. Kennedy Memorial    http://www.rfkmemorial.org/lifevision/

Kimono...Japanese Clothing   http://www.japanesekimono.com/

Kinsey Institute   http://www.indiana.edu/~kinsey/

Kipling (Rudyard) Society  http://www.kipling.org.uk/

Kitsch

    Bad Stuff    http://askbobrankin.com/bad_stuff.html

Knitting  http://knitting.about.com/mbody.htm

Korea

    Korea: the Unfinished War   http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/korea/

Khronos Projector: video time-warping machine    http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/alvaro/Khronos/Khronos_Projector.htm

Kubler Ross, Elisabeth    http://www.elisabethkublerross.com/

Kyoto Protocol 

    Kyoto Protocol   http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/kpeng.html

 

 

L

Lab Tests Online   http://www.labtestsonline.org/index.html

Labor

    Bureau of Labor Statistics   http://www.bls.gov/

    Guide to Labor Unions & the Internet   http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/subjectGuides/laborUnionsAndTheInternet.html

    Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblies)  http://www.iww.org/

    International Labor Organization   http://www.ilo.org/

    National Child Labor Committee   http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/organizations-nclc.html

    Women's Labor History   http://www.afscme.org/otherlnk/whlinks.htm

    Working Heroes – Men & Women who Shaped America’s Labor Movement   http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/history/history/bios.cfm

Landslides/Mudslides SEE ALSO Geology

    2005 California Landslides Information   http://landslides.usgs.gov/html_files/landslides/05jan_ca/

    Landslides & Mudslides    http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/landslides.asp

Language

    American Dialect Society    http://www.americandialect.org/

    BBC Online Language Tutorials   http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/

    British English   http://www.effingpot.com/index.shtml

    Deciphering MedSpeak   http://www.mlanet.org/resources/medspeak/

    Do You Speak American?   http://www.pbs.org/speak/

    Explanations in Plain English   http://www.commoncraft.com/work/

    I Love Languages   http://www.ilovelanguages.com/

    Idiom Site   http://www.idiomsite.com/

    Indo European Language Tutorials   http://www.ielanguages.com/

    Interesting Things for ESL Students  http://www.manythings.org/

    International Phonetic Alphabet   http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipachart.html

    Language Tools   http://www.itools.com/lang/

    Language Translation   http://translation.langenberg.com/

    Languages of the World    http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/

    Map of Languages in the USA (MLA)  http://www.mla.org/census_main

    Phonetics & Linguistics. University College London      http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/index.html

    Plain English Campaign   http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/

    Spanish Language Proverbs & English Translations    http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Discourse/Proverbs/Spanish-English.html

    U.S. English Foundation: Towards a United America  http://www.usefoundation.org/foundation/research/lia/

    Useful Expressions and Greetings in 26 Languages   http://www.nypl.org/branch/central/dlc/df/useful.html

    Verbix: Online Conjugator    http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/index.asp

    Vocabulary University Puzzles & Tests   http://www.vocabulary.com/

    Word Count: 86,800 most frequently used English words        http://www.wordcount.org/

Large Hadron Collider

     Large Hadron Collider    http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html

Latin

    Greek & Latin Language Resources   http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/OM/grk-lat.html

    Latin Language Resources   http://www.forumromanum.org/latin/

    Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles   http://www.mythfolklore.net/fabulaefaciles/index.htm

Latin America

   Center for Latin American Studies Gallery    http://socrates.berkeley.edu:7001/Gallery/

     Internet Resources for Latin America   http://lib.nmsu.edu/subject/bord/laguia/

    Latin American Network Information Center  http://lanic.utexas.edu/

Latino/Hispanic Resources SEE ALSO Ethnic Groups

    American Latino   http://www.politicomagazine.com/

    Center for Latin American Studies Gallery    http://socrates.berkeley.edu:7001/Gallery/

    Famous Hispanics  http://www.coloquio.com/famosos/

    Hispanic Heritage. Gale Free Resources   http://www.gale.com/free_resources/chh/index.htm

    Latin American Network Information Center  http://lanic.utexas.edu/

    Latino Issues Forum   http://www.lif.org/

    Pew Hispanic Center   http://pewhispanic.org/

    Spanish Language Proverbs & English Translations    http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Discourse/Proverbs/Spanish-English.html

Law

    3 Strikes Law of California    http://www.lao.ca.gov/2005/3_strikes/3_strikes_102005.htm

    50 States Breastfeeding Laws   http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/breast50.htm

    American Bar Association   http://www.abanet.org/home.html   OR  http://www.abalawinfo.org/

    ABA Guide to Family Law   http://www.abanet.org/publiced/practical/books/family/

    American Law Sources Online   http://www.lawsource.com/also/

    California Superior Court EZLegalFile Court Forms   http://www.ezlegalfile.org/go.jsp?act=actShowHome

    Constitution Finder    http://confinder.richmond.edu/

    Cornell Legal Information Institute  http://www.law.cornell.edu/

    Everyday Law (California)   http://www.saclaw.lib.ca.us/pages/everyday-law.aspx

    Family Law LexisNexis   http://www.lexisnexis.com/practiceareas/family/

    Famous American Trials: My-Lai Courts-Martial 1970   http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mylai.htm

    FindLaw   http://www.findlaw.com/

    Guide to Law Online   http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/index.html

    Jurist: Legal News & Research   http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/

    Justia (free, keyword & searchable database)   http://www.justia.com/ 

    Justia Federal District Court Opinions   http://cases.justia.com/federal/district-courts/

    Law Help California   http://www.lawhelpcalifornia.org/CA/index.cfm

    Law Practice Area LexisNexis  http://www.lexisnexis.com/practiceareas/

    Lawyer Express  http://www.lawyerexpress.com/

    League of Nations Statistical & Disarmament Documents   http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/collections/league/

    League of Women Voters   http://www.lwv.org/

    Legal Blue Book   http://www.legalbluebook.com/

    Legal Lad   http://legallad.quickanddirtytips.com/

    Lemon Law Information & Sites   http://www.123car.com/lemon/lemonbystate.html

    Martindale-Hubble Lawyer Locator   http://www.martindale.com/xp/Martindale/home.xml

    Nations of the World Law Online   http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/nations.html

    NCSC Center for Jury Studies   http://www.ncsconline.org/Juries/home.htm

    Oceans and Law of the Sea    http://www.un.org/Depts/los/index.htm

    Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London, 1674 to 1834    http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/

    Racial Profiling   http://www.amnestyusa.org/racial_profiling/index.do

    Stalking      http://www.ncvc.org/src/

    State Statutes & Legislation (full- text)  http://www.whpgs.org/f.htm

    Subpoena Defense  http://subpoenadefense.org/

    Wex Legal Dictionary (Cornell U)        http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/mainpage

    World Legal Information Institute   http://www.worldlii.org/

 

Leap Year   http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/astronomy/LeapYear.html

Learning Strategies

    11 Steps to a Better Brain   http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg18625011.900

    Learning Strategies   http://tip.psychology.org/strategy.html

    Learning Strategies Database Muskingum College   http://www.muskingum.edu/%7Ecal/database/

    Teaching & Learning Strategies   http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/front_strategies.html

Legends SEE Myths & Legends

Letters

    Business Letters Samples  http://www.4hb.com/letters/

    Introduction to Business Letters   http://writing.colostate.edu/references/documents/bletter/index.cfm

 

Lewis, C.S. "Into the Wardrobe"  http://cslewis.drzeus.net/

Lewis & Clark

    Discovering Lewis & Clark  http://www.lewis-clark.org/

    Lewis & Clark (PBS)  http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/

    Lewis & Clark Bicentennial (Time)   http://www.time.com/time/2002/lewis_clark/

Libby, I. Lewis “Scooter”

     Documents from the trial of…    http://wid.ap.org/documents/libbytrial/

     US vs I. Lewis Libby     http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/osc/

Library & Libraries

   33 Reasons why Libraries are still important   http://www.degreetutor.com/library/adult-continued-education/librarians-needed

    Bartleby Books  <