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The Reference Desk - with thanks to The New York Times

• Research It all-in-one reference desk: dictionary, quotes, translators, more
• Onelook has 50 dictionaries, specialized and general
• Here are some bargain books for about $1 each at Amazon.com

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• Roget's Internet Thesaurus
• CIA World Factbook
• Library of Congress, including Marvel and Locis
• The World Wide Web Virtual Library
• Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia brief, cross-referenced biographies of more than 15,000 notables.
• National Library of Medicine
• Carl Uncover Free citations from 17,000 publications; charge for full articles
• The Merck Manual, guide to diseases
• West's Legal Directory
• The U.S. Constitution
• The Bible Browser
• I.R.S. information and publications. For more tax sites, try here.
• Citynet guide to Net information in and about major cities
• Mapquest gives a street-level map for any U.S. address
• Social Security death index
• The New York Public Library
• Consumer World has consumer finance rates, company contacts, consumer information
• Currency converter from Olsen & Associates converts from any currency to another
• Cost-of-living calculator and other useful tools
• Telephone & E-mail Directories
  • Switchboard nationwide telephone and address directory
  • InfoSpace personal, business and goverment phone, fax and e-mail
  • The Ultimates Multi-People Search      Yahoo's People Search includes a reverse directory
  • Zip2 Yellow Pages lets you search businesses by name, category, or distance from your home. Type in any address for door-to-door directions. Awesome!
  • Directory of toll free numbers
  • Big Yellow National business yellow pages and residential listings from NYNEX
  • 555-1212.com Guide to national and international phone and e-mail directories
  • BigBook Yellow Pages style business information
  • Thomas Register of Manufacturers
  • WhoWhere,Internet Address Finder and Four11 can help find e-mail addresses
  • InterNIC directory and database services
  • Zip Code and Zip+4 Finder Simple and efficient.
    

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Newspapers and Magazines Online

• The New York Times - all the news...


• PBS Online

   

  PBS Search  for a basic search, enter words or phrases separated by commas. PBS Multimedia Search  to search for pictures, audio clips, and other multimedia elements, fill in your search criteria below and click on the glasses icon.   [multimedia search tips] Search for keyword(s) exact phrase Text Images Sound Video Animation VR



• The Washington Post- all the Pres. that's fit to print

  	Search All Sources Washington Post Newsweek Associated Press Display in Standard Form Compact Form Enter keywords or phrases. For searching tips visit the help page. Today Only

•   The Onion - parodies, Funny Lady:  you can handle this
• The New York Observer - great literary Zine with an elegant traditional look
• The Los Angeles Times
• The Boston Globe


• Time Magazine a really beautiful site.   Check out their Timeline of the century



		Search    The Pathfinder networkTIMETIME DailyTIME AsiaLifeMoneyMoney DailyYour CompanyFortunePeoplePeople DailyEntertainment WeeklyParentTimeDr. WeilTIME DigitalThe World Wide Web For    Type:    Simple search (Example: Type astrology +horoscope*) Advanced search (Click for Help) Time period The past week The past month All




• The Atlantic Monthly  Using the form below, you can search their entire website, using words or phrases. You will get back a list of documents, ranked by how closely they match your criteria and grouped within three areas of the site: The Magazine (print issues and selections from the archives), Atlantic Unbound (Web-only features, Poetry Pages, and Flashbacks), and the Political Resources Index (Election Connection archive and selected magazine articles on political issues).
  

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• Newsweek Magazine
• Slate - do the free trial and let them condense the other newspapers for you
• USA Today
• Complete List of Newspapers at Yahoo
• Foreign Press
  • Germany
    • Frankfurter Rundschau - English-German Edition
    Clinton Impeachment (bilingual Auto-scrolling!)
    
    
    • Berliner Morgenpost International - English edition of the German daily
    • Rhein-zeitung - new news service in German; sports; regional archive
  • France

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Internet Fine Arts - with thanks to The New York Times

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Last updated: March 21, 1999