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Overviews of the U.S.

Symbols & Celebrations

Statistics

The 50 States

Overviews of U.S. History

Basic Documents and Writings

Famous Speeches

Online Links to Reference Resources

Finding People and Businesses

AnyWho Directories
http://www.anywho.com/

at hand Network Yellow Pages
http://www.athand.com/

Big Book
http://www.bigbook.com

InfoSpace
http://www.infospace.com

Switchboard
http://www.switchboard.com

Yahoo! People Search
http://people.yahoo.com/

Biographies

PeopleSpot
A portal to all kinds of people related information - biographies, celebrities, etc.
http://www.peoplespot.com/

Biographies PolySearch Engine
Access biographical information, sketches, and full biographies of famous and infamous historical figures, politicians, scientists, authors, artists & athletes.
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~jacso/extra/egyeb/poly-bio.htm

Biographies.com
http://www.biography.com/search/index.jsp

Government and Elected Officials

Governors
Lists current and former governors of the 50 states
http://www.nga.org/governors/1,1169,,00.html

Mayors
http://www.usmayors.org/USCM/cgi-bin/database_search4.asp

Elected Officials
YAHOO! and Capitol Advatage. Find elected officials, including the president, members of Congress, governors, state legislators, local officials, and more.
http://yahoo.capwiz.com/y/dbq/officials/

Presidents of the United States
Provides background information, election results, cabinet members, notable events, and some points of interest on each of the presidents.
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/

Fast Facts

American FactFinder
U.S. Census
http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en

Area Code Maps
http://www.nanpa.com/area_code_maps/ac_map_static.html

My Facts Page--Virtual Reference Desk
http://www.refdesk.com/facts.html

The Universal Currency Converter
http://www.xe.com/ucc/

U.S. Postal ZIP Code Lookup and Address Information
http://www.usps.gov/zip4/

World Time Server.com
Find the local time anywhere in the world.
http://www.worldtimeserver.com/

Reference Resources

Almanacs

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

Old Farmer's Almanac
http://www.almanac.com/

Dictionaries

Acronym Finder
A dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms with 355,000+ definitions.
http://www.acronymfinder.com/

Merriam-Webster Dictionary Online
http://www.m-w.com/

OneLook Dictionary
Searches multiple dictionaries for definitions or translations of words.
http://www.onelook.com/

Your Dictionary.com
http://www.yourdictionary.com/

Encyclopedias

Columbia Encyclopedia
http://www.bartleby.com/65/

Encyclopedia Britannica
http://www.britannica.com/

Encyclopedia.com
http://www.encyclopedia.com/

Quotations

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/100/

The Columbia World of Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/66/

Respectfully Quoted
http://www.bartleby.com/73/

Virtual Libraries

Infomine Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
Created and maintained by the Library of the University of California, Riverside.
http://infomine.ucr.edu/

Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org

Library of Congress
http://lcweb.loc.gov

LibrarySpot
http://www.libraryspot.com/

Librarian's Index to the Internet
http://www.lii.org

RefDesk.com
http://www.refdesk.com/


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