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General
- Google answers
- Information Please
Acronym
- The acronym database
- Acronym Finder look up 262,000+ acronyms/abbreviations and their definitions
- Acronym Search
- stands4.com source for acronyms and abbreviations
Age
- Boy the Bear's Age Guage enter your birthdate and it compares your age to famous people and events
Alcohol
- a-z Listing of Alcoholic Drink Recipes
- Beer
  - American Brewery History
  - BarMeister.com drinking games
  - Dan's Beer Page
  - drinking games
  - The Chilliman Store: Guess the Beer Label
  - The Real Beer Page Everything you could ever want to know about beer, brewpubs, microbreweries, homebrewing, and the beer industry is here!
  - Spenser's Beer Page
  - The Ultimate Drinking Game Home Page
- DrinkBoy Channel
- Wine
  - calvertwoodley.com
  - JancisRobinson.com
  - LocalWineEvents.com
  - Wine-Searcher.com
  - WineZap
  - Prime Wine wine buying made simple
AllAllergy.Net
How to Do Anything
US Army Field Manuals
Automobile
- Auto-By-Tel
- Automotive Learning On-line illustrations of the automobile
- AutoSite
- Auto Trader Online
- AutoWeb
- Car Talk Car Advisor
- Carfax vehicle history reporting
- Microsoft CarPoint
- carprices.com
- cars.com
- CarsDirect.com
- CarTalk
- Cartrackers.com new and used car pricing and reviews
- Classifieds2000 Classifieds Cars, Vans, Trucks, Motorcycles, RVs
- Crashtest.com crash test results, insurance ratings, and auto safety information
- eAuto comprehensive pointer to Web auto sites
- Edmund's Automobile Buyer's Guides
- Financenter Lease vs. Buy
- GM BuyPower find a GM vehicle that is right for you
- Insurance Institute for Highway Safety/Highway Loss Data Institute
- Kelly Blue Book Automotive pricing and value information
- MechanicNet.com information you can use before seeking out repair or maintenance services
- MechanX Files humongous database of above average mechanics
- NASAguides.com used car blue book values, new car prices
- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
- Shops
  - iCARumba find auto repair, car services, and automotive shops
  - Mr. Tire
  - Tires Plus
- Usedcar Net
Baby
- 525,000 baby names
Batteries
- Recycle your rechargeable batteries
Anybirthday.com search for the birthdate of someone
Books
- abebooks.com used, secondhand, rare, out-of-print books
- AddALL bok search and price comparison
- AllBooks4Less.com
- Book Hunter Press guidebooks and databases to used bookstores and other used booksellers
- BookFinder.com search for new, out of print and used books
- Cheap Books and Bargain Books
- Get Cheap Books
- Project Gutenberg
- Online Books Page
- University Science Books
- VarsityBooks.com
Britannica.com
Business
- Business Plans
  - SRA - Starting Your Business - Business Plan
  - What is a business plan?
- www.corporate.com guides you through the process of starting a business
Calendar
- The Calendar Zone
- dMarine Time Capsule on this day in history...
- The Earth Calendar
- Encyclopedia of Days
- Official list of bank holidays
Cemeteries and Cemetary Records
CENSUS - County population estimates
Charity
- Charity Channel
- i-charity
cleaning hints
CNN.com - E-mail Services
Color Matters information about color
Cooking
- Barbecue'n on the Internet
- cdkitchen.com complete online cooking resource
- Best of French Cheeses
- Condiment Packet Museum
- Cookie Recipe.com
- Cooking Measures and Conversion Calculator
- CookingByNumbers.com cook with what you have
- CopyKat.com recipes you normally find in restaurants
- Food Down Under Recipe Database
- food network
- pizzatherapy.com
- RecipeSource
- Top Secret Recipes on the Web
ConspiracyChick.com
Consumer stuff
- @Cost.com links you to web sites that provide the very best bargains and discounts on the Internet
- AsSeenOnTV.com
- As Seen on TV Products Center
- Better Business Bureau Online Complaint System
- Big Class Action
- BizRate.com compare prices, ratings, best deals
- Catalog search
- choose.com best book, movie, and music deals
- Federal Trade Commission Consumer Compliant Form
- Consumer Product Reviews
- U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission independent Federal regulatory agency, helps keep American families safe by reducing the risk of injury or death from consumer products
- ConsumerReports.org
- Coupons
  - coupons
  - NestEggz get $0.10 off at the register and get the full coupon cash value in a savings account that pays 15% interest
  - Valpak
- DealCatcher.com fee coupons and deals for books, DVDs, music, toys, and more
- Dealsatnet.com
- DealTime.com compare products, prices, and stores
- eGad world's online junk bin
- Federal Consumer Information Center (Pueblo, CO)
- Fighting back against consumer crap
- Free 'n' Clear free stuff
- FreeAfterRebate.info
- FreeEats.Com exclusive discounts, coupons, and gift certificates from your favorite local vendors
- Froogle find products for sale from across the web (brought to you by Google)
- Half.com smartest place to buy and sell books, music, movies, games, and more
- Hot Deals Club
  - site #1
  - site #2
  - site #3
  - site #4
- JumponDeals.com online coupons, sales & deals
- mySimon compare products and prices from around the web
- PlanetFeedback add you ratings, complaints, etc. about a company to those from other people
- Police Auctions
- PriceGrabber.com compare products & prices, read reviews, shop smarter, and even sell your own stuff
- Priceline.com
- PriceSCAN unbiased guide to the lowest prices on books, computers, electronics, movies, office equipment, etc.
- Price Watch find lowest prices on computers and other electronics
- PriceElectronics.com compare the best electronics prices on the web
- PricingCentral.com price comparison shopping
- Saving-Cents.com special offers, discounts and coupons for online merchants, as well as freebies, sweepstakes, and contests for over 1500 merchants
- Shopper.com
- uBid
- Unclaimed Baggage Center
Corporation/Foundations/Nonprofits
- Corporations USA
- Council on Foundations nonprofit membership association of grantmaking foundations and corporations
- Org-Marketing Facilitates communication on the subject of marketing for non-profit/not-for-profit organizations
- tax-exempt information
sourcebook of criminal justice statistics
Distance
- Great Circle Distance Calculator
- How Far is It calculates distance between two points as the crow flies
DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
Donation

Vietnam Veterans of America

They will come to your house and pickup clothes, shoes, bedding, curtains, housewares, jewelry, toys, small appliances and TVs, and tools.

FreakyDreams.com dream analyzer
Drums
- Standard rudiment list
Evite.com fun, free, online activity center the makes it easy to get people together
Encyclopedia
- Columbia Encyclopedia (Sixth Edition, 2001)
- TheFreeDictionary
Europe
- European Union On-Line
- France
Facts
- American FactFinder
- Ask an Expert Over 300 web sites and e-mail addresses where you can find experts to answer your questions from the Amish lifestyle to facts about zoo keeping.
- Ask Jeeves Ask a question and it returns web sites you can search for more information.
- CIA World Factbook
  - site #1
  - site #2
- Does It Work?
- dusty info
- Fast Facts: Almanacs/Factbooks/Statistical Reports & Related Reference Tools
- FBI Freedom of Information Act
- Guinness World Records
- How Stuff Works
- How Things Work
- Information Please your ultimate fact finder
- refdesk.com
- What's That Stuff?
- Worldometers population, food supply, education, economy & government, energy, health, and environment meters and stats
Bad Fads Museum
Old Farmer's Almanac
Finding Someone
- @ddresses.com
- AnyWho find telephone number, e-mail, homepage URL, fax, toll free number for people and businesses
- Find A Grave
- Who2 find famous people fast!
- WhoWhere?
- Yahoo! People Search Find phone numbers or e-mail addresses
Flowers
- 1-800-FLORALS
- 1-800 Flowers
- 1-800-ROSES
- eflowers.com
- Flower Delivery Flowers
- Flower Link find a florist in your area
FluSTAR system for tracking and reporting flu
Formation, Inc. - the Information Corporation tons of useful scientific information
FunkandWagnalls.com
Garage Sales!
Geography
- 1:2,000,000 scale digital cartographic data in spatial data transfer standard format
- Baltimore-Washington Regional Collaboratory
- Geographic Names Information System information about almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States
- Getty Theasurus of Geographic Names
Genealogy
- Genealogy Finder 1.0 (PC software)
- Surname Studies
Gifts
- surprise.com find exactly the right gift
Grammer
- Chicago Manual of Style Frequently Asked Questions
- Citations
- Dictionary
  - American English
  - ARTFL Project: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 Edition
  - OneLook Dictionaries search 2,106,316 words in 451 dictionaries
  - Oxford English Dictionary
  - Rhyming Dictionary for Poetry and Songwriting
  - yourDictionary.com
- Dictionary.com
- Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
- Forthright's Phrontistery: International House of Logorrhea
- GrammerNOW!
- Guide to Grammer and Writing
- On-line Grammers
- Colorado State University's Online Writing Center
  - Reference Materials
- Online Writing Lab (Purdue University) handouts on English writing skills; online grammer book; writing course
- OxymoronList.com
- Pronunciation Guide
- Slang
  - Dictionary of Slang
  - SlangSite.com slang dictionary
  - Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang
- Thesaurus
  - Roget's
  - Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus by clicking on words, you follow a thread of meaning, creating a spatial map of linguistic associations
  - Merriam-Webster's WWWebsters
- whatis.com information technology terms
- Word Detective newspaper column answering readers' questions about words and language
- Wordsmyth English Dictionary - Thesaurus
healthfinder gateway consumer health and human services information web site from the US government
Language
- Lost in Translation results of an English phrase translated (by computer) back and forth between 5 different languages
Learn2.com learn the things that make life easier and/or more interesting
Law
- Big Class Action information and updates on class action lawsuits
- DocumentsUSA create a legal document in minutes
- FindLaw
- Legal Documents and Contracts and Law Documents Preparation Prepare legal documents on-line
- LLRX Court Rules, Forms, and Dockets links to over 700 sources for state and federal court rules, forms, and dockets
LiveManuals find support information for thousands of products
Maps
- Atlas
  - National Atlas of the United States
  - WorldAtlas.com
- Color Landform Atlas of the United States elevation maps of each US state
- Conservation and Environment Maps historic and more recent maps showing early exploration and subsequent land use in various areas of the United States
- Degree Confluence Project goal of the project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world and to take pictures at each location
- GLIS map finder quick and easy way to find and order USGS National Aerial Photography Program (NAPP) photos
- National Geographic Map Machine
- Online Map Creation interactively creat maps
- TerraFly enter an address and the system will return a picture
- TIGER Map Service
- USGS Maps and Aerial Photo Images Online
- Xerox PARC Map Viewer
Medicine
- Medicine info on drugs, surgery, signs & symptoms, etc.
- MEDLINEplus
Morse Code Translator
News
- CNN e-mail services: News Updates
Phobia List
Planet Earth home page
Pollution
- Scorecard facts on local pollution
Presentations
- effective presentations
- PowerPointers.com site dedicated to helping you communicate more effectively
- presentations.com
- Presenters Online tools, tips, and techniques for successful presentations
National Association of Unclaimed Property Adminstration
Psychological Self-Help
public record locator
Quotes/Phrases
- Cliche Finder
- Familiar Quotations, 10th edition collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their source in ancient and modern literature
- Famous Quotations
- Freeality Thesaurus, Phrases, and Quotations
- Origins of Phrases
- Phrase Finder
- Quotation Database
- The Quotations Page
- Quotegeek.com
- quoteland.com quotations on every topic, by every author, and in every fashion possible
- QuoteWorld.org
Radios
- Express Electronics Incorporated
- Midland Radio
Real estate
- Zillow.com valuations and data for 65,000,000+ homes
Guinness World Records
Reference
- Reference Desk
- University of Maryland Reference Room
- THOR+: The Virtual Reference Desk
- TransHub - The Encyclopedia of Terminology
- www.GetFreeData.com
everyrule.com rules for just about every game
Russian
- English-Russian Verb Reference System
Search Systems largest free public records database collection
Seismographs
- Maryland Geological Survey: Maryland Seismic Network
- Maryland Geological Survey: Online Seismographs
Social Science
- County and City Data Book
- Interactive Data Resources
Stain Removal Guide
Starting a company
- Case Western Reserve University's Entrepreneur Club Business Plan Competition
- Startup Issues: Creating an Effective Business Plan
States
- 50states.com
- State Information
Structures
SparkNotes: Study Guides
Taxes
- Tax Foundation
- WorldWideWeb WorldWideWeb Tax IRS forms, state tax forms, plus IRS e-file
Technical report writing
Telephone
- 10-10PhoneRates.com compare rates of more than a dozen 10-10 and 10-x dial around phone plans side-by-side
- AnyWho: Toll-Free
- Area Decoder (AmeriCom Long Distance) Find area code for a city or vice versa
- CogniCall calling card
- Discount Long Distance Rates long distance rates, toll free service, calling cards, cellular, dial arounds and more
- Global Yellow Pages Phone directories from around the globe and on-line yellow pages of virtually every business in the Washington, DC metro area
- InfoSpace Find phone numbers and addresses for businesses, old friends, government, etc.
- Internet 800 Searchable directory of toll-free telephone numbers
- LetsTalk.com compare cell phones, research cellular phones, free cell phones, cell phone accessories
- LongDistanceRateFinder.com find the best rates on long distance, calling cards, cellular/PCS, pagers, etc.
- phone numbers
- compare service plans
- SuperPages.com
- Switchboard An online national directory of 90 million residential and 10 million business phone numbers
- Tellme Networks find business information
- TopRingTones.com give your phone a free new ring
- What does your phone number spell?
- White Pages
- World Wide Web Yellow Pages
- Yellow Pages Online
- Zingy
Terrorism
- Terrorism: Questions and Answers
- Terrorist Group Profiles
Textgram.com send a message to virtually any wireless phone or pager
Time
- Countdown Examples countdown to any date
- Date and Time Gateway
- Daylight Saving Time history, rationale, laws, and dates
- International Date and Time Notation
- Time Service Department official source of time used in the United States
- timeanddate.com
- Official U.S. time
- World Clock
- World Time Server
Urban Legends and Hoaxes
- AFU & Urban Legends Archive
- Museum of Hoaxes
- purportal.com search urban legends, hoaxes, computer security, and computer virus databases before forwarding them
- TruthOrFiction.com check out rumors, inspirational stories, virus warnings, humorous tales, pleas for help, urban legends, prayer requests, and calls to action to see if they are TRUTH or FICTION
  - Aviation-Space
- Urban Legends and Folklore
- Urban Legends Reference Pages
Utorials.com venue for learning and for teaching
United States Vital Records Information
Virtual Garden: The Gardener's Cutting Edge
wackyuses.com little-known uses for well-known products
2000 uses for WD40
Weather

Weather Science Hotlist
University of Maryland, College Park Department of Meteorology weather links
AccuWeather
weather calculator
Climate Predication Center
- 6-10 Day Outlook
CNN.com weather
Companies
- Thunder Eagle, Inc. providers of reliable weather alert radios to the emergency management and coporate communities
EarthWatch Weather on Demand
Floods
- Dartmouth Flood Observatory research tool for detection, mapping, measurement, and analysis of extreme flood events world-wide using satellite remote sensing
- United States Flash Flood Warnings
- United States Search and Rescue Task Force Flooding
- FEMA Fact Sheet: Floods and Flash Floods
AWS forecast
Hurricane
- hurricane advisories
- The Emergency Email & Wireless Network Hurricane Information Center
- Hurricane Watch Net
- HurricaneNet
- NOAA - Hurricanes: Nature's Greatest Storms
- National Weather Service's Tropical Prediction Center's National Hurricane Center
Intellicast.com weather for active lives; great source of live weather maps!
Interactive Weather Information Network
Lightning
- LightningStorm.com
- Live Lightning
- Meteorologist: Storms: Lightning
- National Lightning Safety Institute
Long Range Forecast
weather maps
National Severe Storms Laboratory Collection
National Weather Service
- assessments of major incidents
- Eastern Region Headquarters
- interactive weather information network
- internet weather source
- Sterling, VA radar
- Weather Forecast Office: Baltimore/Washington
NOAA Storm Watch links to the latest weather forecasts around the USA and even around the world
Northern Illinois University weather
Numerical Forecasts
realitime local weather radar
radar loop
River Watch (River Watch Mississippi River Basin) get all of your Mississippi mainstem river forecast information from one central location
SKYWARN trained volunteer spotters for the National Weather Service
- Baltimore/Washington SKYWARN
- Educational Material
- February 2, 2002 class at UMCP
  - "Meteorologist imparts severe weather tips" (Diamond Back)
- METO Grads Skywarn classes
- Skywarn Training Classes
Storm Display
Storm Prediction Center
Storm Track
StormShot weather photography and video sales
Thunderstorms
- National Weather Service's Severe Thunderstorm Climatology
Tornados
- FEMA - Fact Sheet - Tornadoes
- FEMA for Kids: Tornadoes
- Online Tornado FAQ
- The Tornado Project Online
- NOAA Home Page - Weather / Tornadoes
- Web Weather for Kids - Tornadoes
Unidata
United States Weather Forecasts, watches, warnings, and the most recently observed weather conditions for locations throughout the United States
Universal Weather - Local Forecast Weather
Warnings
- Maryland warnings
- National Weather Service: Baltimore/Washington
Water Watch map of real-time streamflow compared to historical streamflow for the day of the year
weather.com
WeatherBug.com get live neighborhood weather conditions on your PC
Weather Channel
WeatherDock

The latest version of WeatherDock offered by its creator Alwin Troost, works with information supplied by weather.com, the application displays a host of current weather information about a location (such as wind speed, dew point, and visibility), along with 10 day forecasts. This particular version is compatible with all computers running Mac OS X 10.3.9 and newer.

National Weather Service's Weather Education and Safety
weather radio
- NOAA Weather Radio
- Tunder Eagle, Inc.
- WeatherRadios.com
Waether Underground
WeatherNet Camera
Weathertalk.net weather search engine
WeatherNet
Wind Chill
- National Weather Service Wind Chill
- new wind chill index
world weather information service
WxUSA click on state to get weather information for cities in that state

Zip Code Lookup and Address Information

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Last updated: 02 June 2007