Desk Reference

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• Calculators:
  • FootRule Unit Converter is among many calculators on the FootRule site.
  • Martindale's Calculators includes just about anything you might want (if you can drill down and find it).
  • Hugh's Mortgage and Financial Calculators provides pointers to many calculators.
• Dictionary/Thesaurus/Encyclopedia:
  • Encyclopedia Britannica and Dictionary and Thesaurus.
  • WikiPedia encyclopedia created and edited by the public (with various slants and biases).
  • Encarta Encyclopedia from Microsoft.
  • OneLook Dictionaries searches multiple dictionaries selectable in areas such as science, technology, religion, medicine, sports, and more.
  • WWWebster Dictionary and thesaurus.  From Merriam-Webster.
  • RhymeZone has a number of unique forward and backward dictionary linkings.  Also Shakespeare searches and picture searhes.
  • RefDesk includes links to almanac, atlas, and database tools.
  • Encyclopedia.com
  • Dictionary.com
  • Thesaurus.com
  • FindLaw.com provides law and legal resources including a law library.
  • The Human Languages Page with many, many language and translation references.
  • Online Dictionary of Computing
  • Roget's Thesaurus (try "fast").
  • Roget's Thesaurus from Univ. of Oregon.
  • Roget's Thesaurus from Univ. of Chicago, Humanities.
  • See Also:
    • The See Also section below contains many good pointers.
• Geography:
  • Street Level Maps, Trip Planning, Census, and facts, are available in Travel .
• Government:
  • U.S. Federal Government Agencies  from the LSU Virtual Library.
• Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS):
  • See Also: Chemicals (above)
  • Chemical Fact Sheets
  • Hazardous Materials Page with news and MSDS links.  From the Emergency Response & Research Institute.
  • Hazardous Chemical Database from HordeNet (University Of Akron).
• Postal:
  • Zip Code lookup, including ZIP+4 lookup, and other services from The United States Postal Service. 
• Time:
  • Time Of Day from US Naval Observatory Master Clock.
  • Time Of Day in GMT (subtract 4 hours for Dayton in summer, subtract 5 hours for Dayton in winter).
  • Time and Date has zones, maps, and calculators.
• Thomas Register of American Manufacturers by ThomasNet.
• Weather:  Local and  world references have been moved to Dayton and Ohio.
• See Also:
  • Martindale's Reference Desk contains a multitude of lookup tables and calculators.
  • My Virtual Reference Desk  is a great place to look up something whether it's current events or science or language or some that might be on the Internet.
  • Yahoo:Reference
  • Internet Public Library.

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