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Addresses & Phone Numbers
LincMad - Area Codes
  http://www.lincmad.com
Associations on the Net
  http://www.ipl.org/div/aon
AnyWho Reverse Directory
  http://www.anywho.com/rl.html
AnyWho Toll Free Directory
  http://www.anywho.com/tf.html
Zip Codes - USPS
  http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp


Awards
Academy Awards
  http://www.oscars.org/aboutacademyawards/index.html
Book Awards
  http://www.bookawards.bizland.com/bookawards.htm
Emmy Awards
  http://www.emmys.org
Grammy Awards
  http://www.grammy.com
Nobel Prize
  http://nobelprize.org
Pulitzer Prize
  http://www.pulitzer.org/navigation/index.html
Tony Awards
  http://www.tonys.org


Calendars
dMarie Time Capsule: On This Day in History
  http://www.dmarie.com/timecap
Perpetual Calendar
  http://www.calendarhome.com/tyc


Currency
Currency Converter
  http://www.xe.net/currency


Dictionaries
Acronym Finder
  http://www.acronymfinder.com
Online Dictionary of Online Computing
  http://www.instantweb.com/foldoc
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  http://www.bartleby.com/61
OneLook Dictionaries
  http://www.onelook.com
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
  http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm
RhymeZone
  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dougb/rhyme.html
BabelFish Translation
  http://world.altavista.com
Language Dictionaries and Translators
  http://www.word2word.com/dictionary.html


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


Flags
Flags of the World
  http://www.fotw.net/flags


Geography
Google Maps
  http://www.google.com/maphp?hl=en&q=&om=1
MapQuest
  http://www.mapquest.com


Government
50States.com
  http://www.50states.com
FirstGov.gov
  http://www.firstgov.gov
Chiefs of State & Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
  http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/chiefs
Elections Around the World
  http://www.electionworld.org
U.S. Department of State (Travel Warnings & Consular Information Sheets)
  http://travel.state.gov


News & Current Events
CNN.com
  http://www.cnn.com
MSNBC News
  http://www.msnbc.com/news/default.asp
USA Today
  http://www.usatoday.com


Numbers
Measure 4 Measure
  http://www.wolinskyweb.net/measure.htm
OnlineConversion.com
  http://www.onlineconversion.com


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


Online Reference Collections
Chicago Public Library Ready Reference Shelf
  http://www.chipublib.org/008subject/005genref/readyref.html
Internet Public Library
  http://www.ipl.org
Librarians' Index to the Internet
  http://lii.org
About.com
  http://www.about.com
Refdesk.com
  http://www.refdesk.com