Subject pages attached to craig:book/reference

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1.	Refdesk.com [new links] Refdesk.com has three goals: (1) fast access, (2) intuitive and easy navigation and (3) comprehensive content, rationally indexed. The prevailing philosophy here is: simplicity. "Simplicity is the natural result of profound thought." And, very difficult to achieve. URL: http://refdesk.com
2.	Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable comprises over 18,000 entries that reveal the etymologies, trace the origins and otherwise catalog "words with a tale to tell." URL: http://www.bartleby.com/81/

3.	Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection This library at the University of Texas at Austin holds more than 230,000 maps covering every area of the world, and many are available online. There are also a huge number of external links for historical, weather, city, and country maps, as well as cartographic references and general maps. URL: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/map_sites/map_sites.html
4.	MapQuest nteractive mapping service that provides door-to-door driving directions for addresses in the United States, as well as detailed maps for the rest of the world. URL: http://www.mapquest.com/
5.	Tiger Map [US Census] An interactive point-and-click map server, based on U.S. Census data. URL: http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl
6.	Color Landform Atlas of the United States Includes PostScript maps. URL: http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states
7.	Guide to Geography [About.com] Resources include online world atlas, weekly articles about geography, annotated links to hundreds of sites, weekly quizzes, etc. URL: http://geography.about.com/education/geography/
8.	National Geographic URL: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps
9.	Atlapedia Atlapedia Online contains full color physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world. URL: http://www.atlapedia.com
10.	World Atlas These maps are provided by MCCIS, a "Military Maritime Command and Control System which has been developed and maintained for members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)." Maps of continents, individual countries, more. URL: http://cliffie.nosc.mil/~NATLAS/index.html
11.	WorldSkip As a whole, the site is an excellent and easy-to-use resource for current awareness and basic reference information, especially for the smaller nations outside of Europe and the Americas. URL: http://www.worldskip.com
12.	CIA World Factbook Data are available for more than 260 countries. For each country, map and flag, geographic, population, government, economic, communication, transportation, military, and transnational issue information is provided for the latest date available. URL: http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
13.	¬3D Atlas Online This site provides color topographic maps of the terrain of all 50 states, plus satellite images, county maps, and maps of some states in 1895. By Ray Sterner at Johns Hopkins. URL: http://www.3datlas.com/f_main_top.html
14.	World Flags World flags with 3D animated GIFS available. Short descriptions about the countries. URL: http://www.3dflags.com/world_FtoL.html
15.	United Nations Atlas of the Oceans The Atlas is an information system designed for use by policy makers who need to become familiar with ocean issues and by scientists, students and resource managers who need access to underlying data bases and approaches to sustainability. URL: http://www.oceansatlas.org

16.	terra server Click on the map, or enter the name of a site, and see what it looks like from space. My Grandma's house. URL: http://terraserver.microsoft.com/default.asp
17.	GlobeXplorer Color aerial photographs from Eastman Kodak, available through MapQuest.com. URL: http://www.globexplorer.com/
18.	USA Photo Maps [Northbeach sample] Creates large aerial photo maps (that work with any GPS and are scrollable / zoomable) from data that it downloads from Microsoft's Terraserver Web site. URL: http://jdmcox.com

19.	Biographical Dictionary [search] This dictionary includes more than 27,000 notable people who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day. Example entry: Cervantes [Saavedra], Miguel de (El Manco de Lepanto) Spanish adventurer, author, novelist, and poet; wrote novels "La Galatea" 1585, "Don Quixote" 1604-1615 (also "Don Quijote de la Mancha") _1547-1616 URL: http://www.s9.com/biography
20.	Lives The largest guide to biography sites on the Web URL: http://members.home.net/klanxner/lives
21.	Notable Women Ancestors Learn more about famous--and not so famous--women from history. You can find out about witches, queens, Native Americans, authors, pioneers and many others URL: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa

22.	DictSearch Provides multiple search capability in language and specialty (medical, computing) dictionaries throughout the Net. Includes monolingual and bilingual searches of most European and some Asian languages. URL: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/alberfon/dicsear1.htm
23.	Oran's Dictionary of the Law Oran's Legal Dictionary defines and illustrates more than 6,000 technical terms and hundreds of Latin, Old French and Old English words used in legal and business documents. URL: http://www.wld.com/conbus/orans/Welcome.asp
24.	New Oxford Dictionary of English The New Oxford Dictionary of English is available online; the site also features a "foreign word of the day," "word of the day," and "quote of the day." URL: http://ukdb.web.aol.com/oup/
25.	ArtLex: A dictionary of visual art ArtLex includes "more than 2,800 terms, along with numerous illustrations, pronunciation notes, great quotations, and links to other resources on the Web." URL: http://home.ncia.com/~slarsson/sdj99/sdj06w3.html
26.	A Web of Online Dictionaries Multilingual dictionaries for every language imaginable, thesauri, grammars, language guessers, linguistics. URL: http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html
27.	Rhyming Dictionary Don't strain your brain looking for a word that rhymes. The Semantic Rhyming Dictionary makes it almost effortless with a drop-down menu. URL: http://www.rhymezone.com/
28.	Strange and Unusual Dictionaries [all consonant words] [all vowel words] For the curious; dictionaries of one-letter words, words with only consonants, and words with only vowels. Also links to a few other odd dictionaries lurking about the Web... URL: http://www.blueray.com/dictionary
29.	The Acronym Finder The Acronym Finder (AF) is a searchable database of over 42,000 acronyms and their meanings. It covers common acronyms and computer, government, telecommunications, Department of Defense (DoD), and military acronyms. URL: http://www.mtnds.com/af
30.	Dictionary Resources Trying to find the right word but don't know exactly where to look? If the Web of On-line Dictionaries doesn't help, the word may not have been created yet. It's that extensive: links to more than 500 dictionaries in 140-plus different languages. URL: http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html
31.	Oxford English Dictionary: Word of the Day Word roots, spellings, prnunciation and timelines. URL: http://www.oed.com/cgi/display/wotd
32.	The DICT Development Group simultaneously search several dictionaries for word definitions including Websters, Jargon File, and several other dictionary databases. URL: http://www.dict.org/
33.	WordNet - a Lexical Database for English WordNet® is an on-line lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets. URL: http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/
34.	The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language Bartleby's latest offering is the Fourth Edition of the American Heritage Dictionary. The online dictionary contains over 90,000 entries, 70,000 audio word pronunciations (.wav format), 900 full-page color illustrations, language notes, and word-root appendixes. URL: http://www.bartleby.com/61/
35.	¬Newbury House Online Dictionary Contains over 40,000 entries and is based on the best selling Newbury House Dictionary of American English. URL: http://nhd.heinle.com/
36.	The Glossarist I have a spider that roams the internet looking for glossaries. When found these are all included in the searchable database. Almost any glossary can be included in the Glossarist. URL: http://www.glossarist.com/
37.	Word Assault Includes lookup in Webster's 1913 unabridged dictionary. URL: http://www.wordassault.com/
38.	Webster Dictionary Pictures Pictures from Webster's dictionary in color. URL: http://webster.com/mw/art/
39.	FreeDict [Horst Eyermann] FreeDict - for free bilingual dictionaries Languages supported: Africaans, Czech, Danish, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Nederlands (Dutch) Portuguese, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Swedish, Slovak, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish and Welsh URL: http://www.freedict.de/

40.	Compton's Online Encyclopedia URL: http://www.comptons.com/encyclopedia/home.html
41.	Encyclopedia Proteus "Search the best encyclopedias on the Web:" Encyclopedia Brittanica, Encyclopedia.com, Encarta, Let's Find Out, Funk & Wagnalls, and Infoplease. URL: http://rtiess.tripod.com/proteus/encyclopedia.htm
42.	Encyclopedia Britannica Online URL: http://www.britannica.com/
43.	Encyclopedia Mythica This website offers a free encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, mysticism, and more. It contains over 1,800 definitions of gods and goddesses, supernatural beings, legendary creatures, and monsters from all over the world. URL: http://www.pantheon.org/mythica.html
44.	Columbia Encyclopedia electronic version of the Columbia Encyclopedia with numerous updates, including improved search and navigation features. The sixth edition contains close to 51,000 entries, including 17,000 biographies, with over 80,000 hypertext cross-references, as well as links to other resources such as maps, speeches, and additional full-text collections held by Bartleby.com. URL: http://www.bartleby.com/65/
45.	Wikipedia [FAQ] Wikipedia, a collaborative project to produce a complete encyclopedia from scratch. We started in January 2001 and already have over 7,000 articles. We want to make over 100,000, so let's get to work--anyone can edit any page--copyedit, write a little, write a lot. URL: http://www.wikipedia.com/

46.	Gray's Anatomy The 20th edition (1918) of Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body. 13,000 entries presented in an encyclopedic subject index with hyperlinks to their respective pages and illustrations in the text. URL: http://www.bartleby.com/107/

47.	Themefinder Search for melodies online. URL: http://www.themefinder.org
48.	Digital Tradition Folk Song Server The Digital Tradition is a vast resource containing words and music to thousands of folksongs. Its full-text search program allows users to extract songs by entering one word (such as all songs with the name Mary or the word green in them), or by title or name of composer. Child ballads can be searched by number. Songs are constantly being added to this database. Once you've found the song you're looking for, you can listen to the tune, print out the words, and download the score in one of several software versions. URL: http://web2.xerox.com/docs/DigiTrad/AboutDigiTrad.html
49.	2000 Grove Dictionary of Music New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians 2nd edition on the web. URL: http://www.grovemusic.com/grovemusic/home

50.	Creative Quotations Searchable database of quotes includes more than 10,000 quotations from 1,500 people. URL: http://www.bemorecreative.com/home-cq.shtml
51.	Cliché Finder >3,000 indexed clichés. URL: http://www.westegg.com/cliche/
52.	Quotez This web page has more than 13,500 searchable quotations, indexed by keyword, by author, by source, and by subject. URL: http://business.virgin.net/ma rk.fryer
53.	Aphorisms Galore Spice up your writings and your conversations with a random aphorism or two. With 1,896 aphorisms, by 764 authors, in 16 categories at last count, Aphorisms Galore! also comes with a search box. URL: http://www.aphorismsgalore.com