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Almanacs
CIA World Factbook
50states.com
Infoplease
Old Farmer's Almanac
Calculators
Choose to Save.org
Martindale Calculators On-Line Center
Converters
FXConverter
Online Conversion
Dictionaries
American Heritage Dictionary
Biotech Life Science Dictionary
Merriam-Webster Online
Net Lingo
OneLook Dictionaries
YourDictionary.com
Encyclopedias
Columbia Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia Mythica
Encyclopedia of Television
Encyclopedia Smithsonian
How Stuff Works
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Wikipedia
Maps
About.com: Maps and Geography of the World
All the World's Maps
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Electronic Map Library
Geodata.gov
Google Earth
MapQuest
Map Collections: 1544-1999
National Atlas of the United States
National Geographic Society Publications Index
U.S. Gazetteer
U.S. Geological Survey
World of Maps/Die Welt der Karten
Measurements
Common Weights and Measures
How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurements
Biographical Sources
Biography.com
Biography Center
Book Reviews
Barnes & Noble.com
New York Times
VBPL
Business and Finance
Annual Reports.com
Bureau of Labor Statistics - Statistical profiles of 12 industry supersectors.
Corporate Information.com - Free profiles of U.S. and non-U.S. companies and industries; users must register.
Dun and Bradstreet
GuideStar.org - Non-profit business information.
Motley Fool
North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
Thomas Register - Directory of manufacturing companies.
Yahoo Finance
Grant Information
Health & Medicine
Centers for Disease Control
Johns Hopkins Medical Institions
Mayo Clinic
National Institute of Health
National Library of Medicine
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Government & Politics
Foreign Governments
CIA WorldFactbook
State Department Background Notes
United States Federal Government
Constitution of the United States of America - text, plus analysis and interpretation of U.S. Supreme Court decisions that have dealt with core constitutional issues. Also included are proposed amendments not ratified, congressional acts, state measures, municipal ordinances and acts of Congress held unconstitutional.
FirstGov -
A portal to over 20,000 government sites.
GPO Access - Links to massive amounts of federal government information, including searchable, full-text versions of the Federal Register, Congressional Record, Congressional Bills, and the U.S. Government Manual.
The Library of Congress
OpenSecrets.org - Reveals sources of campaign funding. The Center for Responsive Politics is a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy.
Supreme Court Collection - A searchable, hypertext version of U.S. Supreme Court decisions from May 1990 to the present, plus 582 historic decisions and information about the Court. Maintained by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University.
Supreme Court of the United States -
Read the court's decisions the same day they are released. Offers the court's argument calendar, rules, visitors' guides, etc.
Yahoo State Government - Hundreds of links to state and local government sites.
Government and Historical Documents
AmDocs -
Full-text primary sources spanning 500 years of American history, including speeches, treaties, Supreme Court decisions, declarations of war, and other key documents arranged chronologically.
Chronology of U.S Historical Documents -
Full-text, historical documents dating back to pre-colonial times; from the University of Oklahoma School of Law.
Eurodocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe - Links to Western European (mainly primary) historical documents, transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated.
GPO Access - Official information from all three branches of the Federal Government, plus much, much more.
National Security Archive -
Declassified U.S. documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act; provided by George Washington University.
The 9-11 Commission Report - The full, final report.
U.S. National Archives & Records Administration
Local
Hampton Roads Planning District Commission
Norfolk
Virginia Beach
Virginia
State of Virginia Homepage
Virginia General Assembly
Virginia State Constitution
Virginia State Library
Voter Information
Project Vote Smart - Provides "public independent factual information, voting records, campaign issue positions, performance evaluations by special interests, campaign contributions, backgrounds, previous experience, and contact information" of election candidates.
Virginia State Board of Elections - Get election results, register to vote.
Voter Registration Forms - For any U.S. residents.
Law
General Legal Search Tools
CataLaw -
Find catalogs of worldwide legal resources on the Internet by topic, region, or special category.
FindLaw -
Find statutes, court cases, codes, legal news, and reference tools.
Law.com -
News from the top legal publications including the latest headlines searchable by state.
Legal Information Institute -
A comprehensive index to constitutions and codes, court opinions, and law arranged by topic, source, and jurisdiction; from the Cornell Law School.
lexisONE -
Search case law, legal forms, headline legal news, articles, and an extensive directory of legal Web sites; free.
WashLaw Web -
An extensive index to online legal resources arranged by topic; from Washburn University Law School.
WWW Virtual Library--Law - Search for legal information by keyword, topic, or information source; from the Indiana University School of Law.
Legal Forms
FindLaw: Forms - Federal and state court forms.
Internet Legal Resource Guide: Legal Forms Archive - Business and personal legal forms.
Legal Abbreviation and Citation Guides
Basic Legal Citations -
Covers a wide variety of legal citation formats.
Legal Abbreviations Citation Manual -
From the Association of Legal Writing Directors.
News
Newspapers
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Boston Globe
Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Tribune
Houston Chronicle
Los Angeles Times
New York Times
San Francisco Chronicle
San Jose Mercury News
Seattle Times
USA Today
The Washington Post
Virginian-Pilot
International Newspapers
The Age -
Australia, in English mate.
Bahrain Tribune -
The Kingdom of Bahrain, in English.
Canadian Press -
In English and French.
Daily Mail - Britain's fave daily tabloid.
Daily Yomiuri -
Japan, in English.
Der Spiegel -
German news in German.
Diario de Yucatán -
The Mexican Penninsular region, in Spanish.
The Irish Times - in English.
The Jerusalem Post -
Israel, in English.
Listín Diario -
Dominican Republic, in Spanish.
El Periódico -
Spain's news in Castilian and Catalan.
Rotterdams Dagblad -
Netherlands, in Dutch.
St. Petersburg Press -
Russian news in English.
The Times of London
Turkish Daily News - In English.
Online News
Style Manuals & Citation Guides
APA Style.org: Electronic References
The Elements of Style
MLA's "How do I document sources from the Web?"
Online! -
Advice and examples for citing electronic sources in APA, MLA, Chicago, and CBE style formats.
Writer's Handbook -
Examples of APA, Chicago/Turabian, CBE, and MLA style for both print and electronic citations. Maintained by the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Telephone, Address & E-Mail Directories
AnyWho - Searches for residential and business phone numbers, FAX numbers, mail addresses, and URLs. Maintained by AT&T Labs.
BigBook - Basic listing of American businesses maintained by GTE.
Telephone Directories on the Web - An annotated meta-index to residential, business, and e-mail directories worldwide.
WorldPages -
Reverse searching, plus phone listings, e-mail addresses, URLs, and other directories worldwide.
ZIP Code Lookup - From the U.S. Postal Service.
Weather
AccuWeather.com
Intellicast
NOAA-National Weather Service
Weather Underground
Weather.com
Miscellaneous
Libraries Worldwide - Lists over 7500 libraries in more than 135 countries.
Virginia Libraries - Public, Academic, Government/Federal, other.