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TruthOrFiction
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founded by Rich
Buhler, a broadcaster, speaker,
author, broadcast journalist, and
producer who has researched and
written about rumors and urban
legends for more than 30 years.
Hoaxbusters
- dedicated to
busting the big Internet rumors,
hosted by Jim &
Elaine Graham of
little web wagon,
featured on the NBC Today Show
PolitiFact - from the St.
Petersburg Times and 2009 Pulitzer
Prize winner
FactCheck - A project of the
Annenberg Public Policy Center
Snopes
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Urban Legends Reference Pages by Barbara and David P.
Mikkelson, featured in Reader's
Digest
Reference Desk
- Internet fact-checker
Zip Code Lookup - search by address,
city or company from the U.S. Postal Service
Facts on File -
award-winning news service and reference
databases
EuroDocs - Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations for European history
Online Atlas of the Millennium Development Goals - from the World Bank,
challenging poor countries to commit to
poverty reduction and challenging wealthy
countries to keep promises to support
economic and social development Vital Records
- a comprehensive resource for locating
birth certificates, death records,
marriage licenses and more Earth Calendar - daybook of holidays and celebrations around the world
Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body
(1918) - 1,247 vibrant engravings from the classic publication
Robert's Rules of Order (1915) - the orderly rule of reason in deliberative societies
Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home (1922) — Emily Post provides thousands of tips on correspondence, wedding planning, party giving and conduct in every public or private setting.
Basic Facts about Trademarks
- from the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office
Internet Traffic Report
- monitoring the flow of data around the
world
Geography
The World Factbook
- U.S. Government's
geographical handbook that tracks
demographics as well as political,
economical and geographical data
Rand McNally
- driving directions and travel store from
the company with the best road atlases since
1856.
Google Earth - virtual globe, map and geographic information program
MapQuest
- driving directions, mapping applications
MapBlast! - Microsoft's answer to MapQuest
Maps On Us —
maps, routes and Yellow Pages service
National Traffic and Road Closure
Information - from the U.S.
Dept. of Transportation National Atlas of United States of America -
map maker for agriculture, biology,
boundaries, climate, environment, geology,
history, people, transportation and water
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - from the University of Texas at Austin, featuring World City Maps
from 1977-1999
Maps, Atlases and Gazetteers - Historical maps from Ancestry.com to help with genealogy
Rare Maps
- more than 800 historic maps spanning
nearly 500 years from the University of
Georgia's Hargrett Library
Map Centre - from
ReliefWeb, featuring countries and
emergencies around the world
Maps, Global Maps, World Maps - from National Geographic, featuring the MapMachine and the
NG Maps Print Collection
Earth View
- satellite data provided by The
Living Earth
Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture - a definitive, comprehensive and accurate record of the 25th state from the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
Columbia's Encyclopedia — 50,000 entries and more than 84,000 hypertext cross-references from the Columbia University Press
Encyclopædia Britannica - leading provider of learning and knowledge products
Reference.com - an Ask.com service
The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
- information on all winners in all
categories
Pulitzer Prizes
- honoring excellence in journalism
and the arts since 1917 Who's Who In America
- offering biographies of leaders
and achievers since 1899
Dead People Server
- Dead celebrities, dead people and
other interesting passingsThe Baseball Archive
- history of the game, teams,
post-seasons, leagues and All-Star
Game
Biographical Dictionary
- Wikipedia-type system established
in 1997 The Internet Movie Database - maintained by Amazon.com,
search actors/actresses as well as
titles
Ron Reason News Design - The Web's first and longest-standing site for news design ideas and advice since 1997
Web Style Guide,
3rd Edition -
Basic design
principles for creating Web sites
Appropriate Design
- from Thom Lieb's "Editing for the
Web"
10 Universal Newspaper Design Myths, Debunked
- from the Poynter Institute
Photoshop Text Tool
- from the Web Developer's
Virtual Library
Special HTML codes - symbols
Greek HTML codes - fraternities
and sororities
W3c Link Checker - detailed
summary helps coders immediately
locate broken links |
Style
Style Guide - Proofreader's and Editor's Symbols
AP Stylebook
- get online access or the current
edition of "The Journalist's Bible"
Editorial Guidelines
- The University of
Missouri's compilation of frequently
used words and troublesome
constructions extracted from several
style guides
The Elements of Style (1918) — Strunk knew you must know the rules before you can break them
Radio
National Style Guide — Use
ABC's guide if you find yourself at a radio station with no style guide
Turabian/Chicago Style - Citation guide from the University of Chicago
Press
APA Style - official site of the
American Psychological Association's
style for writing and publishing in
the Social Sciences
MLA Style - Modern Language Association's documentation, widely used in the humanities, especially in writing on language and literature
Public Relations Style - from
the University of Kentucky
Guide to Citation Styles - An
overview of multiple citation styles
from Heritage College
Research and Documentation Online — by Diana Hacker with research sources by
Barbara Fister of
Gustavus Adolphus College
Writer's Handbook - Major documentation styles from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Writing Center,
including the American Political Science
Association and the Council of Biology
Editors
Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation — short, easily remembered tips and quizzes for basic grammar and punctuation questions
Common Errors in English Usage - compiled by Paul Brians, Washington State University's Emeritus Professor of English
H.L. Mencken's "The American Language" (1921) - An inquiry into the development of English in the United States
Guide to Grammar and Writing - dedicated to the memory of Dr. Charles Darling
Guide to Grammar and Style - by Jack Lynch, Associate Professor in the English department of Rutgers University's Newark campus
Language Corner — The Columbia Journalism Review's regular column on usage
Daily Grammar - the brainchild of Pete Peterson, former Executive Vice President of Word Perfect
Deadwood Phrases - listing phrases to avoid at all costs
Word Reference
Merriam-Webster Language Center — Links to dictionary, thesaurus and unabridged dictionary.
Check the
Word of the Day
to improve vocabulary.
YourDictionary.com
- exclusive Webster's New World College
Dictionary definitions featuring the
Endangered Language Repository,
which highlights worldwide efforts to
slow the loss of endangered languages
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
American Heritage
Spanish Dictionary: Spanish/English, Inglés/Español
LOGOS Multilingual Dictionary - features 251 languages and is committed to preserve languages in danger of extinction
The Free
Dictionary
by Farlex - Also includes thesaurus,
medical dictionary, legal
dictionary, financial dictionary,
acronyms, idioms, encyclopedia and
Wikipedia encyclopedia
Cambridge Dictionaries
Online - from Cambridge
University Press
Oxford
English Dictionary - The
definitive dictionary of the English
language
Online Crossword
Dictionary - search for solutions by either clue or pattern
Clever Keys
- free downloadable software provides instant access to Dictionary.com,
Thesaurus.com, Reference.com and more from your desktop
Thesaurus.com - Roget's
Thesaurus alphabetical index
Roget's International Thesaurus of
English Words - C.O. Sylvester
Mawson's 1922 edition
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
- Find synonyms with hyperlinked
index
Acronym database
- not appropriate for all audiences
WordNet
- lexical database of English, developed under the direction of George A. Miller at Princeton University
i-tools - One-stop for dictionaries, grammar aids, libraries, telephone and shipping references, translators, stocks and financial data ... and more!
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919) - passages, phrases and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature
Respectfully Quoted: A
dictionary of Quotations (1989)
- forming the constellation of collected wisdom in American political debate
The Quotations Page - claims to be the oldest
on the Web, hosts over 26,000 quotations online from over 3,100 authors
Columbia World of Quotations
-
over 65,000 literary and pop-culture quotations
The Quotations Archive - comprehensive, searchable database of general purpose quotations featuring a special section on
love and marriage
Brewer's
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) - giving the derivation, source or origin of common phrases, allusions and words having a tale to tell
Phrase Finder - Dictionary of English sayings, idioms and clichés, with information about each phrase's meanings and origins.
Aaron Fuegi's Fortunes page
- Quotes from the Fortune
program
BrainyQuote - features
quotation trivia quiz
QuoteLand -
Quotations on every topic, by every author, and in every fashion
possible; features user ratings
and quotes for special occasions
The Quotelist - compiled by the Night Sky Rider
QuoteWorld - over 15,000
quotations and famous quotes
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Find or Call Folks
Pipl - The most comprehensive
people search on the web
Info Space
- a one-stop search of Google,
Yahoo, bing, ask and Twitter
Any Who - Reverse search allows you to type in phone numbers and see who is listed
BigBook -
includes Yellow Pages, People Pages
and City Pages from SuperPages.com
Yahoo! People Search - formerly Four11 Directory Services
Hello Metro - Local
Yellow Pages, city guides, zip
codes; just choose your location
Internet Address Finder
- search the White Pages and the
Yellow Pages for snail-mail
addresses KudzuKat's People Search - a convenient and consistent interface to the Internet's best "people locators"
Social Security master death index - Are they dead? Birth and death info
from 1875-present
Ancestry.com - find heirs, death
info
The Stalker's Home Page
- What could be more absurd than a
home page for stalkers? Mourning the
end of privacy.
Switchboard - one of the first phone searches,
covering Yellow Pages, White Pages,
etc. The Ultimates - Index of Internet people searches,
includes e-mail search
US Search.com
- a leading provider of people
searches and background checks since
1994
White Pages - the "official" site with FREE people search
Who Where
- Lycos' premier search engine for
people since 1996 Yell.com (UK)
- Search engine for British
businesses
Go Toll Free
- The Internet 800 directory of
Toll-Free phone numbers
Skype - Free calling via the
Internet
Arkansas'
Public Information
ARElections - 2008 results from every county in the state
Arkansas Voting Information -
how, when and where to register to
vote
ARCountyData - research property sales histories, commercial and residential building descriptions, and legal descriptions
actDataScout - FREE property
records from Arkansas county
assessors
Courts Online - guide to
Circuit, District and City courts
Inmate Population Information -
check the Arkansas Department of
Corrections
Sex Offender Registry -
maintained by the Arkansas Crime
Information Center
Find a Lawyer - service provided
by the Arkansas Bar Association
Catalog of Arkansas Resources and
Archival Treasures - search
county records from 1797-1950
Delta Regional Authority - federal partnerships to improve the Delta economy
National Resources Conservation
Service - search function allows
you to enter county name, other info
Drew County - FREE Public
Records directory
Drew County QuickFacts -
compiled by U.S. Census Bureau
Drew County Genealogy Project
Weather
Weather Underground - current conditions, forecasts, almanacs
Weather Channel - national and local weather forecast, hurricane, radar and report
Solar Data Analysis Center — includes solar images from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Volcano World -
higher education,
k-12, and public outreach project of
the
Oregon Space Grant Consortium.
Climate Prediction — help predict the future climate with your computer
when it's on but not being used to
full capacity.
Official U.S. Time - public service
cooperatively provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(a U.S. Department of Commerce
agency) and its military counterpart, the U.S. Naval Observatory
Virtual Perpetual Calendars - check calendars from the 20th through the 21st century
The World Clock - Time Zones and current local times around Earth
World Time Server - get the correct, current and local time around the world before making that phone call;
includes time converter calculator
Math, Statistics, Calculators
Statistics Every Writer Should Know
- simple guide to understanding basic statistics, for journalists and other writers who might not know math
Math in Daily Life
- how numbers affect daily decisions Martindale's Calculators Online Center -
calculators, applets, spreadsheets, courses,
lectures, manuals, handbooks, textbooks, simulations and more
StatPages.org - interactive statistical calculation pages, texts, software packages and online
journals
Yahoo! Conversion Calculators -
for weights and measures
Calculator.com - mortgage, math, loan,
finance, scientific, health and sports
calculators
World Wide Metric - conversion
calculators for length, weight, pressure,
volume and temperature
Currency Converter - for 164 currencies
Statistical Abstract of the
United States
Translators LOGOS Multilingual Translation Portal - enables clients to develop, release, manage and maintain content, technology, products and services worldwide
Babelfish
- text translation and Web page translation foreign--language--translations - your source for translation services |
