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Roget's Thesaurus - Everyone needs a good thesaurus- Dictionary.com - Superior dictionary server drawing from multiple sources.
- Webster's Dictionary - Everyone also needs a good dictionary
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - Make sure you got the quote correct
- Telephone Directories - Phonebooks
- WWW Bible Gateway - The good book, in a hypertext format.
- Encarta Encyclopedia
- RhymeZone - Rhyming dictionary
Literature - Classic literature online- Internet Classics Archive - Many searchable works of classical literature at MIT
- Project Gutenburg - Huge library of old texts
- Electronic Text Center Holdings - University of Virgina, thousands of titles.
- Baen Free Library - Free Beer, not Free Speech, but hey, free beer fiction!
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Maps- MapQuest - Online road maps
- MapBlast - Different online roadmaps
- TerraServer - Online satellite imagery
- Census Tiger Mapping - Apply census data to maps
- Mapopolis - Palm Maps.
Free Images - Copyright free images- GNU/art
- Copyright-Free Photo Archive - About 20,000 images, partially indexed, under development.
- JPL Picture Archive
- Mars Image Gallery - Need to check copyright info
Urban Legends- Tales of the Wooden Spoon - Urban Legend information
- The Straight Dope - Answers to random reader questions. Lots of interesting stuff on urban legends.
Web Search Engines and Indices- Altavista - Fast and nifty. My favorite
- Google - Amazing at finding the "real" home page of a concept
- The Mining Co.
- Ask Jeeves
Fone Finder - Find information about phone exchanges LinkCAT - For the South Central Library System of Wisconsin Federal Consumer Information Center - The people famous for the Peublo, Colorado advertisements. Research-It! - Interesting collection of multiple online resources FirstGov - Index of US goverment web content HowStuffWorks - How, well, stuff works. Internet Movie Database - The only movie source worth looking at DomainSurfer - Whois tools AltaVista: Translations - Babelfish translates from one language to another US Patent Database - Searchable index of all US patents since 1975 US Trademark Electronic Search - Clumsy but usable trademark searches for the US. FCC ID Search Form - Identify hardware with FCC markings Hacker's Jargon File - The New Hacker's Dictionary United States Postal Service - Everything you need to know about the post office America's Library - Very content light and fluffy. Logic & Fallacies - While part of Atheism Web, the discussion of logical fallacies is generally applicable. Universal Declararion of Human Rights HowStuffWorks - How, well, stuff works.