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Awards/prizes
- Jefferson Muzzles awarded by Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression
"as a means to draw national attention to abridgments of free
speech and press."
- Guinness World Records world records by category via a pull-down menu or search by keyword.
Features top stories and the Daily WOW, a story about a particular
world record. Note that pages are slow, even with a fast connection.
- Nobel Prize history
of the prize, winners, biography of Noble, events & exhibitions.
- Peabody Awards distinguished
achievement and meritorious public service by radio and television
networks, stations, producing organizations, cable television organizations
and individuals.
- Pulitzer Prizes achievements
in American journalism, letters, drama, and music. List of the winners
and their citations, the finalists, links to the works, short biographies,
and lists of jurors, along with official press releases.
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Book reviews
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Calendars
- Chambers's
Book of Days subtitle A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities
in connection with the Calendar - a collection of "On this
Day" trivia, short pieces including history, literature, biography,
and "oddities of human life and character."
- 10,000 Year calendar
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Climate
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Conversions (measure, calculate, time, date)
- FXconverter 164
currency converter FXConverter (Foreign Exchange Currency Converter)
- multi-lingual Currency Converter - up to date exchange rates from
leading market data contributors. Filtered for validity.
- Online Conversion 8,100+ conversions organized by type (temperature, length, cooking,
etc.)
- Time and Date.com dates,
times, and calendars.
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Country information
- CIA World
Factbook 260+ countries, map and flag, geographic, population,
government, economic, communication, transportation, military, and
transnational issue information. World Factbook is recognized as
a resource for quick country information.
- Embassy
World search by host or guest country: a list of embassies and
consulates of the world, embassies of other nations in the US, US
embassies worldwide, and United Nations permanent missions.
- FirstGov portal to US government
- access to all 20,000 government sites (27 million+ Webpages).
Sites are categorized by topics, eg Business & Economy, Healthy
People, and Arts & Culture, etc. US Government publications.
- International Labour Organization
- InfoNation
2000+ UN Statistics Division publications, World Statistics Pocketbook
and Statistical Yearbook. Geographical, demographic and social indicators
for 185 UN member countries.
- OFFSTATS:
Official Statistics on the Web: search by country, region or
topic. Provides links to official statistics websites. Produced
by University of Auckland Library.
- UK
2002 official yearbook of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Northern Ireland.
- UK online: partnership
between the government, businesses, and trade and consumer groups
for all UK government information and services.
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Dictionaries
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Encyclopedias
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Grants
- Grant Resources
on the Web C&RL NewsNet Jul/Aug 1999 Grant resources
on the Web: Where to look when you need funding by Dawn Ventress
Kight & Emma Bradford Perry. Many associations and government
agencies, as well as corporate, private, and community foundations.
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Maps
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Patents
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People
- Biography.com -
25000+ biographies for people past & present
- Lives the biography resource.
- The
Persons of the Year TIME Magazine - "the single person
(man, woman, or even idea) who, for better or worse, has most influenced
events in the preceding year." Fulltext of each story, 1927
- 1997. Names and images of recipients are listed by decade.
- Presidents of the USA basic information on each of the presidents with audio & video
clips
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Quotations
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Translation services
Last revised:
18 October, 2011
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