| Local/Regional |
 Kentucky
Cities & Counties |
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This is a directory
of sites about Kentucky cities and counties. |
| Kentucky
Demographics |
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Compiled
by WKU Library faculty, this site has a lot of useful information
that includes census data, County and City Data Books, facts about
welfare in Kentucky, Government Information Sharing Project, Kentucky
Economic Census and Kentucky general profiles. See also Kentucky
Population and Demographic Information from U of K. |
| Kentucky
Fun Facts & Reference |
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What
is: the state fish? the state wild animal? the state butterfly? Answers
to these questions and more appear here. |
| Kentucky
Geography and Geology |
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Come
here to learn Kentucky's moss animals, coal iInformation, fossils,
Ground-Water Monitoring Network and industrial and metallic minerals. |
 WKU
Libraries Reference Resources from the Net |
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A
great collection of web resources that cover from American Universities
to Zip Code Directory selected and compiled by the WKU Library faculty. |
| WKU
Libraries Style Manuals and Writing Guides |
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The
following are only some of the style manuals and writing guides available
in Western Kentucky University's Libraries and on the Internet. Additional
resources in WKU Libraries may be located by conducting a TOPCAT
2000 search. |
| National/International |
 Adherents.com |
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Ever
get asked, "How many (Mennonites) live in (Alabama)"? The
most comprehensive source for statistics on religious adherents, this
site offers data on literally thousands of religious/faiths worldwide.
|
| Bartlett's
Familiar Quotations |
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A
collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources
in ancient and modern literature.
Starting
Page offers a more comprehensive index to various quotations.
|
| Biographical
Dictionary |
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This
dictionary covers more than 28,000 notable men and women who have
shaped our world from ancient times to the present day. It can be
searched by birth years, death years, positions held, professions,
literary and artistic works, achievements, and other keywords. |
| Britannica.com |
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Britannica.com
editors bring you the best Web sites, leading magazines, related books,
and the complete Encyclopedia Britannica. |
| CIA
World Factbook |
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Comprehensive
information on every country of the world. Reference maps are available. |
| City-Data.Com
|
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This
site has collected and analyzed data from numerous sources to create
as complete and interesting profiles of all U.S. cities. Click this
link to see the data about Kentucky
cities and this link to see data about Bowling
Green, KY. |
| The
Classic Music Navigator |
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Created
by Dr. Charles Smith, WKU library faculty, this is a great service
facilitating the identification and linking of composers and their
works, styles, and influences. See also the DW3
Classical Music Resources site. |
| Freeality
Thesaurus, Phrases and Quotations |
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Multiple
search engines that search words, phrases, and quotations. |
| Historians
and Philosophers |
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A
collated web index of significant historians and philosophers. |
| How
Far Is It? |
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Type
any two locations in the world and it will tell you how far apart
they are along with their longitude and latitude. |
| InfoPlease
Online Dictionary, Encyclopedia, and Almanac |
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An
information directory with a search engine that searches dictionaries,
encyclopedia and almanacs. |
| Information USA |
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A
U.S. government site on almost everything about the country: government
and politics, economy and trading, information technology, arts, and
education. |
| Lexicool.com:
Directory of Translation Dictionaries |
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Lexicool.com is one of the most comprehensive directories of free
bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries on the Internet.
The site has a fully searchable database, with over two thousand titles
referenced. |
| MapQuest |
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Look
for an address, town, or zip code; get and print maps worldwide; and
get live traffic reports for major US cities. |
| The Official U.S. Time |
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"This
public service is cooperatively provided by the two time agencies
of United States: a Department of Commerce agency, the National Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST), and its military counterpart,
the U. S. Naval Observatory (USNO). Readings from the clocks of these
agencies contribute to world time, called Coordinated Universal Time
(UTC). The time maintained by both agencies should never differ by
more than 0.000 0001 seconds from UTC." |
| Presidents of the United States |
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Learn
basic facts of all the United States presidents. |
| Refdesk |
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It
is an extensive site. Find what you want as a matter of fact. |
| ROGET'S
Thesaurus Search Form |
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Search
the headwords or full text of Roget's Thesaurus, 1911, version 1.02
(supplemented: July 1991) released to the public domain by MICRA,
Inc. |
| Supreme Court
Justices of the United States |
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Looking
for information about the Supreme Court Justices...? You've come to
the right place! |
| Telephone Directories on the Web |
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This
is the Internet's original and most complete index of online phone
books, with over 350 links to Yellow Pages, White Pages, business
directories, e-mail addresses and fax listings from over 150 countries
all around the world. |
| Temperature
Converter |
| |
It
converts between Fahrenheit, Celsius and Kelvin. The site also provides
a print and clip Wallet
Size Printable Temperature Conversion Table. Here is a site that
provides converting
formulas. |
| Units
Converters |
| |
Available
from the MasterPlumber.com, these units converters cover area, capacity
& volume, circular, length, weight, temperature, time, and pressure.
Here is another useful Measure
Converter site. |
| The
Universal Currency Converter |
| |
A
very useful currency converting tool. By default, the converter is
listed by the name of currencies. You may also choose the country
name at its Full Version
page. |
| U.S.
Postal Zip Code Lookup and Address Information |
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The
ZIP Code Look-Up and City/State/ZIP Code Association are free services
provided by the USPS to assist the public with their addressing needs.
These services are being updated and reviewed daily for more accurate
retrieval data. |
| A
Web of Online Dictionaries |
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The
most comprehensive list of multilingual dictionaries. |
| WebElements:
The Periodic Table |
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Use this Website to find the elements
on the periodic table. |
| Wikipedia:
the Free Encyclopedia |
| |
Wikipedia
is the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. In this English version,
started in 2001, 841,576 articles have been worked on. Wikipedia is
hosted by Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that operates
several other multilingual and free-content projects, which include
Wiktionary,
Wikibooks, Wikiquotes,
Wikisource,
Wikispecies,
Wikinews, Commons,
etc. |
| World
Time Server |
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"World
Time Server provides the most accurate current local times of any
world clock on the Internet. It makes real time adjustments for Daylight
Saving Time. No matter what time zone a country or city is located
in, this site provides your best resource for determining any time,
anywhere." |
| WWW
Acronym and Abbreviation Server |
| |
This
is the list of acronyms and abbreviations in the Network Acronym and
Abbreviation Server formerly available by e-mail. |
| Xrefer |
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"Facts,
words, concepts, people, places, sayings, and more. All cross-referenced,
all reliable, and all in one place." |
