Jon Smith's Bookmarks

REFERENCE.GENERAL
 

(Information Searches)

Wikipedia

MetaCrawler -- Searches all the search engines

SEARCH.COM--same

Dogpile --same

Yahoo! -- same

Ask.com -- allows you to pose questions in a "normal" way.

MSN Search engine

Insight home page—search engine

 

 (Language)

AltaVista: Translations

 
Oddcast Text to speech -- Need something pronounced correctly in any language? This site will read it to you.

(Library Searches)

Catalogs (Library of Congress)

Libweb - Library WWW Servers

Hanover College Duggan Library Home Page

Duggan Library - Interlibrary Loan Request Form

IUCAT: IU Libraries' Online Catalog

Bibliomania -- free on-line literature and study guides

(Maps)

Welcome To MapQuest!

Driving Directions (Steps)
Google Maps

 

(Quotations)

Bartleby. Familiar Quotations -- contains Bartlett and others

Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

The Reader’s Handbook of Allusions, References, Plots, and Stories

 

(Movies)

The Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB) -- answers every movie question (including how to buy them)

Reel.com--an internet store, but also a quick source of info on movies
 

(Statistical Info)

Statistical Resources on the Web -- a great meta-site from U. of Michigan

Statistical Abstract of US

Fedstats

Census Bureau

(Other)
The English Peerage (1790)

Encyclopaedia of British History

Directory of Royal Genealogical Data -- figure out any British royal family relationship

Currency exchange rates

Pound-dollar converter

Brief History of London

Survey monkey -- for taking surveys