Google's Directory of Acronyms

French-English and English-French translation service

National Research Council's CISTI – Canada's scientific, technical, and medical library

RhymeZone Rhyming Dictionary and Thesaurus

ARTFL Project's ROGET'S Thesaurus Search Form

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 1919 (Bartleby Library)

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

The Access Foundation's The Great Books

The Perseus Digital Library – Tufts University resources for studying the ancient world

The Internet Classics Archive – mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation

Search the Bible at the Bible Gateway – twenty-eight languages and multiple Bible versions

The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

Canadian Geographical Names name search service

Minerals by Name

Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with examples

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Bartleby)

A.Word.A.Day Web page for a great vocabulary mailing list

InfoNation Advanced: United Nations Cyber Schoolbus

The 'Lectric Law Library's Reference Room

Find out How Stuff Works

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's World Factbook, updated biweekly

National Geographic's MapMachine online atlas for satellite and street maps

Date and Time Gateway – timezone database

Joseph Luft's Philatelic Resources on the Web

Look up U.S. Zip Codes and Canadian Postal Codes

Telephone Directories on the Web

Megasources – research gateway

Calendar Zone – celestial, cultural and religious calendars, global indexes and more

Measure 4 Measure: Sites That Do the Work For You

Chemicool Periodic Table – search by element name or symbol

For those of us wondering about earthquakes in Canada: Recent Earthquake Reports from Natural Resources Canada

Kings and Queens of England

For music searches try the All Music Guide

For movie searches try the Internet Movie Database

That celebrity still alive? Check the Dead People Server

Fowler's The King's English, 1908 (Bartleby)

Strunk's The Elements of Style, 1918 (Bartleby)