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All Recipes
More than 25,000
recipes, primarily
submitted from
amateur home cooks,
are available
through All Recipes.
The site can be
searched by keyword
or by using the 30
subject categories
available.
This site
features an easy-to-use, free hospital
look-up tool that links to hospital Web
sites and basic statistics. Although
this site also provide a for-fee service
for subscribers, non-subscribers can
find basic hospital information as well
as data on the total numbers of beds,
discharges, patient days, and gross
patient revenue.
Background Notes
Factual
publications about the land, people,
history, government, political conditions,
economy and foreign relations of the many
countries and regions of the world prepared
by the regional bureaus of the U.S.
Department of State.
CEO Express
Developed to organize the best Web
resources for busy executives, CEO
Express collects information from the
Internet, pares it down to the 20% that
is most critical and useful, and
presents it to the user in a clear,
easy-to-use format.
Cyndi’s List
A categorized index to more than 250,000
genealogical resources available on the Web,
Cyndi’s List includes both a topical and an
alphabetical list of categories of interest
to new and seasoned genealogists.
Gate2Home is a multilingual keyboard
emulator that gives users instant
access to the keyboards of 65
languages. Keyboards include all
major East and South Asian
languages, as well as Arabic, Greek,
Hebrew, Roman, and Cyrillic key sets
with various diacritics. Originally
designed for travelers, this Web
tool is equally useful to language
learners and immigrant populations.
Get
Human
The Gethuman project is a consumer
movement to improve the quality of phone
support in the US. The Gethuman 500
database provides tips on how users can
bypass the automated phone systems of
companies and organizations in order to
speak with a person.
GPO Access
A service of the U.S. Government Printing
Office, GPO Access provides access to
important documents and information from the
3 branches of Government: legislative,
executive, and judicial.
Hoover’s
Hoovers.com provides access to more than 12
million U.S. and non-U.S. companies,
industries, and executives. Comprehensive
industry and company information as well as
market intelligence is available from this
business leader.
How Stuff Works
HowStuffWorks is a source of
credible, unbiased, and
easy-to-understand explanations of how
the world actually works. Founded by
North Carolina State University
Professor Marshall Brain in 1998, the
site has grown to be an award-winning
online resource for millions of people
of all ages.
Internet Public
Library
The Internet Public Library (IPL) evaluates,
selects, and organizes web sites on a
variety of topics for adults, teens and
kids. The IPL helps users navigate the
abundance of information on the Internet in
order to find information they actually need
and can use.
JiWire
The largest directory of public WiFi
hotspots available, JiWire’s WiFi Hotspot
Finder locates wireless Internet connetions
in more than 119 countries. Each verified
hotspot lists detailed information on access
options plus maps and driving directions
when available.
Kelley Blue Book
Kelley Blue Book
is a trusted
resource for new car
prices, used car
prices, blue book
values, car reviews,
and more. Bluebook
value is a price
point determined to
be the market value
of a product.
Kelley Blue Book
online is free and
has guides on new
and used cars
extending back 20
years.
National Criminal
Justice Reference Service
Summaries
of more than 180,000 criminal justice
publications and the NCJRS Virtual Library,
which contains more than 7,000 full-text
publications from various government
agencies, are available through this site.
Free access to a wealth of information on
justice and substance abuse information,
including statistics, research findings,
program descriptions, congressional hearing
transcripts, and training materials on
topics such as crime, law enforcement,
corrections, courts, juvenile justice,
victims of crime and the justice system are
available.
North American Mammals
Detailed
descriptions, distribution ranges and
pictures for more than 400 North American
mammal special are available.
Online Conversion
This site
provides common
conversions for
almost anything you
want to convert from
one thing to
another. Here you
can make online
conversions for many
measurement systems.
Conversion tables
for both common
(U.S., metric,
weight, volume,
cooking, etc.) and
quite exotic units
like Ancient Greek
and Roman. You can
also ask your
questions and
discuss how to
convert units on the
Units Conversion
Forum. Start by
choosing the
conversion you need
from the list
provided.
PubMed
A database
of over 15 million citations for articles
published in more than 4,800 biomedical
journal and magazines from the United States
and 70 other countries, PubMed has coverage
back to the 1950s and includes the fields of
medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary
medicine, the health care system, and
preclinical sciences. PubMed is maintained
by the National Library of Medicine.
Recalls.gov
Recalls.gov is the most comprehensive
one-stop resource for locating
information about unsafe, hazardous, or
defective products. Information is
provided about recalled consumer
products, motor vehicles, boats, food,
medicine, cosmetics, and environment
products.
SeniorNavigator
SeniorNavigator provides free
information about the health and aging
resources available to Virginians. The
information focuses on senior related issues
such as health and aging, financial
concerns, legal questions, health
facilities, assisted living and housing,
exercise programs, support groups and more.
Users can search by ZIP code to identify
resources available in their local
community.
Urban Legends
Reference Pages
This searchable site collects and
attempts to verify the truth about urban
legends, rumors, common fallacies, old
wives’ tales, strange news stories,
hoaxes, and similar items.
USA.gov
(Formerly FirstGov.gov)
Is the official U. S. gateway to all
government information from Federal
government information to state governments,
the District of Columbia, and U.S.
territories.
Virginia Career
View
With sections designed for students,
parents, educators, and job seekers,
this site provides information to
Virginia residents about education and
career opportunities.
This
site is a listing, by farm product,
of Virginia growers and processors
who produce organic farm products,
processed products made with
certified organic ingredients, and
organic livestock. All processors
are Certified Organic by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture.
This
Web site "helps you keep track of
which famous people have died and
which are still alive!". Categories
for actors, musical performers,
political figures, athletes, and
other groups can be found on the
site along with an alpha key that
lists all entries that begin with
the letter you select. Each
person's birth and death dates are
listed, along with additional
information, if known. Links to
similar sites are also available.
WordReference.com features
translation dictionaries for
French, Italian, and Spanish.
Links to word definitions and
synonyms, discussion forums
where users offer human
translation help, and links to
Google searches for words or
phrases used in context can be
found on this site.
Zillow
Zillow allows users
to see the value of
millions of homes
across the United
States, not just
those up for sale.
In addition to
giving value
estimates of homes,
it offers several
unique features
including value
changes of each home
in a given time
frame (such as 1, 5,
or 10 years), aerial
views of homes, and
prices of homes in
the area. Where it
can access
appropriate data, it
also provides basic
information on a
given home, such as
square footage and
the number of
bedrooms and
bathrooms. Users can
also get current
estimates of homes
if there was a
significant change
made, such as a
recently remodeled
kitchen.
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