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Acronyms

Acronym Finder
http://www.AcronymFinder.com/
A searchable database containing over 93,000 common acronyms and abbreviations about all subjects, with a focus on computers, technology, telecommunications, and the military.

Almanacs

• Information Please Almanac
  http://www.infoplease.com/almanacs.html
  Online version of the popular almanac which you can browse by topic or search.
• The Old Farmer's Almanac
  http://www.almanac.com/
  Covers astronomical events, weather conditions and forecasts, recipes, and gardening tips.

Biographies and Genealogy

• Biography and Genealogy Index
  http://find.galenet.com/menu/commonmenu.do?userGroupName=txshracd2540
• Genealogy and Local History
  http://genealogy.umi.com

Calendars

• Virtual Perpetual Calendars
  http://www.vpcalendar.net/
• Time and Date
  http://www.timeanddate.com/
  Contains a World Clock of the current time in major cities of the world, calendar generators, and a
   countdown to the new year.
• USNO Master Clock Time
  http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/what.html
  Set your watch by this site, and find out what time it is in selected U. S. cities and international regions.
  So, if it's 4:00 PM in New York (EST), what time will it be when the train leaves Los Angeles?  

Census Data

• Census of Population and Housing - http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/decennial/ 
• Historical Census Browser - http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/

College Catalogs

• College Source
  http://www.collegesource.org/ 

Countries of the World

• CIA World Factbook
  http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

Dictionaries General Dictionaries

• Babelfish
  http://world.altavista.com/
• Columbia Dictionary
  http://www.bartleby.com/65/
• Glossary of Poetic Terms
  http://www.poeticbyway.com/glossary.html
• Internet Dictionary Terms
  http://www.netlingo.com/
• Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary - http://www.m-w.com/
• Slang Dictionaries
  http://dir.yahoo.com/Reference/Dictionaries/Slang/
• Foreign Languages Dictionaries
• Spanish Translation Dictionary (Spanish, French, Italian)
  http://wordreference.com/ 

Encyclopedias

• Encyclopedia of Animals
  http://search.epnet.com/login.asp?profile=ani
• Encyclopedia of Life Science
  http://www.els.net
• Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page 

   

   

Journals

• Directory of Open Access Journals. (http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=home)This service covers free,
  full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals
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Newspapers Texas Newspapers

• Brenham Banner Press - http://www.brenhambanner.com/
• Bryan-College Station Eagle - http://www.theeagle.com/
• Houston Business Journal - http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/
• Houston Chronicle - http://www.chron.com/
• Texas Cities - http://www.ipl.org/div/news/browse/US.7007826/
• UHCN University of Houston - http://www.uh.edu/uhcnonline/

National (U.S.) Newspapers

• CNN - http://www.cnn.com

International Newspapers

• Newspapers from Africa - http://www.ipl.org/div/news/browse/AFR/

Grants

• The Grant Advisor Plus
  http://www.grantadvisor.com/tgaplus/
  A huge list of available grant opportunities
• Grant Writing Tools for Non-Profit Organizations
  http://www.npguides.org/
• Grant Proposal.com
• IRIS (The Illinois Researcher Information Service)
  http://gateway.library.uiuc.edu/iris/
  The IRIS database currently contains over 8,000 active federal and private funding opportunities in the
  sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Users can search IRIS by sponsor, deadline date,
  keyword, and other criteria. Most IRIS records contain live links to sponsor Web sites, electronic forms,
  or Electronic Research Administration (ERA) portals.
• NEA Grant Award
  http://www.arts.gov/grants/index.html
  Grants available through the National Endowment for the Arts.
• FinAid
  http://www.finaid.org/
  The Financial Aid Information Page provides a free, comprehensive, independent, and objective guide to
  student financial aid; includes a free searchable database of more than 180,000 private sector scholarships,
  fellowships, grants, and loans.
   

Phone Books

• Switchboard
  http://www.switchboard.com/
  Find a business or person by searching names, phone numbers, zip codes and more.Zip Code
• Lookup
  http://www.usps.com/zip4/
  From the US Postal Service. 

Thesaurus  

 Time 

• Virtual Perpetual Calendars
  http://www.vpcalendar.net/
• Time and Date
  http://www.timeanddate.com/
  Contains a World Clock of the current time in major cities of the world, calendar generators, and a
  countdown to the new year.
• USNO Master Clock Time
  http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/what.html
  Set your watch by this site, and find out what time it is in selected U. S. cities and international regions.
  So, if it's 4:00 PM in New York (EST), what time will it be when the train leaves Los Angeles?

Quotations

• Famous Quotes and Authors
  http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com
• Bartleby Quotations
  http://www.bartleby.com/quotations/

Study Guides

• Educational Testing Service (http://www.ets.org), for GRE (among other tests) test takers, is a
  valuable website to visit.
• Website Number 2 (http://www.number2.com) offers preparation exercises for SAT, ACT, and
  GRE test.

Texas Information

• The Handbook of Texas
  http://www.tshaonline.org/
• Texas Maps, 1867-1890
  http://sanborn.umi.com/