JEFFSelects: General Resources

• Big Yellow
  Bell Atlantic's online version of the Yellow Pages. Coverage for the U.S., with links to international searching.
• Calendar
  Choose any point in the perpetual calendar by month & year.
• Common Weights and Measures (Univ. of California - Berkeley)
  Mathematical notation, metric prefixes, and common equivalent weights and measures.
• Encyclopedia.Com
  This site contains a searchable database of free text-based information from The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia, 3rd ed. Photographs and images available to subscribers.
• History of the World Timeline (History Channel)
  Use this Web site to find historical events chronologically by century. Also, use This Day in History to find events that occurred on a specific day of the year.
  
• Holt Report Index Page (Turnpike)
  Daily investment and stock information.
• Mapquest
  Allows the user to search by address or three digit telephone area code to receive a printable map of a geographic area. This site will also provide driving directions between two addresses or two cities and allow you to download these instructions to your "PDA".
• Periodic Table of the Elements
  Use an online version of this standard reference tool.
  • Periodic Table of the Elements a scholastic standard from WebElements
  • Interactive and Printable Table a playful version with some unique data not covered in the WebElements version
    
    
• PubList
  A searchable directory of over 150,000 U.S. and international periodicals in print or electronic format.
• Telephone Area Codes (AmeriCom)
  Don't call directory assistance for that area code - look here for area codes in the U.S. and Canada.
  
  
• Time and Date.com
  This site provides calendars from 1993-2006 for a number of countries, based on their national calendar and language. Additionally, the site provides the current time for every time zone. Time-specific information for major cities is also provided, such as sunrise and sunset.
  
• United States Zip Code look-up
  A simple-to-use directory. You can type in the address and get the zip code. Also useful for +4 zip codes.

• Internet Search Engines and Guides
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