• Straight Dope; About Com: Urban Legends; Museum of Hoaxes; Sci-ence.


• Saying the letters: ICAO alphabet.


• Getty Vocabularies: Art & Architecture Thesaurus, Cultural Objects Name Authority, Georgraphic Names Thesaurus, Union List of Artists Names.


• Automotive Family Tree. Who owns who.


• Buy a book: BetterWorldBooks.com, buy a book and they make a literacy donation. Also Textbooks.com; Alibris; CampusBooks; BookFinder; ISBN.nu; Half Price Books; Half.com; ABEBooks, Amazon subsidiary; Thrift Books; Biblio.com.


• Bowker Identification Services, obtaining an ISBN, also book publishing stats.


• Calendars & Dates: Perpetual Calendar; Chase's Calendar; On-This-Day; This Day in History (History Channel); On This Day (NY Times).


• Coffee Library.


• Comparisons: Find the Data. Many topics including libraries.


• U. S. Copyright Term and Public Domain Status.


• Databases: LoC eResources.


• File Extensions.


• Government Docs:
  • 1909 Checklist of U. S. Public Documents, 1789-1909.
  
  
• Lincoln's Paternity. See also Lincoln Legends: Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated with Our Greatest President.


• Medievalists.net -- lots of interesting articles.


• Names:
  • Forenames: Baby Name Wizard; Behind the Name; Baby Names World
  • Nicknames: 18th & 19th Century Nicknames
  • Surnames: World Names Profiler [map]; Some Ethnic Naming Customs.
  • Place Names: See Maps & Geography.
  
  
• Authenticating Old Newspapers from LoC.


• Google Patents and Patent Numbers by Year.


• The Plant List, all land plant species.


• National Postal Museum, postal history by state.


• Science Fiction Encyclopedia.


• Scholarly Societies.


• Search Pigeon for open access journals in the humanities.


• Sears Archives, catalogs, houses.


• Smileys and Emoticons.


• Snakes of North Carolina.


• Statistics: Historical US Census Browser; US Gov Stats by GODORT; Worldometers, stats in real time.


• Weather: Climate Extremes, Weather links, NC Climate Office, IbisEye, Weather Satellite Images; WeatherSpark.


• Words: Culturomics, using Google's database of scanned books; The Word Detective.


• Watch Worldcat grow.


• Worldwide writing systems, very cool.

This page last updated 15 Jan 2012.

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