Everything you ever wanted to know about tropical fish.


Tropical Fish Internet Directory

How about an international catalog of superheros?

International Superheroes

A directory of political web sites online with links to parties, organizations, governments, and more.


Political Resources on the Net

A directory of government web sites by country.

Official Government Web Pages by Country

A great resource for finding embassies and consulates around the world.


Absolutely All Of The Worlds Embassies & Consulates In A Searchable Database

A good reference guide for dealing with electrical appliances in different countries.

World Electric Power Guide

Over 600 Aesop's fables.


Aesop's Fables - Online Collection - 656 fables -

An herbal reference source.

Henriette's Herbal Homepage

Here is a searchable index of holdings in universities, libraries, record offices, and museums in Wales. Currently there are only about 500 records, but the official launch is scheduled for 2005 with 4,000 records.

Archives Network Wales

This may seem like a basic service, but it is not under "thesaurus.com". Thesaurus is paired with Dictionary.com, which is also quite useful.


Thesaurus.com

This is a guide to free e-mail services, fee-based e-mail, ISPs, and other free services such as web hosting.


Free Email Address Directory : Your guide to free email and much, much more!

An encyclopedia of finance. Just the ticket for all those odd questions at tax time!

Welcome to the Encyclopedia of Finance

A quick and "dirty" guide to state and county information. The entries are far from complete, however.

STATEGUIDE.com : Destination Research Made Simple - VACATION - RELOCATION - RETIREMENT

Everything you ever wanted to know about European soccer stadiums!

EuroStadiums.com - European Football Stadiums Page

An excellent encyclopedia of the Jewish religion.

JewishEncyclopedia.com

This site is a compilation of "lost words", words that appear in the Oxford English Dictionary, but are no longer used (much).


Compendium of Lost Words

Here is a new meta search engine. The YW stands for Your Web. It allows you to search in a lot of the smaller search engines, as well as several of the news sites (like Daypop), many directories, countries (France, Australia, and Canada), and even an MP3 search.


yw metasearch engine

This site tries to answer the question of "Whatever happened to...?" for show biz stars child stars, sports, politics, music, and pop culture.


whatever happened to...

Here is a great site to help you identify fonts from samples.


Identifont - identify fonts and typefaces

This is STILL one of the best business portals around. Scroll all the way down for a remarkable number and variety of links.


CEOExpress: Business portal for executives created by a CEO

This is a great page for learning about and deciphering smileys!

  The UnOfficial Smiley FAQ(tm) by Don Z'Boray - updated: 11 May 2001 -- NewbieNET!  

This is an excellent site for small businesses and other entrepreneurs.



Resources for Entrepreneurs and Business Planners

An excellent site for free tutorials on web development and the Internet.

FindTutorials - Tutorials

A site for international business resources and statistics.


globalEDGE (TM) | international business resource desk

An excellent resource for legal information.


AllLaw - Legal Information, Links and Resources about state laws, federal laws and statutes, lawyers, attorneys and law firms

Everything you've ever wanted to know about New York City.


Forgotten NY

An interesting web site (if you are into baseball history). This site gives the past, current and future histories of baseball ballparks/stadiums/fields.


Ballparks of Baseball-The Fields of Major League Baseball

This site is a meta search index for white and yellow pages, trip planners, and email directories.

The Ultimates

The US Government Blue Pages directory is now online. Here you can find any US government phone number.


U.S. Blue Pages - Home

The LII is considered one of the most linked to web resources in the field of law. Here you can find court cases, opinions, directories, law codes, and the Institute's publications list.

Welcome to the Legal Information Institute

Here is AnyWho's Reverse Lookup Directory. Instead of looking up a name and finding the phone number, you can put in the phone number and get the name of the person.

I find this useful when I am trying to decode an area code.


AnyWho: Internet Directory Assistance; Yellow Pages, White Pages, Toll-Free Numbers, Maps and Directions

Here is Andy Beal's blog about Search Engines and news.



Search Engine Lowdown - search engine news and SEO blog

An entire database devoted to the history of the Fourth of July celebration!

Fourth of July Celebrations Database

Here is a site for all those questions about fireworks. They have a directory of state laws as well.

American Pyrotechnics Association

Here is an excellent site for finding addresses of people when all you have is a phone number. In my librarian days, the source for all of these types of lookups was the Cole's Directory, and the publishers were very strict about its use.

Reverse Phone Lookup for Locating People - Reverse Telephone Directory

Web World Index is a directory of sites. I find it useful for business sites.

Web World Index Search Directory

Another excellent car directory!

123CarLinks.com - Street racing, videos, exotic cars and more!

Everything you wanted to find online about cars!


Free Online Auto Information on New and Used Cars by Carjunky.com

HealthGrades allows you to compare doctors and find out about their training. This site starts you off by allowing you to search by zip code, state/city, or name.


Welcome

This site shows the leaflets that are currently being dropped over Iraq.

CENTCOM Leaflet Gallery

Portal Wisconsin is a gateway to the cultural life in Wisconsin.

portalwisconsin.org

Here is LSU's annual list of banished and over used words.


Banished Words List: Lake Superior State University

Here is an excellent reference on finding out what first names mean. You may have to click through a number of cross references.


Behind the Name - the Etymology and History of First Names

This is an excellent page on measurements and conversions.

A Dictionary of Measures, Units and Conversions