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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.
- 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.
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