The Swartz Web Site

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1001 Best Internet Tips - PC Magazine
1001 Best Web Sites - PC Magazine
Downloads - ZDNet
2001 CIA World Factbook - current data on every country in the world.
2000 Statistical Abstract of the United States - one-stop source for statistical information about the U.S
AFI 100 Greatest Movies
APlus Research & Writing for High School and College Students
Airlines on the Web
Airlines Toll-free
Alki Babynamer - "Babynamer has a world of information on more than 18,000 names to help you choose just the right one for your child."
AMTRAK on the Web
American Medical Association Physician Select
American School Directory - database of Web pages for each of the 106,000 K-12 schools in the U.S.
American Universities
Ancestry Genealogy Library - search over 52 million names; look up by name the birth and death dates and Social Security numbers of the deceased.
Annals of Improbable Research
AnyWho Toll-Free Directory - comprehensive listing of 800 and 888 phone numbers.
Anyday - Find out birthdays, death dates, and special events that happened any day of the year
Area Code / Country Code Look-up
Argus Clearinghouse - the premier Internet search library
Ask an Expert
Ask Jeeves - site allows you to enter plain English questions, to which Jeeves serves up suggested web pages.
Astrodienst Atlas Database - atlas and timezone database which returns coordinates based on place-name.
ATM Locator
Atlapedia Online
Atomic Clock - U.S. Naval Observatory
Bank Rate Monitor
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - passages, phrases and proverbs traced to their sources
Best Doctors - worldwide healthcare services
Better Homes & Gardens Home Improvement Encyclopedia
Biographical Dictionary - contains biographical information on over 18,000 people from ancient times to the present day
BigFoot - the Internet's largest collection of e-mail addresses and white page listings.
Big Fare Cut Index
Biography.com - searchable database of 15,000 names from A & E Television
BookWire - the first place to look for book information
Books On-line - over 11,000 on-line books
Bridge to Japan - An annotated index of Japanese/Japan-related Internet resources.
Browser.com - c|net - download the latest versions of the leading browsers
BrowserWatch - latest news about and links to the latest versions of all the known Web browsers
Calendar Zone
Canadian Information by Subject - National Library of Canada
Canadian Postal Code Lookup Service - Enter Canadian address information and get back the appropriate postal code. Also has an American zip code lookup.
Card Games - Rules and Related Information
CDC Travel Information - Health-related travel advisories, vaccine recommendations, and much more.
Census Bureau Data Maps
CHORUS - A quick reference hypertext for physicians and med students
Citing Electronic Resources - places to go for recommended electronic information citation guides
ClassMates - Search for people you went to high school with. Add yourself to the database--if you want to be found
Clearinghouse of Subject-Oriented Research Guides
College and University Home Page- Worldwide
Common Weights And Measures - Includes Mathematical Notation for Orders of Magnitude, Metric prefixes, and Common U.S. and Metric equivalents
Company Profiles - information on over 45,000 leading public and private companies in the U.S.
Complete Home Medical Guide - 3rd Edition, 1995
Constitutions, Statutes & Codes (including the full US Code)
Consulates and Embassies - Yahoo
Consumer Price Index
Consumer Reports Online
The Contact Center Network Nonprofit Directory - A searchable directory to the homepages of nonprofit organizations on the Internet. Browsable geographically.
Contacting the Congress - comprehensive contact information for members and committees of the U.S. Congress.
Convert It! - Excellent site to convert anything to anything
Country Library
Country Studies/Area Handbook - Library of Congress - online series presently contains studies of 85 countries
Countries of the World - Yahoo
Currency Converter - view any exchange rates among the 164 currencies for any day since 1 January 1990 through today. The currency converter is updated daily at 8:00 p.m. EST
Currency Exchange Rates
CyberAtlas
Date and Time Gateway
Debriefing Search Engine - Debriefing is a meta search engine written entirely with Java servlets.
Driving Directions
Douglass - Archives of American Public Address

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E-Conflict World Encyclopedia - The E-Conflict World Encyclopedia site profiles the nations of the world. View maps and flags or listen to national anthems. There are over 1,400 pages of written text on the nations
Earthquake Information from the USGS - daily and weekly quake reports, geophysical information on earthquakes, and other background information.
EconData - comprehensive resource for U.S. socioeconomic data on the net
EDGAR Database of Corporate Information - EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering Analysis And Retrieval) is a service of the United States Securities Exchange Commission (SEC)
E-mail Addresses - Find e-mail addresses from around the world
Electronic Library
Electronic Newsstand, The - the ultimate magazine site
Elements of Style - William Strunk's classic on proper English usage
ETEXT Archives, The - links to 'zines, complete books in electronic form, underground digests, mailing lists, and more.
Ethnologue - Languages of the World
FAQ Finder
FedEx
FedNet
Fedstats: One Stop Shopping Federal Statistics - statistics and information from more than 70 federal agencies.
Filez - devoted to searching FTP and Web sites for computer files
FinanCenter.com
FindLaw - Excellent one-stop source for legal information
Flags of all Countries
Flags of the World
Fodors - 'Your smart choice for travel'
Forum One - the Web's search engine for online forums
Free Internet Encyclopedia
Frequently Occurring Names in America - from the Census Bureau
Fundamental Physical Constants
Funk & Wagnalls Free Encyclopedia
Funk & Wagnalls Knowledge Center
GamesDomain - games, games, games, games
Genealogy Home Page
Geologic Time
Geostationary Satellite Server - real-time satellite images provide a view from above.
Google Groups
Government Information Sharing Project - collected links to government data including economics, demographics, education, 1990 census, USA counties, School District Data Book, and more.
Great Books of Western Civilization, The - From Mercer University, modeled after the course of study at St John's College, with links to the text of the Great Books
Guide to Airport Rental Cars
Harper's Index - statistics that may surprise you.
Health A to Z
Healthfinder - Just about everything to be found on the Internet to do with health is here
Heat Index Calculator - calculator will take your air temperature and relative humidity and calculate what the heat index is.
Home Improvement Encyclopedia, The
Hoover's Online - information on more than 10,000 of the largest public and private companies in the US and around the world.
How Far Is It?
Human Anatomy Online - over one hundred illustrations of the human body with animations and thousands of descriptive links.
Human-Languages Page - best language links on the Internet

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Image Surfer - Yahoo!
Information & Referral Resource Network, The - lists agencies throughout the United States that provide a wide variety of human services to the public.
Infomine - resources of relevance to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level
Information Please - from the print reference database, offering millions of useful and interesting facts on a wide range of topics online. Also includes a dictionary and encyclopedia.
International Data Base - is a computerized data bank containing statistical tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for all countries of the world.
International Directories - International inquiry names, addresses, telephones and faxes.
International Marine Signal Flags - reference site that explains the signal flags and the semiphore flag waving system
International Telephone Directories - Find anyone anywhere in the world. All the white and yellow pages telephone directories available on the web.
International White and Yellow Pages - a collection of phone directories from around the world.
Internet 800 Directory - - free listing of toll-free numbers. Companies are listed by category, company name, state, and 800 number.
Internet Movie Database
Internet Public Library
Internet Secrets
iTools! - Internet Tools
Jane's Information Group - weaponry catalogues
Kelley Blue Book - new and used car pricing
Knowledge Adventure Encyclopedia - A good, concise reference work
Largest Known Primes
Law and Politics Internet Guide
Learn2.com
LegalDocs - Do your own legal papers
Librarians' Index to the Internet - an extensive, classified guide to Internet resources from this California library
Library of Congress Home Page
LibWeb - over 1428 pages from libraries in 62 countries.
Licence Plates of the World
List, The
Liszt - find Internet mailing lists
LookSmart - explore over 16,000 subjects

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MESA - The largest email address book worldwide.
Martindale's Reference Desk
MapQuest!
Mayo Clinic
Measurements Converter - friendly JavaScript interface converts length, weight, area, speed, temperature and more, into different units and unit systems.
MedicineNet
Megasources
Mensa Home Page, The
Merck Manual
MetaCrawler
Money Daily - enhanced HTML version of Money Daily
My Homework Helper - Homework help for K through college
My Search Engines - 260 search engines in 19 categories
My Virtual Encyclopedia - 7,500+ Sites - 73 Subjects
National Address Server - input any U.S. address without its zip code and the server will return the zip + 4 code.
netLibrary - "The World's Largest Collection of Electronic Books"
New York Times Books - includes the complete Sunday Book Review, daily book related news and reviews, a searchable archive of over 50,000 New York Times Book Reviews, and more.
Nine Planets, The - a multimedia tour of the solar system with pictures, text, sound and references to other Net resources.
Nobel Prizes - Comprehensive historical list of winners in all categories
Notice Company, The - site that helps consumers participate in class action suits.
Occupational Outlook Handbook - reference tool used to research job information and trends
Old Farmer's Almanac
Online Calculator
Online Medical Dictionary
OneLook Dictionaries - over 640,000 words in 109 dictionaries
Opinion Polls - listing of all major public opinion polls
Passport Services
Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
Periodic Table - WebElements
Perseus Project, The - detailed searchable library of texts, translations, art and archaeology of Ancient Greece and Rome.
Peterson's Guide to Colleges - information on undergraduate and graduate education in the US
PollingReport.com
PriceScan
Price Watch - Street Price Search Engine
Product ReviewNet - dozens of reviews from technical and popular magazines for everything from camping equipment to the latest rear-projection TV
Progress of Nations, The - "The nations of the world ranked according to their achievements in child health, nutrition, education, family planning and progress for women."
Project Gutenberg - 'Fine literature digitally re-published'
PubMed - provides free access to Medline
Pulitzer Prize Web Site
Purdue Univ. Online Writing Lab - over 100 handouts available on all aspects of writing correctly

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Reference Shelf
Reporters Network, The - directory of reporters, editors, freelance writers and other news professionals
Research-It! - collection of online research tools. Search dictionaries, translate words, find quotations and more.
ResearchPaper.com
Reverse Lookup(1) - supply an area code and phone number, and get the name & address of the person associated
Reverse Lookup(2) - supply an area code and phone number, and get the name & address of the person associated http://www.constitution.org/rror/rror--00.htm
Roget's Internet Thesaurus - find words relating in six main classes
Rulers - Large listing of heads of state
RxList - the Internet Drug Index
Scholarly Journals Distributed Via the World Wide Web - University of Houston Libraries
Search Systems - Over 5,530 searchable public record databases, national and by state.
Semaphore Flag Signalling System
Shakespeare - The Complete Works
Shareware.com - the way to find shareware on the Internet; over 200,000 listings
SIRS Researcher
Smoking Gun, The - exclusive documents -- cool, confidential, quirky -- that can't be found elsewhere on the Web.
Social Security Death Index Search - 62 million records on tap from the Social Security Administration.
State and Local Government on the Net - guide to government sponsored sites.
Statistical Abstract of the United States
Stroud's Consumate Internet Apps List
Study WEB - comprehensive index that categorizes and reviews over 15,000 educational and reference Web sites
Sunrise/Sunset Computation - Type in a city name and find out times for sunrise, sunset, and more
Swartz.WS - Super News Station finds current news by category
SwitchBoard - find any person or business listed in the phone book
theTRIP.com - all things travel
TIGER Mapping Service - to provide a public resource for generating high-quality, detailed maps of anywhere in the United States, using public geographic data
Ticketmaster
Tile.Net - find Internet mailing lists
Time Around the World - all of the world's countries, and many of its islands, with a pointer to the local time in the region.
Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet
Today in History
Tucows - the ultimate collection of winsock software

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Ultimate Band List, The - huge list of music links.
Ultimate Collection of News Links - Links to over 7,100 news sources online
Ultimate Email Directory, The
Ultimate Homepage Index, The - easy way to search millions of web pages for any topic imaginable
Ultimate White Pages, The
Ultimate Yellow Pages, The
United Parcel Service - Track any UPS bar coded package - any time, any where in the world.
Unit Conversions
Universal Shipping Calculator
USGenWeb Project, The - genealogy information for each county in the United States. Organized by state.
U.S. National Debt Clock
U.S. Population Clock
U.S. Postal Service - fully featured online version of your local post office
U.S. Postal Service Address Quality and Zip Code Lookup
Virtual Body, The
Virtual Hospital, The - University of Iowa
Virtual Human Project - creating a complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the male and female human body.
Virtual Reference Desk
Virtual Relocation
WWW Virtual Library - extentive library on hundreds of subjects
WWWebster Dictionary - the on-line version of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition
Web of Culture - information such as capital cities around the world, food, consulates, currency, holidays, languages, religions, etc.
webreference.com
WebSonar - 'the most advanced document server on the web'
Weights & Measures
West's Legal Directory
WhatIs - an a-z database of all things computers
Where Did They Move To? - track someone who has moved or changed names, e-mail addresses, or URLs
White House, The
WhitePages.com - a global directory and index of e-mail addresses and phone numbers.
Who Represents You in Congress? - Project Vote Smart
WhoWhere - find email addresses, phone numbers, and addresses, etc.
Why Files: Science behind the news
World Directories - over 230 directories representing over 100 countries
World Email Directory (WED) - estimated access to more than 18.000.000 email addresses and more than 140.000.000 business and phone addresses worldwide!
World's Most Wanted Criminals
WorldPages - more than 112 million integrated white and yellow page listings
World Phonebooks - find or locate the desired person or company throughout the world.
World Population Clock
World Resources 1996-97: A Guide to the Global Environment
World Wide Holidays and Events - Searchable directory of dates for holidays and other celebratory events. Searches can be restricted by event, region, or month.
Worldwide Yellow Pages
World Time Zones
Yahoo's Index of Reference Tools
Yale Web Style Guide - covers graphic and information design, page layout, site organization, navigation, and multimedia content.
Yellow Pages
Zip2 - search for over 16 million businesses
ZIP Code Finder - USA
ZipFind - calculates the distance in miles as the crow flies between any two U.S. zip codes. Also lets you look up the zip code(s) for any U.S. city.