Useful Reference Links: Reference Sources

The world's largest comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms.

Site contains over 11,000 searchable quotations from a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs spanning ancient through modern times.

Online encyclopedia and world atlas.

Site featuring over 25,000 quotes from over 6,700 famous authors.

Largest Internet site devoted to the study of flags.

Site provides research data on daily news, politics, the economy, well-being and world concerns.

Website providing information on a variety of subjects. Includes an atlas, encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus, quizzes, countries and several useful tools.

A public service organization hosted by Drexel University and a consortium of universities providing information categorized by subject, newspapers & magazines, special collections and sites for kids and teens.

Site provides information on new and used cars, reviews & car news, dealers and inventory as well as other topics.

Tool provided by the USPS to look up ZIP Codes™ by street address, city, and state. Or, find all ZIP Codes™ within a city and state.

Site provides information legal topics. Includes articles, legal research, podcasts, a dictionary, various calculators and access to free books.

Site used to find definitions or translations for specific words or phrases. Search all dictionaries is also an option.

Over 5,000 units and 50,000 conversions.

The Pew Research Center conducts regular national surveys on a wide variety of topics. Find trends and statistics on this site by keyword searching (example "teens texting").

Combination of sites providing statistics and resources for sports fans.

This search engine is valuable for numeric data. Need an equation to find the energy of a system? Type in "energy equation" and you will get it. Want to know distance and info related to Kokomo and Paris? Type in the two city names and find it.

This site not only gives you the definitions of words, but also gives the pronunciation and usage in a sentence. While other dictionaries provide some of this information, this one is very user friendly, with a clean interface.

An educational dictionary-thesaurus website. Includes a beginner's, children's and advanced dictionary.

Website of the Encyclopedia Britanica company. Includes the following Merriam-Webster products - a dictionary, thesaurus, Spanish-English and medical dictionaries.

A comprehensive and authoritative website of over 2,500 dictionaries and grammatical guides in 300 languages.