Almanacs and Quick Facts

• Almanac
• Fast Facts is a list of links to help you find facts fast
• Information Please Almanac
• Know Play allows you to look up definitions, artists, quotes, rhymes, and acronyms all from one easy search page. Check it out!

Biographies

• Biographical Dictionary includes about 24,000 men and women from ancient times to the present with short one or two sentence entries.
• Biography.com has one or two paragraph entries with basic biographical information.

Encyclopedias

• The Catholic Encyclopedia is the full text searchable 1913 edition
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Encyclopaedia of the Orient focuses on North Africa and the Middle East and is searchable and browsable.
• Encyclopedia.com from Electric Library
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy is searchable and browsable. It provides a list of keywords and a timeline of philosophy. The articles are mostly original by a professor of Philosophy, but signed articles are added and sought after with his call for submissions.
• Internet Public Library's listings of encyclopedia resources.

Numbers, Statistics, and Rankings

• Bureau of Justice Statistics provides statistics on crime and victimization.
• Bureau of Labor Statistics provides statistics on unemployment and the economy. This site can be searched by keyword.
• Citizen's Against Government Waste: State "Pork" Rankings
• Encyclopedia of ED Statistics
• Federal Reserve System Board of Governors
• Internet Statistics and Reports
• New York State Statistics is the online version of the New York State Statistical Yearbook. It includes information on employment, agriculture, health, and many other topics.
• GeoHive is a site with geopolitical data and statistics on human population of various countries and regions. Also has stats on economic factors, natural phenomena, and much more.
• Projection of Education Statistics to 2018 from the National Center for Education Statistics
• State Rankings Online
• U.S. Census Bureau State & County QuickFacts about people, business, and geography.
• US Zip Code database from the US Post Office

Other Resources

• Air Safe
• Occupational Outlook Handbook
• O*NET Online provides information on jobs and careers browsable or searchbale by job title, skills, interests, knowledge, or activities.

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Updated 5/19/10 by KDV