Reference Tools
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- Ben's Phaster Online Reference Desk
- Reference search guide. Research portal covers biography, dictionary, encyclopedia, language translation, thesaurus, world and city maps
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- Emily Post: Rules of Etiquette
- Guide to good manners includes thousands of tips on correspondence, party giving, and conduct in every public or private setting.
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- English Library
- Features links to biographies, literature, poetry, and foreign classics. Includes alphabetical index of authors, as well as dictionaries and other reference works.
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- FactMonster
- Includes searchable information related to sports, entertainment, geography, history, biography, education, and health.
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- Finding Data on the Internet
- A journalist teaches other writers how to use the Internet to find facts.
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- NoodleTools
- A suite of interactive tools designed to aid students with their online research, from selecting a search engine and finding some relevant sources, to citing those sources.
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- Time and Date
- Lots of time and date related information, such as yearly and monthly calendars, counters, countdown, and the world clock which shows the current time in cities all over the world.
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- Aztec Calendar
- Shows you the current date according to the sacred Aztec calendar. Gives a reading of the significance of the day and the relevant gods.
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- Cosmic Calendar
- Imagine if the history of the universe, all 13 billion years of it, were put into just one year. What would that calendar look like? Carl Sagan, the famous astronomer, made this one.
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- History of the Calendar
- How different parts of the world made different kinds of clocks based on where they lived and what kind of weather they had to predict.
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- Religious Calendars and Holy Days
- Explanations of the Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Bahai, and Wiccan calendars. Also includes a list of holidays associated with these calendars.
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- The Moon's Phase
- Online calculator that lets you see which phase the moon is in for any date in any year.
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- Today's Date
- Today's date from the Gregorian calendar that we use into the calendar dates of the Mayan, French, Islamic, Hebrew, Julian, Ethiopic, Coptic, Chinese, Julian, and Discordian calendars.
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- Western-Chinese Calendar Converter
- Tool to convert between the traditional Chinese lunar calendar and the Western solar calendar. Also offers a brief description of the two different calendars and lists links about the Chinese calendar.
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- Zoroastrian Religious Calendar
- Three versions of the Zoroastrian calendar from the most ancient to more modern calendars.
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- DinoDictionary.com
- Features profiles of over 300 known dinosaurs along with pronunciations of their names.
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