Links of Interest

Ready Reference

Air Traffic Control System Command Center
"Real-time Airport Status page. Select an airport from the map to obtain the latest delay information."

America's Library
This site, from the Library of Congress, uses stories embellished with photographs, maps, prints, manuscripts, and a/v recordings encourages users to learn about their past. There are even activities (Scavenger Hunt, Send a Postcard) to encourage the exploration of the site.

Archive of Misheard Lyrics
A listing of songs and their lyrics that have been misheard over the years. All of the listings are submitted by users of the site.

Atomic Clock at the U.S. Naval Observatory
If you need to know the exact time here is the web site you need.

Bentham Open Access
Bentham Publishers are launching more than 200 peer-reviewed open access journals during this year, under the banner of "Bentham OPEN". The journals will cover all major disciplines and are exclusively open access publications.

Biography.com
Web site for the Biography series on the Arts and Entertainment cable network. This database indexes over 25,000 famous persons and personalities. Brief biographies can be retrieved along with links to related web sites.

Book-A-Minute
Contains very humorous yet highly accurate synopses of classic literature.

Bureau of the Census
The central repository for all U.S. Census data, updated with the 2000 data in the Spring of 2001.

Canadian Postal Code Lookup Service
"Enter the full Street Address, City, and Province for the Canadian mailing address you want to find."

Crossword Solver (sorta)
"This engine finds only single English words, not phrases, names or proper nouns (yet), and it only supports words up to 10 letters long."

Cybercrime
Site dedicated to providing the concerned public with information about its efforts to combat such crimes.

Easybib.com
Here's a website that will help you create a bibliography. It will walk you through simple steps to correctly format a bibliography in either APA or MLA style.

Guinness World Records
Official site of Guinness World Records, the ultimate authority on record-breaking achievement, providing information about superlative facts and feats as well as record processing application for all those who want to break a Guinness World Record.

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
"The TGN is a structured vocabulary containing around 1,000,000 names and other information about places. The TGN includes all continents and nations of the modern political world, as well as historical places. It includes physical features and administrative entities, such as cities and nations. The emphasis in TGN is on places important for art and architecture."

How Far Is It?
"This service uses data from the U.S. Census and a supplementary list of cities around the world to find the latitude and longitude of two places, and then calculates the distance between them (as the crow flies). It also provides a map showing the two places, using the Xerox PARC Map Server."

Internet Movie Database
"We catalog all sorts of information on over 200,000 movie and TV titles plus even more on over 400,000 actors and actresses, nearly 40,000 directors and hundreds of thousands of other people who help make magic on the big and small screens. Then w take all that information, organize it into a cool structure, and make it possible for you to easily search and browse through it."

Landmark Cases
This site was developed to provide teachers with a full range of resources and activities to support the teaching of landmark Supreme Court cases, helping students explore the key issues of each case.

Librarian's Internet Index
Librarians' Internet Index (LII) is a publicly-funded website and weekly newsletter serving California, Washington state, the nation, and the world.

Math Tables
Need to find that math formula you haven't used since high school? Check here. Contains formulas for the following categories: General Math, Algebra, Geometry, Linear Algebra, Discreet Math, Statistics, Calculus, and others.

National Population Clock
The most current estimated population of the United States from the U.S. Census Bureau.

OnHealth Drug Database
"Clear, objective information about thousands of prescription and over-the-counter medications. Find out how to take your medicine and whether it may cause side effects or adverse interactions with other drugs. Look up a medication by its brand name or its generic name. If you're taking more than one medication, use another tool to check for unwanted drug interactions."

Rhyme Zone
Type in a word to find its rhymes, homophones, synonyms, similar words, and other information.

Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases - Your online thesaurus.

Symbols of the World
"SYMBOLS.com contains more that 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics. In 1,600 articles their histories, uses, and meanings are thoroughly discussed. The signs range from ideograms carved in mammoth teeth by Cro-Magnon men, to hobo signs and subway graffiti."