General Reference
Citations
Introduction to Basic Legal Citation
Cornell Law School This citation primer is based on the Eighteenth Edition of the “Bluebook.” Includes information on abbreviations and omissions used in citations.
- Abbreviations and Acronyms of the U.S. Government
Indiana University Links to military and non-military abbreviations and acronyms. - Abbreviations.com
Search or browse more than 305,000 abbreviations or acronyms. You can create and maintain your own list of terms. The site allows you to add an abbreviation/acronym to their database. - Acronym Finder
Searchable database of more than 600,000 abbreviations and acronyms about computers, technology, telecommunications, and military acronyms and abbreviations. - Acronyma
Database of more than 460,000 acronyms. Results can be displayed alphabetically or according to “importance”.
Wifi
- Wi-FiHotSpotList.com
Jupitermedia Corporation Intended as a resource for people seeking “Wi-Fi HotSpot” locations – 802.11-compliant public network nodes. Searchable by location. - JiWire Wi-Fi Finder
Search a database of more than 200,000 free and paid WiFi hotspots in 135 countries.
Automobiles
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety – Highway Loss Data Institute
The IIHS is an independent, nonprofit, scientific and educational organization dedicated to reducing the losses — deaths, injuries, and property damage — from crashes on the nation’s highways. The HLDI’s mission is to compute and publish insurance loss results by make and model. Both organizations are wholly supported by auto insurers.
People Search Engines
- 123people.com
Find people profiles containing images, videos, phone numbers, email addresses, and more from sources such as Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Xing, YouTube and Wikipedia. - Pipl
Retrieves contact information by querying searchable databases and extracting facts, contact details and other relevant information from personal profiles, member directories, scientific publications, court records and numerous other Deep Web sources. - Wink
Searches more than 500 million people on social networks and across the Web. Find people using name search, location, school, work, interests, and more. - ZabaSearch
Search for a person by name. Results may include address (with link to Google Maps), phone number, and birth month/year. - ZoomInfo
Search 45 million people and 5 million companies. Extracts information from Web sites, press releases, news services and SEC filings and summarizes the information in a comprehensive format. For executives, data includes employment history, boards, web references, and more. - FAQ: How to find people’s email addresses
Guide to email searching that has been maintained for several years by staff from Queen’s University School of Computing, Ontario, Canada. Note: Last updated 2005. - Online Searchable Death Indexes & Records
Directory of online death indexes listed by state and county. Included are death records, death certificate indexes, death notices and registers, obituaries, probate indexes, and cemetery and burial records. - Pennsylvania Professional License Verification
Search PA licensed professionals and facilities by name or license number, apply for or renew a license. - Social Security Death Index
Free, searchable database of individuals whose deaths have been reported to the U.S. Social Security Administration since 1962. Information provided includes full name, Social Security number, last known address, and dates of birth/death. Contains over 82 million records.
Quotations
- Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations
Search by keyword or phrase. Authors are listed alphabetically and chronologically. - BrainyQuote
Find quotations by browsing author, author profession or quote topic. - Quotations
Bartleby.com Combines both contemporary and classic quotations collections into a searchable database of over 87,000 entries. - Quotations About Libraries and Librarians
IFLANET - The Quotations Home Page
Thousands of quotations available for searching and browsing. - The Quotations Page
Offers over 25,000 quotations available for searching and browsing.
Weather
- National Climatic Data Center
Use this site to find weather conditions for a particular weather station on a specific date or by month. You can only select two criteria at a time, with the data returned as a graph. Locate Weather Observation Station Record. - National Weather Service
This site is good for local, national, and world weather; weather videos; satellite, radar and other hot links. - Navy Astronomical Applications
US Naval Observatory Complete sun and moon data, and other astronomical information. - Old Farmer’s Almanac
Yankee Publishing Inc., Dublin, NH Published since 1792. Contains useful information for people in all walks of life: tide tables for those who live near the ocean; sunrise tables and planting charts for those who live on the farm; recipes for those who live in the kitchen; and forecasts for those who don’t like the question of weather left up in the air. - Weather Underground
Search current weather conditions for a location by city, state, zip, or country; tropical storms; ski conditions; radar map; and temperature map. - Wolfram|Alpha
Search current weather conditions in a city, or review historical data for a particular date. For example, here is the weather in Philadelphia on August 25, 1960. For more information, visit the Wolfram|Alpha blog post on this topic.
