Virtual Library

CIA World Factbook
This NexTrieve search of the government database provides information about any country in the world. You can search for just about anything - from population statistics to telephone systems.

Alex Catalog
North Carolina State University's definitive catalog of 1,800 electronic texts on the Internet.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1901)
This part of Columbia University's Bartleby project allows you to search the 1901 edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.

Complete Works of William Shakespeare
MIT's The Tech provides a great reference to the Bard of Avon's work. Enter a quotation, and get a reference to the play, act, and scene it's in--then read the whole thing. There's even a glossary to help with those 16th-century terms.

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Webster's Dictionary
Search this hypertext version of Webster's Dictionary for spelling, definition, and proper tense. The results are extensively cross-referenced with hyperlinks.

Lyrics Page
The University of Wisconsin at Parkside's Music Archive finds the rock songs you half remember when you enter a title, an artist, or a few words from the lyrics.
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Manchester University's Acronym Dictionary
This Gopher site contains a searchable dictionary of acronyms, including both computer and general terms.

MapQuest Interactive Atlas
GeoSystems' site provides searchable street maps that show the way to most businesses and street addresses. If the map you're given doesn't show the right detail, you can zoom in to the area you need.
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Middle English Collection
The University of Virginia's electronic text collection of 26 Middle English works ranges from Chaucer and William Dunbar.
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Entire Text Text, Excluding Bibliographic Header Section Bibliographic Header The alliterative Morte Arthure The Owl and the Nightingale Octovian (Lincoln, MS 91) Octovian (Cambridge MS Ff.2.38) Pearl The siege of Jerusalem The Owl and the nightingale The Towneley plays Sawles warde The York plays Anthology of Chancery English The Harley lyrics Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Everyman The Canterbury Tales Troilus and Criseyde Twa mariit women and the wedo Confessio amantis Henryson's works The testament of Cresseid The morall fabillis of Esope the Phrygian Orpheus and Eurydice The minor poems of Robert Henryson Piers Plowman Brut (MS Cotton Otho) Brut (MS Cotton Caligula) Paston Letters (part 1)

NCSU Poetry Database
Gopher-search North Carolina State University's full-text archive of poems by luminaries from Shakespeare to Yeats.

On-line Books Page
This annotated index of more than 1,200 books whose full text is available online is maintained at Carnegie-Mellon's School of Computer Science site.
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Roget's Thesaurus (ARTFL Project)
Searchable online thesaurus provided by the ARTFL Project at the University of Chicago.

SEC CIK and ticker symbol lookup
Part of the NYU EDGAR project, this search finds CIK (central index key) and ticker symbols for publicly traded companies that file Securities and Exchange Commission forms electronically.

Smithsonian National Museum of American Art
Access the Smithsonian's extensive collection of American art and culture.

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The Tech Classics Archive
MIT's archive of 376 Greek and Roman texts, complete with commentary from MIT's journal The Tech.

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Xenon Labs: The Interactive Currency Table
Use Xenon Labs' currency table calculator to generate the exchange figures for your chosen currency to almost 50 other international currencies.
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U.S. Gazetteer
The gazetteer shows detailed, zoomable maps from the Tiger Map Server.

World Wide Web Acronym and Abbreviation Server
Find the full meaning of acronyms and abbreviations fast.