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Bartleby Library Includes 36 reference sources including the American Heritage Dictionary, The Columbia Encyclopedia, Roget's Thesaurus etc.
Biography Find Includes brief biographies of "25,000 of the greatest lives, past and present".
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online Includes nearly 1 million place names representing nearly 900,000 places. Names of nations, cities, mountains, rivers etc.
InfoPlease Encyclopedia and Dictionary Almanac, Dictionary, with over 122,000 headwords and 57,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopdia.
OneLook Dictionaries Includes links to more than 680 dictionaries.

AnyWho from AT&T Labs includes "over 90 million consumer and 10 million business listings" for telephone, e-mail, fax, and URLs. Also features a reverse look-up function.
Online Conversion.com Interactive conversion of Length/distance, Temperature, Speed, Volume, Weight/Mass etc. - over 5,000 units.
Hoover's Online - Companies (use search box at top of page) allows searching for brief information on "approximately 14,000 public and private enterprises in the United States and around the world."
Merriam-Webster OnLine includes a searchable dictionary and thesaurus.
United States Postal Service ZIP Code Lookup and Address Information allows you to enter a street address and state to find the proper zip code.

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