Bookmarks for the Mary H. Weir Public Library Reference Department

(Last updated September 20, 2006.)

These bookmarks are arranged by subject. (In the original Netscape file, the subcategories were folders which came out in the HTML list as a hierarchical arrangement.)

To search the bookmarks, either look for the subject or use the "Find" command, under Edit on the top of your screen, to look for a particular word or phrase.

Quick reference

Yahoo!

Accelerated Reader List for Weir Middle School

IPL

Information Please

WVLC

Merriam-Webster dictionary and thesaurus

Time Service Dept.

Dead People Server

What's a Dollar Worth? CPI Calculation Machine

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (Previously known as Monthly Catalog or MOCAT)

Basic Collection titles at the Mary H. Weir Public Library -- the Basic Collection items are considered to be the most important U.S. Government publications, and >this page helps you find them online, in ourlibrary's "tangible materials" collection, or both

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet

IC Library Ready Reference: Phonebooks

Healthfinder

THE MERCK MANUAL, Home/Title Page

United States Postal Service

alt.usage.english FAQ

Astrodienst Atlas Query

U.S. Gazetteer

Stumpers List

search the Stumpers archives

legal and government info

Legal Information Institute

Locate Federal Depository Libraries

Basic Collection titles at the Mary H. Weir Public Library -- the Basic Collection items are considered to be the most important U.S. Government publications, and >this page helps you find them online, in ourlibrary's "tangible materials" collection, or both

Welcome To The White House

Alan B. Mollohan, Representative from First Congressional District of West Virginia

Code of Federal Regulations -- searchable by title and section numbers

WV State Main Page (Previously http://www.state.wv.us)

THOMAS -- U.S. Congress on the Internet

Lawguru.com - Legal Questions, Answers and Research<

more reference, search tools and libraries

       About.com

The BIG EYE - Portal to the best on the Web

Ask Jeeves

LookSmart

Excite

Lycos

The Straight Dope: Home Page

How to Obtain Birth, Death, Marriage, and Divorce Certificates

OneLook Dictionaries, The Faster Finder

Associations on the Net from Internet Public Library

~ Web Search & Reviews - AT&T WorldNet® Service ~

Cyber 411 - Fifteen Search Engines, One Query

The Argus Clearinghouse

Internet Library for Librarians

Netscape Yellow Pages

GTE SuperPages

Netscape People Finder

Libraries (local and tri-state)

Libraries in West Virginia

Kanawha County Public Library

Ohio County Public Library (Wheeling)

History online at Ohio County Public Library

WVLC

Marshall University Libraries Homepage

WVU Libraries

Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County

John Paul II Library, Franciscan University of Steubenville

HYTELNET - Library Catalogs:USA:Ohio

OPLIN (Ohio Public Library Information Network)

Find an Ohio Public Library

Libraries in Pennsylvania

Access Pennsylvania

Burgettstown Public Library

Citizens Library of Washington, Pa.

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

complete list of Pittsburgh area libraries

University of Pittsburgh Library System

HYTELNET - Library Catalogs:USA:Pennsylvania

COMMONWEALTH (Pa.) LIBRARIES

more libraries

Libweb - Library WWW Servers

The British Library

Libraries Nationally and Related Groups (from U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science

Welcome to the Chicago Public Library

Allen County Public Library

American Library Association

HYTELNET on the World Wide Web

Internet Library for Librarians

Library of Congress Home Page

National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (Library of Congress)

Bill & Melinda Gates Library Foundation

U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science Home Page

Library-Oriented Lists and Electronic Serials

ALA Resources for Parents and Kids

Library Job Opportunities

LC Cataloging Distribution Service

Bibliographic Formats and Standards: Contents from OCLC -- MARC fields

periodicals for librarians

New York Review of Books

American Libraries Online

BookBrowser: The Guide for Avid Readers

Oprah's Books

Children's Literature Web Guide

Loganberry Books

Banned Books Week

documents librarianship

FDLP Desktop

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (formerly Monthly Catalog)

Online List of Classes by item and SuDoc #s

Shipping Lists Last one is dated 08/17/99, though.

Search Across Multiple GPO Access Databases

USA Services (GSA) also available toll-free 1 (800) FED INFO

Frequently Used Sites Related to U.S. Federal Government Information

GOVDOC-L User Guide and Archives

Academic Library Government Information

Basic Depository Library Documents - The Unauthorized HTML Editions (Univ. of Denver)

List of Classes of United States Government Publications Available for Selection by Depository Libraries, Arranged by Item Number - (Univ. of Denver)

Federal Depository Library Directory (Univ. of Denver)

United States Government Documents at the Mary H. Weir Public Library

Basic Collection titles at the Mary H. Weir Public Library -- the Basic Collection items are considered to be the most important U.S. Government publications, and >this page helps you find them online, in ourlibrary's "tangible materials" collection, or both

Updated pages for the three branches of the Federal Government: Executive Branch (President, Cabinet, etc.), Congress, and (Coming Soon to a Computer Near You!)the Supreme Court and Judiciary.

Some Other Depository Libraries and Librarians' sites

Government Information Services WVU

Government Publications Information from Pitt (Ground floor, Hillman Library)

Government Databases St. Mary's Univ., Texas

Federal Government Information Resources U. of Missouri at Rolla

Federal Depository Library Program National Agricultural Library

-- see also Government Documents Librarianship National Agricultural Library

Government Guides Mansfield Univ. (Pa.)

Government info. page from Vanderbilt Univ.

Ohio5: Government Resources

Authors and literature

MountainLit - Past and present West Virginia authors andd their writing - Bridgeport, WV

MPR's The Writer's Almanac

Bartleby.com: Great Books and reference sources online

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet

Jane Austen Info Page

Voice of the Shuttle: Descriptions and Highlights Page

Online (public domain  Books FAQ

The Internet Classics Archive

On-Line Literary Resources

Eighteenth-Century Resources

British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions

Perseus Project Home Page

SFWA Links

Locus: The Newspaper of the Science Fiction Field

SFF Net

Books and booksellers

MysteryBookstore.com: The Online Mystery Bookstore

Amazon.com

Miscellaneous information sites

A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia

Jack Lynch's Home Page

Inflation Conversion Factors for Dollars 1665 to Estimated 2014

General Reference Services

Google Groups (web-based access to Usenet newsgroups

My Virtual Reference Desk

The Obituary Page

Dead People Server

The Straight Dope

words, usage, etc.

Richard Lederer's Verbivore

Common Errors in English

Non-Errors: "usages people keep telling you are wrong but which are actually standard in English"! (very reassuring)

ARTFL Project: French-English Dictionary Form

Grammar Lady Mary Newton Bruder died August 18, 2004, but her website survives

Singular "their" in Jane Austen and elsewhere: Anti-pedantry page

Dictionaries

Welcome to Merriam-Webster!

yourDictionary.com

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, 2000

New College English Dictionary Online

Scrabble FAQ

grammar and style notes

THE CURMUDGEON�S STYLEBOOK: Contents and Index

Resources for Writers and Writing Instructors

Grammar and Style Notes

Strunk, William. 1918. The Elements of Style.

histories of words and phrases

The Word Detective
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

American vs. British English

Notes on American English

British & American English_J4 (note that this page is written for Japanese speakers, and it continues)

Words that end in -gry

Why gry makes librarians go grrrrr

Angry at -Gry

Education and literacy

http://www.logan.com/loganberry/stump.html

Literacy Services in West Virginia scroll down to where it says "Literacy Services". Among the links are the West Virginia Governor's Council on Literacy and the West Virginia Literacy Map

ERIC Database

Educator's Reference Desk (formerly AskERIC)

ProLiteracy Worldwide (formerly Laubach Literacy)

PBS LiteracyLink

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Resource Guide: Literacy

Research papers and citation manuals

Internet Resources by Subject: Writing from Univ. of Idaho

UIUC Writer's Workshop Home Page UIUC is the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

OWL Handouts in Outline Form from Purdue University

Researching your paper

Idea Generator from Old Dominion University

Online Study Guide from Ithaca College

How to do library research from U. of California at Santa Cruz

Citations: Footnotes, Bibliographies, etc.

The Columbia Guide to Online Style Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgement from Dartmouth College
A Brief Guide to Bibliographic Citations from Chatham College

Turabian/U. of Chicago style

Online Study Guide: Turabian

MLA style

MLA Style from the MLA website

MLA citation from Purdue Univesity

APA style

Online Study Guide: APA Style from Ithaca College

APA-Style Documentation from Capital Community College, Hartford, CT

APA REFERENCE STYLE: Table of Contents from BYU

APA Style: Electronic References from APA Online

Using America Psychological Association (APA) Format from Purdue University

More sites on citation

ISO 690-2, Bibliographic references to electronic documents

James D. Lester's Citing Cyberspace

IC Reference: Citing Online Documents

Schools, colleges and universities

FastWEB! Financial Aid Search Through the Web

CollegeNET Online College Applications and Free Finanncial Aid Search

West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission

CHEA Council on Higher Education Accreditation

West Virginia School Directory

NICEM National Information Center for Educational Media

Educator's Reference Desk -- lesson plans, pointers to education information, and the ERIC database

k-12

K-12 Education from Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Homefair's The School Report statistics for school districts throughout the U.S.

Hancock County Schools

Brooke County Schools -- this is from the W.Va. School Directory; the URL we had bookmarked before did not connect December 2, 2004

Brooke High School

Weir High School

Madonna High School

John D. Rockefeller IV Career Center

Accelerated Reader Booklist for Weir Middle School

BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper

homeschooling

Home Education Magazine's Homeschooling Information and Resource Pages

NHERI, The National Home Education Research Institute

Home School Legal Defense Association

Resources for Homeschoolers - Johns Hopkins University

Learn in Freedom! Education Reform, Homeschooling Resources

colleges and universities

Academic Common Market

Bethany College of West Virginia

CollegeNET Home Page

California University of Pennsylvania

Carlow University

CarnegieMellon University

Chatham College

Duquesne University

Fairmont State University

Franciscan University of Steubenville

Geneva College

Kent State University

Jefferson Community College

Marshall University

Penn State --- Beaver Campus -- one of the regional campuses of The Pennsylvania State University

University of Pittsburgh

Point Park University

Robert Morris University

.edu: U.S. News Colleges and Careers Center

UK Sensitive Map - Universities

Washington & Jefferson College

West Liberty State College

West Virginia University

Wheeling Jesuit University

WVNCC West Virginia Northern Community College

Youngstown State University

scholarships and financial aid for college

Pay for College -- Scholarships and financial aid information from the College Board

FinAid: The Financial Aid Information Page

Financial Aid from usnews.com

miscellaneous education links

Tri-state information

Weirton

MHWPL map (Tiger Map Server Browser)

City of Weirton Homepage

Contact Information for Weirton City Officials and Departments

Weirton, West Virginia, Code of Ordinances

Weirton Fire Department

UNITED WAY

Weir High School

Weirton Area Chamber of Commerce

Weirton Kiwanis

Weirton Daily Times

ISG Weirton, formerly , but now a division of International Steel Group

Brooke, Hancock and Jefferson counties

Census State Data Centers

Bearfacts for Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area, and for counties individually.

Brooke County Economic Development Home Page

Hancock County Economic Development Home Page

West Virginia

MountainLit - Past and present West Virginia authors and their writing - Bridgeport, WV

Southern West Virginia Convention and Visitors Bureau

State phone Directory (W.Va.)

Northern Panhandle of West Virginia

Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston

Goldenseal Magazine

The "Who famous is from West Virginia?" Page

WVLC

West Virginia Web Sites

West Virginia official web site, formerly http://www.state.wv.us/

West Virginia.com the official visitor's guide

Steubenville

Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County

Fort Steuben Mall

Progress Alliance, formerly Alliance 2000

Mingo Junction, Ohio...the hottest town on the internet!

Pittsburgh and Western Pa.

The Official Site of The City of Pittsburgh

911th Airlift Wing, Pittsburgh International Airport

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Pennsylvania Department: Pa Pitt's Home Directory, local history from Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, aka PennDOT

Allegheny County

Washington County Home Page

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

RealPittsburgh.com community links

Pittsburghese

Pittsburgh is our campus (slideshow from the University of Pittsburgh)

Pittsburgh sports teams

Pittsburgh Penguins

Pittsburgh Pirates

Pittsburgh Steelers

Pittsburgh Panthers: University of Pittsburgh Official Athletic Web Site

local weather (Pittsburgh and Wheeling)

Accuweather forecast for Weirton/Wheeling
Weather Forecast for Pittsburgh from National Weather Service at Pittsburgh International Airport

Things to see and do (parks, museums, concerts, etc.)

Kennywood Park

The Mountaineer Race Track & Gaming Resort - [Home Page]

Raccoon Creek State Park"

Tomlinson Run State Park

Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Carnegie Museum of Art

Carnegie Science Center

The Andy Warhol Museum

Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium

The National Aviary in Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh Children's Museum

Pennsylvania Trolley Museum, Arden, Washington County

Grave Creek Mound Historic Site in Moundsville, across the street from the old West Virginia State Penitentiary

Post-Gazette Pavilion at Star Lake

Fallingwater

West Virginia State Parks

The Jimmy Stewart Museum: Homepage

Oglebay Resort and Conference Center in Wheeling

The Good Zoo and Benedum Planetarium at Oglebay

West Virginia Independence Hall in Wheeling

Phipps Conservatory

Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland

Gettysburg Welcome Center

Pennsylvania Dutch Country Welcome Center

Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission in Harrisburg

Local history and genealogy

For more, see the links under History and Genealogy later in this list of bookmarks

Hancock County, WV GenWeb

Brooke County Genealogy, Inc.

Local History and Genealogy Department of Schiappa Library

Ohio County Public Library Links includes many sources on local history and genealogy, including Wheeling Area Genealogical Society

Mingo Indians Iroquois or Six Nations

Washington Co., Pennsylvania, including the Beers Project (Washington Co. biographies ca.1893)

ClossonPressHome

Science

Mathematics

Ask Dr. Math

Drought

National Drought Mitigation Center

Water Watch,from the U.S. Geological Survey: "formerly our drought information page", it now includes flood info as well

Water Resources of West Virginia also from USGS; similarly, Water Resources of Pennsylvania and

Water Resources of Ohio

Drought Severity Index map from the Climate Prediction Center of NOAA

Environment

WV Solid Waste Mgmt Board

Sustainable Development Timeline

Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the U.S.

The Internet Consumer Recycling Guide

Astronomy

Stars and Constellations

The Nine Planets

Moon Calendar

Fred Espenak's Eclipse Home Page

Astronomy Resources from the Space Telescope Science Institute

Star Journey @ nationalgeographic.com

Sky and Telescope

Space Shuttle Audio (scanner) Frequencies

NASA

American Meteor Society

Jack Horkheimer: STAR GAZER

astronomy animations

Phases of the Moon. And this one shows how

Moon Phases work, i.e. what causes them.

Inner Planets

A Day with the Stars

More on space flight and NASA

NASA Human Space Flight

"We're Going To The Moon!"

NASA Spacelink - An Aeronautics & Space Resource for Educators

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Basics of Space Flight

NASA Earth Science Enterprise (formerly Mission to Planet Earth)

weather or not . . .

Accuweather forecast for Weirton

WTOV9 Weather

NOAA Home Page

The Weather Channel

NCDC Online Document Library, MCDW

Interesting Sites

Interactive Weather Information Network

About Rainbows

Eastern US Quick Look

CDC (Climate Diagnostic Center) Map Room: Weather and Climate Products

Weather Links (Penn State Dept. of Meteorology)

Bad Meteorology

Time

The Official U.S. Time Clock (set for Eastern Time Zone)

Complete Sun and Moon Data for One Day -- any day, Sunrise/Sunset and Moonrise/Moonset data for anywhere in the world

Time Service Dept.

Frequently Asked Questions

World Time: Greenwich Mean Time and time zones around the world

periodic tables of the elements

A Periodic Table of the Elements at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Periodic Table - WebElements

The Wooden Periodic Table Table -- an actual wooden table made of tiles and samples of the elements, with photos and links to info on each element

And now for something completely different:"The Elements," by Tom Lehrer, an animated version of the song. Not a periodic table, but lots of fun if you have Flash.

earthquakes and volcanoes

U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program

Cascades Volcano Observatory HOME PAGE

The Mississippi Valley-"Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"

blue people

HotBot - Methemoglobinemia Results

MetHb Links

animals: extinct, endangered or otherwise

Dolphins around the world Page 1

Bird Links to the World

The National Aviary in Pittsburgh

Conservation Fund

Endangered Species Program, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

DINOSAURS

miscellaneous science links

Science magazine

How Things Work Home Page

CAMI Aviation Links from the Civil Aerospace Medical Institute, a division of the FAA

Mandelbrot Explorer

Science Learning Network: Home

Scott's Botanical Links

Chemical Scorecard Home

The Water Librarians' Home Page

Science Myths in Textbooks and Popular Culture

The Science Club "The Science Club is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that uses humor and science to get children and adults to learn and play together. All our activities, which use common household materials, promote curiousity and the excitement of experimentation."

Earth & Sky

The Stephen Hawking Page

Smithsonian Natural History Web Home Page

Bill Nye the Science Guy's Nye Labs

Wildflowers of the Southeastern United States

News and media

TV and radio

CPB Home Page

West Virginia Public Broadcasting, both TV and radio

radio

cartalk.msn.com

Space Shuttle Audio (scanner) Frequencies

Welcome to NPR

tri-state radio stations

Radio Links from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

West Virginia Public Radio

West Virginia Radio Stations, a list of all AM and FM radio stations in the state

WWVA AM 1430 -- not their official site, because I couldn't find one

WCDK FM 106.3 -- this is an old site, and the mailing address is not up to date, but it's the only one I can find for this station!

Froggy 103, WRKY FM 103.5

WSTV AM 1340

WWVA AM 1170 -- not their official site, because I couldn't find one

WOMP FM 100.5

WEEL FM 95.7

3-W-S RADIO FM 94.5 & AM 970 WWSW, Pittsburgh

WDUQ-FM jazz

WJPA Home Page

WYSU-FM

Television

TV Guide Online

TVGameShows.net/

TV stations

TV links from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, includes local channels and national and cable networks.

cable networks

A & E

AMC

Cartoon Network

CNN Interactive

Comedy Central Online

Court TV Law Center

Welcome to the C-SPAN Networks

Discovery Online

ESPN

The Disney Channel

Welcome to E! Online

Welcome to The Golf Channel Online

The History Channel¨

Home & Garden Television

HBO

TLC

Welcome to Lifetime Online's Homepage

MSNBC

MTV

QVC Home Page

Sci-Fi Channel

Showtime

TBS.com

Turner Classic Movies

TV Land

USA Network

VH1

The Weather Channel

local/tri-state TV stations

KDKA, Channel 2

The Pittsburgh Channel.com, WTAE, channel 4

WTRF, channel 7

WTOV, channel 9 (channel 8 on cable)

WPXI, channel 11

WQED Pittsburgh Home Page, channel 13

WNEO Youngstown and WEAO Akron, PBS 45 & 49 (channel 19 on cable)

West Virginia Public Television -- WNPB (channel 10 on cable)

TV networks

ABC

CBS

Welcome to fX

NBC.com

PBS

News, Weather, and Current Events

The Associated Press

Google News

News Archives With Search Engines

CNN Interactive

Welcome to the C-SPAN Networks

Channel 9 NewsWTOV, Steubenville

WJPA News

Yahoo! News

BBC News World Edition

Lottery

West Virginia Lottery

Ohio Lottery

Pennsylvania Lottery

Powerball

InterLotto - On-Line Lottery Information Service

movies and miscellaneous media

Welcome to the IMDb

Turner Classic Movies

Greatest Films

Roger Ebert on Movies

Librarians in the Movies An Annotated Bibliography, Maintained by David Raish

The Oracle of Bacon at Virginia "If you like the Kevin Bacon game you'll love this game that links any actor/actress to any other!"

music (if it sounds good,it is good)

Gilbert and Sullivan Archive Home Page

The Kingston Trio Place

Nina Gilbert

Ceolas information on Celtic music

Ultimate Band List

Rhino Records

WDUQ links page for jazzincluding Regional Jazz Resources and

Worldwide Internet Music Resources: OutlineJazz Resources on the Web

art, etc.

MuseumLink's Museum of Museums

National Endowment for the Arts Homepage

National Endowment for the Humanities

Smithsonian American Art Museum

AskART

American Society of Appraisers

Local museums (excerpted from longer list above of Tri-State Things to See and Do

Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Carnegie Museum of Art

Carnegie Science Center

The Andy Warhol Museum

Pittsburgh Children's Museum

Pennsylvania Trolley Museum, Arden, Washington County

Grave Creek Mound Historic Site in Moundsville, across the street from the old West Virginia State Penitentiary

The Jimmy Stewart Museum: Homepage

West Virginia Independence Hall in Wheeling

Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland

More museums

The American Museum of Photography

George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Home Page

The Exploratorium: the museum of science, art and human perception

Museum of Science and Industry

The Franklin Institute

newspapers and magazines

Yahoo! News Directory: Newspapers

Yahoo! News Directory: Magazines

Index of Newspaper Articles and Public Addresses

LIFE Cover Search all LIFE covers from 1936 to 1972

Headliner: World Wide News

News Voyager

News and Newspapers Online

USA Today

New York Times

National Catholic Reporter

tri-state papers and magazines

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Weirton Daily Times

Steubenville Herald-Star

The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register

Catholic Spirit the diocesan paper of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston

Charleston Daily Mail

Charleston Gazette Online

Goldenseal, produced by the West Virginia Divison of History and Culture

West Virginia Wildlife, published by the W.Va. Division of Natural Resources

WashingtonPost.com: News From the 50 States - West Virginia

Tribune-Review

Welcome to Pittsburgh City Paper Online!

sports and games

Gamblers Anonymous Official Home Page

The Mountaineer Race Track & Gaming Resort - [Home Page]

ESPN

Yahoo! Scoreboard

NBA.com: The Official Site of the National Basketball Association

Wheeling Intelligencer/OWeb sports news

Welcome to CBS SportsLine

baseball

Major League Baseball: official home page of both major leagues

Pittsburgh Pirates Official Site

National Baseball Hall of Fame

Baseball Almanac

The Oracle of Baseball: Link any two major league players by a shortest possible list of teammates.

Sabermetric Baseball Encyclopedia

football

Pittsburgh Steelers official web site

NFL.COM: Front page

golf

GolfServ at golf.com

Welcome to PGA TOUR.com!

hockey

National Hockey League Official Web Site

Official Pittsburgh Penguins Home Page

bicycling

MTB Review

Cycling Related Pages On WWW

WOMBATS ON THE WEB Women's Mountain Bike and Tea Society

Local major sports teams

Pittsburgh Penguins

Pittsburgh Pirates

Pittsburgh Steelers

Pittsburgh Panthers: University of Pittsburgh Official Athletic Web Site

WVU Athletics Dept.

Official Pittsburgh Penguins Home Page

Outdoor recreation and recreation areas (incl. state and federal parks)

GORP: Great Outdoor Recreation Pages - National Parks, Forests, Wilderness, Wildlife, Hiking, Biking, Fishing, Climbing, Paddling,... and More!

Scuba Central

American Whitewater

Recreation.GOV - Recreational Opportunities on Federal Lands

National Park Service

Park Search (from L.L. Bean)

thebackpacker.com

Government, law and politics

Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids: Homepage

Google Uncle Sam -- Google's specialized search engine for government web sites

The Immigration Superhighway

Alan B. Mollohan, Representative from First Congressional District of West Virginia

Hancock County Officials

C-SPAN

Bureau of Justice Statistics Home page

Guide to Using the Freedom of Information Act

Legal Information Institute

U.S. Constitution - Table of Articles

Where to Write to Obtain Birth, Death, Marriage, and Divorce Certificates

Core Documents of U.S. Democracy

Code of Federal Regulations -- searchable by title and section numbers

West Virginia Legislature, including the WV Code

The Public Debt To the Penny

Fedstats: One Stop Shopping for Federal Statistics

Judicial Statistics

The United States Government Manual

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation

GPO Access Databases -- Search Across Multiple Databases

Corporation for National Service Home Page

The Federal Bulletin Board

THOMAS -- U.S. Congress on the Internet

FedWorld Information Network Home Page

FirstGov.gov, the U.S. Government's Offical Web Portal

AllPolitics - Issues

Links to U.S. Government Information Sources

Section 8 Rental Assistance

MEL: Social Sciences, Social Issues & Social Services Index

National Criminal Justice Reference System

ACIR Research Collection (Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations)

*Appalachian Regional Commission Home Page*

North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS)

IDB Data Access--Display Mode

copyright law

ALA Washington Office's page on copyright issues

Home of the Digital Future Coalition

WHEN WORKS PASS INTO THE PUBLIC DOMAIN

U.S. Copyright Office Home Page

election information

OpenSecrets.org

Project Vote Smart - A Voter's Self-Defense System

WestVirginia Secretary of State

League of Women Voters

The League of Women Voters' DemocracyNet, with non-partisan voters' guides for each state. For example, here is the guide for West Virginia.

getvoting411.us; also here

Taxes

Internal Revenue Service (IRS); alsoherehttp://www.irs.gov/

WV State Tax Department

Ohio Department of Taxation Home Page

Pennsylvania Department of Revenue -- Frameset

Joint Committee on Taxation - Home Page

Yahoo!Finance Tax Center

State Taxes

H&R Block

miscellaneous government directories

The State and Local Government on the Net Directory

United States Government pages from Mary H. Weir Public Library

The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: US Government Information Sources

Government Information from Univ. of North Texas Libraries

Governments on the WWW: Table of Contents

Frequently Used Sites Related to U.S. Federal Government Information from GODORT, the Government Documents Round Table of the American Library Association

Congress

Congressional Record Index

Congressional Record Main Page

THOMAS -- U.S. Congress on the Internet from the Library of Congress

Legislative Branch Internet Resources from Thomas

U.S. Congressional Bibliographies

Policy.net

The United States Senate

U.S. House of Representatives (http://www.house.gov/)

Federal laws and regulations

HTIS (Hazardous Technical Information Services) Bulletins Archives

Section 8 Rental Assistance

Compliance Assistance Material for the Family and Medical Leave Act

Wage and Hour Division: Compliance Assistance Materials

The Code of Federal Regulations Main Page

The Code of Federal Regulations - Select Title

CodeTalk Home Page

FedLaw - Federal Laws and Regulations from the Center for Regulatory Effectiveness

Available CFR Titles on GPO Access

AcqNet: "your source for [Federal] Acquisition Information"

United States Code from the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the House of Representatives

lists/search tools of Federal agency sites

Federal Agency Internet Sites

Browse Government Resources, links to government information, departments, and agencies from the Library of Congress

U.S. Federal Government Agencies

President and Executive Branch

The White House

Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Presidential statements, messages, remarks, and other materials released by the White House Press Secretary

President's Cabinet

Capitol Questions: Presidential benefits

Executive Branch Web Sites listed by the Library of Congress

Impeachment

The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

Impeachment Documents Relating to a U.S. President: includes Andrew Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, and William J. Clinton

Pennsylvania and Ohio gov't sites

Table of Contents - Ohio Revised Code

PennDOT Pennsylvania Dept. of Transportation

Government and Law info from Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Ohio official state web site

Ohio Code

Pennsylvania official Commonwealth web site

Pennsylvania Code

Pennsylvania Senate official site

The Official Home Page of East Liverpool, Ohio

West Virginia

West Virginia official state home page

West Virginia State Code from the website of the West Virginia Legislature

State phone directory

Supreme Court of West Virginia

Bureau of Business and Economic Research

WV State Bar Home Page

City of Weirton Homepage

misc. legal info

American Law Sources Online

The Electric Law Library's Reference Room Legal Encyclopedia and Law Dictionary -

Lawguru.com - Law Related Links

Equal Employment Opportunity: Ethnic/National Origin, Color, Race, Religion & Sex Discrimination from the U.S. Dept. of Labor

FedLaw

FindLaw

West's Legal Directory (WLD) Search for lawyers or law firms

ACLU: American Civil Liberties Union

foreign gov'ts and world organizations

The State of the World's Children 1998 from www.unicef.org

The United Nations

United Nations System

European Union

NATO Official Homepage

Council on Foreign Relations

OPEC, Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

Web Sites of National Parliaments (even when they're called Congress)

Rulers: heads of state and heads of government for all countries, "going back to about 1700 in most cases"

Cars, cooking, gardening, home repair, and other how-to

Home Energy Saver

The National Association of Consumer Agency Administrators

Links to Home and Garden Sites from the U.S. Department of Agriculture

WVU Extension Service

The PL8S.COM License Plate Collector's Hobby Website

Better Homes and Gardens

HGTV Home and Garden Television

Beer Town - home of the Association of Brewers

BevNET: The Beverage Network

Joseph Luft (stamp collecting)

product reviews and information

Consumer World

Consumer Reports®

CompareNet

gardening

Gardener's Supply Company

Dave's Garden -- lots of cool gardening-related links

Scott's Botanical Links

African Violet Society of America

Wildflowers of the Southeastern United States

cars

ALLDATA -- Parts and Services for the Automotive Professional

Auto Safety Hotline from NHTSA, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Car Talk

Edmund's Automobile Buyer's Guides

Kelley Blue Book New Car Pricing and Bluebook Automotive Values

cooking and nutrition

5 A Day Recipes

Epicurious: "The World's Greatest Recipe Collection"

Home Canning Online

Butterball

Honeysuckle White Turkey

Cookbooks.com/

Food and Nutrition Information Center

Busy Cooks

Nutritional Analysis Tools and System

The Culinary Institute of America

FoodTV The Food Network

Stuff for Families

fun stuff for kids

Welcome To America Links Up!

Great Websites for Kids from the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association

Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids: Homepage

Topher's Castle

Sailor Kids: from Maryland Public Libraries

Children's Literature Web Guide -- Internet Resources Related to Books for Children and Young Adults

OH!Kids from OPLIN, the Ohio Public Library Information Network

Uncle Sam for Kids: The Government Information Page for Kids Only, from The St. Charles City-County Library District, Missouri; "The Internet Can Be Fun and Informative at the Same Time"

Kids.gov, an online portal to Federal Government information from Firstgov.gov

White House Kids Home Page

fun stuff for grownups

http://www.cartoonbank.com/

http://www.disastercenter.com/

Find A Grave

PythOnline, page 1

stuff for people of all ages

ALA ALA Resources for Parents, Teens and Kids

The Librarian's Guide to Cyberspace for Parents and Kids

Calvin and Hobbes

Yoyo.com, "Bringing you the best yoyo resources on the net"

The Yuckiest Site on the Internet

Encyclopedia Titanica

The Guardian Notes & Queries

Corporation for National Service Home Page

modern folklore, hoaxes and urban legends

Urban Legends Reference Pages

The Straight Dope

The alt.folklore.urban FAQ, Official Usenet Alt.Folklore.Urban Frequently Posted Legends

Legends from a small country

The James Randi Educational Foundation Homepage

Conspire.com: Home of the 80 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time

stuff for teens

Teen Reading from the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of American Library Association

Cyberteens

The Super Sitter

ADOL Adolescence Directory On-Line

SafeTeens.com

sites for seniors

FirstGov.gov for Seniors: list of Federal websites for or about the elderly

Welcome to Third Age!

AARP

The National Elder Law Network

Elderhostel

Senior Times Home Page

Institute of Gerontology at Wayne State University

Nursing Home Compare from WidowNet

Growth House: Guide To Death, Dying, Grief, Bereavement, and End Of Life Resources

Parenting

First.gov site for parents

Parent Soup

Principles of Parenting from The Alabama Cooperative Extention Service at Auburn University

National Parent Information Network

FatherMag.com- Fathering Magazine

BabyCenter.com

Parenting Q&A

FamilyEducation Network: a Parenting and Education Resource

health/medical info.

MedlinePlus

PubMed Central-- full-text database of many medical journals, from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide

THE MERCK MANUAL, Home/Title Page

AIDSinfo, a project of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services

The Encyclopedia of AIDS

A Consumer's Guide to Alternative Medicine

Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics, from Karolinska Institute Library, Stockholm, Sweden

Nursing Home Compare, a new service of Medicare to provide detailed information about the past performance of every Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home in the country.

National Committee for Quality Assurance -- info on health care plans

National Library of Medicine

You First Health Risk Assessment

WHO: World Health Organization

Gamblers Anonymous Official Home Page

Mayo Clinic

American Medical Association (AMA)

AMA Health Insight "Doctor Finder" and reference library

Medicare

Quackwatch: Your Guide to Quackery, Health Fraud, and Intelligent Decisions

People's Pharmacyby Joe and Terry Graedon

Healthfinder, a service of the National Health Information Center, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

Best Doctors

Medscape, from WebMD: lists medical info by specialty

AgeLine Database, abstracts of aging- and gerontology-related materials from AARP

Shape Up America! Fitness and weight Loss programs

Health Cost Index Report: "a publication that tracks the rate of change in health care costs"

The National Center for Biotechnology Information

NOAH: New York Online Access to Health

Cancer

National Cancer Institute

OncoLink: Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania

children's health

KidsHealth - Children's Health & Parenting Information

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

women's health

OBGYN.net- The Obstetrics & Gynecology Network

The North American Menopause Society

The National Women's Health Information Center

Women's Health America

Mammography, from the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health

Planned Parenthood Information Resources

mental health

Internet Mental Health

Psych Central: Dr. John GROHOL's Mental Health Page

more health related databases from the Federal government

The Family and Medical Leave Act

Consumer Health: Agency for Health Care Research and Quality

Healthfinder -- a gateway consumer health information webb site from the united states government

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) from the National Library of Medicine

Food and Drug Administration

PubMed

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

death and dying issues

WidowNet

Growth House: Improving care for the dying

Jobs, business and $$$

Job guidance: matching yourself to a career

Work and Career from U.S. News

Career Planning from About.com

JobHuntersBible.com : Job Hunting Online with Richard Bolles and What Color is Your Parachute?

Planning a Career

The Riley Guide

FutureScan

Accounting and Finance Jobs

Job/Volunteer Links from the Institute for Global Communications

Union Jobs Clearinghouse

Job & Career Education Center, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

America's Job Bank

Search for Work from W.Va. Job Service

Careers.org

CareerCity Jobs Databases

Careers & Jobs (tm)

CareerBuilder.com

NationJob job search engine

Job info from the Federal Government

Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) Index

O*NET(Occupational Information Network) from the Dept. of Labor's Employment & Training Administration

Occupational Outlook Handbook

Economic and Employment Projections from the Dept. of Labor

Unemployment Rates for States

Dictionary of Occupational Titles from the Office of Administrative Law Judges (another Labor Dept. subdivision)

Search for a Federal Government Job from FedWorld

Job info especially for West Virginia

Job Seekers information from the W.Va. Bureau of Employment Programs

West Virginia Bureau of Employment Programs

W.Va. Division of Personnel

Tipping

The Original Tipping Page

Investing and stock market

Publication 590, Individual Retirement Arrangements (IRAs)

Fairmark Press Tax Guide for Investors

Roth IRA

Straight Talk about Stock Investing

Roth IRA Web Site Home Page

Quote.com: Lycos Investing

directories of businesses & business information

Pennsylvania Office for Online Technology

West Virginia Development Office - Business Assistance

FedBizOpps.gov, the single government point-of-entry (GPE) for Federal government procurement opportunities over $25,000. Many Federal agencies have their own sites, too, especially for small businesses, such as DHS--Open For Business which has links to contracts, grants, small business opportunities, research and development and contacts for those wanting to do business with Department of Homeland Security agencies

Wage and Hour Division, U.S. Dept. of Labor

Thomas Register

Hoover's Online!

BRINT.com (tm)The Premier Global Knowledge Network for Business Technology Professionals

BigCharts -- Interactive Financial Charts, Quotes, and Research

AnyWho: Business Search - Yellow Pages

Downtown Branch and Business Center (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh) -- reopening January 2005 at a new address: 612 Smithfield Street (across from Barnes & Noble, a.k.a. the old Gimbels building)

NASDAQ Stock Market

Business Resources on the Internet from Marshall University Libraries

Insure.com

Standard & Poor's; also Insurer Profiles

product reviews and information

Consumer World

Consumer Reports.org® Online

Money, past and present

The Internet Consumer Recycling Guide

Bankrate.com Comprehensive. Objective. Free.

U.S. Savings Bonds Calculator

The US Mint

Yahoo!Finance Currency Converter

Cost of Living Analysisclick on "Cost of Living" button at top left

The Dismal Scientist: news and commentary on U.S. and world economic conditions

cost-of-living and inflation calculators

The Inflation Calculator, 1800 to 2003

What Is a Dollar Worth? CPI Calculation Machine

Inflation Conversion Factors for Dollars 1665 to Estimated 2014

Current Value of Old Money

BBB -- Better Business Bureau

Better Business Bureau of Canton, serves "the Canton Region", which includes southeastern Ohio and most of West Virginia, including the Weirton-Steubenville area

The Better Business Bureau of Western Pennsylvania

The Better Business Bureau Central Web Server for U.S. and Canada

Other places to find out about reliability of a company or charity

Steel companies and steel industry

Mining/Metals News -- recent industry news via Yahoo!Finance

MetalSite

The Steel Alliance

Steel Recycling Institute

AISI: American Iron and Steel Institute

International Steel Group, and its subsidiaries, including ISG Weirton Inc.", formerly Weirton Steel

Mittal Steel, which is merging with ISG in 2005 to become the world's largest steel company

Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation

Foreign Trade

Bureau of Industry and Security

Export.gov

Miscellaneous other links

Baldrige National Quality Program

NTTC : Robert C. Byrd National Technology Transfer Center, at Wheeling Jesuit University

Internet Resources for Procurement Professionals

GinnieMae, the Government National Mortgage Association

Eastman Kodak Company

BayerUS

AFSCME - the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees

First.Gov for NonProfits

History and Genealogy

Biography.com

Preserving and Protecting Photographs from the American Museum of Photography

Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, now updated to 2003 and online in .pdf format

Paul Halsall/Fordham University: Internet History Sourcebooks Project

RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative

The USGenWeb Project

How to Obtain Birth, Death, Marriage, and Divorce Certificates

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet

FamilySearch.org, Family History Resources from the Church of the Latter Day Saints

Find A Grave

Vital Records Information for United States

APGEN, the Association of Professional Genealogists

PBS History

Encyclopedia Titanica

History/Social Studies for K-12 Teachers

Local history and genealogy

Tri-state W.Va., Ohio and Pennsylvania genealogy & history

Hancock County, WV GenWeb

Brooke County Genealogy, Inc.

Genealogy links and other sources from the Mary H. Weir Public Library

Weirton Daily Times Obituary Index, done by volunteers at the Mary H. Weir Public Library

Ohio County Public Library Links includes many sources on local history and genealogy, including Wheeling Area Genealogical Society

Mingo Indians Iroquois or Six Nations

Washington Co., Pennsylvania, including the Beers Project (Washington Co. biographies ca.1893)

Closson Press, publisher of history and genealogy books about the tri-state area

U.S. Census and other statistics

Census list of last names by how common they are

FedStats: Demographic Statistics

Historical United States Census Data Browser

history

History Matters

HyperHistory Online: Over 2000 files covering 3000 years of World History

EyeWitness to History - History Through The Eyes Of Those Who Lived It

The History Place - Holocaust Timeline

The History Place

Discoverers Web Homepage: information found on the web about voyages of discovery and exploration

American History

Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, now updated to 2003 and online in .pdf format

American Heritage

Links to the Past: Cultural and Historical Resources from the National Park Service

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

Thomas Jefferson on Politics & Government: Quotations

World War II Poster Collection

Lewis and Clark Expedition: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary

Core Documents of U.S. Democracy from GPO Access

Boundaries of the Contiguous United States

MayflowerHistory.com

Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System

American Battlefield Protection Program, from the National Park Service

American History from About.com

Heritage Books Inc: History, Genealogy, Americana

Links (History, esp. French & Indian War)

The American Revolutionary War Home Page

how much is that in today's money?

The Inflation Calculator, 1800 to 2003

What Is a Dollar Worth? CPI Calculation Machine

Inflation Conversion Factors for Dollars 1665 to Estimated 2014

Current Value of Old Money

genealogy and family history

Social Security Death Index

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet

Ancestry.com

Genealogical Research at the National Archives

Brooke County Genealogy

USGenWeb

Genealogy (U.S. Census Bureau)

Genealogy.org

National Genealogical Society

How to Start Your Family History, from FamilySearch.org

History and Genealogy listings from the Yahoo!Directory

Tips for the Care of Water-Damaged Family Heirlooms and Otehr Valuables

specific ethnic groups

FEEFHS: Eastern European Genealogy

Gaelic Homepage: a web site devoted to the language and culture of the Gaels, those people that speak or did speak any of the three Gaelic languages.

Tartan by Mail Order - House of Tartan

The Patrin - Further Reading on Gypsies

GENUKI U.K. and Ireland Genealogy

Libraries with major genealogy collections

The Newberry Library, a privately funded research library with a special strength in genealogy

Local History and Genealogy Reading Room of the Library of Congress

Historical Genealogy Collection (Allen Co. Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana), one of the largest genealogy collections in the world

Genealogical publishers and Fee-based genealogical search sites

HeritageQuest

Closson Press (specialize in Pa. and neighboring states, including WV)

MyTrees.com, Kindred Konnections Genealogy and Family History

Ancestry.com

Everton Publishers

Family Tree Maker

Holocaust

An Auschwitz Alphabet

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

American Indians (Native Americans)

Index of Native American Resources on the Internet - WWWVL American Indians

Eastern/Woodlands Office of Native American Programs

Mingo Indians Iroquois or Six Nations

this day/any day in history

LIFE Cover Search: covers of all issues of LIFE magazine from 1936 to 1972

ANYDAY Today-in-History PAGE of SCOPE SYSTEMS.

This Day in History

This day in movie history (from IMDB)

Today in History from Library of Congress

Black/African-American history

Education First: Black History Activities

Christine's Genealogy Website (Black history)

British Isles history and genealogy

GENUKI: UK and Ireland Genealogy, a large collection of genealogical information pages for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man.

Celt.net: an online Celtic community

IRISH INTERNET HUB

British Monarchy: official web site of the Queen and the Royal Family

People, places and maps

Geography from the U.S. Geological Survey

State and County QuickFacts: facts about people, business, and geography from the U.S. Census Bureau

Geographic.org

The Electronic Map Library

The GIS Gateway

Infonation: View and Compare Country Data, from the United Nations Cyber Schoolbus

photo of Earth as seen from space

U.S. Gazetteer

ZIP and other postal codes

United States Postal Service

Postal Code Lookup for Canada Post (in English. C'est en francais aussi, naturellement.)

maps and mapping

Ordnance Survey - Great Britain's National Mapping Agency

Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), contains information for almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States and its territories

Map Products from the U.S. Census Bureau

PCL Map Collection

Tiger Map Server Browser

Atlas Query: to find a location anywhere in the world

How far is it? calculates distances between places anywhere in the world

Maps On Us

Lycos RoadMaps

MapQuest

Yahoo! Maps

directories: address, phone, e-mail

NANPA: North American Numbering Plan Administration"is the numbering plan for the Public Switched Telephone Network for Canada, the US and its territories, and the Caribbean", and is responsible for such things as area codes. Search for area codes by the three-digit number, by the name of a city or town, or by map of the United States or Canada.

A long, unofficial, but apparently comprehensive list of area codes is

Area Code Listing, by Number

The following are some online telephone directories:

NumberWay Phone Books Worldwide

AnyWho: including White Pages (people),Yellow Pages (businesses), and Reverse Lookup (enter the number and find out who it is).

Online Phonebooks from Ithaca College Library Ready Reference:

Verizon SuperPages online phone directory

Switchboard Home Page

WhoWhere?

Yahoo! People Search

Canada411 phone directory for Canada

Infobel World international directory

Tourism, general information

AAA

CDC Travelers' Health Information Page

World Tourism Organization

Background Notes, information on countries from the US State Department

Other info on Travel and Living Abroad from the State Department

CIA World Factbook (also available here and here.) Includes statistics, maps and flags of all countries.

Thesaurus of Geographic Names

American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA)

Expedia travel services

The Embassy Page: visa and embassy information for all countries

Travel links from Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

United States and territories

SeeAmerica.org: clickable map and links to tourism sites for all U.S. states and territories, including, of course:

West Virginia Divsion of Tourism -- you can also call toll-free 1-800-CALL WVA (1-800-225-5982)

Discover Ohio

Visit PA (Pennsylvania)

Aloha from Hawaii! -- Hawaii's Award Winning Website

Foreign countries

United Nations

Europa: official website of the AboutScotland, Accommodation, Touring, and Information

China Travel Guide

MerseyWorld - Promoting Liverpool and its Regions

License Plates of the World

Flags of the World

UNESCO World Heritage List

Languages

Babelfish translation program from AltaVista

LangtoLang/English German French Italian Turkish Spanish ... Dictionary (plus some other things in some other languages)

Inuit/Inuktitut

Jennifer's Language Page: how to say several words and phrases in hundreds of different languages

American Association of Teachers of German

iLoveLanguages (formerly known as The Human-Languages Page), more than 2000 links to language-related websites

Ethnologue: Languages of the World

Endangered languages in Europe

Foreign Languages for Travelers

Tapani Salminen linguistic homepage: links on Finnish and related languages and other interesting linguistic links

Native American Language Resources

ARTFL Project: French-English Dictionary Form

Il linguatg retorumantsch sin l'Internet: Rhaeto-Romance Language on the Internet

Celtic languages

Irish Gaelic and other Celtic languages, links from the Irish Internet Hub

Gaelic Homepage

Focal an Lae: The Word of the Day in Irish

Internet

The List: a buyer's guide to Internet Service Providers

InterNIC: public information regarding Internet domain name registration services

Fact Sheet on The FCC, Internet Service Providers, and Access Charges

ALA Resources for Parents and Kids

Google Groups: web-based access to and archives of Usenet newsgroups

Fight Spam on the Internet!

Information Age Consultants: Course Links -- lots of links about the Internet and how to use it

NetLingo: The Internet Dictionary

Evaluation of information sources

GetNetWise | You're one click away

FAQ: How to find people's E-mail addresses

An Atlas of Cyberspaces

The Web Style Guide

W3C - The World Wide Web Consortium

The Internet FAQ Archives -- Frequently Asked Questions from many newsgroups and other websites

INTERNET QUICK REFERENCE

CNET.com

GIF Construction Set

Viruses and other Internet hoaxes

Virus Encyclopedia: viruses and other malicious code

Hoax Encyclopedia: which virus warnings are bogus?

Urban Legends and Folklore

Virus Hoaxes and information from McAfee

Hoaxbusters from CIAC

VMyths:Truth about Computer Virus Myths and Hoaxes (formerly called the Computer Virus Myths home page)

Internet freedom, censorship, filtering, etc.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

The Internet Filter Assessment Project

Internet Free Expression Alliance

free e-mail service providers

NET@DDRESS - Free E-Mail For Everybody!

Welcome to Yahoo! Mail

Lycos free email

Hotmail

Juno Internet Service

Population/demographic stats.

Statistical Resources on the Web from the Univ. of Michigan Documents Center

Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, now updated to 2003 and online in .pdf format

County and City Data Books, 1988, 1994, and 2000 -- part of the Geospatial and Statistical Center of the University of Virginia that also includes the Historical Census Browser

The American Religion Data Archive(ARDA): collection of statistics about religion and religious groups in the U.S.

Population Reference Bureau

The Electronic Map Library, from the Department of Geography at the California State University, Northridge

Unemployment Rates by State, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Labor

Where to Write for Vital Records, such as Birth, Death, Marriage, and Divorce Certificates, from the National Center for Health Statistics, one of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Fedstats: The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies

Census State Data Centers

County Population Census Counts 1900-90

Homefair School Reports, comparisons of school districts for families planning to move

World POPClock Projection: the current estimated population of the world

Holidays and calendars

The Calendar Zone

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites -- Calendars & Dates

Holidays on the Net - Welcome

Frequently Asked Questions about Calendars from the U.S. Naval Observatory

German and German-American Holidays, Customs, and Traditions

Worldtime Interactive Clock, also atlas, info on sunrise, sunset, holidays, etc.

Christmas

Christmas and New Year Greetings: How to say Merry Christmas and/or Happy New Year in many languages

Christmas.com Around the World!

Santa's Christmas Around the World Page

Christmas around the world links

Christmas Traditions Around the World /a>

Official NORAD Tracks Santa Web Site

Christmas Weihnachten -- German and German-American Christmas customs

German Christmas Customs and their Pagan Origins

church-year calendars

Calendar of the Church Year according to the Episcopal Church

Orthodox Church in America Calendar of Saints and their Feasts

Catholic Liturgical Calendar, Saints, Feasts, etc.

Church-Year Calendar for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

The Church Year or Liturgical Calendar: Why follow a cycle of seasons and holy days?

Easter

Ecclesiastical Calendar: date of Easter (both Orthodox and Western) and dates dependent on it

Greek Orthodox Easter, 2004 to 2023

Dates of Easter (not Orthodox) 1930 to 2024 and the formula for computing it

Dates of Ash Wednesday and Easter

Halloween

HALLOWEEN: FACTS AND MISINFORMATION

ORIGINS OF HALLOWEEN, ALL SAINTS' DAY, ALL SOULS' DAY

Mother's Day

Who came up with Mother's Day and why?

Anna Jarvis

The Founder of Mother's Day

Mother's Day -- What You Need to Know

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving on the Net

The History of Thanksgiving from the History Channel

Mayflower History

The Truth About the Pilgrims and the First Thanksgiving

Other holidays

Religion

Internet Sacred Text Archive

Religious and Sacred Texts

Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance

Adherents.org, "statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc."

The American Religion Experience at WVU

The American Religion Data Archive(ARDA): collection of statistics about religion and religious groups in the U.S.

The Virtual Religion Index

Finding God in Cyberspace

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet - Religion & Churches

Internet Resources for the Study of Judaism and Christianity, compiled by Jay C. Treat

Bible

Bible Gateway

ECanon: Online Search Engine for Canonical Texts

All-in-One Biblical Resources Search

New American Bible

Judaism

Torah.org

The Jewish History Resource Center

Judaism

Holocaust

Holocaust

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Catholic

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

Catholic World News

Catholic Encyclopedia online, c1914

Diocese of Wheeling-Charleton

Catholic.Net

Saint of the Day

The Holy See (official website of the Vatican)

The Mary Page

National Catholic Reporter

Orthodox (Christian)

HTC: Orthodox Christian Sites of Interest

St. Nicholas Church / Weirton, WV

Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America

Anglican

Anglicans Online

Caterbury Cathedral

Miscellaneous religion links