Reference Sites

News & Current Events  |  Dictionaries  |  Encyclopedias  |  Telephone Directories  |  Maps, ZIP Codes & Postal Information

News and Current Events

• Newspapers - US & Worldwide
  • ABYZ News Links Select your news by region or country.
  • All Newspapers.com Newspapers from all countries.
  • CRAYON News Links Arranged by subject and location.
• Radio
  • Yahoo - List of Online Radio Stations
  • Yellow Pages for Radio Stations Broadcast Companies in the United States.
  • Radio Station World: Radio Broadcast Directory and Listing of Radio Stations on the Web.
• Television
  • TV Station Web Page Directory Includes worldwide listings.
  • TV.com Searchable directory of episode guides, reviews, TV show listings, and actors.
  • Yahoo List of Television News Sources Everything from Nielson Ratings to schedules for network news casts.

Dictionaries

• OneLook Dictionaries: Search over 300 on-line dictionaries simultaneously. It includes some dictionaries for languages other than English.
• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus
• Dictionary.com

Encyclopedias

• Encyclopedia Britannica
• World Book Online Reference Center
• HighBeam Encyclopedia
• Microsoft Encarta Online: An abridged version of the Encarta Encyclopedia on CD-ROM.
• CIA World Factbook

Telephone Directories

• Reverse Phone Directory: One stop source for business and personal phone numbers, includes reverse lookup.
• Switchboard Provides a fast and easy way to find people and businesses with options for narrowing searches by location, specific products and services.
• Anywho Includes yellow pages and all residential white pages listings obtained from local telephone records for published telephone listings.
• WorldPages: Combined Yellow Pages, Whitepages, and email directory.

Maps, ZIP Codes & Postal Information

• US Postal Service Site: Consumer Information, Express Mail Tracking, Passport Information, Stamp Information and more.
• ZIP Code Lookup and Address Information: Look up ZIP Codes, and what cities are associatied with ZIP Codes.
• Change of Address Information
• Post Office Locator
• International Postal Information: Web sites from postal services around the world.  Great places to look for foreign postal codes.
• World Atlas

Last updated: 31 Jul 08, PAW