Research Help: Quick Reference Websites

"Information Please has been providing authoritative answers to all kinds of factual questions since 1938."

From the Library of Congress, quick information right at your fingertips.

Internet Fact Checker.

"In this resource you will find background information, election results, cabinet members, notable events, and some points of interest on each of the presidents. Links to biographies, historical documents, audio and video files, and other presidential sites are also included."

"S9.com is a Wikipedia type system and everyone can edit biographies or even create their own. S9.com was established in 1997 and since then has grown into one of the largest biography sites on the planet."

"Here's where to find out. The Dead People Server is a database of interesting celebrities who are long dead or newly dead."

Includes articles from Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of U. S. Politics, and The World Almanac for Kids.

"Produced for US policymakers and coordinated throughout the US Intelligence Community, marshals facts on every country, dependency, and geographic entity in the world. "

From the Library of Congress.

"Lexicool offers a directory of "all" the online bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries freely available on the Internet. It is a resource intended for translators, linguists, language students and all those interested in foreign languages."