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Dictionaries/Reference

  1. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
  2. Bulfinch's Mythology - searchable text for finding mythological terminology.
  3. Dictionary of Symbolism - use the alphabetical listing to find your word and the dictionary will tell you what the word may symbolize.
  4. Good Quotations by Famous People
  5. Quotations Page - great list of "Other Links"
  6. Roget's Thesaurus
  7. A Semantic Rhyming Dictionary - enter a word and this dictionary will rhyme it for you.
  8. Virtual Reference Desk - Purdue's extensive list of online reference libraries
  9. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

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Miscellaneous/General

  1. College Pages - listing of over 3,000 college home pages
  2. U.S. Federal Government
    bullet"Fedstats" - statistics of interest to the public collected by various gov't agencies.
  3. Kaplan's Educational Center - this commercial site contains information on various standardized admissions tests plus a collection of useful and enjoyable self-testing sites - especially for vocabulary and personality.
  4. Library of Congress
  5. TASP Homepage

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Newspapers and Television

  1. CNN
  2. More Newspaper Access
  3. New York Times on the Web - free access to daily New York Times. This is a free site but you need an e-mail address to use.
  4. USA Today

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