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Online Dictionaries

Merriam-Webster Online

ASL Sign Language Dictionary

One-Look Dictionaries - Search for multiple definitions of a word from a variety of online dictionaries.

Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus

VoyCabulary - The VoyCabulary website takes any website or sample of text and provides synonyms or dictionary definitions for every word.

Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology -  Search 130,000 terms in 130 fields of science for short definitions.

Online Thesauri

Roget's Thesaurus

The Library of Congress Thesauri

Merriam-Webster Thesaurus
 

Online Encyclopedia

Britannica.com - Some free content available.

Encyclopedia.com
 

Quotations

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

The Quotations Page
 

Almanacs

The Old Farmer's Almanac

Information Please Almanac

CIA World Factbook

The Political Reference Almanac
 

Postal Information

United States Postal Service

City/State/Zip Code Associations

ZIPFind - Calculates the distance between two zip codes

PostInfo - World-wide postal information
 

Maps & Geography

MapQuest

CIA World Factbook

U.S. Gazetteer

Tiger - The Census Bureau's Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing system. 

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - An excellent map library on the web.

National Atlas of the United States

Writing / Communication

Communication Skills - Includes information about how to write business letters, essays, and much more.