Reference

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Martindale's Calculators Online - Hundreds of scientific, engineering, and general calculators.
Online Conversion - Convert just about anything to anything else. Over 5,000 units, and 30,000 conversions.
Salary Calculator - Compare the cost of living of various major cities. From Home Fair.

Background Notes - Information on the people, history, government, and economy of the world's countries, from the U.S. Department of State.
CIA World Factbook - Lists population, government, military, and economic information for nations recognized by the United States.
50States.com - Find out the state flower, song, bird etc. for all 50 states.

Acronym Finder - Find out what any acronym or abbreviation stands for.
Bartleby.com, Reference - Search Roget’s Thesaurus, the American Heritage Dictionary, Columbia Encyclopedia and more.
Dictionary.com - One stop lookup that searches several online dictionaries or thesauri.
Encylopedia.com - Search over 100 encyclopedias and dictionaries.
Infoplease - Search almanacs in a wide variety of subjects.

Internet Public Library - Librarian reviewed sites organized by subject.
Search Systems - Links to thousands of public records databases including adoption records, non-profit agencies, court records and much more.

Capital Community College Guide to Grammar and Writing - Excellent guide from word and sentence level to research paper level.
Citation Styles - Links to MLA, APA, AMA, Chicago, and Turabian styles for citing electronic sources.
Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab (OWL) - Extensive resource for all phases of writing.

International White and Yellow Pages - Telephone directories worldwide.
Switchboard.com - Find personal and business phone numbers.
Telephone Prefix Locator - Find out where a phone number is located using the prefix.
Toll Free Directory - Find toll free numbers.
Which Phone Book? - Tells you which telephone book has listings for a California community or area code. From the Santa Cruz Public Library.
United States Post Office - Zip+4 code look-up.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - 10th edition, 1919. Provides older quotations with their sources.
Online Speech Bank - From American Rhetoric. Thousands of famous speeches, lectures, sermons, debates and interviews in transcript, some with audio.
Quotation Links - Annotated and rated list of online quotation sources.

American Factfinder - Census statistics.
Bureau of Labor Statistics - Provides employment and earnings data and price indexes.
Consumer Price Indexes - CPI information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Economic Indicators - Current and historic indicators from the U.S. Census Bureau.
FedStats - Statistics from over 100 federal agencies.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - International economic statistics.
Statistical Abstract - Summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
UN Data - World statistics on employment, education, energy, environment, health, population, refugees, and much more, from the United Nations.

Air Quality Monterey Bay
Pollen and Mold Counts - National Allergy Bureau.
National Weather Service - San Francisco Bay Area/Monterey.
Sunrise and Sunset Times - Moonrise and moonset too, for U.S. cities and towns.
Tide and Current Predictor - U.S. and worldwide.
Weather Underground - Weather for cities around the world, current and historical.
World Climate Averages - Includes rainfall averages for this area.