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fadevlin@ku.edu
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Starting Points
Recommended Websites
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Information about each state and its capital with links to additional information.
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Presents calendar related resources. Includes calendar quotes and poetry. Offers access to a calendar forum and a century prayer. Links to celestial, cultural, daily, event, geographic, holiday, interactive, millennium, reference, women related, software, reform, and traditional calendars.
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History and FAQ's of calendars, from ancient Rome to outer space, including Julian, Gregorian, Jewish, Islamic, Chinese, and Mayan.
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Provides comparative information about local U.S. communities and the services found in those communities. Sources used are from a variety of government agencies, research conducted by Moving Traffic, and research licensed from third parties.
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Farmers’ Almanac shares useful and unique tips, tricks, recipes, and trivia that appeal to people of ALL ages. It includes information about weather, gardening, and astronomy.
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Links to almanacs, factbooks, statistical reports and related reference tools.
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Provides links to legal information for legal professionals and the public. Search by legal issue and/or place. The site also helps individuals locate a lawyer.
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Search and registration site for world record data.
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Contains online versions of the Time Almanac and Columbia encyclopedia, as well as an atlas, dictionary and thesaurus.
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Presents a directory of reference resources on the Internet, as part of the Internet Public Library. Offers access to almanacs, biographies, census data, dictionaries, encyclopedia, genealogy resources, news sites, quotations, and telephone directories.
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Online version of "The Old Farmer's Almanac." Includes such information as tide tables, rising and setting times of the sun, moon, and planets, planting charts, recipes and weather forecasts.
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Refdesk indexes and reviews quality, credible, and current information-based sites and assists readers in navigating these sites.
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A guide to the online reference resources at KU Libraries
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Provides information about state capitals and profiles of individual states
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Links to frequently used online reference sources, compiled by the University of Texas Libraries.
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Daily timeline of historical events from 1900 on.
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