Contents:
Almanacs
| Awards
| Calculators/Converters
| Calendars
| Calorie Charts
| Postal Rates
| Time, Sun, Moon, & Stars
| Weights & Measures
| PSU Libraries' Related Pages
Almanacs
- African American Almanac [Gale Virtual Reference Library: "...provides historical and current information on African American history, society, and culture in 28 topical chapters" (from database, 12/07/06)] (Penn State Users Only)
- African American Years: Chronologies of American History and Experience [Gale Virtual Reference Library: "history of African Americans from pre-colonial times to the present. Includes overview essays, sidebars, and primary sources" (description from database, 12/12/06)] (Penn State Users Only)
- Almanac of American Politics [information about election forecasts & results, officials, states & districts; keyword searchable] (Penn State Users Only)
- Baseball Almanac [incredible site for baseball fans and researchers that includes statistics, biographies, histories, and all kinds of other data]
- CRCPress Periodic Table Online (in CHEMNetBASE) (Penn State Users Only)
- Crime and Punishment in America [Gale Virtual Reference Library: "Almanac examines key topics, including moral and religious beliefs, economic implications of crime and more." (from database, 12/11/06)] (Penn State Users Only)
- Defense Almanac [lots of organizational data and statistics; 2003 is latest update] (Dept. of Defense)
- Disasters in the United States, 1650-2005 (Emil Pocock, Eastern Connecticut State University)
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online [contains numerous 18th century almanacs] (Penn State Users Only)
- Fact Monster [very good site for children K-12 and those looking for basic information]
- Fast Facts: Almanacs/Fact Books/Statistical Reports and Related Reference Tools [a great site with information about many different subjects, most pertaining to specific countries or regions] (Gary Price)
- Guiness World Records [official site of Guinness World Records containing information about many world records]
- HistoryCentral.com [good site for historical information; some ads]
- HyperHistory Online: History [small blurbs about historical events hyperlinked to timelines; good for finding preliminary information and establishing historical context through the timelines]
- Information Please[possibly the best general almanac site out there, containing information on a vast range of topics]
- Leon's Almanac of Political History[see historical events for any date by day and month] (perspicuity.net)
- National Climate Data Center [data on weather, storms, extreme events, global hazards, maps]
- Old Farmer's Almanac[weather forecasts, weather history, astronomy, astrology, tides, gardening, and other topics found in the Farmer's Almanac; lots of ads]
- Olympic Almanac [information about every modern Olympiad, games and participating countries] (Michael S. Monaco)
- People's Chronology [Gale Virtual Reference Library: "handy online reference to historical developments from prehistory through 2004, this chronology includes many events not found in conventional history books." (from database, 12/07/06)] (Penn State Users Only)
- Periodic Table [excellent periodic table site, with summaries about each element and other chemistry information] (WebElements)
- Special Issues: List of List ["database of ranked listings of companies, people and resources freely available on the Internet"]
- Sports Almanac [lots of good sports information, statistics, and results of games reaching far back into time] (infoplease.com)
- This Day in History [interesting general use site with facts in many areas about any particular day of the year] (HISTORYCHANNEL.com)
- Timeline of the 20th Century [simple but informative timeline of the 20th century, some dates linked to explanatory articles but many are not] (About.com)
- Weather Almanac [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Yahooligans! Reference [another excellent reference site for childrenand for adults seeking basic information]
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Awards
- Academy Awards [official site of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with past and present award winners and nominees] (oscars.org)
- Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Awards and Hall of Fame [official site of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences with daytime and primetime awards, current and past]
- AFI (American Film Institute) Awards [information about the AFI awards dating back to the year 2000]
- ALA (American Library Association) Awards & Scholarships [great site for those looking for scholarships, with links to past winners, information about upcoming scholarships and awards, and some on-line applications]
- Award Winners [listings of and information about many literary awards--Hugo, Booker, Edgar, Newberry, Pen/Faulkner, and others--and their winners, with background on the winners and their works] (powell.com)
- AwardWeb: Collections of Literary Award information and Photos [information about science fiction literature awards]
- British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards
- Caldecott Medal [information about the Caldecott award, books and authors that have won, and honor books, recognized but not winners](ALA)
- Coretta Scott King Award ["award (or awards)...given to an African American author and an African American illustrator for an outstandingly inspirational and educational contribution"] (ALA)
- Golden Globe Awards [film and TV awards, sponsored by Hollywood Foreign Press Association]
- Grammy Awards [official site of the Grammy Awards, with information about the awards and past and present winners and nominees]
- Latin Grammy Awards
- National Endowment for the Humanities: Recent Grant Awards [information about NEH award winners, with links to NEH grant applications]
- Nebula Awards (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America)
- Nobelprize.org {multimedia site with information about current and past Nobel prizes and winners]
- Obie Award [award listing and history of the Obies for off-Broadway plays] (villagevoice.com)
- Peabody Awards ["...recognize distinguished achievement and meritorious service by radio and television networks, stations, producing organizations, cable television organizations and individuals." (website, 4/20/2007)]
- Poetry Awards (Academy of American Poets) [an excellent site for information on poetry: poets, poems, awards, and poetry communities]
- Poetry Prizes [worldwide] [excellent worldwide site with links to poetry festivals, prizes, journals and associations in many countries] (UNESCO)
- Pritzker Architecture Prize [includes biographies, acceptance speeches, videos of ceremonies]
- Pulitzer Prize [complete list of Pulitzer Prize winners, with history of the award and forms to enter a work for consideration] (pulitzer.org)
- Pulitzer Prizes for Letters [awards for fiction, drama, poetry, biography, history, presented in table format] (SHSU)
- Sports Halls of Fame [links to sports halls of fame and musuems](dmoz.org)
- Tony Awards [official website of the Tony awards for theatre, with past winners and information on this years awards]
- Webby Awards ["The Webby Awards presents two honors in every category -- The Webby Award and The People's Voice Award -- in each of its four entry types: Websites, Interactive Advertising, Online Film & Video and Mobile." (website, 4/23/2007)]
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Calculators/Converters
- AAA Fuel Cost Calculator [calculate estimated fuel costs from starting city to destination city]
- Calculators for Statistical Tables (Vassar) [calculators for statistical math; presumes some prior knowledge on the part of the user]
- Conversion of Units [great site for both converting a measure into another, and to find converstion factors between two units] (Institute of Chemistry, FU-Berlin)
- Cooking Calculator [good site to find the right measurement conversions--U.S./British--for cooking or baking] (globalgourmet.com)
- Five Ways to Compute the Relative Value of a U.S. Dollar Amount, 1790 - 2005 [a good site using 5 indices--CPI, GDP Deflator, unskilled wage rate, GDP per capita, and relative share of GDP--to compare monetary values, includes years up to 2004] (MeasuringWorth.com)
- FXConverter - 164 Currency Converter [great currency converter for currencies from 164 countries, with up-to-date exchange rate] (oanda.com)
- The Home Store.com [research, financial, Salary calculators, moving calculators, good for calculating estimated moving costs. Also has lots of other useful information about moving, including school reports]
- How Much Is That? [for "questions of comparative value covering purchasing power, exchange rates, and other variables between the past and today"](EH.net)
- Hybrid Electric Vehicles: HEV Cost Calculator Tool
- Inflation Calculator [good tool for comparing inflation between two years](westegg.com)
- Inflation Conversion Factors for Dollars 1665 to Estimated 2014 [contains lists of inflation conversion factors, but does not contain a calculator for the conversion. Still a good site, with data from 1665 on] (Robert Sahr, OSU)
- Martindale's Calculators' Online Center [a massive amount of calculators for most anything; probably the best place to start when looking for calculators on the web]
- Measure 4 Measure [[another good starting place for calculator links site, "they do the work for you"] (wolinskyweb.net)
- Megaconverter 2 [the best starting point for conversion tasks, with a converter and outside links for information not available on the site itself]
- Roman Numeral Year Dates: A Conversion Guide ["guide to deciphering Roman numeral year dates[1] as they are commonly found in the imprints of both modern and early printed books....explains the basic principles for converting numbers from Roman to Arabic form"](Christopher Handy)
- Simply Useful Travel Information: Clothing Size conversions [quick and easy site to convert American clothing sizes to those of other countries] (tyzo.com)
- Soople: Calculator [user-friendly interface with search boxes for various types of calculations, with a unit converter as well]
- xe.com: The Full Universal Currency Converter® [contains every known world currency]
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Calendars
- Calendar Converter [an excellent site with converters for many different calendars, with descriptions of each calendar and its uses] (Fourmilab)
- Calendar Zone [hundreds of links to calendars of all types: "comprehensive categorized calendar catalog currently containing countless correlating connections & calzone recipes!"]
- CalendarHome.com [commercial site with interesting links; users can make and print their own generic calendars]
- Calendars Through The Ages [very interesting site, all about calendars] (webexhibit.org)
- Interfaith Calendar [calendars from many religious faiths up to the year 2010]
- Lakota Winter Counts [a website exhibiting the Native American Lakota form of calendar] (Smithsonian)
- Multi-Cultural Calendar [holidays around the world, with good links to find them by date or country] (KidLink)
- Perpetual Calendar [simple site to see the calendar for any month from year 0001 to 9999](Herb Weiner)
- Penn State University Calendar of Events [official PSU calendar contains both events for the current day and links to specialized calendars from many departments]
- Virtual Perpetual Calendars [many virtual calendars, in list form rather than monthly, with seasons and zodiac signs] (vpcalendar.net)
Calorie Charts & Nutrition Tools
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Postal Rates
Time, Sun, Moon, & Stars
- Daylight Savings Time ["the history of daylight saving, from Benjamin Franklin to the present..."] (webexhibits.org)
- Full Moon Names and Their Meanings (farmersalmanac.com)
- Local Times Around the World ["attempts to list all of the world's countries, and many of its islands, with a pointer to the local time in the region"]
- Official U.S. Time [official U.S. time in any time zone, from the National Institute of Standards and Technology]
- StarDate [star almanac, solar system info, constellation guide, listing of meteor showers, sunrise & sunset, daily internet radio show, and more] (UTexas)
- time and date.com
- U.S. Naval Observatory Complete Sun and Moon Data for One Day [a site to find sun and moon rise and set data as well as moon phases for any location around the world]
- U.S. Naval Observatory Master Clock Time [site with animated clocks for North American time zones, as well as Greenwich Mean Time]
- World Clock--Time Zones [a simple chart listing major cities around the world and the current time there; useful for quick check on time elsewhere]
- World Time [a globe view of light and darkness, with capability of centering the view on any point of latitude and longitude, with local times for places around the world]
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Weights & Measures
- Conversions to Metric Measures (NIST)
- Approximate Conversions from Metric Measures (NIST)
- Dictionary of Units ["a summary of most of the units of measurement to be found in use around the world today (and a few of historical interest), together with the appropriate conversion factors needed to change them into a 'standard' unit of the SI" (Systeme International)] (UExeter)
- Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units ["Over 1,500 entries; This comprehensive dictionary provides clear definitions of all the units, prefixes, and styling of the Système International (SI), as well as industry-specific and traditional terms currently in use." (website, 4/13/2007)] (Oxford Reference Online) (Penn State Users Only)
- General Tables of Units of Measure [Appendix C, NIST Handbook 44, Specifications, Tolerances, and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices]
- How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measure [contains all kinds of measures and scales, including wind chill factors, Fujita scale for tornadoes, Apgar scale for newborns, as well as more "typical" weights and measures] (UNC)
- Sizes [measurements of all kinds, oddities]
See also these PSU Libraries' related pages:
Arts and Humanities Library:
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