Reference Bookmarks

CIA World Fact Book
Let the US Government do some work for you. The CIA's World Fact Book is an up to date source of , all kinds of information of use to business and students about every country in the world.

Cornell Law School
This WWW-server integrates both the Gopher-based and the WWW-based offerings of the Legal Information Institute (LII), Cornell Law School. All Internet hypertext (HTML) publications of the LII are mounted here, with links to other relevant legal materials on the LII's Gopher server and elsewhere on the Internet.

Encyclopedia Britannica
You must subscribe to this service. Perhaps it may be worth it to you.

Hypertext Webster Interface
Replaces your favorite desktop reference. But probably best used to augment the book instead of replacing it. But it is easy to use.

Library Catalogs with Web Interfaces
A usefull link to all of the Libraries which you can access on the Internet. - There are a ton of them!

Library of Congress Archives
Another valuable service brought to you by your government and your tax dollars. Take a look there is lots of good stuff here.

RAND Home Page
RAND - One of the world's most famous thinktanks. It is a nonprofit institution that helps improve public policy through research and analysis. High-quality, objective research on national security became the institution's first hallmark. Today, RAND's broad research agenda helps policymakers strengthen the nation's economy, maintain its security, and improve its quality of life by helping them make choices in education, health care, national defense, and criminal and civil justice, among many other areas.
You will be astonished at the information which is available!

SUPREME COURT DECISIONS
This site contains a valuable search engine for the Supreme Court's decisions.

The WWW Virtual Library
An outstandiing resource. A compendium of links to reference material on almost anything you can imagine. A must for the serious student

Voice of the Shuttle Home Page - Research
This is not NASA. But it is an extremely useful index to all kinds of information on all sorts of topics. There is an excellent search engine for the site so you can find out easily if they have information on the topic you are interested in.

World Map
The Xerox PARC Map Viewer is a World-Wide Web HTTP server that accepts requests for a World or USA map and returns an HTML document including an image of the requested map. Each map image is created on demand from a geographic database.
Selecting on the map image requests a new map zoomed in on the selected point. Links embedded in the HTML document control other map rendering options.