Reference resources

Reference resources:
   
Almanac

a.  Information Please Almanac (http://www.infoplease.com)
b.  Guinness World Records (http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com)

Books and Reviews
a. Bookbrowse.com  (http://www.bookbrowse.com)
b. New York Times Books (http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/)
c. Google Book Search (http://books.google.com/)
d. Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.co.in/)
e. Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org)

Dictionaries & Thesauri
a. Cambridge Dictionaries Online (http://dictionary.cambridge.org/)
b. Free translation.com (http://www.freetranslation.com/)
c. WordReference.com (http://wordreference.com/)
d. Cliché Site (http://www.clichesite.com/index.asp)
e. Merriam-Webster Online (http://www.merriam-webster.com/)
f.  Internet Anagram Server (http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/)

Education
a. FreevideoLectures.com (http://freevideolectures.com/algebra.php)
b. Online Education Database(http://freevideolectures.com/algebra.php)
c. World Resources Institute (http://earthtrends.wri.org/)

General Searches
a. Answers.com (http://www.answers.com/)
b. ChaCha (http://www.chacha.com/)
c. Google Earth (http://earth.google.com/)

d. Google Things to do (http://www.google.co.uk/landing/thingstodo/)
e. Internet Archive /Wayback machine (http://www.archive.org/index.php)
f.  PolyCola.com(http://www.polycola.com/)
g. Shakespeare (http://nfs.sparknotes.com/)

Language
a. Modern Language (http://www.sas.edu.sg/library/hs/modern.html)
b. BBC-Learning English(http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/)
c. BBC- Grammar & Pronunciation (http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/)

Poetry
a. The Academy of American Poets(http://www.poets.org/)
b. American Verse Project(http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/)
c. Glossary of Literary terms (http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm)

Quotations
a. Bartleby.com (http://www.bartleby.com/100/)
b. The Quote Garden (http://www.quotegarden.com/)
c. Quote World (http://www.quoteworld.org/)

Measures, Weights, Conversion
a. Convert-me.com(http://www.convert-me.com/en/)
b. Online Conversion (http://www.onlineconversion.com/index.htm)
c. Oanda.com (http://www.oanda.com/)

Weblinks to award winning books
a. American library Association-YALSA (http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/booklistsbook.cfm)
b. The Man Booker Prize(http://www.themanbookerprize.com/)
c. Nobel prize-Literature(http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/)
d. Pultizer Prizes (http://www.pulitzer.org/)