Recommended Websites

Acronyms & Abbreviations

• Abbreviations.com
  Browse by category, word, or abbreviation

• Acronym Finder
  Offers extensive listing that can be searched by acronym, abbreviation or by keyword

Career Information

• Occupational Outlook Handbook
  Lists hundreds of types of jobs and detailed information about them.

Countries

• World Factbook
  The CIA World Factbook provides basic information on the countries of the world as compiled by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. It contains information on the people, economy, geography, and environment, communication, transporation and the military of each country.

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

• Brittanica.com

• Merriam-Webster Dictionary

• Mississippi Encyclopedia

Factbooks

• How Stuff Works

Health

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• Mayo Clinic Health Information

• National Institutes of Health

• The Nutrition Source

• Nutrition.gov (USDA )

Images

• Flickr: The Commons

• Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (Library of Congress)

Manuals

• United States Government Manual

Maps

• Mapquest
  Online maps and driving directions.

People

• U.S. Presidents

• Mississippi People

• Nobel Laureates

• Pulitzer Prize Winners

Quotations

• Goodreads Popular Quotes

Statistics

• Bureau of Labor Statistics
  The BLS is an independent national statistical agency that collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates essential statistical data to the American public.

• National Center for Health Statistics
  Includes all kinds of statistical health-related information.

• Explore Census Data
  Statistics and data from the U.S. Census Bureau. 

Style Manuals

• APA Format (OWL Writing Center - Purdue)

• Chicago Manual of Style Q&A

• Guide to Citation Style Guides

• MLA Format (OWL Writing Center - Purdue)

Thesauri

• Roget’s International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
  A thesaurus of over 85,000 hyperlinked cross-references with each word being related to its neighbors and each part related to the whole.

Time & Calendars

• Official U.S. Time

• Perpetual Calendar
  A calendar that can be generated that is good for a span of many years

• Time Zone Converter
  Time zone tools and time zone converter.

Weather

• National Weather Service

• WLBT Mississippi Weather