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
  Search country and territory profiles with fast lookup, regional hubs, map pages, ranking tables, and reference indexes for global facts.

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

• 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

• Time and Date - Perpetual Calendar
  Find the day of the week and view calendars for any year—past, present, or future.

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

Weather

• National Weather Service

• WLBT Mississippi Weather