ASTRONOMY
American Astronomical Society
It provides general information on both professionals as well as amateur enthusiasts. Maintains links to other astronomy resources on the Net.
CCD Images of Galaxies
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/galaxy.html
This site presents a collection of images pertaining to photographs of galaxies. Also offers educational resources.
Mount Wilson Observatory
This site overviews several ongoing astronomy projects using innovative techniques and modern detectors. Provides information for professionals, amateurs, tourists, and educators.
Solar System Live
http://www.fourmilab.ch/solar/solar.html
Allows to view a model of the solar system. Offers adjustable settings so that you can see how the solar system would be, at any given time or on any given date.
Understanding Our Planet Through Chemistry
http://helios.cr.usgs.gov/gips/aii-home.htm
Explains the history of the earth and the chemistry concepts involved in its formation.
Views of the Solar System
http://www.hawastsoc.org/solar/homepage
This site offers an educational view of the solar system. It contains images and information about the sun, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and meteoroids.
Web Nebulae
http://seds.lpl/arizona.edu/billa/twn/top
It contains a collection of images of various objects in our galaxy. Includes images and explains how to classify nebulae.
CALENDARS
Ancient Calendars
http://physics.nist.gov/GenInt/Time/ancient
A fascinating tour of ancient methods of marking time from clocks to calendars.
Calendars through the Ages
http://webexhibits.org/calendars/
History and FAQs of calendars, from ancient Rome to outer space, including Julian, Gregorian, Jewish, Islamic, Chinese, and Mayan.
Calendars and their History
http://astro.nmsu.edu/~lhuber/leaphist
This site reprints an essay by L. E. Doggett about the history of various calendars, including the Gregorian, the Julian, the Hebrew, the Islamic, the Indian, and the Chinese. Additionally, the essay explains the astronomical bases of calendars, calendar reform movements, and historical eras and chronologies. This site is an important first step for anyone trying to understand the origin calendars and methods of their creation.
Calendar Zone
Offering a list of links to other calendar pages, Calendar Zone (formerly known as Calendar Land) is a comprehensive resource of general, event, celestial, interactive, cultural and religious calendars. The site also offers links to calendar indexes and directories, calendar information and resources.
Date and Time Gateway
Find the exact date/time group of any region/place/country.
The World Wide Holidays and Festivals
http://www.tattooheaven.com/1world
Explains and calculates moving holidays that is, those that don’t happen on exactly the same date every year for almost every culture, country, and religion.
One-World Global Calendar
http://www.tattooheaven.com/1world.html
Offering festivals, celebrations, and holidays from ancient and modern cultures around the world, this is an excellent multicultural resource. The calendar is updated weekly.
DICTIONARIES/THESAURI
Acronym lookup site
http://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/uncgi/acronym
This easy-to-use site Acronym lookup site gives you an immediate definition.
ARTFL Project: ROGET’S Thesaurus Search Form
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html
The ARTFL (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) Project, located at the University of Chicago, has provided this online version of Roget’s Thesaurus. The interface is simple—type in the word you want, and the form will return synonyms and antonyms. This site is amongst PC Magazine’s Top 100 Web Sites.
http://www.fm.bs.dlr.de/misc/climbing/climbing_dict.html
Browse the only dictionary of rock/mountain climbing terms in English, along with translations in German, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, and Polish.
Dictionary of Cell Biology
http://www.mblab.gla.ac.uk/~julian/Dict.html
It is an online dictionary of Biology.
A.Word.A.Day
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/
Become a subscriber to the mailing list and receive a word, with its definition, every day. Thus increase your vocabulary like a fun in an easy way. The site also contains an anagram solver. Just submit a word you’d like to have an anagram for, and await the results.
Monolingual General Dictionaries
http://www.ticino.com/usr/tanya/Dictionaries_general_mono.htm
Internet resources for translators, the site contains monolingual, general dictionaries on the internet.
TechDictionary
http://www.techdictionary.com/index.html
Technical Dictionary is where you will find thousands of computer terms and technology words defined. Search by term or keyword. Here you will also find telecommunications terms, acronyms, similes or emoticons, chat symbols, filename extensions, HTML tags, and domain suffixes.
http://msowww.anu.edu.au/library/thesaurus/
This is an extensive thesaurus of words related to astronomy. Just click a word and the list of synonyms appears on screen. The thesaurus is available in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian.
http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon/
A comprehensive reference site for serious HP fans. Check here for spells and magical world references, and timelines for various characters and plotlines. Links to essays, websites, games, and more.
Bartleby.com
Since its incorporation in 1999 and the release of preeminent contemporary reference works, Bartleby.com becomes the most comprehensive reference publisher on the web, meeting the needs of students, educators, and the intellectually curious
GENERAL READINGS
Great-Quotes.Com
http://www.great-quotes.com/category.cgi
Over 50,000 Famous Quotes and Sayings are available in alphabetical order. By-category search is also available.
International Affairs
http://www.internationalaffairs.com/
With more than 12,000 hyperlinks connecting Web users to thousands of pre-selected Web sites. The site itself is divided into four areas: The News, the Numbers, the Players, and the Analysis. These areas are then sub-divided into politics, economics, social, international relations and industry. Links by geography are also provided.
The World Fact-Book
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
The site provides valuable and authentic data about different countries of the world.
Mega Essays
Online access to term papers and essays on all topics in history, science, technology, politics etc.
Book Search
This website offers a literary smorgasbord of the best current books, for people who don't have the time or inclination to search through every book on the shelf.
Terrorism
http://www.terrorismanswers.com/
The official website of the Council on Foreign Relations that provides various answers on the growing questions on terrorism.
Online World Maps
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/
This website is managed by the University of Texas. All types of maps are available at this site including satellite images.
Online Stress Therapy
http://www.stressbusting.co.uk/
This website offers online therapeutic cures for stress due to anxiety or workload. It also gives information on various kinds of stress and the reasons for their occurrence.
Cyber Essays
Cyber Essays is your one-stop source for free, high-quality term papers, essays, and reports on all subjects. Please use either the available paper categories or our database search to find the paper you need quickly and easily
Erratic Impact Philosophy
This portal is a huge resource for discourse on all philosophical matters. You can search the site either by the philosopher's name or by the school of philosophy you're interested in.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/
This websites offers a massive database of philosophical facts, from pre-Socrates right up to present day disciplines such as Metaphysics and Moral & Political philosophy.
Islamabad Policy Research Institute
This website is the official homepage of the Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI) which basically carries out the analyses and eval of imp national and intl politico-strat issues and devs affecting Pakistan, South Asia, and the world affairs.
Sacred Texts
This website offers an archive of world religions, mythology and other esoteric subjects.
CIA Facts Book
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
This website is an online publication hosted by the CIA and it is basically a fact book with information such as country profiles, maps and other important facts.
Word IQ
The site is a comprehensive and searchable ref tool on the web.
HEALTH
Cool Food Planet
http://www.coolfoodplanet.org/
This website contains very attractive nutritional information and quizzes for kids and adolescents. Can be used in schools also.
· This brochure on depression from the National Institute of Mental Health, gives descriptions of major depression and bipolar disorder (manic depression).
· It lists symptoms, gives possible causes, tells how depression is diagnosed, and discusses available treatments.
· The brochure provides help and hope for the depressed persons, families, and friends.
Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/health/default.htm
Health Topics A to Z web site provides a listing of disease and health topics. Provides links to the CDC’s 11 centers, institutes, and offices and a search engine to quickly locate your point of interest.
http://www.heartcenteronline.com/
The site provides cardiovascular patients; their families and other site visitors with the tools they need to better understand the complex nature of heart-related conditions, treatments and preventive care.
NetDoctor
NetDoctor.co.uk is a collaboration between committed doctors, health care professionals, information specialists and patients. It offers various information on health issues such as heart problems, diabetes, children health, weight loss etc. there are also various services available on this site such as an interactive tests and assessments portal and answers to any latest medical question or query of any user.
HISTORY
Best of History Websites
Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal created for students, history educators, and general history enthusiasts. Here you'll find sites, rated for usefulness and accuracy that will help you study or teach a wide variety of topics and periods in History.
World History
The website's mission statement is to 'make history make sense'. This is a comprehensive source of historical events with a detailed collection of facts and articles.
HOW-TO SITES
eHow
This site is about "How to do things" and provides more than 15,000 step-by-step "How-To" solutions. The site is divided into major and sub-categories. In search window we can write the things we want to know, e.g., how to change the oil of the car or how to lower cholesterol level etc.
Electronics Zone: Electronic Circuits, Kits, Hobby, Schematics, Tutorials
http://www.electronic-circuits-diagrams.com/
This site contains lots of FREE electronic circuits (schematics) & do-it-yourself (DIY) circuit diagrams for hobbyists, students, professionals etc., covering a wide range of categories in electronics like audio, music, computer hardware, radio, robotics etc., to name a few. Use the menu on the left to browse different circuit categories.
How Far It Is?
This service uses data from the US Census and a supplementary list of cities around the world to find the latitude and longitude of two places, and then calculates the distance between them (as the crow flies). It also provides a map showing the two places.
This site was declared “Best of The Sites for the Year 2001”. It includes hundreds and thousands of technical and non-technical articles, explained in an absolutely layman language. The articles can be easily understood.
How to Clean Anything
http://www.howtocleananything.com/
This is a site that provides a user with the skills to ‘clean’ just about anything from indoor carpets to car interiors, etc.
IQ Tests
http://www.highiqsociety.org/noflash/nonmembers/iqtests.htm
Feel like a genius in the land of the chronically obtuse? Confirm your stellar intellect with the International High IQ Society's seven exhaustive intelligence tests.
Mount Kolias
This site was created by the Kolias Research Group, a research organization that helps clients develop and market products. Mount Kolias offers simple advice on every day living with useful links. Examples include "Catch a Mouse" and "Find a Good Nursing Home" etc.
Learn2.com
Offers clear, step-by-step instructions on how to do anything - from practical skills like "Learn to sew a button" to the more obscure "Learn to Make a Floral Arrangement." Tutorials are illustrated, well-written and easy to print.
RepairClinic.com
http://www.repairclinic.com/0003.asp
This site provides the intimate details to maintenance and repair of home appliances.
Unit Converter
http://www.digitaldutch.com/unitconverter/
An easy way to convert units of measurement from one system to another.
Conversions
This website is basically a free online site which provides conversion of measuring units
INTERNET
Learn the Internet
http://www.aarp.org/learninternet/
Internet tutorial by AARP (American Association of Retired Persons). This site instructs you how to do many useful things on the Internet. You will learn how to create and organize favorites, how to make text larger, how to customize your browser, how to capture Internet information, and much more. Each lesson contains written information along with pictures of what you actually see on the computer screen.
Learn The Net
http://www.learnthenet.com/english/index.html
Helps in learning the internet, especially the beginners.
Database Search
http://searchdatabase.techtarget.com/
Considering becoming a DBA or database developer? Overwhelmed by the complexity of the typical DBMS? To help make your new life as a database guru easier, here are hundreds of the highest quality introductory tutorials, buyer's guides, and case studies, as well as places to go for help such as user groups, forums and lists.
The Big Cartoon Data Base
From the basics of browsing the World Wide Web to the details of banking online, the Microsoft® Product Insider Internet Guide delivers the knowledge you need to venture onto the Internet, explore its vast offerings, and make it work for you.
Firewall Guide
The purpose of this site is to provide easy access to basic information about and independent third-party reviews of Internet security and privacy products for home, telecommuter, and SOHO (small office, home office) end-users.
MAIL2WEB
Mail2web is a really simple portal that allows you to check all of your email accounts from any computer, anywhere in the world, without having to remember loads of extended web addresses and login details.
One Site
This website is basically an online 'portable favorites folder' where a user can save all the favorite web-links that can be accessed from anywhere and anytime.
You Send It
With this site the user can can send and receive files of any type up to 1 gigabyte in size, without the need for a mail client at either end to handle the transaction.
Zone Labs
Zone Labs®, a Check Point company, is one of the most trusted brands in Internet security. Zone Labs is a leading creator of endpoint security solutions protecting millions of PCs and the valuable, personally-identifiable information on those PCs, from hackers, spyware and data theft.
ISLAMIC SITES
Asan Quran
This site represents an effort to make the Glorious Quran and Ahadith available to as large an audience as possible. The Noble Quran is presented along with an Urdu translation. Through the use of colors in the Arabic text and in the translation (taken from Syed Shabir Ahmad, published by Quran Asan Tehrik Lahore), it becomes easy to grasp the meaning of each Arabic word.
Islam On-line
http://islam-online.net/english/index.shtml
One step source for news, information and a host of interactive services which include Cyber Counselor, Ask about Islam, Matrimonial service, Discussion Forum, Live dialogue, Fatwa sessions and much more.
The Works of Harun Yahya
This web site gives free access to all the books written by Harun Yahya (a prominent Turkish thinker and author) and other materials inspired by his works. His work is in fact an invitation to truth. Books are free to download.
Al-Quran
This site gives all information regarding the Holy Quran, Sunnahs and Hadis.
Islamic Philosophy
http://www.islamicphilosophy.com/
This site provides various articles on Islamic philosophy. The articles are from historical author as well as modern day authors.
The Renaissance
http://www.renaissance.com.pk/
Renaissance is a monthly journal containing articles of distinguished writers on various Islamic topics. The site is affiliated with Al-Mawrid Institute of Islamic Sciences, whose basic objective is to revive the intellectual process initiated by the illustrious Muslim scholars of the past.
LANGUAGES/ LEARNING
Big Chalk
Big chalk offers K-12 learning and classroom resources plus subscription research products for teachers, students, library media specialists and parents.
This is where you'll find teaching resources based on the vast Guardian archive, including our weekly topical lessons. Use them for lesson planning, homework, and all kinds of research.
Englishpage.Com
Englishpage.com offers free English lessons and exercises online. The premier internet resource for intermediate and advanced learners of English as a foreign language.
Bablefish.Altavista.Com
http://babelfish.altavista.com/
Babelfish’ is a translation portal provided by
the AltaVista website. In this website the user can translate a block of text
i.e.up to 150 words from any language to English and vice versa. The website
can translate a complete webpage as well as emails into any language. The
website also provides seamless translation plug-ins for MS Office which includes
word, power-point, excel, internet explorer and outlook express
PAKISTAN
Pakistan Railway
Looking up information regarding Pakistan railway, then this is the site. The site gives all details from reservations, seat availability, and train timings to rates on all freight trains.
National Savings Organization
This is the official site of the Ministry of Finance. It promotes the active participation in the saving schemes provided by the Government of Pakistan. The site provides online application forms, the organization setup and various branches and schemes throughout the country.
Pakistan Government
The official site of the Government of Pakistan offering information on all governmental affairs. The site offers online information on various Ministries and divisions and departments of the country.
MISCELLANEOUS SITES
Coloring Book
http://www.coloring.com/pictures/choose.cdc
A coloring site for younger kids. Kids choose a picture to color. Pictures may include an apple, a birthday wish, and other selections.
Comic Reference
http://www.lambiek.net/jason.htm
Take a peek behind the easels of thousands of the world's top comic artists with the searchable Comiclopedia. Each entry features a brief biography of the artist, as well as samples of their finest artworks.
Computers and Telephones
http://www.telephonyworld.com/
A great online resource for the Computer Telephony and Communication industry on the Net. It has current information on technology, products, solutions manufacturers, industry analysis, trends, and much more. If you are involved in telephony or communications this is a must visit site. There is enough information here to keep you busy for hours.
General Symbols
Symbols of all kind are given in this site which includes military, astrology, ancient, weather, dream, mathematics etc.
Online Disaster Help
https://disasterhelp.gov/portal/jhtml/index.jhtm
Disaster Help aims to provide comfort in times of crisis by offering practical advice and information about how you can prepare for, and then deal with, the unthinkable happening to you. Drawing on information compiled by organisations such as the American Red Cross, the site covers everything from hurricanes and flash floods, to droughts and acts of terror.
Commonwealth Institute
This website is the home page of the Commonwealth Institute located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. It is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental public policy research center doing critical studies in the fields of international security, inequality and poverty.
Free Fotos
Over 25 thousand images are available to download free for non-commercial use.
Our Planet
http://ourplanet.ath.cx/satellite/
This website presents CGI images of Earth from Space and the maps are updated every 20 minutes, with all earthquakes of the past 48 hours, current cloud cover, hurricanes, active volcanoes, satellites, day and night zones, and the moon phases indicated on them.
Dreams
The site is dev by the DREAMS Foundation (Dream Research and Experimental Approaches to the Mechanisms of Sleep) which is a non-profit Canada based org
NEWSPAPERS/MAGAZINES
ABYZ News Link
ABYZ News Links is a portal to online news sources from around the world. It is primarily composed of newspapers but also includes many broadcast stations, internet services, magazines, and press agencies. From this website you can reach to almost any newspaper of the world.
All You Can Read
Welcome to “AllYouCanRead.com”, the largest database of magazines and newspapers on the Internet, with listings for about 23,000 magazines and newspapers from all over the world. “AllYouCanRead.com” is a complete guide to world media sources where readers find stories quickly.
Virtual Magazine Rack
Magatopia.com is the internet's directory to free online magazines.
Online Magazine
This website offers online articles from various free magazines available online.
Online National Geographic
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
This is the official online website of the National Geographic Society.
The International Herald Tribune
The International Herald Tribune is the premier international newspaper for opinion leaders and decision makers around the world.
RECIPES
AllRecipes.com
An entire network devoted to recipes.
Asia Food
Explore this online resource of Asian food terms and recipes from Charmaine Solomon's Encyclopedia of Asian Food.
Brand Recipes
http://www.favouritebrandrecipes.com/
Back-of-the-box specialties.
British Cooking
http://www.hwatson.force9.co.uk/
Guide to British cooking and recipes.
Celebrity Chef
http://www.tvguidelive.com/celebchef/
TV Guide dishes out celebrity's recipes.
Cooking.Com
http://www.cooking.com/recipes/
Sort recipes by various criteria.
Culinary.Com
Search more than 73,000 recipes.
Epicurious
http://eat.epicurious.com/recipes/
Search recipes from Bon Appetite Gourmet, an excellent recipe collection site.
Meals.Com
Attractive recipe & meal planning site.
Meals for You
Search and sort by characteristic.
Recipes Archive
A sizeable archive from alt.food.recipes.
Recipe Center
Search more than 100,000 recipes.
Recipe Land
Search more than 25,000 recipes.
Recipe Source
It is one of the best online collections on cooking.
Salt & Pepper
Collection offered by USENET groups.
So You Want To Cook
“SoYouWanna.com” teaches you to do the things nobody taught you in the school.
Thai Food
http://www.tat.or.th/food/index.htm
Basic info & recipes from tourism authority.
The African Cookbook
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Cookbook/about_cb_wh.html
Menus & recipes from Africa.
Tokyo Food Page
http://www.bento.com/tokyofood.html
Explore the food of Japan.
Yum Yum Archive
http://www.yumyum.com/recipes.htm
Select from 20,000 searchable recipes.
RESEARCH
A Research Guide for Students
http://www.aresearchguide.com/index.html
The goal of this web site is to provide all the necessary tools for students to conduct research and to present their conclusion.
Study Web
Here is a great resource for kids working on research papers, school projects or plain-old homework. The site is also good for life long learners. Study Web has created a collection of more than 73,000 links to informational sites arranged by topic.
Federal Research Division
The Lib of Congress through the Federal
Research Div provides customized research and analytical svcs on foreign and
domestic topics
SPORTS
Sports ID
http://www.sportsid.com/sid2000/default.htm
Looking for sports know-how? Pick your sport; choose a skill level, then download QuickTime or Media Player videos. Learn how to serve the volleyball, block football passes and more. The tutorials are created by coaches and Olympians representing almost every sport imaginable.
Cricket World
The Cricket World web site is a worldwide focal point for cricketers, both active and armchair, to instantly source up-to-date news, scores, data and stories from every grade of cricket, including Test Matches, Regional and ODI matches and local club or school cricket around the world
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