top.menu = "refdesk";

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var linktable = new Array( 


'Acronym Finder',
'Find an acronym and its meaning',
'http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym=<symbol>&String=off',

'AltaVista Translate',
'Translate several languages into English and visa versa',
'http://world.altavista.com/',

'Bartleby.com',
'Search just about every reference book imaginable',
'http://www.bartleby.com/cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=colReference&query=<symbol>&url=Select+reference&url2=Select+verse&url3=Select+fiction&url4=Select+nonfiction',

'Calculators Online',
'Linked directory of over 10,000 calculators for just about anything that needs to be computed',
'http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/RefCalculators.html',

'Dictionary of Units',
'Worldwide unites of measurement with conversion formulas',
'http://www.ex.ac.uk/cimt/dictunit/dictunit.htm#sumtable',

'eHow',
'How-to directory for everything you can think of',
'http://www.ehow.com/results/search.jsp?query=<symbol>',

'Electronic Library',
'Free limited access to articles',
'http://www.elibrary.com/search.cgi?src-news=checked&src-mags=checked&src-books=checked&src-pics=checked&src-maps=checked&src-tvrad=checked&query=<symbol>',

'Encarta',
'Encyclopedia from Microsoft',
'http://encarta.msn.com/find/search.asp?search=<symbol>',

'Encyclopedia Britannica',
'Search the world\'s most respected encyclopedia, expert reviews of the Web\'s best sites, timely articles from leading magazines, and related books',
'http://search.britannica.com/search?query=<symbol>',

'eTronica',
'Enclycopedia for the web',
'http://etronica.com/xweb.exe/etronica/search.html?query=<symbol>&index=dossier&startat=0&endat=25',

'Expedia Maps',
'Travel maps and driving directions online',
'http://maps.expedia.com/quickmaps.asp',

'Familiar Quotations',
'Look up quotes from Bartletts book of Familiar Quotations',
'http://www.bartleby.com/cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch/?db=db&query=<symbol>',

'FOLDOC',
'Free Online Dictionary of Computing Terms',
'http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=<symbol>',

'How Stuff Works',
'Marshall Brain\'s amazing site where he explains how almost everything works',
'http://www.howstuffworks.com/', 

'InfoPlease',
'Search the encyclopedia, almanac, etc',
'http://www.infoplease.com/search.php3?query=<symbol>&in=all',

'Lives.com',
'Search the largest guide to biography sites on the Web',
'http://search.freefind.com/find.html?id=161520&pageid=r&mode=ALL&query=+<symbol>',

'MapBlast',
'Find a map, location or driving directions worldwide',
'http://www.mapblast.com/mblast/map.mb',

'Merriam-Webster',
'Search the well-known English dictionary',
'http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=<symbol>',

'National Geographic',
'Search the grandaddy of geographical, historical and anthropological information',
'http://riptide.nationalgeographic.com/query.html?rq=0&qc=&qm=0&st=1&nh=10&lk=1&rf=0&qt=<symbol>',

'RefDesk.com',
'Search the site that is probably the best reference site on the net',
'http://index.thunderstone.com/texis/sitesearch/search/?query=<symbol>&db=sites%2Fwww.refdesk.com',

'Research It!',
'Language tools, thesaurs, translator, library and financial tools',
'http://www.itools.com/research-it/research-it.html',

'Rogets Thesaurus',
'Search the famous English thesaurus',
'http://www.thesaurus.com/cgi-bin/search?config=roget&words=<symbol>',

'Sign Lang. & Braille',
'Interactive sign language and braille databases on the web',
'http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/Language.html#SIGNLAN',

'Statistics.com',
'Search for statistics on different subjects, take courses on statistical analysis, download software', 
'http://www.statistics.com/cgi-bin/search/hyperseek.cgi?Terms=<symbol>',

'TopoZone Maps',
'Search for topographical maps of the entire US',
'http://www.topozone.com/findresults.asp?place=<symbol>&statefips=0&findit=Find+It',

'WorldAtlas.com',
'Find all kinds of atlases from different countries',
'http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/world.htm',

'xRefer.com',
'Cross-referenced search of 300,000 entries for thesaurus, dictionary and word guides',
'http://www.xrefer.com/results.jsp?shelf=search+all&term=<symbol>',

'Your Dictionary',
'Links to dictionaries in 213 languages and dialects',
'http://www.yourdictionary.com/'

);

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