http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/ HSG/RefCalculators.html
Thanks to Arthur T. Shapiro, HAL-PC board member, for recommending this site to us. The U. of Cal at Irvine and Martindale's Reference Desk have combined to bring some 4,260 calculators to the Internet. You can find everything from seed and crop calculat ors, Used Car pricing guides, cryptograms, financial and loan calculations, science and math, to budget and taxes and forest management and everything in between. Thanks Arthur.
http://www.chess.ibm.com/home/html/b.html
I guess that after spending about a gazillion dollars to program Old Blue to defeat Kasparov in a game of Chess, IBM deserves bragging rights and this is it. Find out how they did it.
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbpyr.html
The Census Bureau's IDB database has added a graphical enhancement that turns raw numbers into meaningful trends almost instantly. Population Pyramids allows users to view population pyramids (horizontal bar graphs going in opposite directions for male a nd female populations) for over 200 countries. Graphs are available for summary years (1997, and projections for 2025 and 2050), or any selected year or group of years between as early as 1950 and as late as 2050 (availability depends on the country). Bu t the real eye-opener is the "dynamic output" function that rapidly replaces one year's pyramid with the next for the whole time series, allowing researchers to see a "movie" of the trend of the population pyramid. For many countries, this resource will be more valuable as a tool of population projection than population history, and users should note that raw number scales are used.
http://www.regent.edu/lawlib/lists/list-law.html
Regent University Law Library's Margaret L. Christiansen provides this no-nonsense resource of nearly 300 legal mailing lists and e-mail newsletters. The list can be browsed by major topic (Practitioner, Law
School, Areas of Practice, and Miscellaneous), with several subtopics under each, or alphabetically.
Each entry may contain descriptions and identify list maintainers/moderators, as well as provide subscription information. General mailing list and netiquette background is also provided.
AfricaNews Online, provided by Africa News Service, is a good place to start for those interested in current events in Africa.
It is anchored by dispatches from the Panafrican News Agency (PANA), but also includes stories from other African sources such as All Africa Press Service, the Johannesburg Mail and Guardian, and the Post of Zambia.
The Women's National Basketball Association tips off its inaugural season on June 21, 1997 and offers interested Internauts a chance to learn about the league on the WNBA site. The site is highlighted by pages for each of the eight teams, including sche dules, rosters with player information, arena and ticket information, and a "theater" section with QuickTime and .avi movies of selected players in action.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/pmhtml/panhome.html
Panoramic Maps 1847-1909 - Library of Congress
http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html
Color Landform Atlas of the United States - Relaunch Two Sites for US Historical Maps. For those with an interest in historical US maps, these two sites will be of value. The Library of Congress has recently added to its American Memory Collections a sma ll preview set of 19th and early 20th century panoramic maps, also known as birds-eye view maps. These are "nonphotographic representations of cities portrayed as if viewed from above at an oblique angle," and, though not drawn to scale, "show street pat terns, individual buildings, and major landscape features in perspective."
At present, over forty city maps are available from five states, with additional maps scheduled to be added over time.
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