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Business/People Finder Financial Aid - Students Movies & Television

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Animals

Sea World-Busch Gardens

Animal Bytes were specifically designed to help quickly find information about some of the unique creatures found in the animal kingdom. Most files include the scientific classification, fun facts, and biological value.


Art

Next Monet


Baby Names

Baby Names.com

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Biographical Information

African Americans in the Sciences

Profiled here are African American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science and engineering.

Biographical Dictionary

This dictionary covers more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day.

Biography.com

Search over 25,000 of the greatest lives, past and present.

Nobel Prize Winners

Pulitzer Prizes Winners

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Books (Best Sellers, Rare Books, Etc.)

Alibris

Alibris offers individuals a wide selection of out-of-print, out-of-stock, and rare books.

Amazon.com

Search for books, music, videos, and more--in a snap.

Barnes and Noble

Bibliofind Search

Bibliofind has combined with Amazon.com to provide millions of rare, used, and out-of-print books.

Books-a-Million

Borders.com

At this site you can search for a specific title or collection of titles by an artist or author. Don't know the title or author? Find it by keyword or ISBN. You can also browse hot new titles, essentials, award winners, and bestsellers in every subject. The more you browse, the more you'll discover avenues of exploration.

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Business and People Finder

Switchboard.com

Thomas Register

AT&T Toll-Free Directory

AnyWho


Car / Vehicle Information

Car & Driver

Car Wizard

Edmund's Automobile Buyer's Guides

Kelley Blue Book

NADA Guide

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Careers

Advancing Young Women

This site gives links to organizations and efforts dedicated to the educational equity and career futures of young women.

America's Career InfoNet

Find wage and employment trends, occupational requirements, state-by-state labor market conditions, millions of employer contacts nationwide, and the most extensive career resource library online.

Apprenticeships USA

Source of free information regarding Apprenticeship Opportunities in The United States and Canada!

Bureau of Labor Statistics

For Kids Who Like Career Information

Career Advisor

If there is a career resource in your profession you'll find it here. Career advisor has listed resources for hundreds of specific occupations covering 85% of all jobs!

Career and College Planning Resources

Career - My Future

Career - Riley Guide

These are resources to help you find the employers and figure out if they are companies or organizations you want to work for. There is also information here for people considering moving to help you learn about a new area.

Career Areas to Explore

Career Assessment

Resources on this web site cover career and salary information. The career guides link to information on occupations and career paths. Reports, guides, and surveys can be used to see how an occupation or industry is doing.

Career Builder- Job SeekersCareer Choices

CareerBuilder features jobs from 75+ career sites, personalized job hunting tools, skills certification, and articles.

Career Magazine

Career Pathways

Career Publications

Publications on career planning and job search techniques.

Careers- Wall Street Journal

CareerJournal.com includes daily updates of critical news, features and trends that are relevant to searching for a new position or striving to improve the job you have.

Cool Works

Explore Careers

This site gives links to discover information about yourself and careers in order to choose a major or choose a career which is right for you.

Job Smart Career Guides

This site provides how to information for job seekers: resumes, career & salary information, hidden job market.

InfoWorld Career Overviews

Mapping Your Future

This site is sponsored by a group of guaranty agencies who participate in the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) and are committed to providing information about higher education and career opportunities.

Occupational Outlook Handbook

The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. Revised every two years, the Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.

Vocational Education FREE

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Currency

Universal Currency Converter

The Universal Currency Converter™ allows you to perform interactive foreign exchange rate calculations on the Internet, using live, up-to-the-minute currency rates.

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Dictionaries

A Dictionary of Measures, Units and Conversions

Acronym Finder

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Cajun World Dictionary

Computer User High-tech Dictionary

One Look Dictionaries

On-line Dictionary of Computing

On-line Medical Dictionary

Oxford English Dictionary

Quotation Page

Quote Land

Travlang's Translating Dictionaries

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Distance Calculator

How far is it

This site 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, using the Xerox PARC Map Server.

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Education

College and University Rankings

CollegeNET - Online College Applications and Free Financial Aid Search

Peterson's.com


Encyclopedias

Encarta® Encyclopedia Online

Old Farmer's Almanac

1Up Info

Browse articles in all areas of topics within Earth & Environment, History, Literature & Arts, Health & Medicine, People, Philosophy & Religion, Places, Plants & Animals, Science & Technology, Social Science, Law, Sports, Everyday Life, and more. Includes Country Studies and North America Gazetteer.

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Financial Aid - Students

CollegeNET - Online College Applications and Free Financial Aid Search

Federal School Code Search Page

FinAid! The SmartStudent Guide to Financial Aid

Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)

Apply on-line for student financial aid!

HOPE Scholarship and Lifetime Learning Credits

Office of Postsecondary Education

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Gardening

Garden Bazaar

The Garden Bazaar provides an easy-to-use directory of garden-related businesses.

Garden Mart

In this site you will find a list of over 50,000 lawn and garden services and retailers for your reference. The database contains over 12,000 commercial growers of green goods in the United States, and over 5,000 individual plant information.

Home and Garden A to Z

National Gardening Association

Information that will help gardeners and help people through gardening.

Sierra Home Gardening

This site offers fresh ideas and fun tools for gardening, cooking, or just relaxing at home

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Grants

21st Century Community Learning Centers Program

The 21st Century Community Learning Centers program is a key component of the Administration's effort to keep children safe & help them learn after school.

A to Z Grantwriting

A to Z Grantwriting consultation, products & services will help you to establish a successful grantwriting office & to develop mutually beneficial communications with funding sources.

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence offers access to educational resources from over 40 federal government agencies.

Foundation Center's Grantmaker Information

Our Grantmaker Information directory comprises links, both direct & annotated, to nearly 900 grantmaker Web sites.

Foundations & Grantmakers Directory

This directory lists foundations & grantmakers by name. You can either scroll through the directory, or click on a letter to jump to a specific organization's information or home page.

Fund Raiser Cyberzine

It is the goal of the Fund Raiser Cyberzine to bring the latest and most complete news and ideas in fundraising.

Fundraising Bank

Companies offering profitable fundraisers are listed in our directory.

Fundsnet Services

Whether you are nonprofit organization or a small enterprise you will be able to find funding sources for your projects.

Grant Getting Page

The site is part of the University of Illinois at Chicago webpage. It provides links to search engines for various federal and private grants.

Grantmaker

This sites directory comprises three categories: links to more than 600 grantmaker Web sites; highlights from the Center's research on foundation giving; & a range of informational materials produced by individual foundations.

Grantsmanship Center

The Center offers training in grant writing & fund raising as well as in nonprofit organization management.

Guide to U.S. Department of Education Programs and Resources

A ready reference guide for education funds allocated by Congress to the U.S. Department of Education.

Innovation Network, Inc.

This site offers a step-by-step guide to grant seekers to assist in developing detailed program, evaluation, & fundraising plans.

K-12 Grant Opportunities

K-12 Grant Opportunities offers information for K-12 teachers & administrators about current state, federal & foundation funding opportunities. News & links of interest to educators are available.

Lighthouse International

This site enable people of all ages who are blind or partially sighted to lead independent & productive lives.

National Education Association

This is a list of grants and helpful suggestions on writing them from NEA.

National Science Foundation (NSF) Grants and Awards

This site contains information about NSF funded research & education in science & engineering, through grants, contracts, & cooperative agreements.

Nonprofit Gateway

This site offers a directory to more than 300,000 government web pages on grants, budgets, volunteer opportunities, & agency partnerships.

Resource Guide to Federal Funding for Technology in Education

A detailed explanation of the grants available for technology as well as a list of additional funding sources for hardware & software.

Telecommunication's and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program (TIIAP)

TIIAP is a highly competitive, merit-based grant program that brings the benefits of an advanced national information infrastructure to communities throughout the United States.

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Health and Medical

Cancer Information

Cancer News on the Net®

This site attempts to bring patients and their families the latest information on cancer diagnosis, treatment and prevention

University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center

OncoLink gives comprehensive information about specific types of cancer, updates on cancer treatments and news about research advances.

Doctors and Hospitals

AMA Physician On-line Doctor Finder

AMA - On-line Doctor Finder

America Hospital Directory

CiteHealth - Healthcare at your Fingertips

General Health and Medical Information

Health Answers

Health Finder (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)

Mayo Health Oasis

Medicine Net

On-line Medical Dictionary

Yahoo! Health

Medicine

The Internet Drug Index

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Hobbies / Price Guides

Beanie Baby Price Guide

Daily Price Guide of US Coins

Kovels' On-line Price Guide to Antiques & Collectibles

Worldwide Collectors Digest


Homework Help

Homework Central

This site serves as a jumping off-point for school librarians, teachers, parents and students, and brings together the technology resources most critical to K–12 education. The user profile system allows our reference, research, content and curriculum services to be customized and personalized to the specific needs of each bigchalk.com member.

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Literature

Author Interviews

Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Great Writers and Poets

Literary Criticism

The IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection contains many critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.

Thoreau, Walden, and the Environment

This site contains the home pages for Henry D. Thoreau and for three nonprofit organizations: the Walden Woods Project, the Thoreau Society, and the Thoreau Institute.

Writers on the Internet

WritersNet is the Internet directory of writers, editors, publishers and literary agents. The site brings together the elements of literary success in one place. You can search the directory for help.

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Louisiana Websites

Census

InfoLouisiana.com State Census Data Center

Government - General

Info Louisiana

Government - Executive

Department of Administration

Department of Agriculture and Forestry

Department of Attorney General

Department of Civil Service

Department of Corrections

Department of Economic Development

Department of Education--K-12

Department of Environmental Quality

Department of Health and Hospitals

Department of Insurance

Department of Labor

Department of Natural Resources

Department of Public Safety

Department of Revenue

Department of Secretary of State

Department of Social Services

Department of Transportation & Development

Department of Treasury

Department of Wildlife and Fisheries

Governor's Cabinet

Lieutenant Governor's Office

Government - Legislature

Louisiana House of Representatives

Louisiana State Senate

Government - Judicial

Louisiana Administrative Code

The Louisiana Administrative Code is a state-certified publication that provides a set of rules which have been formally adopted or amended by Louisiana state agencies

Louisiana Constitution


Movies and Television

The Internet Movie Database

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Newspapers

Campus

Louisiana Tech - Tech Talk

Teach Talk is the official student publication of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston.

Pow-Wow, The

The Pow Wow is the official student publication of The University of Louisiana at Monroe.

Tiger Weekly

Daily, online newspaper providing the latest news, people, sports, and entertainment stories.

Xavier Herald Online

The Herald is the official student publication of Xavier University New Orleans.

Louisiana

Acadian Tribune

Local news for Rayne, Louisiana.

Banner-Tribune

Newspaper covering Franklin, Louisiana and St. Mary parish.

Baton Rouge Advocate

Beauregard Daily News

The Beauregard Daily News is published Tuesday through Friday and Sunday mornings from historic DeRidder, La. The newspaper covers Beauregard and South Vernon parishes.

Bossier Press -Tribune

Online version of this Louisiana newspaper.

CityBusiness

Crowley Post Signal

Daily Comet

Newspaper covering Lafourche, Assumption, St. James and Terrebonne parishes in South Louisiana.

Daily Review, The

Daily newspaper serving the St. Mary Parish region of south Louisiana.

Hammond Daily Star

Daily newspaper serving the Tangipahoa, St. Helena and Livingston parishes.

Houma Courier

Serves South Louisiana's Cajun country with news, sports, community information, weather, stocks, classifieds, and more.

Jackson Independent, The

Official journal of Jackson Parish, established in 1892, the oldest continuously-operated business in Jackson Parish.

Lafayette Daily Advertiser

Daily newspaper with local news, sports, entertainment, obituaries, movie listings and more.

Lake Charles American Press

American Press Online, the Web site of the American Press, Lake Charles, La.

Leesville Daily Leader

The Leesville Daily Leader has been serving Vernon Parish for over 100 years.

Maroon Online

The Maroon is the official student publication of Loyola University New Orleans.

Minden Press-Herald

Weekday newspaper covering local news, sports, and area events

Monroe Free Press

Published by Roosevelt and Joslyn Wright. Includes an archive of articles dating back to 1973.

Natchitoches Times

News-Star, The

Local evening newspaper. Includes classifieds, obituaries, and more.

NOLA Live / The Times-Picayune

Ponchatoula Times

Ruston Daily Leader

Local publication.

Shreveport Times

Serving Shreveport and surrounding areas.

Southwest Daily News

Daily newspaper for Southwest Louisiana and Sulphur, Louisiana.

Times of Acadiana

This site's focus is on cultural, business and political stories that affect Acadiana.

Town Talk

Daily online newspaper for Alexandria.

Other

Chicago Tribune

Detroit News

Financial Times

Kansas City Star

London Times

Morrock News Digest

New York Times

San Jose Mercury Center

USA Today

Wall Street Journal

Washington Post

Washington Times

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Polls and Research

Gallup Organization

The Gallup Organization is one of the world's largest management consulting firms. Gallup's core expertise is in measuring and understanding human attitudes and behavior. Gallup applies this expertise to help companies improve business performance by leveraging their employee and customer assets. Gallup also conducts The Gallup Poll, the world's leading source of public opinion since 1935.

Research Issues

U.S. Consumer Gateway

Consumer.gov is a "one-stop" link to a broad range of federal information resources available online. It is designed so that you can locate information by category such as Food, Health, Product Safety, Your Money, and Transportation. Each category has subcategories to direct you to areas within individual federal web sites containing related information.

Voting Issues

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Science

Chemical Elements

An online interactive periodic table of the elements

How Stuff Works

HowStuffWorks.com is online destination for anyone who wants to know how anything works!

The Exploratorium

The Exploratorius is the museum of science, art and human perception. This site's mission is to create a culture of learning through innovative environments, programs, and tools that help people to nurture their curiosity about the world around them

Union of Concerned Scientists

This site's mission is to point the way to a cleaner environment and safer world.

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States

50 States and Capitals

All 50 American States

Color Landform Atlas of the United States


Stock Market

Information on Stocks

New York Stock Exchange

NASDAQ

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Terrebonne Parish - City of Houma

Barataria - Terrebonne National Estuary

Census Records --- 1830

Coastal Restoration

Encyclopedia of Cajun Culture

History of Terrebonne Parish

History & Genealogy of Terrebonne Parish

Houma (Houma.com)

Houma Courier

Houma - Terrebonne Chamber of Commerce

Houma - Terrebonne Consolidated Government

Houma Tourism Commission

Hurricane Preparedness

Land Loss Map for Terrebonne

Local Culture --- Marie Dean, Palmetto Weaver and Moss Dollmaker

Local Culture --- Roy Adam Parfait, Woodcarver

Local Culture --- Leo Royston, Woodcarver

Local Culture --- Lawrence "Moot" Billiot, Boat Builder

Louisiana Archives Index

Maps of Terrebonne Parish

Nicholls State University

Southdown Plantation House/Terrebonne Museum

Terrebonne Life Lines --- Article Index

The Terrebonne Genealogical Society has posted this index of the articles that have appeared in their quarterly, Terrebonne Life Lines, over the years.

Terrebonne Life Lines --- 10 Year Surname Index

Terrebonne Parish Government
(The above link is from the Police Jury Association of Louisiana)

United Houma Tribe

Wetland Loss Animation Terrebonne

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United States Government Web Sites

Code of Federal Regulations

Federal Register

FedWorld

Firstgov (General Federal Government Information)

GovSpot

Internal Revenue Service - Forms and Publications

Library of Congress

Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act

Occupational Outlook Handbook

Occupational Safety & Health Administration

Office of Justice Programs

United State Government (800) Numbers

World Fact Book - CIA

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Weather

The Weather Channel

Wunderground

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