News Stations / Tides /Time / and Other Tidbits of General Interest

• The "Full" Universal Currency Converter:  This site contains currency information on 180 currencies in over 250 geographical locations
• FXConverter: 164 Currency Converter by Oanda.com

Dictionaries Online:

• Computer Currents On-line Dictionary - searchable glossary of computer and Internet words, acronyms, and abbreviations.
• Dictionary.com:  Dictionary, Translator, Fun and Games with words and much more: 
• Goldy International, Inc. - features the Language Teacher, a line of talking pocket electronic dictionaries, translators, and organizers in many languages.
• Library Spot: Good research library of sites.
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary: This is a SPLENDID dictionary (and Thesaurus also!!), which even gives the origins of all the words!
• On-line Medical Dictionary - OMD is a searchable dictionary of terms relating to biochemistry, biology, chemistry, medicine, molecular biology, physics, plant biology, radiobiology, zoology, science and technology.
• Words of Art: An On-line Glossary of Theory and Criticism for the Visual Arts
• Whatis: Virtually any computer-related term you want to know about, it is here
• Your Dictionary.com: Dictionary and Thesaurus in over 200 languages.  Over 50 specialty dictionaries. Incredibly cool language tools.  Plus word-of-the-day, fun & games with words, stories & articles and much more.

Discover the World: A Regional Directory of all countries

• Discover Australia

eCard Greetings:

• All 4 Love Greeting Cards
• Blue Mountain Greeting Cards
• Hallmark:
• Shell eCards links are found on Man and Mollusc's Related Page

Encyclopedias Online: Many of these links are actually search engines

• Britannica.com - access to the full contents of the encyclopedia, as well as news and links.
• Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - complete contents of the year 2000 publication of the largest one-volume general encyclopedia available. Full-text searchable.
• E-Conflict World Encyclopedia - information on the nations of the world, including national anthems, maps, flags, geography, economy, people, government, and defense.
• Encarta & MSN.com:  Encyclopedia   Dictionary   Atlas
• Encyclopedia.com - provides more than 17,000 short articles from the Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Third Edition.
• Everything2 - aims to catalog all human knowledge and show the interconnections between all the people, places, things, and ideas.
• Information Please - from the print reference database, offering millions of useful and interesting facts on a wide range of topics online. Also includes a dictionary and encyclopedia.
• Web Directory: Encyberpedia - Information website which links together encyclopedias throughout the internet.
• World Book Encyclopedia

Euro Dollar: Do you know and understand it? Beginning on New Years Day there will be a two month transition period where national currencies like the franc, drachma, and lira can still be used, but by 1 March 2002 euro banknotes and coins will become the *ONLY* currency accepted in the 12 countries of the euro area (Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain.)

• Press Kits
• The Euro: multilingual page: "On 1 January 2002, the euro banknotes and coins will be introduced in 12 Member States of the European Union. There will be seven different banknotes and eight coins..."
• Conversion Rates: The conversion rate for the euro for each participating currency is irrevocably fixed and is the only rate to be used for conversion either way between the euro and the national currency unit or for conversion between the national currency units.
• The Euro by Yahoo
  • Euro and the European Monetary Union: Full coverage
  • The Euro Debate:
    

Free Downloads you might require for viewing some files:

• Acrobat Reader
• Autodesk Mapguide Viewer
• MicroSoft Download Center; Internet Explorer 6.0 now available;   
• Macromedia Web Player Flash Player Download Center
  • Macromedia Flash - Trial Download
• Netscape Netcenter - Download & Upgrade Page for browsers, servers, shareware. Netscape 6.1 now available
• QuickTime 3.

Holiday Dates:

• For Canada: Government Holiday Dates - Year 2002
• For the US: http://www.barricksinsurance.com/dates.html
• Web Holidays .com: http://www.web-holidays.com/holidays.htm
• Religious holiday dates, Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Seasons ...

Man and Mollusc: Internet Resources Section

Maps:

• A Tapestry of Time and Terrain: The Union of Two Maps - Geology and Topography: by the USGS
  
• Autodesk MapGuide:  World Maps at your finger tips.  The leading solution for delivering your maps and designs online just got better —Autodesk MapGuide® Release 5. Read more about the benefits it can bring to your organization.
• EncartaMSN.com
• Expedia.com/Maps
• The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names browser 
• For more map sites, go to Man and Mollusc's Teacher's Page and / or Student's Page
  
• Google:
• Map Quest: USA
• www.maps.com/:  Plan a trip, venture forth, play and learn, maps galore
• Yahoo: Canada & USA

Miscellaneous sites of interest:

• African American Networking - links to current topics.
• Friends-Partners.org:  Welcome to Friends and Partners, jointly developed by friends in the US and Russia to promote better understanding between the people of our countries.
• Grant Writing Tutorial:  by the US Environmental Protection Society.  This interactive software tool walks the user through the grant-writing process and helps them learn to write more competitive grants.
• Nature International Weekly Journal of Science and now with a daily science and nature online update
• NEWS of the WEIRD:  News of the Weird (founded 1988) is the longest-running, most widely-read bizarre-but-all-true news feature in the United States--indeed, the gold standard of weird-news reporting. The principal work-product of News of the Weird is the weekly column that appears in more than 250 newspapers in the U.S. and Canada.   Proof that true stories are weirder than made-up stories.

• A few scanning tips by Wayne Fulton
  

Science Links:

• Science Page
• Also see the Man and Mollusc Internet Resource table for more science-related links pages

Student's Page:

Teacher's Page:

Tides: 

• WWW Tide and Current Predictor - harmonic tide and current speed predictor.

Time International:

• Global Metric Time Service:  Have you ever needed to know the time somewhere else in the world?  This is the site .

Translators:

• BABELFISH.ORG: A good source of online web translators and dictionaries.
  • Go to Bablefish Translator
• FreeTranslation.com - free translation of text and web pages from English to Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, and Italian.
• Free Translator Page:  Translator In English, Traducteur En Francais, Ubersetzer Auf Deusch, Traduttore En Italiano, Traductor Em Portugues, Traductor En Espanol.  Webmasters Take The Translator With You!  Here Is The HTML Code available on site.  Just paste it onto your page!
• InterTran (tm) - translate between 729 language pairs!  InterTran (tm). InterTran (tm), short for Internet Translator, is a free web translation service that can translate single words, phrases, sentences and entire web sites.

Weather:

• America's Weather  offers forecasts and current conditions for US cities.
• Earthquake and Weather Station
• NOAA: National Hurricane Center
• Weather Network Online/MétéoMédia - Canada's 24 hour a day weather channel.
• USA TODAY Hurricane Information - up-to-the-minute tropical weather news, outlooks, and forecasts; plus background and safety information, and storm history.
• World Wide weather by Yahoo: 

• Man and Molluscs: The Web Designers Helping Hands Sites.

• World: Another Man and Mollusc page by Avril. World maps, geographic and political information

This page was last completely editied
September 04, 2002
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