How-To
| Bridges | Mythology | Book Repairs | Rocks, Minerals, & Planets | Sign Language / Radio / Signals | Words, Phrases, Quotes | More Guides to Ready Ref. on the Net | Lesson Plans |
General Tutorials (All Subjects)
  • http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/tutorial_sites.php">A Big List of Sites That Teach You How To Do Stuff
  • eHow | How Stuff Works |
  • Do It Yourself Network | Acme How To.com |
  • How to Do Things.com | KnowledgeHound.com |
  • Pop-Up Crafts
    Recipes
  • SOAR (Searchable Online Archive of Recipes now hosted by RecipeSource.com)
  • AllRecipes.com | RecipeZaar.com |
  • Epicurious.com | America's Test Kitchen (PBS) | Recipes (Food Network) |
  • History Cooks (Recipes from earlier periods in history)
  • W3Schools Online Web Tutorials | Free Keyboarding/Touch Typing Lessons Online |
  • Home Improvement Encyclopedia (Better Homes & Gardens)
  • Answers at Ace (Ace Hardware)
  • Reader's Digest at Home (How-to, etc.) | Home Improvement and Repair (Hometime)
  • Home & Garden Television (Including How-To)
  • RepairClinic.com | HandyManUSA.com |
  • Home Improvement Toolbox (DOE recommended energy saving tips) |
  • How To Clean Anything.com
    | Make Stuff.com | http://www.allcrafts.net/ | This to That |
    Book Repairs
    Especially after a flood when dealing with mold, mildew, etc.
  • Mold Prevention Strategies and Possible Health Effects in the Aftermath of Hurricanes and Major Floods
  • Disaster Preparedness & recovery (National Archives) [39 pp PDF document]
  • Emergency Drying after Flood Damage (Library of Congress)
  • Mold (EPA) | Mold (CDC) | Mold (OSHA) |
  • Caring for Your Collections (Library of Congress) [Including books, manuscripts, old photos, film, etc.]
  • Caring For/Preserving [Books, etc.] (Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education (SCMRE))
  • How to preserve newpaper clippings
  • Light Impressions (Archival Storage Supplies)
  • BridgePros | Build a Bridge (Including types)[PBS Nova Online] | Brooklyn Bridge |
  • Knots on the Web (including how to tie a necktie)
  • Time Zone Converter | Calculators On-line Center |
  • Unit Conversion for Length | The Universal Currency Converter™ |
    Mythology
  • See Also Ancient Greece & Ancient Rome & Ancient Egypt
  • Encyclopedia Mythica | Mythweb.com | Classics Unveiled.com |
  • Gareth Long's Encyclopedia of Monsters, Mythical Creatures, & Fabulous Beasts
  • Theoi Greek Mythology | Camelot Project |
  • Aesop's Fables | More Aesop's Fables |
    Rocks, Minerals, & Planets
    Rocks & Minerals
    | Birthstones | Mineral & Gemstone Kingdom | Mineral Gallery | Mineral Identification (Including mineral properties) |
    Planets
  • What Is A Planet?
  • Solar System (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
  • One Star, Eight Planets, and More!
  • Pluto No Longer a Planet | Science & Space News (National Geographic)
  • Hubble Space Telescope
    Science Fair Web Sites
    Sign Language/CB Radio/Signal Flags/Hieroglyphics
  • Animated American Sign Language Dictionary (AMSLAN) | ASL Finger Spelling |
  • CB Radio Resources on the Net (Including CB codes)
  • International Listener (shortwave radio)
  • See also local Houston broadcast radio stations
  • International Marine Signal Flags | Special Signal Flags |
  • Semaphore Flags
  • Egyptian Hieroglyphics | Mayan Hieroglyphics |
  • Your Name in Hieroglyphics | Alphabet Letter to Hieroglyph Encoder |
  • Meaning of Flowers | More Meaning of Flowers |
  • Language of the Fan
    Timeline/Year Assignments
    Words/Phrases/Quotes (See Also Famous Speeches)
    Quotations
  • Quotations Archive | Xrefer.com | Words of Love |
  • Bartlett's Familiar Quotations | Good Quotations by Famous People |
  • Education Quotes | Wisdom & Quotes | Quotes Page |
    Words and Phrases, Origins of (E.g. etymology)
  • AllWords.com | XRefer | Merriam Wesbster Online Dictionary & Thesaurus |
  • Word Detective | Ye Olde English Sayings | Linguist List |
  • Double-Tongued Word Wrester (New slang terms including jargon, archaic words, etc.)
  • Turn of Phrase
  • Nautical Expressions in the Vernacular
  • Take Our Word For It | Word for the Wise |
  • BBC English: Words, Words, Words | Verbivore |
  • Best of British: The American's Guide to Speaking British
  • -GRY Words | More about -GRY Words | LOTS more -GRY Words! |
  • Word Sounds (About.com) [Homonym, homophone, homograph, alliteration, onomatopoeia, etc.]
  • Online Lingo (Emoticons and abbreviations commonly seen in email, Usenet, etc.)
  • Collection of Word Oddities & Trivia
    Allusions
  • Information Please (Almanac, dictionary, & encyclopedia.)
  • Shakespearean Homework Helper
    Slang
  • 1920's Slang Terms
  • See also Mythology
  • Naming the Anniversaries (Sesquicentennial, Bicentennial, etc.)
  • Animal Words:Collective Nouns / Young | Adult / Adolescent / Child |
  • Say Hello to the World (In their own language!) |
  • Walkabout Glossary/Signs (A Reference of Australian Terms)
  • Phonetic Alphabet (NATO) [Able, Baker, Charlie, etc./Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, etc.] |

    Guides to Ready Reference on the Internet

  • Information Please | FREE Internet Encyclopedia |
    Sites maintained by librarians
  • Internet Public Library Reference Center | Argus Clearinghouse | More about the Argus Clearinghouse |
  • Digital Librarian | Librarians' Index to the Internet | Quick Reference (UT GSLIS) |
  • Neat New (Marylaine.com)
  • stumpers | Scout Report |
    Sites maintained for teachers (&lesson plans)
  • Educator's Reference Desk | Gateway to 21st Century Skills |
  • Edsitement (National Endowment for the Humanities)
  • Learning Network (Grades 3-12) (New York Times)
  • PBS Teachers (new site as of 3/1/2007)
  • ReadWriteThink.org (Reading & Language Arts lesson plans)
    More Research & Educational Sites
  • Ten Cool Sites (Exploratorium) | Library Spot | Virtual Reference Desk |
  • WWW Virtual Library | About.com | My Virtual Reference Desk |
  • High School Hub |
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