Quick facts | top
Cyber School Bus - United Nations global teaching and learning project - learn about UN countries and world issues
Infomine - scholarly internet resource collections. Subjects covered include science, business and economics, social science and the humanties, visual and performing arts amd e-journals. Also has a general reference section.
Nation Master - resource for finding current statistics which also allows you to create graphs to compare different countries
The World Fact Book - from the United States CIA, has very current information on every country, including flags and population figures
Classic 164 Currency Converter
Time Zones around the World
Flags of the World
How Stuff Works
Internet Quick Reference by Indiana University Bloomington Libraries
The Librarians' Index to the Internet : "more than 6,200 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries"
Bartlett, John. 1901. Familiar Quotations
The Quotations Page
Calendars | top
Ecclesiastical Calendar
Dates of Easter Sunday & Perpetual Calendar 1550-2049
Events & holidays | top
NZLive - definitive guide to New Zealand cultural events and organisations
Australian School Terms and Holidays
Festivals.com celebrating festivals and events from around the world.
New Zealand School Terms and Holidays
NZ public holiday dates
Language & Dictionaries | top
Acronym Finder
Babel Fish - "a free, automatic translation service that removes language barriers across the World Wide Web."
Chinese Characters Dictionary
Dictionary.com - Excellent site for dictionaries, thesauri. style, tutorials and links
The King's English (H.W. Fowler, 1908)
Netlingo - internet language dictionary
OneLook Dictionaries - an index to over 200 dictionaries on the Web
On-Line English Grammar
Ngata-Base - the H.M. Ngata English-Maori Dictionary
Roget's Thesaurus from the ARTFL Project, University of Chicago
RhymeZone - type in a word to find its rhymes, synonyms, definitions
Encyclopedias | top
Encyclopedia of Earth - "a new electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society."
Fact Monster from Information Please
Information Please - access to almanacs, a dictionary and an encyclopedia.
MSN Learning and Research with Encarta - Microsoft's free version of Encarta Online - have to pay for more in depth articles but good starting point for school projects
Postal Information | top
Australia Post - includes a Postcode Search page
Canada Post - includes postal code search
New Zealand Postand Post Code Finder; see also their CourierPost site
Royal Mail- United Kingdom
South African Post Office - also postal code search
United States Postal Service and ZIP+4 Code Look-up
New Zealand weather & tides | top
New Zealand tidal forecaster - from NIWA - use this utility to forecast high and low tides anywhere in open coastal and ocean waters around New Zealand for up to 28 days.
New Zealand weather from the MetService
Weights & measures | top
Ask Numbers - converts all weights, measures and temperatures
World statistics | top
Australian Bureau of Statistics
British National Statistics Department
United Nations Statistics Division
World Health Organisation - statistical information system | 
