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AcronymFinder: The source for acronyms and abbreviations.
Britannica Online: Subscription service with free trial.
Business Glossary: Close to 1,000 business terms, organized and cross-referenced. From the Washington Post
ChoicePoint: A premier provider of decision-making intelligence to businesses and government. They "responsibly transform data about people, businesses, and assets into actionable intelligence that creates significant value for ChoicePoint, our customers, and society."
CIA World Factbook: Pretty much everything you'd ever want to know about every country in the world.
Encyclopedia.com from Electric Library: More than 17,000 articles from The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia.
ERSys: Using maps, charts, reports, and relevant links, Ersys covers over 1300 US cities with detailed information on demographics, environmental factors, economic indicators, housing stats, media (newspaper, television, and radio), schools, transportation, local contacts, and much more
FACSNET: A service for journalists provided by FACS in partnership with the San Diego Supercomputer Center. It contains sources of information and background for stories.
Flags of all Countries: Flags from every country, some non-country flags.
Fortune 500: Sort them by your criteria.
The Gale Group: Reference information for libraries, schools and businesses. For example, they have over 200,000 biographies in their Biography Resource Center. This is a paid service.
Hoover's Online: Extensive financial, sales and government filing information on public companies.
Information Please: Almanacs, encyclopedia and dictionary.
IPO Central: Information on Initial Public Offerings.
LexisNexis: LEXISŽ-NEXISŽ services contain more than 13,500 sources: 8,700 news and business sources, and 4,800 legal sources. Fee-based.
Library of Congress: The U.S.'s oldest federal cultural institution, and it serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with more than 120 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The collections include more than 18 million books, 2.5 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.5 million maps, and 54 million manuscripts.
LISTSERV list reference: Search over 7,500 Internet mailing lists on a wide variety of subjects.
Martindale's 'The Reference Desk: Calculators On-Line': Thousands of on-line calculators for every conceivable purpose.
One Source Business Information: Database of 45,000 U.S. Technology Companies. Contains analysis tools and industry statistics.
Robert's Rules Of Order: The Official Website - by the publishers.
Standard Industrial Classification Search: Allows the user to search the 1987 version SIC manual by keyword, to access descriptive information for a specified 4-digit SIC, and to examine the manual structure.
Statistical Resources on the Web: Statistics are divided into more than 200 categories - check here first if you're looking for any kind of stats.
The Time At The Tone ...: from the U.S. Naval Observatory Master Clock
Wikipedia: Aa multilingual free-content encyclopedia that will always belong to everyone. They started in January 2001 and are now working on close to a quarter-million articles in the English version.
World Time Zones: Unofficial, non-authoritative information on world time zones from the U.S. Navy.