Reference Websites:

http://bartleby.com/ - a literary reference site with search engine for fiction, non fiction, reference and verse by subject, author and title

http://www.behindthename.com/glossary/view/name - Behind the name is a site that lists personal names along with their meanings and origins. It is categorized by country and/or ethnicity.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ - CIA Factbook lists all the important data for countries around the world. Information like: population, land mass, topography, geography, resources and GDP.

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/?fr=avbbf-us – The Babelfish website translates words, phrases and entire blocks of text from most any language to any other language.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/index.html - National Geographic website. If you own a stack of National Geographic magazines and are looking for a particular article you read years ago, you can use the search box on the website to tell you which magazine (year, issue) that article was in.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=a  - Online etymology dictionary.

http://www.snopes.com/ - Snopes is a useful fact checker when dealing with internet content, hoaxes and urban myths.

http://www.websters-online-dictionary.com/ - Websters online dictionary often times gives an unprecedented amount of information on any given word.

http://www.rhymezone.com/ - Very useful rhyming dictionary, which includes a definition cross reference for the words offered.

http://www.psychohistory.com/ - Institute of Psychohistory website discusses human psychology as the cause of humanities seemingly self destructive nature. Not for the weak hearted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page - Wikipedia is a constantly self updating online encyclopedia. Content in many contexts should be viewed with some skepticism due to the fact that anyone is able to change and update the information. Much is subject to bias.