General reference

Online resources

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Websites

"The world's largest and most accurate human-edited dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms." The site has more than 475,000 entries for everything form business to slang to science.

Census information for the United States, Pennsylvania, Lycoming County – right down to your street.

How to do just about anything -- from playing a kazoo, to fixing your car, to kissing on a date.

The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. federal agencies.

Reference includes basic research tools such as almanacs, dictionaries and encyclopedias.

A publicly-funded website and weekly newsletter. The site is searchable and browse-able for the best of the web. There are tens of thousands of entries maintained by their librarians and organized into 14 main topics and nearly 300 related topics.

Refdesk.com 

Statistical Abstract of the U.S.

The national data book contains a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States.

Everything you need to know from the U.S. House of Representative and the U.S. Senate.

Got an email with an offer that's too good to be true? Check it out on this site. The entries include descriptions of the legend's origin, its status, and an evaluation.