Quick Reference Guide: Quick Facts

Information about what the UCI Libraries own, subscribe to, or license.

Searches the holdings of libraries worldwide, similar to Melvyl, but with a different interface.

Searches the holdings of libraries worldwide and includes some of the UCI Libraries' article databases.

2008 edition. Provides definitions of a wide variety of acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations and similar contractions, translating them into their full names or meanings. Terms from subject areas such as associations, education, the Internet, medicine and others are included.

The Acronym Finder is a searchable database of more than 287,000 abbreviations and acronyms covering many disciplines. Its strengths include computer, technology, telecommunication, and military acronyms and abbreviations.

Part of the NationalJournal site. Politics and demographics of U.S. states. Online edition is kept up to date with special and interim elections, important committee changes, election forecasts, primary results and more.

This Almanac is no longer current, but does contain some historical information about Orange County.

Published annually since 1792.

Very eclectic blog with some very useful information.

Goes to a "facts subject index."

Maintained since 1995, to confirm, debunk or otherwise document warnings, news and stories that may be too good to be true....or may in fact be true.

More than 11,000 searchable quotations from this older edition of the famous reference resource.

"Quotations, Aphorisms, Thoughts and Proverbs of Philosophers and Kings, Politicians, Famous Persons, and Wise-but-not-so-Famous Persons."

Offers a collection of quotation sites like Quoteland, Quoteworld, The Quotations Page, Bartlett’s Familiar, and Creative Quotations. Also features sites by quotation topics such as movie quotes, Bible quotes, and scientific quotes.

Search quotations by topic or author. Includes links to Literary Quotations and Special Occasion Quotes.

Features an extensive collection of quotes by women famous in various fields of art, drama, music, science, literature, law, social sciences, and academia. Also provides biographies or links to additional information about some of the featured women.

Covers mysticism, religions, spirituality, and psychology. Also offers key contributors, quotations, and wisdom.

Find data about the U.S., such as maps and population, demographic, and economic data.

Statistical, demographic and political data on countries and territories around the world: generates tables and charts for individual country profiles as well as comparisons. Data from U.S. and international agencies; every statistic is documented.

This site boasts that one can "convert just about anything to anything else." And with fifty thousand conversions and five thousand units, it has an impressive range.

QuickFacts provides statistics for all states and counties, and for cities and towns with a population of 5,000 or more. Information presented is from the U.S. Census Bureau and includes estimates of population, breakdown by gender and race, population density, and some economic statistics.