Reference Shelf - Almanacs and Fact books

InfoNation
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm
Menu-driven access to a wide variety of facts and statistics about the various nations of the world. Provided by the United Nations CyberSchoolBus.

50 States.Com
http://www.50states.com/

Baseball Almanac
http://baseball-almanac.com/
Track statistics, get the latest league championship news, and find out how your favorites made it into the Hall of Fame.

Information Please Almanac
http://www.infoplease.com/
Online version of the popular almanac which can be browsed by topic, or can be searched. It also includes the Random House Webster's College Dictionary and the Columbia Encyclopedia.

Old Farmer's Almanac
http://www.almanac.com/index.php
Published since 1792, The Old Farmer's Almanac includes a wide variety of useful information, including tide tables, sunrise tables, planting charts, recipes, weather predictions, holiday calendars, and more.

Fast Facts
http://www.refdesk.com/fastfact.html
Links to a variety of online almanacs, directories, news sources, and more.

FedStats
http://www.fedstats.gov/
The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies.

2004-2005 Almanac of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/free/almanac/2004/
Information about students, faculty and staff, resources, and institutions of higher learning in the United States is presented along with a pull-down menu to display the information by state. Provided by The Chronicle of Higher Education

CIA World Factbook
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Compendium of facts, statistics, and other information for virtually every country in the world. (The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)