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Biography

• Biography - A & E's show about great people and their lives is now online. The searchable database includes over 15,000 famous folks.
• Letters Magazine - Letters from the famous and not so famous collected monthly around particular themes.

¡¡Caffeine Jag!!

• Cafe de Colombia - Juan Valdez online. Featuring a history of Columbian coffee, games, trivia, tasty coffee recipes and more.
• Cafe Mam - Organically grown, socially responsible - the coffee that's guaranteed to make you feel better about your addiction in every way. Batch roasted, certified organic, high altitude, sun dried Arabica beans, grown exclusively by the ISMAM co-op of Chiapas, Mexico. You can e-mail them at CAFEMAM@aol.com, or order directly through their web site. And thanks to Vince Miller for the tip!
• Interstellar Beverage Co. - "Ingestible fluids to enhance yer hyperactive lifestyle."
• Too Much Coffee Man - Coffee cartoons and great graphics!

Entertainment

• A & E - Your online guide to the cable channel.
• The Astounding B Monster - An online guide to the best bad movies.
• Blockbuster's Entertainment Drive - Movie reviews, celebrity profiles, etc.
• Car Talk - Official site of Ray and Tom Magliozzi's (aka Click and Clack) wrenchingly good NPR talk show about cars and how to fix them.
• The Case - A mystery case is mailed weekly to subscribers, with the solution posted at their web site the following week. Print it out and solve it over lunch with friends!
• Cinemachine - What the critics think about the latest movies.
• Cinemax - Schedules, reviews and a matchmaker that suggests movies based on your tastes.
• DreamWorks Interactive - A cross between Spielberg and Gates.
• E! Online - "Entertainment's home page."
• The Envelope Please - Mangone Interactive's guide to the Academiy Awards and Oscars, past and present.
• The Family Jewels - Episodic mystery series with a twist: a $25,000 monthly grand prize.
• The GIST - Subscribe for free personalized TV listings.
• Hollywood Online - Movie and video guides, movie tunes, Hollywood news.
• HomeVision Cinema - Classic films on VHS, available at low prices over the internet. Each week, a different classic film is available at a 20% discount.
• The Light Files - Episodic web series; solve the mystery and win some cash.
• Microsoft's Cinemania
• Movies - See a listing of what's playing locally.
• Mr. Showbiz - Movie reviews and celebrity interviews, plus box office numbers, music charts, TV ratings, best-selling books.
• NewsFuse - new from HBO, a "weekly entertainment hyperzine." Updated every Friday.
• Notre Dame Communication and Theatre - Find out what movies are playing at the Snite, and what the theatre season looks like this year.
• Oscar.com - From the other Academy.
• PBS Online - A source for many great Picks throughout the year. Explore here.
• Reader's Digest
• Reel - Movie suggestions based on your tastes.
• Star Wars Trilogy - After 20 years, the force is almost with us again.
• That Girl - A fan's page dedicated to the popular television classic from the late '60s.
• Total TV - National cable TV listings and feature articles.
• TV Guide Entertainment Network - The daily entertainment guide gets a major facelift.
• Universal Pictures Frighteners Adventure - This'll cure the hiccups...
• Whole Pop Catalog - The building blocks of modern American culture.

Food & Wine

• Anne's Favorite Recipes - From San Francisco's Hawthorne Lane Restaurant; delicious recipes adjusted for the average cook.
• R. C. Bigelow Tea
• Chocoholic.com - Chocolate addiction? From truffles to 5 pound bars, you can order it here.
• The Creole and Cajun Recipe Page
• EatHere.Com: Road Food for the 90's - An interactive celebration of popular roadside eateries from coast to coast."
• Internet Chef - Dedicated to the worship of food and to answering such questions as, "How do I get lumps out of my gravy?"
• J & B Whiskey - Whiskey terminology, the history of J & B, and a tour of Drummuir Castle.
• Japanese Pizza - If you can read Japanese, you may get some ideas (the pictures help!). The squid ink pizza looks particularly intriguing (...NOT!)
• Jolly Time Pop Corn - And you thought living in Indiana you knew everything about corn...
• Moet & Chandon - Take a trip to Epernay and the champagne region of France...
• Online Chef - Need ideas for dinner tonight?
• Reluctant Gourmet - Recipes, techniques and the basic tools of the trade for the novice.
• Texas Cooking - Even if you're not a Texan, you can still cook like one.
• Tony Chachere's Creole Foods - Seasonings, cookbooks, mixes, tall tales, free samples, and Cajun links.
• The Wine Enthusiast - Access to Wine Enthusiast Magazine and all kinds of wine info, from storage to stemware. Products available for ordering over Internet.
• Wine Spectator - includes daily reports, a searchable wine buying guide, a library of wine and travel articles, chats, forums and more.
• Yan Can Cook - And so can you, with these recipes from the television chef, Martin Yan.
• Yuengling Brewery - America's oldest brewery online.

Gardening

• The Plant Tracker - A botanical search engine with a twist- here you can search by the actual uses of plants (edible, medicinal or "other").

History

• An Abridged History of the United States - You don't have time for the whole story anyway...
• Bizarre Historical Trivia - See for yourself!
• Britannica Guide to Black History - Nearly 400 years of events and people that have shaped American history.
• GeneaNet - searchable list of surnames dating before 1850.
• The History Net - From the National Historical Society.
• Jewish Heritage Society - An independent scholarly institution for the development and coordination of research in history and culture of the Jewish people in the Russian Empire and the USSR, and for documenting the Jewish historical legacy.
• Mayflower Web Page - Offers itself as "the complete Internet site for Mayflower history and genealogy.
• Mountain Men and the Fur Trade - An on-line library and research center devoted to the history, traditions, tools, mode of living... of the trappers, explorers, and traders known as the Mountain Men. Contains diaries, narratives and letters, the fur trade business records and the collection of images.
• Native American Sites
• United States Civil War - Helping to bring Civil War history to life.
• Waco: The Inside Story - Audio, pictures and transcripts from the PBS Frontline special.
• The West - An eight-part documentary series by Ken Burns and Stephen Ives (of Civil War fame), tells an epic tale of the American West.

Literature

• And Adam Knew Eve: A Dictionary of Sex in the Bible - Ronald Ecker's compilation. There's a reason this isn't in our Bible Resources site!
• Anne Rice - All about Anne and the vampire series.
• Crania Magazine - Not just for the literati. Fiction, poetry and art.
• English Literature: Early 17th Century - authors biographies, works, resources and more.
• Ploughshares - The great literary journal, complete with samples from current and recent issues.
• Shakespeare's Sonnets - All 154 of them, which you can read by number or search; also includes audio readings.
• Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603) - The life and works of twenty authors.
• StoryWeb - Reviews, rates and collects online narratives. They're presented nicely by genre, which includes Horror, Adventure, Romance, Real World and Sci-fi.

Museums, Art

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• Art Sites on the Web
• Museums and Online Exhibitions
• Photographic and Digital Image Electronic Media

Museums

• ArtDaily - News from the art world online. Includes this day in history, a look at new and continuing exhibitions, links to museums, and more.
• Snite Museum List of Museums - Lists over 100 museums worldwide.
• Chicago Museums - From the Adler Planetarium to the Vietnam War Museum, a listing of addresses and exhibits at Chicago's major sites. We've listed some separately here for quicker access.

 

 

• Arta Gallery, Jerusalem - An online collection of Jewish ritual items and objects d'arts inspired by the images of Marc Chagall.
• The Art Institute of Chicago
• Chicago Historical Society - Don't miss the current exhibit on Lincoln, which features a large and unique collection of memorabilia on the 16th president.
• The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
• Israel Museum, Jerusalem - Chagall, Scrolls, and general Judaica. We've listed the Shrine of the Book separately below.
• Musée du Louvre, Paris - Only a limited part of the collection is online now, but more is promised! Alternate access to the Louvre is available through WebMuseum.
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago - Chicago's newest museum, opened July 1996 just east of the Water Tower.
• Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
• Museums of Paris - D. Bajot's selection of sites.
• The National Museum of Women in the Arts - The only museum dedicated exclusively to recognizing the contributions of women artists. Highlights the work of women of all periods and nationalities. Includes artist profiles and a video tour of the museum.
• Oriental Institute Virtual Museum, Chicago - The museum may be closed for remodeling, but you can take a virtual tour of the Egyptian, Assyrian and Mesopotamian galleries on the web!
• The Shrine of the Book, Jerusalem
• The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.
• Increase & diffusion - A web magazine aimed at capturing the breadth of the Smithsonian Institution.
• Snite Museum, South Bend

Individual Artists

• Georgia O'Keeffe - A brief look at her life and work.
• Rembrandt House Museum - Home and workplace of the master for nearly twenty years in the 17th century.

Music, Dance

• Alligator Records - Chicago blues label, with artist biographies, performance schedules and sound samples.
• Leonard Bernstein
• Cirque du Soleil - The Canadian troupe that combines amazing acrobatics, imaginative costumes and contemporary music in innovative circus performances.
• Elton John - Lyrics and memorabilia.
• Graceland - The King is dead ... Long live the King!
• Lloyd Webber.Net - The Andrew Lloyd Webber online magazine.
• London's Philharmonia Orchestra
• Lord of the Dance - Michael Flatley, one of the innovative creators of Riverdance, is the force behind this contemporary interpretation of Irish Dance.
• Music Boulevard - Over 150,000 CDs, cassettes, and in-depth music information.
• ND Liturgical Choir - Over 50 undergrad and grad students, men and women, are members of this choir, which ministers at the 10 a.m. Solemn Mass and Sunday evening Vespers at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. The choir sings for a variety of other events as well.
• Riverdance - Website behind the exhilirating modern performance of Irish dance.
• Rolling Stone
• Oldies Music
• Operas and their Composers
• Thirtieth Country Music Association Awards - Watch this site for the list of recent winners. Includes history, awards information and RealAudio clips.
• Tower Records - 150,000 titles.
• Virgin Records America - Find your favorites!
• Webnoize - News, information and commentary on the state of music on the Web.

Organizations

• American Red Cross
• Amnesty International On-Line
• Amnesty International - USA
• Cancer Research Foundation of America - Emphasizing prevention through research and education.
• Christmas Seals - Find out how to make a donation, download a screensaver or send an electronic seal to a friend.
• Cousteau Society
• Disaster Relief - disasters, relief efforts and organizations.
• EarthSave International - Saving the world one meal at a time.
• Feminists for Life - A non-sectarian, grass-roots organization that seeks true equality for all human beings, particularly women.
• Give On-Line - Make secure contributions to charitable/ non-profit organizations.
• Greenpeace International
• Habitat for Humanity - ND's branch site of the ecumenical Christian housing ministry.
• Human Rights Watch - Monitoring human rights in seventy countries.
• IRS - Forms, instructions, and publications are now available via their web site.
• International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
• National Association of Homes and Services for Children - Advocates for at-risk children and families.
• National Federation of the Blind - working to fully integrate the blind into society on an equal basis.
• The Natural Child Project - "Parenting for the 21st century."
• The Nonviolence Web
• ND/SMC Homeless Shelter Children's Group - Students take children from the Homeless Shelter downtown to various places and events, from ice skating to Kid's Kingdom. Sundays in the fall (guess why?), Saturdays in the spring.
• Project HOPE - Provides health education, conducts health policy research, and supports humanitarian assistance in more than 70 countries.
• Seednet - fighting hunger, one seed at a time.
• Women's Resource Center - This organization exists to improve gender relations on campus, to increase awareness of issues such as eating disorders and date rape, and to provide a setting for the discussion of gender-related issues.

Shopping

• Open-Market Net - An online guide to farmers' markets, street markets, flea markets, and street vendors.

Sports

• Irish Sports Report - THE place to find out all you need to know about the teams.

 

 

• ABC's Monday Night Football - includes pre-game analysis and commentary, stats, behind the scenes, live chat and more.
• American Basketball League
• The Baseball Encyclopedia Three Strikes Contest - Test your baseball knowledge and win prizes. Weekly contests during the season.
• The Baseball Statistics Page - More Baseball trivia.
• Basketball Hall of Fame - In Springfield, Illinois.
• bikesite - "Off-beat cycling information and news-you-can-use."
• Bookstore Basketball at ND - The student-run spring tournament, the largest five-on-five tournament in the world.
• Chicago White Sox
• College Football Hall of Fame (South Bend)
• College Sports News Daily - Features articles from the College Football Association's "Sidelines" magazine and daily newsclips.
• EDGE NFL Match Up - Previews, predictions and a weekly analysis of NFL games.
• ESPNET SportsZone's Fantasy Football - A web-based fantasy football game for the pigskin crowd.
• FANSonly - 24-hour college sports news center.
• Field & Stream - A magazine for modern hunters and gatherers. Includes feature articles, regional destination guides and other resources.
• Harlem Globetrotters - America's "Ambassadors of Goodwill."
• International Mountain Bicycling Association
• NBA
• ND Bowling - A site "chock full" of information about collegiate bowling and the ND Bowling Team.
• NFL
• NHL
• Pac 10 Conference
• PGA Tour.com - Official site of the tour.
• The Sporting News - The "Bible of Sports" strives to become the "Bookmark of Sports."
• Total Baseball - The official online encyclopedia of Major League Baseball.
• United States Figure Skating Association - history, skater profiles and competition results.
• United States Luge Association - America's own sliders.
• Wilson Sporting Goods
• ZoneGames - fantasy sports news and leagues from ESPNET SportsZone.

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Travel

Transportation

• Amtrack
• Astrodienst Atlas Database - Find the longitude, latitude and time zone of cities around the world.
• AutoPilot Highway Trip Routing System - Punch in your departure and arrival points, the type of route you'd prefer (scenic, direct), and the facilities you'll need on the way, and this site will produce a personalized itinerary for your trip, complete with estimated mileage and travel time. Give them your e-mail address, and they'll send you the itinerary.
• Easy Sabre - The original travel planner - access to airline, car rental, and hotel information and make reservations in a command-driven (ASCII) interface.
• Hertz
• Michiana Regional Transportation Center (MRTC) - Airline, bus, and rail schedules and a South Bend Area Map.
• TravelWeb - The business traveler's resource center.
• The Trip.com - Real-time flight tracking. Altitude, speed and location are a mere click away.

Travel Guides

• CNN Travel Guide - For the planner or the dreamer.
• Fodor's
• Lonely Planet Online
• Macmillan Travel
• Maps On Us - Don't know how to get "there?" Ask here. Free interactive route planning.
• Microsoft Expedia - Make travel reservations, read news and weather updates, convert currency, peruse travel feature articles and more.
• National Geographic
• Travlang's Translating Dictionaries - A collection of foreign language dictionaries gathered into one place.

Local Attractions

• College Football Hall of Fame (South Bend)
• Covered Bridge Capital of the World (Parke County, IN) - Home of Turkey Run Campground and Indiana's largest annual Civil War reenactment.
• Indiana Home Page
• Northern Indiana Amish Country - Enjoy a virtual visit to the counties just east of us.

Chicago

• Chicago Home Page
• Yahoo! Chicago

 

 

• Chicago Architecture Foundation - This organization offers excellent tours of Loop and neighborhood architecture, including guided boat tours along the river and lakefront.
• Oak Park, IL - A town of "broad lawns and small minds" according to Ernest Hemingway, who was born in this suburb 15 minutes west of the loop. The town is particularly known as the location of Frank Lloyd Wright's home and studio in the early 1900s; tours available.

US

• CityGuide
• National Park Service

 

 

• California
• Cool Spots in California - A searchable collection of photographs, mainly of California. Famous to funky and then some.
• Hearst Castle - One-time home of Rosebud and other notables.
• LA - The Yahoo! Guide
• San Francisco - The Yahoo! Guide.
• Disneyland
• Illinois
• Louisiana
• The New Orleans Home Page - A guide to this year's AAR/SBL host city - you'll need sunglasses for this site!
• New Orleans - The Yahoo! Guide.
• The Gumbo Pages - Chuck Taggart's guide to musical, culinary, and cultural information about New Orleans and Acadiana.
• Virtual Tour of the French Quarter
• Massachusetts
• Harvard-Square.Com - A local guide.
• Michigan
• Washington, D. C.
• Washington National Cathedral - Includes Cathedral Age magazine, stuff for kids and teachers, information on the National Cathedral Association, a forthcoming collection of sermons and more.
• Wisconsin

World

• Cruise Guide to the Americas - Shipping news, so to speak, from National Geographic.
• Europa - Official site of the European Economic Community.
• Map Machine - "Mother Earth's family album," courtesy of the National Geographic Society.
• National Geographic - A new kind of journey for the Society: online.
• WORLD Magazine - Fascinating facts, interesting kids and cool games from National Geographic.
• Yahoo! Travel: Countries

 

 

• Bulgaria
• Canada
• Ontario Parks - With 265 provincial parks, there's a lot to explore.
• China
• Made in China - A digital journey through the culture, history and geography of China.
• Egypt
• Pyramids: The Inside Story - Take a virtual tour of the current Giza excavation with NOVA.
• France
• Paris
• Southern France: Le Guide - Guide to hotels, properties, restaurants, and tourist based businesses in Southern France. Includes feature articles and images.
• Germany
• Berlin
• Great Britain
• Britannia Internet Magazine - "America's Gateway to the British Isles."
• Westminster Abbey - Place of worship and house of kings (and queens).
• Greece
• Hungary
• Ireland
• Architectural Dublin - Highlights from the fair city.
• Bord Failte - The official site of the Irish Tourist Board. The site allows you to build your own personal brochure of must-see sites.
• Ceolas - Celtic music site at Stanford; information about the music and an audio archive.
• The Chieftains - Award-winning Irish folk music.
• Every Celtic Thing on the Net - Angus Og's hot links to the Celts.
• Gaelic and Gaelic Culture - An introduction to Gaelic language and resources.
• Government of Ireland - Economics, literature, music, folklore, sport of Ireland, or learn more about the way the country sees itself in relation to the rest of the world.
• Guinness PLC - Home page of the celebrated brew.
• Ireland Online - A searchable guide to all things Irish - a great place to start.
• Irish National Archives - Access to government records, family and genealogy resources, and more.
• The Irish Times on the Web - Today's news from the auld sod.
• IRLNet - A searchable guide to Ireland.
• Lord of the Dance - Michael Flatley, one of the innovative creators of Riverdance, is the force behind this contemporary interpretation of Irish Dance.
• PaddyNet's Green Pages - A searchable directory for online sites related to Ireland.
• Radio Telefis Eireann
• Riverdance - Website behind the exhilirating modern performance of Irish dance.
• Shop Ireland - If you can't shop at Clerys, you can find your Belleek and Guinness glasses here.
• The Thistle and the Shamrock - NPR's weekly broadcast featuring Celtic music.
• Israel
• Israel on Line (IOL) - Publishes web sites in Israel and a column called "Captain Internet" from which you can download a Hebrew web font into your mail reader.
• The (almost) Complete Guide to the WWW in Israel - Includes links to web sites of the major universities. Many of the university sites (HUJ, e.g.) are partially or completely in Hebrew.
• Virtual Jerusalem - The Jewish World from the Heart of Jerusalem.
• Ha'Aretz - The daily newspaper published in Israel (in Hebrew).
• The Academic Computing Facility (ACF) of New York University (NYU) - Site on multilingual computing with a list of News and Media Resources in Hebrew.
• Italy
• Japan
• Jordan
• Lebanon
• Morocco
• Netherlands
• Norway
• Poland
• Polish National Parks
• Portugal
• Puerto Rico
• Slovenija
• Syria
• Syria: A Photographic Journey - A literary and photographic meditation on this ancient land through a series of striking photographs accompanied by writing excerpts from the likes of T. E. Lawrence, Mark Twain, Salah al Din, Lady Hester Stanhope and others.
• Turkey
• Yugoslavia

 

 

• Mungo Park - New from Microsoft, interactive expeditions and adventures around the world.

Out of this World

• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Hubble
• NASA
• NASA International Space Station
• Next Generation Space Telescope
• Voyager Interstellar Mission Site - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and beyond!

Just for Fun

• 50 Things to do at a Final That Just Doesn't Matter
• 148 things not to do at your thesis defense
• The Annals of Improbable Research
• Bad Teen Angst Poetry - Memories of high school?!
• Batman: The Animated Series Encyclopedia
• Comedy on the Web - A.k.a. COW, includes a special site with really stupid real quotes by real people called, "I can't believe they said that..."
• Cope with Stress in graduate life.
• Don's Incredible Maze Server - Randomly generated, intricate mazes. No two are ever alike, and all have only one path from entrance to exit. Print them out to solve them, or you'll be on the web all day!
• The Family Planet Fun Page - Online games, trivia quizzes, film reviews (including "A Very Brady Sequel") and more.
• The Far Side - A collection of one fan's favorites.
• Graduate humor page
• The Grim Reaper's Handy Clock O' Doom - Feeling old? Find out how old you really are...
• Hillary's Hair - See the various styles the first lady has sported - and design your own coif!
• Holy Water - just in case you need it.
• How to receive a less than enthusiastic letter of recommendation
• HumourNet - Subscribe to this list from their web site, and receive this well-known mailing list of jokes, funny stories, and entertaining anecdotes, including the ever-popular "Stupid Criminal Hall of Shame."
• Internet Cartoons Forum
• Marvel Comics - Avengers assemble!
• A Modest Admission Essay
• National Geographic Pirates - A pirates site for kids.
• ND Humor Artists - ND's own touring sketch comedy troupe.
• Perverse Guide to Getting Hired
• Pez - A sweet shrine to the cute candy dispensers. Did you know that the name PEZ comes from the first, middle, and last letters of the German word for peppermint, pfefferminz?
• A Ph.D. or the Lotto - Which will it be?
• Political parodies in song
• Pun Central - Richard Lederer's take on the English language.
• PythOnline - Spam spam spam spam...
• The Rabbit's Dissertation
• The Student - Filled with beer, TV, classes, parties, roadtrips and studying; in short your basic college life.
• Stupid Quest - Ask a stupid question . . .
• Thatch - Comic strip representing the voice of the "coffee addicted youth."
• Things to do when you're bored with grad school.
• The Three Stooges Collector's Showcase - You didn't know they had collectibles, did you?!
• Translating what they say into what they mean in research is more an art than a science, here are a few pointers.
• T'was The Night Before Finals
• Virtual Florist - Send bouquets of flowers or balloons over the web!
• Why God Never Received Tenure
• WRITE.THESIS.FAST - Tips for speeding up the process.
• Yaboo! - A site to search for scary things, from ghost stories to Halloween and beyond...
• Zen Stories

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