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Associations, Organizations, and Institutions

Access Washington -  State Agency Index
Unofficial list of state agencies, boards and commissions

Associations on the Net
A collection of over 1100 Internet sites providing information about a wide variety of professional and trade associations, cultural and art organizations, political parties and advocacy groups, labor unions, academic societies, and research institutions. Abstracts summarizing information about the association and its site are provided.

College and University Rankings
The purpose of the rankings site is to draw together and provide context to various online sources of information on the ranking of institutions of higher education. Produced by the university of Illinois - Urbana.

Embassy World
Search by host or guest country, or search through a list of embassies and consulates of  the world,  embassies of other nations in the United States, U.S. embassies worldwide, and United Nations permanent missions. Provides contact information and links to Web pages, when available.

National Center for Education
Information on Public Schools and School Districts in the United States from the NCED

Idealist.org - Action Without Borders
A searchable directory of over 11,000 nonprofit Web sites in 125 countries.

Peterson's College Directory
information about educational opportunities, search Peterson's databases to request more information, apply, and interact in other ways with faculty and administrators at educational institutions. Every private school, camp, college, university, and employer has its own Site in Petersons.com.

Union of International Associations
Links to international organizations, international congresses, NGOs, and multi-national organization sites. Most of the UIA online databases are freely accessible without any registration. This applies to World Problems - Issues, Global Strategies - Solutions, Human Development, Bibliography (issues), Human Values, Integrative Concepts, Patterns and Metaphors.

U.S. Government Departments and Agencies- Index
FirstGov.gov. - links directly to each agencies web site.

Business Directories

Verizon Superpages.com - Yellow Pages
Find over 18 million U.S. business listings.

Hoover's Online
Provides a capsule of  information for companies worldwide.

Infobell,com
Meta site which lists businesses, residential, fax, and trade directories by country.

Martindale-Hubbard Lawyer Locator 
 This locator allows you to find a lawyer by name, location, firm, corporation/agency, or school.

Thomas Register
The Thomas Register of American Manufacturers provides access to information on  products or services and the companies that offers that product or service.

Phone, Address, & Zip Code Directories

AnyWho: Find Telephone number and Address
AT&T's directory allows you to do reverse look-ups, use "sounds like" features, locate maps of an address, etc.  Includes e-mail, fax, white & yellow page listings, and toll free numbers.

Telephone Directories on the Web
This InfoBel meta site claims to be a detailed list of online phone books, with links to yellow pages, white pages, business directories, email addresses and Fax listings from around the world. Searchable by continent, it allows one to search individual or multiple countries.

The Ultimate Directory
(Infospace) accesses over 112 million U.S.& Canadian listings of people, businesses, and government offices. Embassy information, and an international section are included.

Yellow Pages

World Pages
Best for government telephone lookups. Includes people, business, government, SIC code, e-mail.

Yellow.Com
Search the online yellow pages by heading, name or location.  Includes Personal name & reverse directories as well.

Toll Free
AT&T Toll Free 800 Directory
(AnyWho Internet Directory) Explores other Yellow Pages, White Pages, Maps & Directions, Universities, Alumni, and Reunions, City Guide, Government,  International, Genealogy, and Classifieds.

Area Codes
Area code search
From NANPA (North American Numbering Plan Administration)

North American Numbering Plan
An up to date list of area codes, series of maps, etc.  Developed by Lockheed Martin, the company that administers area codes in the U.S., Canada, Bermuda and the Caribbean.

The Telephone Prefix Location Directory
Use this site to find a prefix location in a specific area code. Click on the area code to go to the search page for that area code.

Zip & Postal Codes/Address Searches
Canadian Postal Codes
Look up postal codes for street addresses, rural addresses and post office boxes;  find the address ranges for a given postal code.Updated monthly.

National Address Servers
Given a valid U.S. postal address, this server attempts to rewrite the address in the proper format along with the ZIP+4 code.

USPS
(United States Postal Service) provides access to zip codes, postal rate calculator, mail tracking & other services.

Zip Code Lookup and Address Information
Provided by the Post Office

Maps
MSN Maps and Directions
Map an address, yellow & white page information, weather, points of interest, and more.

U.S. Gazetteer
Created by the Census department, just type in the zip code and find out population, location and a tiger map of the specified area.

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