100
Hot Web Sites
The 100 most visited web sites each week, overall or by catagory.
Not necessarily accurate, but close.
About.com:
Comic Books
An Internet guide for comic books, with feature articles, Website
links, and discussion forums. Topics covered include creating comics,
dealers/retailers, online comics, manga (Japanese comics), preservation,
pricing/grading, women in comics, and more.
All Movie Guide
Search for your favorite movie/dvd in a variety of ways--director,
actor, studio, title, genre, or subject.
Arches
National Park
What caused the unique geological formations found in this park?
Badlands
National Park
What animal is the most endangered
land mammal in North America?
Barbie
How many Barbie "sidekick" dolls have
been sold?
Big Book
Lists over 16 million US businesses, plus
street maps, reviews, and free home pages.
Bill Nye
What is the birthplace of Bill Nye the Science Guy?
Boston
Public Library
This first large free minicipal library opened
with 16,000 volumes. How many does it hold today?
Carlsbad
Caverns
In 1984, what prompted the National Park Service
to permit cavers to dig and uncover new portions of Lechuguilla
Cave?
ClasSearch.com
"ClasSearch.Com is a free, diverse searchable database of recreational,
personal, and professional enrichment classes, lectures, workshops,
seminars, on-line learning, private instruction, volunteer opportunities,
and educational travel. Topics include art, craft, cooking, dance,
language, martial arts, music, sports, theater, yoga, and much more!"
Ty
Cobb
How many seasons did "The
Georgia Peach" have a batting average over 300?
Detroit
Zoo
What are the features
of the zoo's new "Arctic Ring of Life"?
Dizzy
Dean
What bold prediction made
by Dean came true in 1934?
E! Online
Entertainment and celebrity news and gossip from the E! Entertainment
cable network.
Grand
Teton National Park
What is the coldest temperature ever recorded at this park?
Halloween
Here are great resources and activities for this festive occasion.?
How
to Clean Anything
Free cleaning hints for in and around the house.
Idaho
Potatoes
What is the best way to
store potatoes?
Keep
America Beautiful
What is the mission of this national nonprofit organization?
Kids
love a mystery month
Solve MysteryNet's latest case for kids.
Learn2.Com
While this site has expanded to offer computer-related online tutorials
for sale, their Free Learning area still has hundreds of illustrated
tutorials on how to do things that are useful in daily living, from
how to poach an egg to how to avoid junk mail to how to remove a
tick. The tutorials can be searched or browsed by broad subject
category. New tutorials are added each week.
Monopoly
About how many people have played Monopoly in its history?
Microsoft
Terra Server
The Microsoft Terra Server is an online database of satellite photographs
of the planet earth. The images are from two sources: the United
States Geological Survey (USGS) and Spin-2. "The United States
Geological Survey (USGS) provided georectified digitized aerial
photographs (known as digital orthophotoquads) from their vast files.
SPIN-2 provided high-resolution satellite images, products of a
joint Russian/American venture to market declassified satellite
photographs from sophisticated Russian mapping satellites."
Mr.
Showbiz: Celebrities
Biographical information about celebrites, including links to web
sites with further information. Searchable or browsable by name
or category (actor, actress, athlete, comedian, director, model,
musician, producer, publisher, TV personality, writer).
MTV
National
Dog Week
What are the "Top Ten Essentials" for caring for your
dog?
News
of the Weird
Proof that true stories are weirder than made-up stories.
Old
Man of the Mountain
What happened to the Old man of
the Mountain in May of 2003?
Pennsylvania
Why is Pennsylvania called the Keystone State?
PICK A
TRAIL
The Wilderness Society was established
in America in 1935. The
organization campaigned for a Wilderness Act. Passed by Congress
in
1964 it set aside selected areas in the "national forests,
national
parks, national wildlife refuges, and other federal lands as units
to
be kept permanently unchanged by humans; no roads, no structures,
no
vehicles, no significant impacts of any kind". The Wilderness
Society
has now developed a Pick a Trail website. It offers general
information about backpacking and hiking in the United States and
different trails in other countries, such as the United Kingdom.
Information on each trail includes a brief sketch of the host
country, including basic climatic information, local topography,
and
the type of terrain that each trail traverses.
Places
Online
PlacesOnLine provides access to the World's very best place-based
Web sites.
QUANDARY
Quandary is an application for creating Web-based Action Mazes.
An Action Maze is a kind of interactive case-study; the user is
presented with a situation, and a number of choices as to a course
of action to deal with it. On choosing one of the options, the resulting
situation is then presented, again with a set of options. Working
through this branching tree is like negotiating a maze, hence the
name "Action Maze". Action mazes can be used for many
purposes,
including problem-solving, diagnosis, procedural training, and surveys/questionnaires.
Redwood
National Park
How long have the redwoods grown
on the north coast of California?
Roller Coaster
Database (RCDB)
Database of roller coaster information including the newest rides,
historic listings and statistical "census" for each one.
This searchable database also allows users to view pictures of the
nearly 500 entries and enables them to browse by theme park, region
or type of coaster.
San Diego
Zoo
For a terrific trip to the zoo, the Zoological Society of San Diego
offers the virtual tourist an insider's view of life at the San
Diego Zoo
Sci-Fi
Wire
Get the latest news about sci-fi movies, television shows, books,
toys, etc.
Silly
Putty
How was silly putty discovered?
The Simpsons
Archive
The Simpsons Archive is the Internet's clearinghouse of Simpsons
guides, news and information, voluntarily maintained by members
of alt.tv.simpsons.
Soap
Links
These soap opera sites are all maintained by different folks, therefore,
they may or may not be accessible at any given time.
Elizabeth
George Speare
What was this author's special gift in her childhood that led
her to create stories?
The
Straight Dope
"The official Internet home of Cecil Adams, World's Smartest
Human Being, and his famous syndicated column The Straight Dope".
With searchable online archives of the column, this site is an excellent
reference tool for finding answers to "just curious" type
questions like "Why are races always run in a counterclockwise
direction?" and "Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets?".
Tasty
Insect Recipes
Disclaimer: The Department of Entomology at Iowa State University
is not responsible for gastric distress, allergic reactions, feelings
of repulsion, or other problems resulting from the ingestion of
foods represented on these pages.
The
Teddy Bear
In what two locations did the
stuffed bear get its start, ironically at the same time?
Time
Capsule
Do you know how much bread cost on the day you were born? Enter
a day from 1900-1997 and this site will return some of the top headlines
and songs for that year, academy award winners, data on prices and
income, and famous people born on that day.
Trivia
The "one-stop shopping" Internet site for trivia fans
everywhere.
Urban Legends
Reference Pages
A frequently updated database of popular myths and stories. Legends
are listed by category, but the site is also searchable. Each legend
is rated on its truthfulness.
Voyageurs
National Park
For whom was this park in Minnesota named?
Wishbone
What breed of dog is the central character of this PBS program?
Yellowstone
National Park
How often does old faithful spout?
Yellowstone
Park
Your #1 source for Yellowstone information.
