Reference Resources & Quick Facts
Almanacs

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restricted to campus users and authenticated HSU remote users
- Information Please
- Combining the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, and several
up-to-the minute almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical
records, Information Please claims to place the resources of an entire
reference information center at your fingertips.
- Old Farmer's Almanac - The Almanac
is North America's oldest continuously published periodical. This site
has customized 5-day and long-range weather forecasts for your area; the
dates and locations of solar and lunar eclipses for the year; the days
of the full moon for the next five years; Sun and Moon rise and set information;
planet rise and set information; "Today in history"; "Today in Weather
History"; seasonal recipes and advice; etc.
World
Almanac - Includes World Almanac and Book of Facts, World Almanac of
the U.S.A., and the World Almanac of U.S. Politics