Artists League of Brooklyn, Inc. - Non-profit organization established in 1969 and serving the Brooklyn, NY community in the field of the visual fine arts.
Brooklyn Film Institute, Inc. - Non-profit organization dedicated to bringing the art of film to the public, especially the people of Brooklyn and New York City
APB Online - site offers a comprehensive
collection of crime news and in-depth information surrounding famous cases around the country. Read autopsy reports, search warrants, FBI files, and more.
Naturesongs - a collection of "digital recordings from nature," lovingly transferred from the wild to minidisc to the Web. Listen to
North American and Costa Rican birds as well as frogs, whales, coyotes, and even humans.
CyberAir Airpark Chicago Approach - listen to the radio traffic on O'Hare airport's "Chicago Approach" channel. Hear pilots and air-traffic controllers exchange friendly banter and they work together to land
planes.
RiceWeb - Everything you want to know about one of the world's longest running cereals: the history of rice, where and how it is grown, recipes, and much more.
Web 100:Big Business on the Web - site tracks "an index to the Web sites of only the world's largest businesses." Sections include the U.S. Web100, the U.S. Web100 by standard industry category (over 50 industry categories that include more than 400 of the Fortune 500 U.S. corporations), and the Global Web100.
America's Best HMOs - U.S. News Online's state-by-state rankings of 271 of the nation's managed-care plans. It also provides the scores for 28 measures of quality covering the categories of prevention, adults' access to care, member satisfaction, physicians' credentials, and children's access to care.
Latent Print Examination: Fingerprints, Palmprints and Footprints - Information about all aspects of fingerprint and palmprint collection, for both the expert and the curious. Included are descriptions of the types of prints, descriptions of how print evidence is collected, links to other printing resources, and more.
U.S. State Fact Sheets - information on population, per-capita income, earnings per job, poverty rate, total number of jobs, unemployment rate, percent employment change, farm and farm related jobs, top export commodities, farm characteristics, and farm financial indicators for each state and for the United States as a whole.
Virtual Tour of the Sun - A visual tour of the sun using photographs, diagrams, and movies. Subjects such as solar flares, solar wind, and sunspots are discussed. Each page has clickable images with text, others enlarge for closer viewing.
World Encyclopedia - site answers your highest peak questions (including the high point of each state in the U.S.). It has an index of geographic regions and mountain ranges and another of individual peaks and volcanoes. Visual indexing is offered through clickable relief maps.
Nationalpastime.com - Events in baseball history are chronicled for every day of the year in an easy-to-use calendar format. In addition, there is a search engine available which makes finding information about specific players or records very simple to do.
