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The following links / references to external web pages are not coincidentally listed here and do not open in a new window! If there are any sites (despite examination at the time of admission), which contain legally precarious or illegal contents, I kindly ask for a note.

Language

Dictionary » http://www.leo.org/leo_home_en.html
(Link Everything Online) Comprehensive German <-> English (French) on-line dictionary.

Translation » http://babelfish.altavista.com
Self description: "With the translation service Babelfish of AltaVista one can translate short text paragraphs or complete websites into 19 languages." Helpfull as basis; shows clearly, that the quality of automatic translations is suboptimal.

English Forum » http://www.englishforums.com
Moderated forum for questions of English grammar, word meaning, pronunciation, idioms. Categories about finances, medicine, technology, science, linguistics and law.

Abbreviations » http://www.abkuerzungen.de/pc/html/start.php?language=EN
Database of international abbreviations.

Science

Publications » http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
PubMed (National Library of Medicine) contains over 15 million biomedical articles (papers); frequently with summary (abstract)). The search is possible for keywords, authors, journals etc.

Taxonomy » http://www.tolweb.org
Self description: "The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists from around the world. On more than 4000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their evolutionary history (phylogeny), and characteristics. Each page contains information about a particular group of organisms (e.g., echinoderms, tyrannosaurs, phlox flowers, cephalopods, club fungi, or the salamanderfish of Western Australia). ToL pages are linked one to another hierarchically, in the form of the evolutionary tree of life. Starting with the root of all Life on Earth and moving out along diverging branches to individual species, the structure of the ToL project thus illustrates the genetic connections between all living things."

Research » http://www.wasconsult.de/English/english.html
Information about philosophy of science and metatheory / organizational psychology and sociology / linguistics and psycholinguistic / religions and culture anthropology / institution and personality analysis / medicine and psychosomatic.

The Salk Institute » http://www.salk.edu
Research institute for basic research (biology, medicine) at the Pacific coast, founded by the discoverer of a Polio of vaccine, Joans Salk. Main fields of research are: Molecular Biology and Genetics; Neurosciences; and Plant Biology.

IT & Internet

Graphic & Multimedia Viewer » http://www.irfanview.com
A very fast and compact graphic viewer (including thumbnails); can read and store all common image formats (including .ico for favicons (icon)). Has a batch mode: whole folders can be converted into another format. Handels digicam informations (EXIF, IPTC). Freeware for non-commercial use.

Mozilla Firefox (Browser) » http://www.mozilla.org/...
A free Browser which comes with many integrated tools: Pop UP blocker, Tab Browsing (several sites in one window), integrated search (Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia, among others), and many extensions (like Web Developer - Firefox Extension (120 KB)). In contrast to the competition it interprets HTML, CSS, etc. as far as possible according to the W3C standard. Albeit this Browser is not immune to safety gaps, its design is substantially safer and more stable than the well-known alternatives. Versions for the operating systems Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux can be downloaded in approximately 30 languages (about 5 MB).

Search Engine » http://www.bbc.co.uk/search
To a large extent without advertisement; family-friendly, i.e. suitable for children, and contrary to self statement not restricted to English.

Domain Registrars » http://www.icann.org
The organistaion ICANN (InterNet corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers) accredits so-called domain registrars, which administers all domains of the respective Top level Domain (com, net ...). ICANN operates its own 'WhoIs' site, which supplies sometimes fewer information, as the sides of the respective registrar. Here are links to the 'WhoIs' sites of some registrars, which provide information regarding the owner, technical contact, host, etc.:

Which Font? » http://www.myfonts.com/...
Recognizes the character font (character set) of a text from a picture (pixel file as jpg, gif, tif, bmp, png...). In co-operation with the University of Birmingham.

Inside Jack » http://www.sun.com/...
Flash animation, which analyses ironically the alternative dispute resolution (at the end of of 2004) between Sun and Microsoft regarding the settlement of all law cases (Microsoft is obliged to pay 1.6 billion dollar).

References

Electronic Books » http://www.gutenberg.org
The project gutenberg ("good mountain") is the first and largest individual accumulation of free electronic books or eBooks (initiated by Michael Hard, 1971). Contains texts (multilingual) and hearing books (predominantly computer-generated) for download:

Twain, Mark / Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) / Shakespeare, William / Verne, Jules / Austen, Jane / Confucius / Leonardo da Vinci / Balzac, Honoré de / Kipling, Rudyard / Wilde, Oscar / Carroll, Lewis / Tolstoy, Leo Nikoleyevich / Plato / Morgenstern, Christian / Joyce, James / Shaw, George Bernard / Einstein, Albert / US Government: Copyright Basics, United States Congressional Address Book, Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War, ... / Grimm, Jacob / Grimm, Wilhelm / Kant, Immanuel / Wittgenstein, Ludwig / Russell, Bertrand Arthur William, 3rd Earl / Kafka, Franz / Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich / Locke, John / Dickinson, Emily / Millay, Edna St. Vincent / Parker, Dorothy / Baudelaire, Charles / Aristotle / Dante Alighieri / Heine, Heinrich / Molière (aka: Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) / Mommsen, Theodor / ...

Encyclopedia Britannica 1911 » http://www.1911encyclopedia.org
The eleventh issue (1911) of the Encyclopedia Britannica is regarded by some as the best encyclopedia, which was ever written. While many encyclopedias turned to present summaries of the existing knowledge the eleventh issue is substantially more detailed and more thorough in its remarks (and written from experts of the respective field of activity).

The World Factbook » http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/...
"The World Factbook is in the public domain and may be used freely by anyone at anytime without seeking permission." Information (to take for granted also to download) of geography (with maps), economics, religion, diseases, government, nature risks, environment, among other things. Worth reading are the FAQ, which illuminat the position of the Chinese government towards the independence of Taiwan, the status of the Vatican ("Holy see"), ... .