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- Google – our favourite general search site
- Google Scholar
- Oanda – an excellent currency converter
- World Clock – a useful site for seeing what time it is anywhere in the world. Also a world (ie holiday) calendar
- Daylight Saving Time – Worldwide daylight saving
- Good Business Day – provides financial working days and public holidays of all the major countries of the world
- CIA World Fact Book – information, maps and data about every country in the world
- Maps – an excellent resource – University of Texas Library
- Maps of World – a world atlas online, with customised maps and information
- Time Out Guides – great guides to most of the cities in which our offices are based
- The Evening Standard’s London Guide – a terrific site for Londoners and visitors alike
- The Reference Desk – a fascinating portal to information, calculators etc.
- Virtual Reference Desk – links to many good reference works
- Wikipedia – a good free on-line Encyclopaedia
- www.answers.com – a free on-line encyclopedia, dictionary and almanac
- Berkeley Digital Library – links to libraries on line worldwide
- Travelocity – plan, organise and book your travel on-line
- Mission Impossible – a great on-line sporting and entertainment ticket agency
- infobel.com – a world-wide telephone number and e-mail address finder
- Free Translation.com – a free service to roughly translate some languages to and from English
- OnlineConversion.com – convert just about anything to anything else
- Panama Canal – watch your ship transit the Miraflores Locks. Click on Live Camera in the index. If there is a ship you are interested in, e-mail the camera operator at aep-osu@pancanal.com and he will zoom the camera onto it
- FotoFlite – large library of maritime aerial photographs, with over half a million photographs of ships available on line
- Portpictures – large library of excellent quality marine images
- TRANS-CAMS – A collection of maritime and other webcams including major ports of the world, canals, shipyards and even ships at sea
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