Interesting, Useful, and Favorite Links

Interesting links that I have not organized can be found on the Miscellaneous Links page.

Vandenberg AFB Launch Schedule can be found at http://www.spacearchive.info/vafbsked.htm.

Peregrine Falcon Page of Pennsylvania at http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/falcon.

Help Others

The Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA) located at http://www.pva.org is an organization of veterans who have served honorably in the armed forces and who have incurred an injury or disease affecting the spinal cord, causing paraplegia. Your gift is always welcomed. PVA has a donor service number to assist you, 1-800-555-9140.

Names

Math Trek Name Voyager, Science News Online, July 9, 2005 at http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050709/mathtrek.asp.

Social Security Online's Popular Baby Names at http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames.

Baby Names at http://parenting.ivillage.com/pregnancy/pbabynames/topics/0,,4rqs,00.html.

The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager at http://www.babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html is truly awesome.

Name Street USA at http://www.namestusa.com gives you any interesting profile of you name that includes the typical stuff plus motivation, character, feelings, and stuff. They request you pay, but if you save sample page then modify HTML source to remove the "sample" image, you can get for free.

525,000 baby names (on 2/16/02, 638,000 as of 12/10/02) at http://www.kabalarians.com. They are a little too serious for me.

Ancestry Message Boards [ Surnames ] at http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=an&p=surnames

Baby Center's Baby Name Finder at http://www.babycenter.com/babyname allows you to specify starting and ending letter with number of syllables and origin. In addition, it allows you to find baby names by sex, ethnic origin, number of syllables, and more.

Dictionary of Baby Names, Meanings and Origins at http://www.weddingvendors.com/baby-names/. Search the free listing of 30,000 unique baby names for boys and girls. Browse the collection by letter, popularity, origin, or perform a specific name search.

The iVillage Name Finder located at http://www.ivillage.com/namefinder/ claims 10,000 names in which to discover the meaning and origin of your name or your friend's name. A baby name finder is also included.

The Library of Congress

Environmental Defense Fund

What can I do to help? Visit the Environmental Defense Fund...

This site provided by the Environmental Defense contains information regarding what you can do to help the environment.

Have you ever wondered how polluted your community is? How clean is your air or drinking water?

Government

FirstGov.gov is the U.S. government's official web portal to all federal, state and local government web resources and services. It is the catalyst for a growing electronic government, helping citizens navigate through the bureaucracy of government red tape. At FirstGov.gov you can apply for benefits online, contact a government agency, or use the Internet's most comprehensive search of government websites–all from one easy location.