All-In-One Sites – Our
Top 3 Picks
Sources for Calendars & Planning Tools
Need To Find a Date, Observation or Event?
More Fun Facts & Trivia
What’s Ahead
All-In-One Sites – Our Top 3 Picks
TimeandDate.com –
For calendars, holidays and date calculators … gives you more
calendar options that you can imagine and tools to answer all those
mind-boggling questions. (How much time is between date x and date y?
What date is in 500 days? What date you will be 20,000 days old?). You
can also create (and download) custom calendars.
CalendarHome.com –
A cool sites offering everything from facts and trivia to printable
calendars (you can format too!). There are also free downloads for an
easy-to-use calendar search or “today’s date” counter
for your webpage or a toolbar to keep the current date, a calendar and
more tools always available.
InfoPlease
– Offers views of the calendar from the seasons (looking for when
summer begins in 2006 (BTW it’s June 21, 7:26 A.M. EDT (12:26
UT*) as well as fun trivia.
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Sources for Calendars & Planning
Tools
Calendars.com –
Claiming to be the world's biggest and best calendar store, Calendars.com
offers 6,000 2006 calendar titles and a free screensaver that’s
a calendar and art in one.
Calendars.net – Here’s
a free interactive web calendar hosting service.
Yahoo
Shopping – Head here for a side-by-side comparison of calendars
to help pick the perfect one for you.
HP
Home & Home Office – We found the calendar options –
complete with art to produce stickers to highlight key dates –
at HP’s Home and Home Office Activity Center easy to use and fun.
Online
Organizing – Check out their wide array of paper planning
systems and visit their Clickable Office for tips to get your office
in order.
Shareware
Connection – A comprehensive listing of shareware available
for clocks, calendars and planners.
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Need To Find a Date, Observation or
Event?
Wikipedia – The
free encyclopedia that anyone can edit offers a host of anwsers.
TimeandDate.com –
Great source for calendars, holidays and date calculators.
HealthFinder
– National Health Information Center offers all the national health
observances.
OPM – Here’s
the definitive guide for government holidays for 2006 (plus years past
and ahead).
Holidays.net –
Find the traditional and non-so-traditional holidays. Every day is a
celebration – now you can put a name to it!
HolidaySmart.com
– A state-by-state guide to local events and festivals.
Scope Systems –
An easy-to-search website to find birthdays, holidays, religious observances,
and historical events on a given day.
Earth Calendar
– The Earth Calendar is a daybook of holidays (they define as
any day that recognizes a cultural event) and celebrations around the
world.
Festivals.com – Calls
itself the Internet's largest Festival and Event resource and it could
just be!
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More Fun Facts & Trivia
InfoPlease
– Every wonder how “August Became So August ...and stole
a day from February”? Visit this site for the answer and others
that delve into the history of the calendar, the Ides of March and much
more.
Birthstones
& Flower
of the Month – A look at the year through jewels and flowers.
Oregon
Link – Answers your question about anniversary gifts.
CalendarHome.com –
Have you ever heard of people who can calculate the day-of-week for
any date in their head? How do they do it? Learn how anyone can be a
human calendar!
Kidlink – Find
unique ways kids celebrate their country's holidays and festivals. Get
recipes for holiday foods and historical background. The site is hosted
by the Kidlink knowledge network which is run by 500 volunteers in over
50 countries and presented in 30 languages!
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What’s Ahead
Farmers’ Almanac
– Whether you’re planning ahead or looking back at yesteryear,
the Farmers Almanac is a traditional resource. You can get their free
Farmers' Almanac Newsletter.
World Futurists Society
– Connect for the editors of The Futurist’s top 10 forecasts
from Outlook 2006. Over the years, Outlook has spotlighted the emergence
of such epochal developments as the Internet, virtual reality, and the
end of the Cold War. No calendar or planning tool should be started
without a look of what’s ahead.
Astrology.com – What's
in the stars for you in 2006? Astrology.com has the scoop. Get daily
readings free, or for a modest (?) fee get your full year mapped out.
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