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We found: 84 results in all months of 2025

January 01, 2025
2024 was a great year for the movies, even if it seemed to be a grim year for just about everything else.
January 02, 2025
"What follows is a list of 50 common New Year's resolutions with a piece of advice and plenty of links to useful articles that deal with the issue in greater detail. If you are looking for effective ways of changing your life for the better, then you'll be sure to find tons of useful information here."
January 03, 2025
"With a team of dedicated engineers, Google is building tools that make it simple to tell the stories of our diverse cultural heritage and make them accessible worldwide."
January 04, 2025
Tune Into Forests From Around The World. Escape, Relax & Preserve.
January 05, 2025
This site lets you search 2 million recipes instantly.
January 06, 2025
Listed here, grouped according to our top investigative priorities and related categories, are many of our famous and most significant cases over the past century. The monographs and write-ups below have been made available for your use.
January 07, 2025
The Constitution of the United States is only 4,543 words—7,762 if you count the Amendments—and originally fit on just four large sheets of paper. It packs a wallop. Not only is it the oldest written national constitution in the world, it's arguably the most influential in the world, too.
January 08, 2025
An online planetarium running in your web browser based on the open source Stellarium Web Engine project.
January 09, 2025
Monkeytype is a minimalistic and customizable typing test which attempts to emulate the experience of natural keyboard typing by unobtrusively presenting the text prompts and displaying typed characters in-place, providing straightforward, real-time feedback on typos, speed, and accuracy.
January 10, 2025
If you find a recipe online that you want to cook but it's cluttered with nonsense text or ads that cover the words, use Just The Recipe to clean it up. Simply paste in the URL to see a simplified view of the ingredients and directions.
January 11, 2025
We couldn't resist featuring this web site just once. The name says it all.
January 12, 2025
Explore a vast range of resources on our solar system, including our planets, moons, asteroids and comets, skywatching, and more.
January 13, 2025
A curated list of long distance hikes around the world.
January 14, 2025
Our community has over a million members. We teach people how to get started gardening and improve their plant growing skills. We offer online tools for gardeners to connect, teach, share, and trade with each other. We maintain the world's largest database of plants with over 700K plants and nearly half a million photos.
January 15, 2025
Use Sleeptyme to calculate the ideal time to go to sleep to get the ideal amount of sleep on REM cycles.
January 16, 2025
There is a common belief that almost everything is made in China. We will help you to find out that the truth is quite different. Manufacturing industry has never died in many countries, and elsewhere reborn. Just select a country from the list and check.
January 17, 2025
Where do you want to escape to? Choose a channel and let your mind wander with slow TV and ambient videos handpicked just for you. Relax with natural images and sounds while you work. Put them on your TV or even invite your friends to watch together.
January 18, 2025
Maps of 85 different regions of the world to search and explore. Most are downloadable in JPEG format and may be printed as full page maps.
January 19, 2025
Play daily natural color image sequences of Earth from the EPIC camera onboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft.
January 20, 2025
The annual King Holiday Observance is a time that we celebrate, commemorate, and honor the life, legacy, and impact of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The King Center leads the charge to provide education and training in Nonviolence365 while serving as the vital living memorial of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Global citizens will have unique opportunities to learn and unite in celebration of Dr. King’s groundbreaking work and Mrs. Coretta Scott King’s powerful continuation and formal institutionalization of that work through a variety of engaging events hosted by The King Center leading up to The King Holiday on January 20th, 2025.
January 21, 2025
Play the sound of rain in your background. Millions of people use Rainy Mood while sleeping, studying, and relaxing.
January 22, 2025
We go through life thinking we’ve rested because we have gotten enough sleep — but in reality we are missing out on the other types of rest we desperately need. The result is a culture of high-achieving, high-producing, chronically tired and chronically burned-out individuals. We’re suffering from a rest deficit because we don’t understand the true power of rest.
January 23, 2025
Random Trivia Generator seems like a contradiction because trivia can already be seen as random. For instance, why do you need to know which bird lays the largest eggs? You don’t, but it’s always fun to know the answer in case there is no Internet connection around and someone desperately needs to know.
January 24, 2025
Web Design Museum exhibits over 1,600 carefully selected and sorted web sites that show web design trends between the years 1991 and 2006.
January 25, 2025
These strange, funny, and downright odd collections will break up that long stretch of driving.
January 26, 2025
Do you wonder which species of bird it is that you keep seeing on your backyard fence? Are you curious about what butterflies are visiting your garden? Would you like to know more about the mammals that call your local park home? Thankfully there are plenty of smartphone apps that help you quickly and easily identify flora and fauna, record your findings and learn more about them. Not only that, but a few will even turn you into a citizen scientist!
January 27, 2025
The Library Map is a map with more than 100,000 books on it based on their relevance and similarity. Color is also applied based on the genre and topics of each book.
January 28, 2025
It’s one of the easiest and most popular dishes to make at home. Just boil noodles, heat a jar of sauce, and voila! What many don’t realize, however, is that with some attention to detail and just a few extra steps, you can take your spaghetti with marinara sauce from serviceable to restaurant-quality. Here are a few tips from the pros.
January 29, 2025
Discover the traditions and taboos, dishes and drinks that are part of China's most important holiday, the Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival.
January 30, 2025
The free species directory that anyone can edit. It covers Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Bacteria, Archaea, Protista and all other forms of life.
January 31, 2025
Read descriptions of more than 15,000 letters known to have been written by or to Charles Darwin, and inspect the complete texts of about half of them.
February 01, 2025
A growing, world-wide, collection of recipes in English, with links to other languages.
February 02, 2025
It is a web clock showing the official time of day from NIST, displayed as a 12 or 24-hour clock, in a user-selectable time zone.
February 03, 2025
Nasa's real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Their scientists and hardworking robots are exploring the wild frontiers of our solar system.
February 04, 2025
They’re curious travelers, always wandering around the next corner to see what’s there. They seek genuine experiences and look to both locals and travel experts to get under the skin of culture. But we all struggle with the volume of content and juggling emails, notes, docs and more. So they created Portico. Portico is your travel buddy that keeps everything you (and your friends) need for a trip, in one place. They help you turn your aspirational adventures into real experiences.
February 05, 2025
Whether you are looking for food pantries, stores that accept food stamps, assisted living facilities, domestic violence shelters, homeless shelters, hospitals, mental health treatment, substance abuse treatment, free clinics, V.A. facilities, women's clinics, legal assistance, or financial assistance, we have over 350,000 listings of both private and public resources near you that are ready to help.
February 06, 2025
Welcome to The Old House Web -- the Web's leading site for old-house enthusiasts.
February 07, 2025
Send Your Name to Mars on a future NASA mission. View and share your boarding pass and frequent flyer points. All submitted names are reviewed, approved, and then etched onto a microchip. The microchip is placed aboard the Mars 2020 rover, which will land on Mars.
February 08, 2025
Pageturner is a free community for book lovers. Reading in public and sharing your notes gives you valuable ideas and thoughts from other community members, and keeps you accountable.
February 09, 2025
The countdown to Super Bowl 2025 is officially underway, with the Kansas City Chiefs set to take on the Philadelphia Eagles on Feb. 9 at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.
February 10, 2025
You can use this graphing calculator that works just like the TI 84, but on the web!
February 11, 2025
Audiblogs lets you listen to any web article in your podcast player in an Audible-like voice. Use it to "read" while you exercise, cook, do housework, and much more.
February 12, 2025
Let them take you on an inspirational journey across the Island of Ireland. This website merges high quality, 360° virtual tours with a searchable, tourism centred online platform.
February 13, 2025
The Science Museum Group cares for a diverse and internationally significant collection of 7.3 million items from science, technology, engineering, medicine, transport, and media. Be the first to see their collection online.
February 14, 2025
NRF has surveyed consumers about how they plan to celebrate Valentine’s Day annually for over a decade. Take a deeper dive into the data from the last 10 years, and use the interactive charts to explore a demographic breakdown of total spending, average spending, types of gifts planned and spending per type of gift.
February 15, 2025
The Buy Nothing Project began when two friends, Rebecca Rockefeller and Liesl Clark, created an experimental hyper-local gift economy on Bainbridge Island, WA, in July 2013. Since then, it has become a worldwide social movement, with groups in 30 nations. Local groups form gift economies that are complementary and parallel to local cash economies; whether people join because they’d like to quickly get rid of things that are cluttering their lives, or simply to save money by getting things for free, they quickly discover that our groups are not just another free recycling platform. A gift economy’s real wealth is the people involved and the web of connections that forms to support them.
February 16, 2025
We make your learning personalized, bite-sized, and fun. Play quizzes, earn rewards, and join the community!
February 17, 2025
A magnetized compass and a paper map are part of our Ten Essentials. Learning to read that paper topographic map is every bit as essential. Your map will then be able to tell you a richly detailed tale about the terrain you’ll be exploring.
February 18, 2025
Like a time traveler, you can select a date to see all the words first used in print during that year.
February 19, 2025
They are the world's largest and most comprehensive directory and search engine for acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms on the Internet. Abbreviations.com holds hundreds of thousands of entries organized by a large variety of categories, from computing and the Web to governmental, medicine, and business. It is maintained and expanded by a large community of passionate editors.
February 20, 2025
Nature Soundmap is a fun and interactive way to explore the natural sounds of our planet. Professional nature recordists worldwide collaborated to combine satellite images with high-quality field recordings. The project combines some of nature’s most beautiful, engaging, and inspiring sounds.
February 21, 2025
Here you will find animated illustrations that explain various engines' inner workings, including Stirling, steam, and internal combustion types. You can even adjust the speed they run!
February 22, 2025
The Bloomberg Global Coal Countdown has one singular mission: to track and countdown the world's remaining coal plant units as decision-makers across governments and the private sector work together to accelerate the transition to a clean energy future.
February 23, 2025
Ever wonder what ingredients are in the average pesto recipe or which ones to include in your chicken soup? Find the most common ingredients in any general recipe, like bolognese or piccata. Learn how much of each ingredient recipes typically contain and what pairs well with them.
February 24, 2025
Everyone experiences the struggles of difficult tasks. They have been made all the worse with lockdowns, home-schooling, and other lifestyle changes due to the pandemic. Everyone experiences bouts of procrastination or work-avoidance, and the guilt that comes with them. There is no avoiding these experiences entirely, but there are some strategies that can help us stay focused.
February 25, 2025
A real-time 3D digital map of Tokyo's public transport system.
February 26, 2025
Our solar system is home to more than 200 moons. All the major planets, apart from Mercury and Venus, have moons, and dozens orbit around giants like Saturn and Jupiter. And while Earth's moon is undeniably a wonderful thing, other moons in our solar system are downright wacky in comparison.
February 27, 2025
EXPERT TIPS, GEAR, AND SKILLS THAT WILL HELP YOU TAKE YOUR ADVENTURE PHOTOGRAPHY TO THE NEXT LEVEL.
February 28, 2025
Discover multiple ways to navigate through a dynamic and interactive space of vibrant intangible cultural heritage practices and expressions. See how together they represent a rich cultural diversity.
March 01, 2025
My Ship Tracking is a FREE REALTIME AIS vessel finder tracking service. With this vessel tracker you can monitor ship positions, vessel tracking, ship tracking, and more.
March 02, 2025
It’s a perennial question: do spies write the best spy novels? It’s the business of secrets, after all; you can’t help but wonder how much authors get right. Surely, the only authentic spy books are the ones written by people on the inside, right?
March 03, 2025
The Academy Awards, more popularly known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit in the film industry.
March 04, 2025
Mardi Gras Day is March 4, 2025. Fat Tuesday is the last day of the Carnival season as it always falls the day before Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent.
March 05, 2025
VinylHub is the biggest community-built database of record stores and vinyl record fairs and events. Be part of our mission to create an archive of all the world's record stores by adding your favorite stores to the database!
March 06, 2025
Open-source illustrations for any idea you can imagine and create.
March 07, 2025
How Hot Will It Get is a large platform related to climate change to help you get an overview of futuristic climate scenarios. It also connects professional and individual users who are interested in combatting the climate crisis.
March 08, 2025
The Collections database consists of entries for more than 480,000 works in the Musée du Louvre and Musée National Eugène-Delacroix. Updated on a daily basis, it is the result of the continuous research and documentation efforts carried out by teams of experts from both museums.
March 09, 2025
Looking for a movie to watch but don't know what's out there. Movie of the Night instantly finds you something to watch across all of your streaming services. Just pick a genre, an actor and/or release year and your ready to go.
March 10, 2025
New York Times games have captivated solvers since the launch of the Crossword in 1942. Their experts create engaging word and visual games — in 2014 we introduced the Mini Crossword, followed by Spelling Bee, Letter-Boxed, Tiles, and Vertex. They’ll continue to make new games their players will be passionate about.
March 11, 2025
Mix a personalized soundtrack inspired by paintings from the National Gallery in London with the help of Google AI.
March 12, 2025
A People Map of the US, where city names are replaced by their most Wikipedia’ed resident: people born in, lived in or connected to a place.
March 13, 2025
GeoFS's flight model is complete enough to deliver a realistic flight simulation experience. More than just a game, GeoFS is a real flight simulator. From the Piper Cub to the Airbus A380, the range of available aircraft should satisfy every aviation enthusiast.
March 14, 2025
Type Terms is the perfect tool for designers to learn the basics of typographic terminology. If you are new to typography or here to refresh your memory, then Type Terms is perfect for you.
March 15, 2025
We hope to be a destination of choice for visitors more particularly interested in Victorian and French Romantic illustrations.
March 16, 2025
Give dinner the power of AI. We analyzed over 150,000 recipes to figure out which ingredients are better together.
March 17, 2025
Based on estimates from the United States Census Bureau released for July 2019, Millennials are the largest living generation in the country now. They moved ahead of Boomers by about 432,000.
March 18, 2025
Nearly every president had a pet — either exotic or common — and you can learn about all of them here.
March 19, 2025
"Winning photographs and cartoons, and bios and photos of winners, are available by clicking the links below. More than 2,400 entries are submitted each year in the Pulitzer Prize competitions, and only 21 awards are normally made. The awards are the culmination of a year-long process that begins early in the year with the appointment of 102 distinguished judges who serve on 20 separate juries and are asked to make three nominations in each of the 21 categories."
March 20, 2025
Sounds of Earth grew out of a personal need to create a collection of ambient sounds of nature to help me relax or meditate and raise awareness for the protection and restoration of our ecosystems. We need to protect and restore our environment so that future generations can also enjoy the natural sights and sounds that we take for granted.
March 21, 2025
Light Pollution Map is a mapping application that displays VIIRS/DMSP/World Atlas overlays/IAU observatories and the user measurements overlay over Microsoft Bing base layers (road and hybrid Bing maps). The primary use is to show VIIRS/DMSP data in a friendly manner, but over time it also includes some other interesting overlays that concern light pollution like SQM/SQC, World Atlas 2015 zenith brightness, clouds, aurora, and IAU observatories.
March 22, 2025
"The New York Times presents a comprehensive library of medical topics, including in-depth articles on diseases, conditions, tests, symptoms, injuries and surgeries. The encyclopedic reference is frequently updated and reviewed by doctors, medical writers and editors. Within the guide are extensive links to The Times's own archive of news and features."
March 23, 2025
To some, nuclear energy offers a clean energy alternative that frees us from the shackles of fossil fuel dependence. To others, it summons images of disaster: quake-ruptured Japanese power plants belching radioactive steam, the dead zone surrounding Chernobyl's concrete sarcophagus. But what happens inside a nuclear power plant to bring such marvel and misery into being?
March 24, 2025
"The Earth Science Picture of the Day highlights the diverse processes and phenomena which shape our planet and our lives. EPOD will collect and archive photos, imagery, graphics, and artwork with short explanatory captions and links exemplifying features within the Earth system. The community is invited to contribute digital imagery, short captions, and relevant links."
March 25, 2025
Check out this high-resolution 3D image of Mars thanks to NASA, Ames Research Center.





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