I've sorted them by topic and I regularly check them to see that they're still current

Some sites if you find the usual reference pages don't have enough detail

http://www.askanexpert.com

http://www.refdesk.com/expert.html

http://www.sciam.com/askexpert_directory.cfm

Here are some good map ones

http://www.mapquest.com/

http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/index.html

Here we have some excellent sites for character names

http://www.20000-names.com/

http://www.behindthename.com/

If your grammar isn't what it should be, you can't get get any better than this site

http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/

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