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Nathaniel Ames, a second generation colonial American, was the founder and publisher of the Ames' Almanac. [2] The first edition was published when Ames was seventeen. His family owned Ames Tavern, which was often advertised in the almanac. [3] Upon Ames' death in 1764, his son, also Nathaniel, took over and continued to publish the almanac ...
John Patrick James is an American poet, critic, and digital collagist. He is the author of The Milk Hours, selected by Henri Cole for the 2018 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize and forthcoming from Milkweed Editions. He is also the author of Chthonic, winner of the 2014 CutBank Chapbook Competition.
A nineteenth-century print based on Poor Richard's Almanack, showing the author surrounded by twenty-four illustrations of many of his best-known sayings. On December 28, 1732, Benjamin Franklin announced in The Pennsylvania Gazette that he had just printed and published the first edition of The Poor Richard, by Richard Saunders, Philomath. [4]
Following his father's death, Ames took on his medical practice and his almanac publishing business. [14] [12] He also taught classes in the Dedham Public Schools and in Needham, Massachusetts. [15] After Norfolk County was created in 1792, the Court of Common Pleas and the Court of General Sessions of the Peace first met in Dedham's ...
The New England Anti-Masonic Almanac, published 1829–1833 in Boston, Massachusetts by John Marsh; The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge was published 1830-1861 by Gray and Bowen in Boston, Massachusetts. The annual was founded by Jared Sparks in 1830.
Old Farmer's Almanac (1792–present) Schott's Almanac; A Sound Word Almanac (2023) [3] TIME Almanac with Information Please, formerly Information Please Almanac (1947–2013) Wall Street Journal Almanac (1998 [4] and 1999 [5]) Whitaker's Almanack (1868–present) The World Almanac and Book of Facts (1868–1876, 1886–present) Almanaque Abril ...
The Farmers' Almanac. ... So there is a BIG accuracy difference between a real meteorologist long-range forecast and almanacs," Iven wrote. Plus, long-range weather forecasting can by a tricky ...
Copies of 12th century almanacs are found in the British Museum, and in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. In 1300, Petrus de Dacia created an almanac (Savilian Library, Oxford) the same year Roger Bacon, OFM, produced his own. In 1327 Walter de Elvendene created an almanac and later on John Somers of Oxford, in 1380. In 1386 Nicholas de ...