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Poor Richard's Almanack (sometimes Almanac) was a yearly almanac published by Benjamin Franklin, who adopted the pseudonym of "Poor Richard" or "Richard Saunders" for this purpose. The publication appeared continually from 1732 to 1758. It sold exceptionally well for a pamphlet published in the Thirteen Colonies; print runs reached 10,000 per ...
In 1386 Nicholas de Lynne, Oxford produced an almanac. In 1457 the first printed almanac was published at Mainz, by Gutenberg (eight years before the famous Bible). Regio-Montanus produced an almanac in 1472 (Nuremberg, 1472), which continued in print for several centuries.
Raber's New American Almanac is an almanac used by many Old Order Amish, published by an Amish bookstore in Baltic, Ohio.The German edition has been published since 1930, and the English edition since the 1970s; both have a plain black and white cover.
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 ...
After the death of Robert Grier in 1848, the almanac became known as the Grier's Almanac. Washington's citizen and farmer's almanack, for the year 1810 .. containing, besides the astronomical calculations by Joshua Sharp, a variety of pieces in prose and verse "The Annual Visiter and Citizen and Farmer's Almanac" 1812–
Canadian Almanac & Directory, Grey House Publishing Canada, a comprehensive resource [1] Canadian Global Almanac (1992–2005), a book of facts about Canada and the world; Deventer Almanak; Encyclopædia Britannica Almanac (not the Yearbook, which is an annual update to the multi-volume encyclopedia; the almanac is a standalone publication)
It is currently the oldest almanac still published by the direct descendants of the founder, [1] being edited by the great-great-great-great great grandson of John Gruber, Charles W. Fisher, Jr. [2] From 1969 to 2019, Bill O'Toole, a retired math professor, was the almanac's "weather prognosticator", using both solar and lunar charting as well ...
Whitaker's is a reference book, published annually in the United Kingdom. [1] [2] It was originally published by J. Whitaker & Sons from 1868 to 1997, next by HM Stationery Office until 2003 and then by A. & C. Black, which became a wholly owned subsidiary of Bloomsbury Publishing in 2011.