Almanac
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An almanac is a regularly published listing of a set of current information about one or multiple subjects. It includes information like weather forecasts, farmers' planting dates, tide tables, and ot
Old Moore's Almanack is an astrological almanac which has been published in Britain since 1697.
The 1st cent. Menologium Rusticum Colotianum, discovered in Rome and now held by the Archeological Museum in Naples
A page from the Almanac for the Hindu year 1871–72
MS. 8932. Medieval folding almanac (15th century)
Poor Richard's Almanack
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Poor Richard's Almanack 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 fr
Almanac
…Franklin published The Rhode Island Almanack by "Poor Robin" for each year from 1728 to 1735. James' brother, Benjamin Franklin, published his annual Poor Richard's Almanack in Philadelphia from 1732 to 1758. Samuel Stearns of Paxton, Massachusetts, issued the North-American Almanack, published annually from 1771 to 1784…
1739 edition of Poor Richard's Almanack
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