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The Old Farmer's Almanac is an almanac containing weather forecasts, planting charts, astronomical data, recipes, and articles. Topics include gardening , sports, astronomy , folklore , and predictions on trends in fashion, food, home, technology, and living for the coming year.
The first edition of the Farmers' Almanac, from 1818. Predictions for each edition are made as far as two years in advance. The U.S. retail edition of the Farmers' Almanac contains weather predictions for 7 U.S. climatic zones, defined by the publishers, in the continental United States, broken into 3-day intervals. Seasonal maps and summaries ...
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]
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. The American Anti-Slavery Almanac, published 1836–1844 in Boston, Massachusetts by Nathaniel Southard.
An almanac (also spelled almanack and almanach) is a regularly published listing of a set of current information about one or multiple subjects. [1] It includes information like weather forecasts, farmers' planting dates, tide tables, and other tabular data often arranged according to the calendar.
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)
He published a weather almanac beginning about 1875; it had a wide circulation, especially among farmers. [1] He visited professional publishers in an attempt to have them handle a book called Elements of Meteorology, Part One. When they rejected it, he self-published Elements of Meteorology, Part Second, Meteorological Cycles. [2]
Historian B. P. Bowen B.L., B.Sc. He wrote an article about the Old Moore's Almanac in 1940 for the Dublin Historical Record Vol. 3, No. 1 (Sep., - Nov., 1940), pp. 26-37. The Dublin Historical Record is a history journal established in 1938, published biannually by the Old Dublin Society, which still exists today. (olddublinsociety.ie)