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916592596. 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.
It was the second work printed in the English colonies of America altogether (the first being The Oath of a Free-man, printed earlier in the same year). [1] The earliest New England almanac of which an extant copy survives in the Library of Congress [2] was published by Zechariah Brigden in Cambridge in 1659. [3]
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.
The Farmers' Almanac. First printed in 1818 by David Young. Predicts next year's weather for seven U.S. and five Canadian climatological regions. Predicts what will be the best days to fish, wean ...
Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 – October 19, 1806) was an African-American naturalist, mathematician, astronomer and almanac author. A landowner, he also worked as a surveyor and farmer. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to a free African-American mother and a father who had formerly been enslaved, Banneker had little or no formal ...
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 year.
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English. Website. farmersalmanac.com. ISSN. 0737-6731. Farmers' Almanac is an annual American periodical that has been in continuous publication since 1818. Published by Geiger of Lewiston, Maine, the Farmers' Almanac provides long-range weather predictions for both the U.S. and Canada. The periodical also provides calendars and articles on ...