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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.
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.
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The earliest almanac published for New England appeared in Cambridge, Massachusetts as early as 1639, by William Pierce. 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]
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In addition to the U.S. version, there is a Canadian Farmers' Almanac, an abbreviated "Special Edition" sold at Dollar General stores, [1] and a Promotional Version that is sold to businesses as a marketing and public relations tool. The publication follows in the heritage of American almanacs such as Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard's Almanack.
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.
Titan Leeds was a Philadelphia -based publisher of The American Almanack. He was mentioned as a "good friend and fellow student" of Benjamin Franklin in Franklin's rival publication Poor Richard's Almanack. Titan's father, Daniel Leeds, was a devout Quaker who fell out with the local Quaker community when he began publishing the almanac in 1687.