This article gives a list of various almanacs. Note that almanac can also be spelled almanack, and some of the publications listed use this form. An almanac (also spelled almanack, especially in Commonwealth English) is an annual publication containing tabular information in a particular field or fields often arranged according to the calendar. ...
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Printed almanacs
TIME Almanac with Information Please formerly Information Please Almanac
Clark's Kentucky Almanac & Book of Facts 2006 - http://kyalmanac.com, published by The Clark Group in Lexington Kentucky. The Kentucky Almanac covers history, culture, arts, recreation, and travel (The first Kentucky Almanac in 150 years.) Clark's Kentucky Almanac & Book of Facts Second Edition was published in November 2006 with 300 new photos and many new esssays and updates.
Cosmo Doogood's Urban Almanac including a daily calendar, guides to the night sky, weather predictions, a field guide to urban flora and fauna, poems, proverbs, quotes, and famous sayings, stories behind holidays, festivals, and historic events, famous people's birthdays and death dates, proclamations, songs, recipes, and astronomical events.
The current version of the article or section reads like an advertisement. ... The World Almanac and Book of Facts is a book considered to be a top reference work. ... The Encyclopædia Britannica is a general encyclopedia published by Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. ... The Canadian Global Almanac is an Canadian reference book containing a large collection of facts and statistics. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Front cover of the 2006 Almanac, the 1st edition, published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Schotts Almanac is a reference book, published annually in the United Kingdom. ...
Information, Please! was a radio quiz show which aired from 1938 to 1952. ... World Factbook 2004 cover The World Factbook is an annual publication by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States with basic almanac-style information about the various countries of the world. ...
... Poor Richards Almanac (sometimes Almanack) was a yearly almanac published by Benjamin Franklin, who adopted the pseudonym of Poor Richard or Richard Saunders for the purpose of this work in the title. ... A Nautical Almanac is a publication describing the positions and movements of celestial bodies, including the sun, moon, planets, and 57 stars chosen for their ease of identification and wide spacing. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Farmers Almanac. ... The Jewish Year Book is an almanac targetted at the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. ... Wisden is the main publisher of information on cricket in the United Kingdom. ... Thacker, Spink & Co was a well known Kolkata publishing company. ...
The Astronomical Almanac[1] is an almanac published by the United States Naval Observatory and Her Majestys Nautical Almanac Office, containing solar system ephemeris and catalogs of selected stellar and extragalactic objects. ...
Astronomical data and various statistics are also found in almanacs, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, lists of all types, timelines, and more.
When almanacs were first devised, people still saw little difference between predicting the movements of the stars and tides, and predicting the future in the divination sense.
Major topics covered by almanacs (reflected by their tables of contents) include: geography, government, demographics, agriculture, economics and business, health and medicine, religion, mass media, transportation, science and technology, sport, and awards/prizes.
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