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Almanac

Other examples include The Almanac of American Politics published by the National Journal, The Almanac of American Literature, and The Almanac of British Politics.


Aaron Schatz

Aaron Schatz (pronounced "Shots") is the creator of Football Outsiders and one of the main contributors to Football Outsiders Almanac, published yearly since 2005 (most recent version is 2011).

American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac

Authorized by Congress in 1849, the American Nautical Almanac Office was founded and attached to the Department of the Navy with Charles Henry Davis as the first superintendent.

Between 1855 and 1881 it had two parts, the first for the meridian of Greenwich contained data on the Sun, Moon, lunar distances, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, which was published separately as The American Nautical Almanac.

Andy Ihnatko

On September 26, 2011, Andy joined podcast network 5by5 as co-host of a weekly show, The Ihnatko Almanac, with Dan Benjamin.

Ayanamsa

Manjula advocated a cyclical concept of ayanāmsa, but it could not gain currency among almanac makers.

Budget of NASA

Sources: U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) (needs proper citation-link, numbers here differ from NASA Pocket Statistics),
Air Force Association's Air Force Magazine 2007 Space Almanac

Contemporary Ukrainian literature

There existed also underground literary circles like the Kyiv school of poetry, a circle of Lviv writers around the samizdat "Skrynya" almanac (Hryhoriy Chubay, Oleh Lysheha, Mykola Ryabchuk, Viktor Morozov, Roman Kis, Orest Yavorskyi), separate dissident writers like Ihor Kalynets.

Copycat Building

Bands that have played the warehouse include: Grimes, Fat Day, Lightning Bolt (Rhode Island), Black Forest/Black Sea (Rhode Island), Japanther (Brooklyn, NY), Wolf Eyes (Ann Arbor), Gravenhurst (England), Robotnicka (France), The Death Set, Matt + Kim, Nautical Almanac, Long Live Death, The USAISAMONSTER, Need New Body, Landed, Rapdragons, Dan Deacon, Dead Mellotron, Yukon, Muscle Brain.

Dan Benjamin

In 2010, Benjamin started 5by5 Studios, a podcast production outlet that currently produces nineteen shows, including several co-hosted shows such as Back to Work with Merlin Mann and The Ihnatko Almanac with Andy Ihnatko.

Emily Barker

The song "Pause" from Almanac was the theme tune for a major 2011 BBC2 drama serial, The Shadow Line, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Christopher Eccleston.

Fat Worm of Error

They have released a split cassette with Deerhoof on Deathbomb Arc and appear on a compilation mastered by Hans Grusel with Sun City Girls, Caroliner, Nautical Almanac, Metalux, Wolf Eyes, Mono Pause, Hans Grüsel's Krankenkabinet, Tarantism, Tom Recchion, Sixes, Bran(...)Pos, Masonic Youth, Pod Blotz, Smegma, Panicsville, and others on Resipiscent.

House of Urach

The reign of Mindaugas II was accepted by the Catholic Church and by several European countries as is seen in the letter from Pope Benedict XV welcoming Wilhelm’s selection as the future King of Lithuania, as well as different “noble registers” such as the Almanac of Gotha.

Kid Ory

The Ory band was an important force in reviving interest in New Orleans jazz, making popular 1941-1942 radio broadcasts—among them a number of slots on the Orson Welles Almanac broadcast and a jazz history series sponsored by Standard Oil—as well as by making recordings.

Lauri Wylie

His major success, "Dinner for One", possibly written as early as the 1920s, premiered at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1948, and was later presented on Broadway in 1953 in the revue Almanac by John Murray Anderson.

Margery Beddow

Beddow appeared on Broadway in Redhead, Conquering Hero, We Take the Town, Two on the Aisle, Almanac, Take Me Along, Ulysses in Nighttown, and revivals of Fiorello! and Showboat.

Milan Asadurov

He was editor-in-chief of The Lighthouse Almanac and the scientific series of Neptun Publishing where he publishes works of Thor Heyerdahl and Jacques-Yves Cousteau.

Moses Leavitt

He was the ancestor of several notable Leavitt descendants, including the well-known Meredith, New Hampshire, teacher and almanac maker Dudley Leavitt.

Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols

In his 1995 book, The Alternative Music Almanac, Alan Cross placed the album in the number 6 spot on his 10 Classic Alternative Albums list.

Nikolay Karamzin

From 1797 to 1799, he issued another miscellany or poetical almanac, The Aonides, in conjunction with Derzhavin and Dmitriev.

Pamela Gemin

Gemin has published poems in such journals as Green Mountains Review and Prairie Schooner, and her poetry and anthologies have been featured on National Public Radio's All Things Considered and Morning Edition, as well as Garrison Keillor's Writers' Almanac.

Richard Bozulich

Kiseido continues to publish other books as well, such as The Go Player's Almanac, The World of Chinese Go and An Introduction to Modern Fuseki: Korean Style.

Schott

Ben Schott, author of Schott's Miscellanies & Schott's Almanac

Senarath Liyana Arachchi

His mother, Isanona Epa Senaviratne was a grand- daughter of Don Philip De Silva Epa Appuhamy(founder of the Epa Almanac) and his father, Adman Liyana Arachchi was a village headman in Pitigala in Galle District.

Sepandar Kamvar

In 2009, Kamvar and Harris took the findings from the four years since We Feel Fine was launched in 2006 and turned them into a book called "We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion".

Talking Heads: 77

In his 1995 book, The Alternative Music Almanac, Alan Cross placed it in the #5 spot on his 10 Classic Alternative Albums list.

Talking Union

"Talking Union" was written in 1941, while the Almanac Singers were working to organize Congress of Industrial Organizations unions.

Texas Almanac

In 2006, Southern Methodist University issued a limited edition reprint of the 1936 Texas Almanac, which commemorated the centennial of Texas' independence.

The Dark Tower: The Long Road Home

In July 2008, Marvel released The Dark Tower: End-World Almanac, written by Robin Furth and Anthony Flamini.

The Ladies' Diary

The first editor and publisher, John Tipper, began the almanac by publishing a calendar, recipes, medicinal advice, stories and ended with "special rhyming riddles."

The Pharmer's Almanac

In 2001 and 2002, standalone appendices to the Almanac for the two years of hiatus were published.

TIME Almanac with Information Please

The almanac was first published in 1947 as the Information Please Almanac by Dan Golenpaul.

Titan Leeds

Titan Leeds (1699–1738) was an 18th-century American almanac publisher.

William Lilly

He then began to issue his prophetical almanacs and other works, which met with serious attention from some of the most prominent members of the Long Parliament.


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