List of almanacs
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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.
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[edit] Wikipedia Almanac-type data
[edit] Printed almanacs
- TIME Almanac with Information Please formerly Information Please Almanac
- Whitaker's Almanack (1868-present)
- The World Almanac and Book of Facts (1868-1876, 1886-present)
- The New York Times Almanac
- Encyclopædia Britannica Book of the Year (?-present)
- Canadian Global Almanac (1992-present), a book of facts about Canada and the world
- Schott's Almanac
- Clark's Kentucky Almanac & Book of Facts 2006, published by The Clark Group in Lexington Kentucky. The Kentucky Almanac covers history, culture, arts, recreation, and travel.
- 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.
[edit] Online almanacs
[edit] Special-purpose almanacs
- Old Moore's Almanack (1699-present)
- Poor Richard's Almanack (1733-1758)
- The Nautical Almanac (1763-present)
- The (Old) Farmer's Almanac (1793-present)
- J. Gruber's Hagerstown Town & Country Almanack (1797-present)
- Grier's Almanac (1807-present)
- Baer's Agricultural Almanac (1825-present)
- Jewish Year Book (1896-present)
- Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1864-present)
- The Astronomical Pocket Diary (1987-present)
- Places Rated Almanac (?-present)
- Thackers Indian Directory (1864-1960)
[edit] Astronomical almanacs
- Air Almanac
- Astronomical Almanac
- Astronomical Phenomena
- Nautical Almanac
- Star Almanac for Land Surveyors
[edit] Fictional almanacs
- Gray's Sports Almanac, featured in Back to the Future Part II
- Ankh-Morpork Almanack and Book of Days, from various Discworld novels (a version has been published as The Discworld Almanak)