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the original data startup, predicting weather and tides before anyone trusted a computer to do it.
means A yearly reference book listing calendar dates alongside predicted weather, tides, astronomical events, and assorted practical data for the coming year.
from English borrowed it through Medieval Latin 'almanach,' and the trail almost certainly runs back through Spanish Arabic to Arabic 'al-manakh' — the 'al-' being the familiar Arabic article 'the,' the same one hiding in alcohol, algebra, and algorithm. The exact Arabic source is debated, but the word entered European languages alongside Arab astronomical tables, the sky-charts that let people pin down the calendar before anyone could ask a computer.
- founding hit
- Franklin's Poor Richard's sold 10,000 copies yearly
- murder defense
- Lincoln used one to win an acquittal
- oldest survivor
- Old Farmer's Almanac runs since 1792
- secret formula
- weather predictions guarded in a locked black box
- word roots
- likely Arabic, meaning the climate or calendar
farmer's almanac — published continuously since 1818, predicts weather and planting seasons for north american farmers
old farmer's almanac — founded 1792, oldest continuously published periodical in the united states with weather forecasts