About nautical almanacs in general other uses including other specific nautical almanacs Nauticalalmanac disambiguation Image Nauticalalmanac 01.png thumb 250px right Two sample pages of the 2002 NauticalAlmanac published by the U.S. Naval Observatory A nauticalalmanac is a publication describing ... Britain , The NauticalAlmanac has been published annually by HM NauticalAlmanac Office , ever since the first edition was published in 1767. ref name HMNAO history cite web title The History of HM NauticalAlmanac Office publisher HM NauticalAlmanac Office url http www.nao.rl.ac.uk nao history doi ... history Bot retrieved archive archivedate 2007 06 30 ref ref name USNO almanac history cite web title NauticalAlmanac History publisher US Naval Observatory url http aa.usno.navy.mil publications docs ... States of America , a nauticalalmanac has been published annually by the US Naval Observatory since 1852. ref name USNO almanac history Since 1958, the USNO and HMNAO have jointly published a unified nauticalalmanac, for use by the navies of both countries. ref name USNO almanac history Almanac data ... of height difference is how many nautical miles the position line is from the trial position. See also Portal NauticalAlmanac Celestial navigation Navigation American Practical Navigator References Reflist External links http www.nao.rl.ac.uk Her Majesty s NauticalAlmanac Office http www.nao.rl.ac.uk nao history The History of HM NauticalAlmanac Office http www.tecepe.com.br scripts AlmanacPagesISAPI.isa Online nauticalalmanac http www.navigation spreadsheets.com almanac data.html Navigation ... naut almanac History of the NauticalAlmanac Navigation publications Works about sailing DEFAULTSORT NauticalAlmanac Category Navigation Category Sailing books Category Maritime books ca Almanac ... navigation to determine the position of their ship while at sea. The Almanac specifies for each ... had extensive advertisements for coaling stations. The Air Almanac of the United States and Great ... more details
About the British official publications generically known by the name of The NauticalAlmanac other uses including other nautical almanacs Nauticalalmanac disambiguation The NauticalAlmanac has been ... issue of The NauticalAlmanac and Astronomical Ephemeris , for 1767 this was the first nautical ... . ref name HMNAO history cite web title The History of HM NauticalAlmanac Office publisher HM Nautical ... Ephemeris and NauticalAlmanac prepared jointly by the NauticalAlmanac Offices of the United ... for the year 1960 , Her Majesty s NauticalAlmanac Office and the US Naval Observatory have jointly published a unified NauticalAlmanac, for use by the navies of both countries. ref name USNO almanac history cite web title History of the NauticalAlmanac publisher US Naval Observatory url http ..., The NauticalAlmanac and Astronomical Ephemeris contained both astro navigational and general astronomical ... years, as just The NauticalAlmanac . From 1832, responsibility for publication was transferred to HM NauticalAlmanac Office Her Majesty s NauticalAlmanac Office . The main distinctive feature of the inaugural ... of the English lunar distance data, and still based on the Greenwich meridian as in the NauticalAlmanac ... titles dedicated to navigation were also published For 1896 1913 Part 1 of the NauticalAlmanac ... was renamed The NauticalAlmanac Abridged for the Use of Seamen . For 1952 1959 after further redesign, it was again renamed, as The Abridged NauticalAlmanac and renamed yet again for 1960 onwards as simply The NauticalAlmanac . 1960 1980 From the issues for 1960, the official titles were redesigned ... and separately The NauticalAlmanac . Time A major change introduced with the 1960 issue of The Astronomical ... tabulations. ref ESAA 1992, p.612. ref But the NauticalAlmanac, now continuing as a separate ... as well as redesigned content The Astronomical Almanac and The NauticalAlmanac . ref name ESAA The British NauticalAlmanac in the USA In the USA, an official and initially separate series of ephemeris ... more details
NauticalAlmanac can refer to Nauticalalmanac a publication describing the positions and movements of celestial bodies American Ephemeris and NauticalAlmanac first published in 1852 U.S. NauticalAlmanac, part of the American Ephemeris and NauticalAlmanac since 1958 The NauticalAlmanac , the nauticalalmanac published by HM NauticalAlmanac Office in the United Kingdom NauticalAlmanac band an altered electronics noise music band disambig ... more details
NauticalAlmanac Office can refer to HM NauticalAlmanac Office in the United Kingdom The NauticalAlmanac Office at the United States Naval Observatory disambig ... more details
The American Ephemeris and NauticalAlmanac was published for the years 1855 to 1980, containing information ..., The NauticalAlmanac and Astronomical Ephemeris , with which it merged to form Astronomical Almanac The Astronomical Almanac , published from the year 1981 to the present. History Authorized by Congress in 1849, the American NauticalAlmanac Office was founded and attached to the Department of the Navy . The American Ephemeris and NauticalAlmanac was first published in 1852, containing ... NauticalAlmanac . The second part contained data for the Washington meridian meridian of Washington ... NauticalAlmanac ceased to be a reprint of the first part of the American Ephemeris and NauticalAlmanac , becoming a separately prepared volume for the navigator. In 1937, the American Ephemeris and NauticalAlmanac was divided into seven parts, with data for the meridian of Washington substantially ... introductory pages were jointly calculated and typeset by the American NauticalAlmanac Office and Her Majesty s NauticalAlmanac Office but published separately within The American Ephemeris and NauticalAlmanac and The Astronomical Ephemeris , a new name for the old British title The NauticalAlmanac and Astronomical Ephemeris . Beginning in 1981, the title The American Ephemeris and NauticalAlmanac and the British title The Astronomical Ephemeris were completely merged under the single title The Astronomical Almanac . ref name Seidelmann See also Astronomical Almanac specific title Astronomical Ephemeris generic article Almanac generic article Nauticalalmanac generic article The Nautical ... Ephemeris and the American Ephemeris and NauticalAlmanac , 1961 ESAE 1961 , a joint publication of the NauticalAlmanac Offices of the UK and USA esp. sect.1B. ref References reflist ... American Ephemeris and NauticalAlmanac sk American Ephemeris and NauticalAlmanac ... P. Kenneth Seidelmann, ed., Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac Mill Valley ... more details
Her Majesty s NauticalAlmanac Office HMNAO , now part of the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office , was established in 1832 on the site of the Royal Greenwich Observatory RGO , where the NauticalAlmanac had been published since 1767. HMNAO produces astronomical data for a wide range of users, such as astronomers, mariners, aviators, surveyors, the military, Police, lawyers, religious groups, architects, schools, diary and calendar manufacturers, photographers and film crews. In 1937 it became part of RGO and moved with it, first to Herstmonceux, near Hailsham in East Sussex in 1948, then to Cambridge in 1990. When RGO closed in 1998 HMNAO was transferred to the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , near Abingdon, Oxfordshire Abingdon in Oxfordshire . In December 2006, HMNAO was transferred to the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office , which is based in Taunton in Somerset . Leaders of HMNAO Superintendents of the NauticalAlmanac Thomas Young scientist Thomas Young 1818 1829 physicist and polymath John Pond 1829 1831 Astronomer Royal W. S. Stratford 1831 1853 set up a central bureaucracy to replace the system of home based computer s John Russell Hind 1853 1891 discovered a number of asteroid s in the earlier part of his career A. M. W. Downing 1891 1910 Philip Herbert Cowell 1910 1930 best remembered for his work with Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin Andrew Crommelin on the calculation ... 1989 B. D. Yallop 1989 1996 Heads of HM NauticalAlmanac Office A. T. Sinclair 1996 1998 P. T. Wallace 1998 2006 S. A. Bell 2006 present Publications The Astronomical Almanac jointly with the United States Naval Observatory The NauticalAlmanac jointly with the USNO Astronomical Phenomena jointly with the USNO The Star Almanac The UK Air Almanac Rapid Sight Reduction Tables for Navigation Planetary ... nao history super.html List of Superintendents and Heads of HMNAO DEFAULTSORT Hm NauticalAlmanac Office ... 1832 establishments in the United Kingdom pl HM NauticalAlmanac Office ... more details
Refimprove date May 2008 NauticalAlmanac are a noise music group based out of Baltimore Maryland with a rotating membership based around Carly Ptak and Twig Harper . Citation needed date May 2008 History NauticalAlmanac first organized in Ann Arbor Michigan in 1994 the year Harper and Ptak met from the same experimental music scene which produced Wolf Eyes , Beast People and Andrew W.K. . Citation needed date May 2008 NauticalAlmanac was created after Harper s infamous band Scheme was dissolved ... as the fecund local scene. Citation needed date May 2008 NauticalAlmanac s first shows revolved around guerrilla performances and consisted of general open door member policy. In the year 1996 NauticalAlmanac released its self titled debut LP on Hanson Records . By then the band s lineup solidly ... the HERESEE record label was created and NauticalAlmanac toured the USA and Europe extensively. In 2004 NauticalAlmanac was reformed as a Noise Rock band with the inclusion of Max Eisenberg on drums .... ref http www.thefanzine.com articles music 23 nauticalalmanac and the baltimore noise scene ref ... NauticalAlmanac completed a 20 day tour of N. America and performed and traveled in Peru and Bolivia ... radionic record cutting and music production. Select discography 1996 NauticalAlmanac LP album LP Hanson Records NauticalAlmanac Compact Cassette Cassette Hanson Records Isolation Muzak Cassette Hanson Records 1997 Death of NauticalAlmanac Cassette Hanson Records 1998 Tour Only Lathe cut ... foxyd features.php?which 267 Interview with NauticalAlmanac Fort Thunder DEFAULTSORT NauticalAlmanac Category American noise rock music groups ... Nautical s research in DIY electronics, circuit bending, record cutting and costumed performance. From ... freeform 2006 03 help carly and .html WFMU s Beware of the Blog Help Carly and Twig from NauticalAlmanac Bot generated title ref The outpouring of support was tremendous, The True Vine record ... more details
Other uses Almanac disambiguation Image Calendarium cracoviense.jpg right 250px thumb Almanach cracoviense ad annum 1474 Calendarium cracoviense , an almanac for the year 1474 An almanac also spelled almanack ... , meaning the climate. In the modern sense too an almanac, or almanakh, is the average weather forecast ... 2005 . ref Another report similarly says of Almanac First seen in Roger Bacon. Apparently from Spanish ... that the construction of an Arabic source for almanac is not satisfactory . ref The New English ... circumstantial evidence points to a Spanish Arabic al man kh . ref Almanac in http www.archive.org ... note as to the origin and history of the word almanac . ref The reason why the proposed Arabic word is speculatively spelled al man kh is that the spelling occurred as almanach as well as almanac and Roger ... 72.jpg right 250px thumb A page from the Almanac for the Hindu calendar Hindu year 1871 72. The origin of the almanac can be traced back to ancient Babylonian astronomy , when tables of planetary ... Livesey Wallis 2005 p 29 ref The precursor to the almanac was the Hellenistic civilization Greek astronomical ... almanac differs from Babylonian, Ptolemaic and Zij tables in the sense that the entries found ... known almanac in this modern sense is the Almanac of Azarqueil written in 1088 by Ab Ish q ... information. In 1150 Solomon Jarchus created such an almanac considered to be among the first ... of Oxford and Cambridge. In 1300 , Petrus de Dacia mathematician Petrus de Dacia created an almanac ... Walter de Elvendene created an almanac and later on John Somers, 1st Baron Somers John Somers of Oxford, in 1380. In 1386 Nicholas de Lynne, Oxford produced an almanac. In 1457 the first printed almanac ... an almanac in 1472 Nuremberg, 1472 , which was continued in print for several centuries in many ... English printed almanac. By the second half of the 16th century, yearly almanacs were being produced ... or the longest running almanac. In British America, William Pierce of Harvard College published ... more details
orphan date December 2008 Refimprove date June 2007 ALMANAC is the name of a major breast cancer trial. The acronym stands for Axillary Lymphatic Mapping Against Nodal Axillary Clearance. This major randomized trial performed in several centres in the United Kingdom UK produced clear evidence that sentinel node biopsy SNB , used to stage axillary spread of disease, can be used with low failed localization and false negative rates, provided both radioisotope and blue dye are used to locate the sentinel nodes. ref cite book title Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy author Hiram S Cody, year 2003 publisher Informa Health Care isbn 1841840343 url http books.google.com books?id gzE1STlawtUC&pg PA237&ots LRfU laUCF&dq 22Axillary Lymphatic Mapping Against Nodal Axillary Clearance 22&ie ISO 8859 1&output html&sig IYwGmDfjzrhI02v65 djSogoe2g page 237 ref Compared to standard axillary management, SNB results in greatly decreased arm problems and increased quality of life, without any increase in cancer related anxiety. There is no evidence of a difference in local recurrence rates, though longer term evidence on this is awaited from other studies. References Reflist DEFAULTSORT Almanac Category Clinical trials Medical stub ... more details
The Astronomical Almanac ref Special Booksources 0118873377 Astronomical Almanac for the Year 2007, United States Naval Observatory NauticalAlmanac Office, 2006 . ref is an almanac published by the United States Naval Observatory and Her Majesty s NauticalAlmanac Office , containing solar system ephemeris and catalogs of selected stellar and extragalactic objects. The Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac provides detailed discussion of usage and data reduction methods used by the Almanac. ref name Seidelmann Special Booksources 0935702687 P. K. Seidelmann editor , Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac University Science Books, New York, 1992 . ref Publication history The Astronomical Almanac is the direct descendant of the British and American navigational almanacs. The British NauticalAlmanac and Astronomical Ephemeris had been published since 1766, and was renamed The Astronomical Ephemeris in 1960. The American Ephemeris and NauticalAlmanac had been published since 1852. In 1981 the British and American publications were combined under the title The Astronomical Almanac . ref http aa.usno.navy.mil publications docs asa history.php History of the Astronomical Almanac . United States Naval Observatory. ref See also American Ephemeris and NauticalAlmanac specific title Astronomical Ephemeris generic article Almanac generic article Nauticalalmanac generic article The NauticalAlmanac familiar name for a specific series of official British publications which appeared under a variety of different full titles for the period 1767 to 1959, as well ... Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Ephemeris and the American Ephemeris and NauticalAlmanac , 1961 ESAE 1961 , a joint publication of the NauticalAlmanac Offices of the UK and US esp. sect.1B. ref References Reflist External links http asa.usno.navy.mil The Astronomical Almanac Online official ... Almanac de Astronomical Almanac es The Astronomical Almanac fa simple Astronomical Almanac ... more details
wiktionary almanac almanack An almanac is an annual publication containing tabular information in a particular field or fields often arranged according to the calendar. Almanac may also refer to Nauticalalmanac GPS signals Almanac GPS almanac , a regularly updated digital schedule of satellite orbital parameters for GPS receivers John Murray Anderson s Almanac , a Broadway show 1953 4 Almanac They Might Be Giants album Almanac They Might Be Giants album , 2002 Almanac The Nadas album Almanac The Nadas album ALMANAC Axillary Lymphatic Mapping Against Nodal Axillary Clearance , a UK breast cancer trial Almanac newspaper Almanac newspaper , a weekly newspaper in Washington County, Pennsylvania Almanac TV series Almanac TV series , a public affairs TV series produced by Twin Cities Public Television Almanac band , a free jazz ensemble Almanac Canadian TV series Almanac Canadian TV series , a 1961 Canadian television series See also List of almanacs disambiguation he hu Almanach egy rtelm s t lap pt Almanaque desambigua o ... more details
astronomical information center world tzones World Time Zone Map by Her Majesty s NauticalAlmanac ...Refimprove date August 2009 The establishment of nautical standard times , nautical standard time zones and the nautical date line were recommended by the Anglo French Conference on Time keeping at Sea in 1917. The Conference recommended that the standard apply to all ships, both military and civilian. These zones were adopted by all major fleets between 1920 and 1925 but not by many independent merchant ships until World War II. The nautical time zone system is an ideal form of the terrestrial time zone system for use on international waters high seas . Under the system time changes are required for changes of longitude in one hour steps. The one hour step corresponds to a time zone width of 15 longitude. The 15 gore that is offset from GMT or UT1 not UTC by twelve hours is bisected by the nautical date line into two 7.5 gores that differ from GMT by 12 hours. A nautical date line is implied but not explicitly drawn on time zone maps. It follows the 180th meridian except where it is interrupted ... cite book last Dutton first Benjamin title Navigation and nautical astronomy publisher United States ... them. Unlike the zig zagging land based International Date Line , the nautical International Date Line ... zone, and A M except J to the east and N Y to the west J may be assigned to local time in non nautical ... W to 7.5 E longitude, while zone A runs from 7.5 E to 22.5 E longitude, etc. These nautical letters ... that do not use a nautical time zone, and a section sign for areas that do not have a legal standard ... latitudes and which is 1 4 of a nautical mile or 0.4 km at the equator but less at higher latitudes ... time of a country when it is in its territorial waters, but must revert to nautical time as soon as it leaves territorial waters. In reality nautical times are used only for radio communication etc ... reflist DEFAULTSORT Nautical Time Category Lines of longitude Category Time measurement standardization ... more details
Pugh s Almanac was an annual publication providing a guide to Queensland , and information about the events of the previous year and included several directories of commercial and non commercial organisations. It was founded by Theophilus Parsons Pugh , and published from 1859 1927. External links http www.textqueensland.com.au pughs almanac Pugh s Almanac , Text Queensland Uncategorized date April 2012 Australia stub ... more details
other uses Almanac disambiguation Almanac was a free jazz project whose members were Bennie Maupin flute , tenor saxophone , Cecil McBee bass guitar bass , Mike Nock piano and Eddie Marshall Drum kit drums . ref http www.improvart.com cds iai51.htm Improvart.com ref Discography 1977 Almanac Improvising Artists References Reflist DEFAULTSORT Almanac Category American jazz ensembles Category Free jazz ensembles ... more details
multiple issues unreferenced February 2009 orphan February 2009 The Wapsipinicon Almanac is an almanac published by Route 3 Press from 1988 to present day. It is published in Anamosa, Iowa . It is handmade on Letterpress printing letterpress equipment. Category Almanacs ref book stub ... more details
italictitle The People s Almanac was a series of three books published in 1975, 1978 and 1981 by David Wallechinsky and his father Irving Wallace , the novelist responsible for co authoring the series The Book of Lists . The format of the almanac departs from a conventional almanac and included many obscure facts, lists and esoteric knowledge. It, as well as the Book of Lists series, is considered a forerunner of Internet website s such as Wikipedia . The Almanac contained one list that was reprinted in the Book of Lists the nine breeds of dogs that bite the most. In order they were The German shepherd police dog the Chow Chow chow the poodle the Italian bulldog the fox terrier the dog hybrids and crossbreeds cross ed chow, the Airedale Terrier Airedale the Pekingese and the crossed German shepherd. The authors noted that Doberman pinscher Doberman s and mongrels did not make the list. External links http meta.wikimedia.org wiki WikiSignifica A proposed People s Almanac in Wiki format http www.trivia library.com Selections from the Almanac series published with permission of the authors The People s Almanac DEFAULTSORT Peoples Almanac Category Almanacs Category Trivia books Category Series of books ref book stub nl The People s Almanac ... more details
Infobox book name The World Almanac and Book of Facts title orig translator image image caption The 2012 ... language English series subject genre Reference publisher World Almanac Books release date 1868 ... by followed by The World Almanac and Book of Facts is an American published reference work and is the bestselling ... of The World Almanac retrieved 2007 12 25 ref almanac conveying information about such subjects as world changes, tragedies, sports feats, etc. The almanac can be found in home s, library libraries ... Post bestseller list on November 27, 2011. History The first edition of The World Almanac ... in the country, revived The World Almanac with the intention of making it a compendium of universal knowledge. The World Almanac has been published annually ever since. In 1894, when it claimed more than a half million habitual users, The World Almanac changed its name to The World Almanac and Encyclopedia . This was the title it kept until 1923, when it became The World Almanac and Book of Facts ... edition, said that the almanac has made for itself a secure position, second only to the forty year old Whitaker s Almanack Whitaker s Almanac of London , with which alone it can be compared. ref http query.nytimes.com gst abstract.html?res 9804E1DC103EE733A25753C2A9679C946797D6CF The World Almanac for 1906 , New York Times , January 20, 1906 ref File The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1987, beside a Tea Kettle, Instrument workshop, TIPA, Dharamsala.jpg left 200px thumb The World Almanac and Book ... featured on the cover of the almanac. Citation needed date December 2007 In 1923, the name changed to its current name, The World Almanac and Book of Facts . ref name history Calvin Coolidge s father read from The World Almanac when he swore his son into office. ref name history Since then, photos have shown that Presidents John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton have also used The World Almanac ... owned Telegram to form the New York World Telegram in 1931. The Almanac survived the closure of the World ... more details
unit of length m 1852.0 accuracy 5 Number of significant figures The nautical mile symbol M , NM or nmi ... . It developed from the sea mile and the related geographical mile . The nautical mile remains in use by sea and air navigators worldwide because of its convenience when working with charts. Most nautical ... linear scale for use on charts on scales smaller than about 1 80,000. ref name bowditch02c3 The nautical ... The international nautical mile was defined by the First International Extraordinary Hydrographic ... units U.S. definitions of the nautical mile were based on the Clarke ellipsoid Clarke 1866 Spheroid ... having the same surface area as the Clarke Spheroid. ref name Glazebrook The United States nautical ... nautical mile in 1954. ref name US The Imperial units Imperial UK nautical mile, also known as the Admiralty mile , was defined in terms of the knot unit knot such that one nautical mile was exactly ... The international nautical mile was chosen as the integer number of metres closest to the mean sea ... Navigator Bowditch defines a sea mile as a nautical mile . ref name bowditch1966 In the 2002 edition, the glossary says An approximate mean value of the nautical mile equal to 6,080 feet the length ... includes a remark to the effect that this must not be confused with the nautical mile. Geographical ..., which would later become the international nautical mile. ref name Glazebrook Do not confuse this with the similar ... navies use nowrap 6,000 feet nowrap 1,828.8 m as their equivalent of a nautical mile. In the Royal ... use M as the abbreviation for the nautical mile. ref name BIPM ref name iho The preferred abbreviation ... symbols ref History Image Nautic mile definition v2.png frame right Historical definition 1 nautical mile The nautical mile was historically defined as a minute of arc along a meridian geography meridian of the Earth north south , making a meridian exactly 180 60 nowrap 10,800 historical nautical ... on a nautical chart . The originally intended definition of the metre as 10 sup 7 sup of a half ... more details
Infobox Book name The Texas Almanac title orig translator image Image 2006 2007texasalmanac cover.jpg Thumb image caption Cover of the 2006 2007 Texas Almanac sesquicentennial author Multiple illustrator cover artist John Collier 2006 2007 ed. country United States language English series subject Texas ... 80720995 preceded by followed by The Texas Almanac is a biennially published reference work providing ... to Texas. As with many other almanac s, an extensive astronomy astronomical calendar is included. The present publisher is the Texas State Historical Association , which acquired the Texas Almanac ... in Galveston, although the name of the book was changed in 1869 to The Texas Almanac and Emigrant s Guide to Texas . Following the 1875 death of the publisher, the Almanac ceased publication for almost ... in Dallas, Texas Dallas and decided that resuming the Almanac would foster investment in the state s growing economy. ref name aboutus http www.texasalmanac.com aboutus History of the Texas Almanac , TexasAlmanac.com. Retrieved June 29, 2007. ref From 1904 through 1929, the Almanac was published more ... anniversary of the Almanac , the death of G. B. Dealey, the coinciding 110th anniversary of the Almanac ... of independence from Mexico , and the sesquicentennial of the Almanac , which was the first full ... Almanac , which commemorated the centennial of Texas independence. ref name smu http www.smu.edu swcenter Almanac.htm Limited Edition Reprint of the Original 1936 Centennial Texas Almanac , Southern ... edition, Texas Almanac Online , is published by Thomson Gale the electronic edition is not available ... GAL47&type 4&id 115082 Thomson Gale Catalog Texas Almanac Online . Retrieved June 29, 2007. ref Belo Corporation also publishes an educators guide to the Texas Almanac . Notes references External links Portal Texas http www.texasalmanac.com Texas Almanac official web site Handbook of Texas id TT eft1 name Texas Almanac http texashistory.unt.edu explore collections TXALC browse Texas Almanac hosted ... more details
Infobox Book name The Pharmer s Almanac br Volume 6 title orig translator image Image Pharmers Almanac Vol 6.jpg author Kevin Cassels br Richard Northrop cover artist country United States language English series The Pharmer s Almanac subject Biography, History, Reference genre publisher Pharmers Almanac release date October 2000 media type Paperback pages 500 isbn 0 9704993 0 2 preceded by The Pharmer s Almanac Volume 5 followed by The Pharmer s Almanac was the first printed compendium of information about the rock band Phish , put together as a fun business venture by a small group of fans who solicited help from hundreds of contributors. Six volumes were published, each with relatively complete song history and setlist information, as well as essays, trivia, and other content. The first five volumes were edited and largely written by Andy Bernstein, Larry Chasnoff, Lockhart Steele, and Brian Celentano, drawing heavily on online materials from the Phish.net website http www.phish.net , particularly for setlist information. Kevin Cassels drummer of rock band Mother Vinegar and Richard Northrop released the largest and final volume in 2000 in music 2000 , shortly before the band s hiatus. Despite rumors of a coming seventh volume, the publishers retired the series after a second print run in 2002 in music 2002 , and have no plans to renew it. Volumes 2 through 4 as well as 6 feature the artwork of Chris DiLeo with Volume 6, a collabration with artist Patrick Smith. Similar fan produced Phish resources include The Phishing Manual and The Phish Companion . At one time during Phish s career, the publishers distributed a Tour Extra newsletter at shows, containing setlists for recent ... 2001 and 2002, standalone appendices to the Almanac for the two years of hiatus were published. External links http web.archive.org web 20031021003622 http pharmers.com Cache of former Pharmer s Almanac Website Phish Category Books on Phish Pharmer s Almanac, The Category 2000 books Pharmer s Almanac ... more details
distinguish2 the similarly titled Old Farmer s Almanac Infobox magazine title Farmers Almanac image file Farmers Almanac Covers.jpg image size 200px image caption Covers of the U.S. and Canadian Farmers ... annual publication Annually category Almanacs company Geiger publisher Almanac Publishing Company firstdate ... www.FarmersAlmanac.com issn 0737 6731 Farmers Almanac is an annual North America n periodical that has been in continuous publication since 1818. Published by the Almanac Publishing Company .... In addition to the popular United States of America American version, the Almanac Publishing Company also publishes the Canada Canadian Farmers Almanac and a promotional item promotional version that businesses ... Almanac editions is more than 4 million copies. History The Farmers Almanac was founded in Morristown ... Almanac has had seven editors. Ray Geiger served as the Farmers Almanac s longest running editor, from 1934 until shortly before his death in 1994. In 1955, Geiger moved production of the Farmers Almanac ... female almanac editor in United States history. Weather prediction Image Farmers 1818.jpg frame The first edition of the Farmers Almanac , from 1818 Unreferenced section date September 2009 Weather prediction has always been a major feature of the Farmers Almanac . The Almanac Publishing Company claims readers of the Farmers Almanac have attributed an 80 to 85 percent accuracy rate to the publication ... as two years in advance. The Farmers Almanac publishers are highly secretive about the method used ... planetary position and many other factors. The identity of the Farmers Almanac weather forecaster is also a secret. The Almanac s forecaster is referred to by the pseudonym Caleb Weatherbee . The U.S. retail edition of the Farmers Almanac contains 16 months of weather predictions for seven differentiated ... Almanac does not include forecasts for Alaska or Hawaii . Notable articles Most editions of the Farmer s Almanac include a human interest crusade, advocating for a change in some accepted social practice ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 A nautical airmile is a Units of measurement unit of distance, or length . The derived unit of speed is the knot, defined as one nautical mile per hour, but compensated for the actual wind . Both nautical mile and knot unit knot s are widely used around the world for maritime and aviation purposes. See also Nautical mile Conversion of units Orders of magnitude length DEFAULTSORT Nautical Airmile Category Units of length ... more details
otheruses2 Almanac Infobox Newspaper name The Almanac image type Weekly newspaper format foundation 1967 owners Observer Publishing Company headquarters McMurray, Pennsylvania McMurray , Pennsylvania PA , United States U.S. Political allegiance editor Debbie Popp publisher David W. Roof ISSN website http www.thealmanac.net http www.thealmanac.net The Almanac is a weekly newspaper in the South Hills Pennsylvania South Hills region of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , and northern Washington County, Pennsylvania . It is published by the Observer Publishing Company of McMurray, Pennsylvania . Its cover price is 50 cents, though it is delivered free of charge to most houses in its area. External links http www.thealmanac.net Official website Pennsylvania newspaper stub Category Newspapers published in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ... more details
Raber s New American Almanac is an almanac used by many Old Order Amish Old Order Amish , published by an Amish bookstore in Baltic, Ohio . The Pennsylvania Dutch German edition has been published since 1930, and the English edition since the 1970s both have a plain black and white cover. It includes a register of all the Amish ministers in America, listed by state, community, and church district, a calendar of Bible verses and hymn s which will be used in worship services, and traditional weather and planting forecasts. Sources http mennoweekly.org JAN 01 12 04 almanac01 12.html For the Amish, almanacs help keep the year in order. Robert Rhodes, Mennonite Weekly Review. http mennoweekly.org JAN 01 12 04 calender01 12.html Almanacs long a part of American Anabaptist culture. Robert Rhodes Mennonite Weekly Review ref book stub Category Amish Category Almanacs ... more details
Infobox single See Wikipedia WikiProject Songs Name Autumn Almanac Cover Artist The Kinks from Album B side Mister Pleasant UK br David Watts Ray Davies song David Watts USA & Europe Released 13 October 1967 UK br 29 November 1967 USA Format 7 single Recorded September 1967 at Pye Studios No. 2 , London Genre Rock Length Label Pye 7N 17400 UK br Reprise 0647 US Writer Ray Davies Producer Ray Davies Certification Chart position Last single Waterloo Sunset br 1967 br br Death of a Clown br 1967 br Dave Davies solo release This single Autumn Almanac br 1967 Next single Wonderboy The Kinks song Wonderboy br 1968 br br Susannah s Still Alive br 1967 br Dave Davies solo release Autumn Almanac is a pop music pop song , written by Ray Davies and recorded by the musical group The Kinks in 1967. Autumn Almanac has since been noted for being an absolute classic , ref Charles, Paul. The Complete Guide to Playing Live . Omnibus Press, 2004. p.41. ref a finely observed slice of English culture English custom , ref Rawlings, Terry. British Beat, 1960 1969 Then, Now and Rare . Omnibus Press, 2002. p.112. ref a weird character study ref Brackett, Nathan. The New Rolling Stone Album Guide . New York Fireside Books, 2004. p.460. ref and for its mellow, melodic sound that was to characterize the Kinks next musical phase... ref Hardy & Laing, The Encyclopedia of Rock . Schirmer Books, 1988. p 253. ref Some have placed this and other Davies compositions in the pastoral Romanticism Romantic tradition of the poetry of Wordsworth , among others. ref Cf. , Krause, MJ. The Greatest Rock Star of the 19th Century Ray Davies, Romanticism, and the Art of Being English. Popular Music and Society . Volume 29, Issue 2. May 2006 pp201 212 ref In his 1995 autobiography X Ray and in subsequent performances ... 1960s, Autumn Almanac was released in both monaural mono and stereophonic stereo versions. The mono ... 1960s song stub fr Autumn Almanac nn Autumn Almanac fi Autumn Almanac ... more details
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