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As a child in New York City, he would unearth old World Almanacs in Manhattan bookstores and study elections.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2023

Almanacs aren’t always — and haven’t always been — so fastidiously factitious.

From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2020

“Okay,” said Miguel, “in here we’re gonna find General Knowledge. Almanacs, encyclopedias, bibliographies, books about library science...”

From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein

If by some secret art the hedgehog know, So long before, the way the wind will blow, She has an art which many a person lacks, That thinks himself fit to make our Almanacs.

From Rhymes Old and New : collected by M.E.S. Wright by Wright, M. E. S.

The "Book of Almanacs" will enable any one to lay open before him the whole Almanac of any past year, of the present year, or of any future year, up to A. D.

From Notes and Queries, Number 80, May 10, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various