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Bookmark or Share- Poor Richard's Almanack - WikipediaPoor Richard's Almanack (sometimes Almanac) was a yearly almanac published by Benjamin Franklin, who adopted the pseudonym of "Poor Richard" or "Richard Saunders" for this purpose. The publication appeared continually from 1732 to 1758. It sold exceptionally well for a pamphlet published in the Thirteen Colonies; print runs reached 10,000 per year.
- Poor Richard’s Almanack | Encyclopedia.comBenjamin Franklin published Poor Richard’s Almanack every year for twenty-five years under the pen name of Richard Saunders. His almanacs contained weather predictions, poems, recipes, tidal forecasts, divinations, scientific information, and advice regarding the making of money through industry.
- Poor Richard’s Almanack – Benjamin Franklin Historical SocietyFranklin’s greatest business accomplishment came from the publication of Poor Richard’s Almanack. On December 19, 1732 Franklin published his first almanac under the pseudonym of Richard Saunders. The almanac was published for the year of 1733 and was published once a year for the next 25 years.
- Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758 | American Battlefield TrustFrom 1732 to 1758, Benjamin Franklin printed Poor Richard's Almanack. This publication contained a yearly calendar, weather and seasonal predictions, poems, witty sayings, and proverbs. About 10,000 were published each year, and it was popular reading throughout the 13 Colonies.
- from Poor Richard's Almanack by Benjamin Franklin | Poetry Foundationpoor Richard. Each Age of Men new Fashions doth invent; Things which are old, young Men do not esteem: What pleas’d our Fathers, doth not us content; What flourish’d then, we out of fashion deem: And that’s the reason, as I understand, Why Prodigus did fell his Father’s Land. I Mon. March hath xxxi days. My Love and I for Kisses play’d,
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