To leaf through the Pocket Chinese Almanac is to read a quaint-sounding daily diary — in advance, of course, because like many almanacs, the Pocket Chinese Almanac is about predictions.
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Indeed, Almanac has already made investments in all three areas.
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But for now, here's what the Farmers' Almanac is predicting.
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In this episode of Vox Almanac, Vox's Phil Edwards explains why.
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Vox's Phil Edwards found out in this episode of Vox Almanac.
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Just be sure to keep that sports almanac away from Biff.
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And the Almanac supports this as a true, at least in part.
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"Winter inspires both joy and woe," according to The Old Farmer's Almanac.
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Next Stop Aldo Leopold's "A Sand County Almanac" is an environmental classic.
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Perhaps more important, they relied on the almanac to set their wedding date.
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This is what the recommendations look like: Source: Stock Trader's Almanac Tricky, eh?
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He has hosted "The Writer's Almanac," distributed by American Public Media, since 1993.
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NPR congressional correspondent Sue Davis, a former Almanac researcher, will moderate brief remarks.
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He has "Poor Richard's Almanac" and was a diplomat and everything, a musician.
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In this episode of Vox Almanac, Phil Edwards explores how it was made.
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In this episode of Vox Almanac, Phil Edwards finds out what that means.
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According to the Almanac, the moon will reach its peak at 7:12 a.m.
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Warren's death was commemorated and memorialized again and again with speeches, almanac entries, poems.
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According to The Old Farmer's Almanac, the Harvest Moon differs from all other moons.
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According to the Almanac, the "Strawberry Moon" is visible both Sunday and Monday nights.
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It's a nice story, though even the almanac itself is skeptical of its truth.
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Nevertheless, the almanac has become a closely watched predictor of weather, particularly winter weather.
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However, according to the Almanac, most people won't be able to spot the difference.
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Check out this guided moon journal , this personalized astrological almanac, or this blank journal!
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The Stock Trader's Almanac finds stocks historically end the season on a high note.
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"This could be a great controversy," said Peter Geiger, editor of the Farmers' Almanac.
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Sand County Almanac tells the story of an atom that lived out parts of its
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According to The Old Farmer's Almanac, November's full moon is also called the Beaver Moon.
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But Jeffrey Hirsch, editor-in-chief of the almanac, says they've got it all wrong.
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In today's puzzle, "Record of the year?" refers to a written record, like the ALMANAC.
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ET. According to the Farmer's Almanac, the Hunter's Moon gets its name from the Native Americans.
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In Ethan Canin's new novel, "A Doubter's Almanac," the mathematician Milo Andret is certainly despicable enough.
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Meteorologists use weather patterns and temperature cycles to mark the seasons, according to the Farmer's Almanac.
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Native American tribes began calling this month's phenomenon the "Full Snow Moon," according to the Almanac.
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But it's not much worse at predicting six weeks of cold weather than, say, an almanac.
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Every month's full moon has a unique name if you look at The Old Farmer's Almanac.
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His book, "Oval Track Almanac," details many of the tracks that were designed but never built.
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Jacob — in his sedate, Almanac-like way — devotes a good deal of text to the weather.
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In this episode of Vox Almanac, I explore the delightfully strange beginning of stop motion animation.
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The moon's positioned at the "most shallow angle" with the eastern horizon, the Farmer's Almanac said.
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As a result, it'll appear 14% smaller than a typical full moon, the Farmer's Almanac said.
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In June, Almanac Beer Company revealed plans to construct a brewery and taproom in Alameda, Calif.
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And then, poor Richard&aposs almanac, very inspiring quotes about work and life and I enjoy that.
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For eggs, farmers use a moon almanac to birth healthier chickens, which supposedly lay super delicious eggs.
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Hirsch of the "Stock Trader's Almanac" suggests owning defensive stocks and cautions investors from doing anything drastic.
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PolitiFact's Fake News Almanac (PF), by PolitiFact, a joint project of the Tampa Bay Times and Poynter.
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Since 1950, Januarys have averaged a gain of about 1 percent, according to the Stock Trader's Almanac.
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It is 6900 percent white and just 2628 percent Latino, according to the Almanac of American Politics.
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Maryland's 3rd district Here's how the Almanac of American Politics describes this seat held by Democratic Rep.
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October is setting up to be a good month for stocks, according to the Stock Trader's Almanac.
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The Almanac describes the upcoming winter as "freezing, frigid, and frosty," following a similarly cold 2019 winter.
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The term Indian summer, according to the Almanac, could come from the early settlers of New England.
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Previous investors in the fizzy drink company include Almanac Insights, KarpReilly, Prolog Ventures, VMG Partners and more.
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It's followed by an explanation of the "polar coaster" that a well-known almanac expects this winter.
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This year's winter will cause a slow start to a spring season, according to the Farmers' Almanac.
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Data from The Stock Trader's Almanac shows the S&P 500 averages a gain of just 0.1%.
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More than half of Nigeria's residents live in slum settlements, according to the 2015/2016 Slum Almanac.
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Dansgaard was able to read the Camp Century core as a sort of almanac of Greenlandic weather.
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Lincoln then handed the witness an almanac and asked him to turn to the date in question.
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Adding to concerns, September historically has been the worst month for stocks, according to the Stock Trader's Almanac.
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According to The Farmers' Almanac, July was the month when buck deer would start to visibly grow antlers.
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According to The Old Farmer's Almanac, the moon is set to reach peak fullness at 2:11 p.m.
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I consulted my old friend Jeffrey Hirsch of the Stock Trader's Almanac about the failure of these signals.
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" In press materials, the almanac claimed 96.3% accuracy for its "2015 predictions of a bleak and biting winter.
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According to the Farmer's Almanac, the first full moon after summer indicated the beginning of strawberry picking season.
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According to the Almanac, total lunar eclipses can be viewed without any eye protection, unlike total solar eclipses.
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The 39th district is 35% Hispanic, and 31% Asian, according to statistics from the Almanac of American Politics.
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Data from the Stock Trader's Almanac shows the S&P 500 averages a loss of 0.5% in September.
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And according to the Farmer's Almanac, it's the earliest equinox the Northern Hemisphere has seen in 124 years.
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According to the Farmer's Almanac, a January thaw doesn't have to melt away ice and snow to qualify.
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And in 1767 the annual publication began of what was for many years the standard: the British Nautical Almanac.
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Since 1988, the Almanac says, the Dow was higher Wednesday and Friday of Thanksgiving week 18 of 28 times.
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These results were obtained by adding MACD triggers, certain buy and sell signals developed by the Stock Trader's Almanac.
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"(Long) before meteorologists were putting out their winter predictions, the (Old) Farmer's Almanac has been doing this," he said.
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It's directed by South African filmmaker Dean Israelite, who directed 2015's found footage sci-fi film Project Almanac.
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A "Wolf Moon" is just the term for a Full Moon that happens in January, according to Farmer's Almanac.
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Colonial settlers across North America adopted their own version of the indigenous names, according to The Old Farmer's Almanac.
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The Farmers' Almanac, America's centuries-old go-to for weather predictions, astronomical data and more, takes a similar position.
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According to data from The "Stock Trader's Almanac," the S&P 500 averages a gain of 1.6 percent in December.
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The almanac quoted the position of the Moon to the arc-second, and systematically achieved at least arc-minute accuracy.
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Find out why the publishers of the Pocket Chinese Almanac are a little nervous about the one beginning Feb. 8.
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"It's not over yet, and October is not over yet," said Jeffrey Hirsch, editor-in-chief of Stock Traders Almanac.
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Since 1950, August has been the second-worst month for the S&P 500, according to the Stock Traders' Almanac.
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According to The Old Farmer's Almanac, the moon has also been called the Fish Moon and the Sprouting Grass Moon.
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Director Dean Israelite (Project Almanac) told EW that he wanted this superhero story to reflect the lives of teens today.
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And Stock Trader's Almanac chimes in that June in midterm election years since 1950 ranks dead last for average returns.
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The show we saw was "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" starring Harry Belafonte, whose every song elicited rounds of prolonged applause.
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Pages from the almanac hung on the kitchen wall reminded the mistress of the household of holy days and holidays.
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Someone seems to have stolen a time machine, nabbed a future sports almanac and returned to 2017 to clean up.
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He defended his record, which according to the Almanac of American Politics ranks him among the most conservative House Democrats.
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JOHN LELAND POET'S ALMANAC The thing is, I don't recognize Sunday as being all that different from any other day.
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U.S. stocks should start working their way back up, predicted Jeff Hirsch, editor-in-chief of the Stock Trader's Almanac.
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According to the Stock Trader's Almanac, the Dow was up in the week before Thanksgiving 19 of the past 24 years.
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The broad index averages a gain of 0.7 percent during Octobers dating back to 1950, according to The Stock Trader's Almanac.
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According to The Farmer's Almanac, Japanese wisteria, Wisteria floribunda, is not native to North America and is considered an invasive species.
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According to the Stock Trader's Almanac, the Dow was up in the week before Thanksgiving 93 of the past 24 years.
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Each entry is an excursion into metaphor, for the time-honored terms in the almanac are not to be taken literally.
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This title supposedly refers to all the wolves that "howled in hunger outside the villages" in January, according to the Almanac.
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In fiction, there's "The Blue Hour" by Douglas Kennedy; "A Doubter's Almanac" by Ethan Canin; and "Midnight Sun" by Jo Nesbo.
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However, according to the Almanac, most people won't be able to spot the difference between super moons and typical full moons.
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"We do not subscribe to the arbitrary 20 percent rule for bears," said Jeff Hirsch, editor of the Stock Trader's Almanac.
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According to The Farmer's Almanac, the precise moment that the winter solstice will occur this year is at 5:23 p.m.
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During the first hour, the Moon will go through different phases, turning orange and red — almost resembling Mars, the Almanac reports.
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The last holdouts were the British editors of the Nautical Almanac, who referred to the planet as Georgium Sidus until 1850.
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According to the Farmer's Almanac, Algonquin tribes saw the moon as a marker that the fruit was ripe for the picking.
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James A. Barnes is a member of the CNN Decision Desk and co-author of the 28 Almanac of American Politics.
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The Almanac also forecasts "above-normal" winter precipitation along the east coast, the Great Plains, the Midwest and the Great Lakes.
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I wound up writing the Football Outsiders Almanac chapter for the Bucs this year and based it mostly on Jameis Winston.
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James A. Barnes is a member of the CNN Decision Desk and co-author of the 2018 Almanac of American Politics.
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Since the late 1700s, many people have relied on the annual Old Farmer's Almanac, a publication whose methods are kept secret.
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Book Almanac Barcelona starting at $260 per nightThis independent luxury boutique brand opened its first property in Barcelona in February 2018.
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Then, Mr. Myers found an envelope slipped into the almanac, its paper as brittle as the rest of the book's pages.
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Each month's full moon has a different name in the Farmer's Almanac, derived from Native American and colonial American naming traditions.
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James A. Barnes is a member of the CNN Decision Desk and co-author of the 219 Almanac of American Politics.
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According to The Old Farmer's Almanac, this year's winter is going to be a wild one in some parts of the country.
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On September 22015, 210, the council agreed that Facebook would deposit the money into the city's unrestricted general fund, reported the Almanac.
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The almanac says it will be a good day for rituals — voting — and for "breaking ground" and "raising beams," signifying new beginnings.
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Another member of the original group was Mr Roginsky, a historian jailed in 1981 for publishing a samizdat almanac entitled Pamyat ("Memory").
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According to Jeffrey Hirsch of the Stock Trader's Almanac, September is the worst performing month of the year for the major indices.
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He stepped down from hosting duties last year, but remained attached to MPR as a producer on The Writer's Almanac for syndication.
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James A. Barnes is a member of the CNN Decision Desk and co-author of the forthcoming 20053 Almanac of American Politics.
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James A. Barnes is a member of the CNN Decision Desk and co-author of the forthcoming 2018 Almanac of American Politics.
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The Almanac states the term "blood moon" comes from dark red color that the moon glows when it's in the Earth's shadow.
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What you first started to see were stories about adventurers who had gone out and used the almanac to manipulate indigenous people.
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According to the Stock Trader's Almanac, the direction of January's trading predicts the course for the year 75 percent of the time.
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However, according to the Almanac, most people won't be able to spot the difference between most super moons and typical full moons.
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The Stock Trader's Almanac said the rally begins in the last week of December through the first two trading days in January.
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The almanac rolls through the seasons, and as it does, what beauties this novel discovers and creates, as profligate as nature itself!
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In some cases the bindings were designed so that the almanac pages could be replaced each year, and the precious exteriors reused.
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In this episode of Vox Almanac, Vox's Phil Edwards explores the history of the somewhat unusual way the drinking age became 21.
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The 2020 edition of the Farmers' Almanac predicts that two-thirds of the country will face a colder-than-normal winter season.
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Since 230, the S&P 211 has gained an average of 200% during this time period, according to the Stock Trader's Almanac.
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Data from the "Stock Trader's Almanac" show the S&P 500 and Nasdaq both fall an average of 0.5 percent in September.
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In this episode of Vox Almanac, I look into the beginning of rotoscoping, a technique animators can use to create realistic motion.
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Some theories suggest that Stonehenge was designed in alignment with the solstices, but The Old Farmer's Almanac says that these are still unsubstantiated.
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According to a popular Wall Street theory and the Stock Trader's Almanac, small caps tend to outperform large caps beginning in mid-December.
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According to the Stock Trader's Almanac, it has registered only nine major errors since 20.7 and been accurate 22016 percent of the time.
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In the Citizen's Almanac, given to all new Americans, it is said that the only position higher than the President is the People.
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He has been deluged with media requests this week and has been making television appearances talking about the almanac and the January barometer.
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It is possible to find specific times when each planet will rise on a given city's horizon by checking The Old Farmer's Almanac.
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According to The Old Farmer's Almanac, the Full Snow Moon was so-named because of the typically heavy snow that arrives in February.
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Almanac For six years, Galen Zamarra has tried to find success in this somewhat awkward two-story space, starting with Mas (la grillade).
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Almanac will close after dinner on Saturday, and Mr. Zamarra will concentrate on his other restaurant, Mas (farmhouse): 28 Seventh Avenue South (St.
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"This time of year is really hard," said Galen Zamarra, a chef and owner at Mas (farmhouse) and Almanac, both in Greenwich Village.
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"The plan ruthlessly sewed the state, particularly the Philadelphia suburbs, into a crazy quilt," reads the Almanac of American Politics on the map.
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In this episode of Vox Almanac, Vox's Phil Edwards explores the history behind the groundbreaking CGI (computer-generated imagery) in 1973's Westworld.
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According to the Farmer's Almanac, December's full moon is variously called the Cold Moon, the Long Nights Moon, and the Moon Before Yule.
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August is typically lousy for stocks — it's the worst month for the S&P 500 since 1987, according to the Stock Trader's Almanac.
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Between 41.23 and 2017, the barometer has been correct 58 of 67 times, or approximately 87 percent, according to the Stock Trader's Almanac.
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As the Almanac of American Politics notes, Boston was a 95% white city in 1950; it is now 25% black and 19% Hispanic.
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According to the Farmer's Almanac, this summer will be hotter and rainier than normal, with higher temps stretching out into September and October, too.
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"If a season has four full moons, then the third full moon in the season may be called a Blue Moon," the Almanac reads.
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"We can't condone young people taking bikes," said East Palo Alto Mayor Lisa Gauthier at the time, according to a report from the Almanac.
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According to the Stock Trader's Almanac, as the S&P 22011 goes over the full month of January, so goes the full calendar year.
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IN 1912 a group of Russian avant-garde poets, calling themselves futurists, published an almanac entitled "A Slap in the Face of Public Taste".
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The moon got its moniker because it occurs overhead when a buck's antlers are in full growth mode, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac.
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According to Stock Trader's Almanac, going back to 000, that metric of January's performance predicting the year has worked 87 percent of the time.
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And just in case you're wondering, CLSA advises you to take its financial almanac with a grain of salt, or a cool banana mocktail.
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November is the second best month for the S&P 500 since 1950, while December is No. 1, according to the Stock Trader's Almanac.
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Trump won this district by three points in 2016, via the Almanac of American Politics, whereas Obama won it by 14 points in 2012.
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You won't find this in the Farmer's Almanac, but when temperatures and hemlines start to rise, celebrities begin to lighten up their hair colors.
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In his Poor Richard's Almanac, Franklin recommended chocolate as a cure for smallpox; fellow Declaration-signer and Philadelphia doctor Benjamin Rush recommended the same.
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But according to The Old Farmer's Almanac, an Indian summer must be hazy or smoky, follow a hard frost, and take place between Nov.
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" Others have called him the "weather hoarder" or a "walking weather almanac" for his meticulous collection and dissemination of weather data and events. "Mr.
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Historically, this was a big help to farmers who were harvesting their summer crops ahead of the fall season, according to the Farmer's Almanac.
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It's gonna be a really cold winter, according to Farmers' Almanac This is the weather equivalent of seeing Christmas decorations in stores in August.
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In this episode of Vox Almanac, Vox's Phil Edwards explores the secret history of the Venus de Milo, the famous armless statue from Greece.
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For followers of the Stock Trader's Almanac and others who look for patterns in the stock market, those were resounding portents of financial doom.
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"It used to be if you were making crosswords, you'd have a dictionary, a thesaurus, an almanac and maybe a word list," he said.
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Here, you'll find a framed entry from an early-20th-century almanac, depicting the exact intersection where the two women grew up in Brooklyn.
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It started in the Carolinas and then blanketed the Mid-Atlantic Coast and New England in heavy snow, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac.
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In his almanac he cautioned the farmer to "avoid the thirteenth of the waxing month for beginning to sow," though he doesn't explain why.
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On the equinox, the earth's position in relation to the sun causes the sun to pass directly overhead at the equator, the Farmer's Almanac explains.
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Last year's MLB All-Star game was played in Cincinnati, Ohio, generating an estimated economic impact of $2200 million, according to figures from Baseball Almanac.
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The publishers, who live on Manhattan's Upper West Side, met him through the publisher of the Chinese-language almanac that inspired their 22006-page reduction.
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Historically, the first five days of January can be an indicator for the market's direction for the full year, according to the Stock Traders Almanac.
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On the equinox, the earth's position in relation to the sun causes the sun to pass directly overhead at the equator, the Farmer's Almanac explains.
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In addition to continuing to produce the now-canceled "Writer's Almanac" for public radio, he went on to write regular columns for The Washington Post.
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One often-cited statistic from a 1981 paper states that the Farmer's Almanac is only right about 50 percent of the time—another coin toss.
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Hollywood predicted the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series — and no, this has nothing to do with Marty's almanac and Doc Brown's trash-fueled DeLorean.
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Beneath its prankish or weird surfaces — a set by Nautical Almanac included some creatively guided hypnotherapy — Trip Metal was just as history-minded as Movement.
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The Farmers' Almanac on Monday predicted the upcoming 2020 winter will be a "polar coaster" with low temperatures and snowfall across most of the county.
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Not even the Farmer's Almanac could have predicted this year's long lineup of natural disasters, which include Category 4 hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and ferocious wildfires.
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The Old Farmer's Almanac has been published in some form or another since 1792, but the target audience seems to have expanded beyond old farmers.
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And if raccoons are frequently running around your property, the Old Farmer's Almanac recommends planting either tall varieties of corn or squash as potential deterrents.
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While this forecast trends around this time every year, the more than 200-year-old almanac shouldn't be given too much weight on its own.
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The almanac points out that during the years of a Republican president and a Republican majority in both the House and Senate, the S.&P.
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Native Americans and Europeans gave February the "snow moon" title because it was the month associated with heavy snowfall, according to The Old Farmer's Almanac.
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The almanac showed that there was no moon on that night, and the witness broke down and admitted that he had not seen the crime.
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Many Baker columns were collected in books, including "No Cause for Panic" (1964), "Baker's Dozen" (1964), "All Things Considered" (1965) and "Poor Russell's Almanac" (1972).
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Almanac devotees point out that the true definition of the Santa rally is the final five days of the year plus the first two in January.
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According to The Old Farmer's Almanac, Native American tribes named the moon after the hungry wolves that howled during the wintery month, often gathering around villages.
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The primary use of the almanac was for navigation (and it was what started the convention of using Greenwich as the "prime meridian" for measuring time).
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The leather-bound book was a popular almanac, containing various facts and figures, and belonged to Philip J. Schuyler, the son of a Union College founder.
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When all three gained, stocks ended the year higher 90 percent of the time with an average gain of 123 percent, according to Stock Trader's Almanac.
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The S&P 500 averages a 1.6 percent gain for December, making it typically the best month for the market, according to the Stock Trader's Almanac.
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According to the Stock Traders Almanac, November is the second best month of the year for the S&P 500, gaining an average 1.5% since 1950.
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November is the #1 month for the Dow in presidential election years, and No. 2 for the S&P 500, according to the Stock Trader's Almanac.
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The almanac uses names that originated from Native American tribes to name the moons, as they used a lunar calendar to keep track of the seasons.
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Historically, the first five trading days of January can be an indicator for the market's direction for the full year, according to the Stock Traders Almanac.
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According to the Stock Trader's Almanac, going back to 1950, the "so goes January, so goes the year" metric has worked 87 percent of the time.
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But the almanac also warned that in the last three such years ending in "7," October was when the stock market plunged: 2007, 2750 and 212.
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Since 1950, Wall Street has rallied by an average of 1.3 percent during the last five trading days of December, according to the Stock Trader's Almanac.
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In January, it's known as the "wolf moon," inspired by the hungry animals that howled outside of villages long ago, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac.
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His books since include a trivia almanac, a debunking of myths passed down to children, and a book about how comedy has come to dominate culture.
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According to the Farmers' Almanac, northeastern Native American tribes referred to the second full moon of winter as the Snow Moon because of February's heavy snow.
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Last season, 67 percent of all offensive snaps came with at least three receivers, according to the Football Outsiders Almanac — up from 58.8 percent in 2013.
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In this episode of Vox Almanac, Vox's Phil Edwards researches the history of movies — and discovers the Italian silent film classic that changed all movies forever.
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The Farmers' Almanac insists on this because of how years are numbered in the Gregorian calendar, the system in official use throughout most of the world.
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Jeffrey Hirsch, editor-in-chief of Stock Trader's Almanac said it wouldn't be surprising to see investors taking profits at the start of the new year.
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Minnesota Public Radio decided to quit distributing Keillor's "Writer's Almanac" program and quit re-broadcasting "A Prairie Home Companion" shows hosted by Keillor after the allegations.
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The new NOAA information reads like an almanac of climate calamity, and in many ways it's a preview of what's to come if climate projections prove correct.
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According to The Old Farmer's Almanac, Native American tribes named the full moons after corresponding fertile crops as a way to mark the seasons throughout the year.
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I'm pretty sure the president will already have read it: Aldo Leopold's "Sand County Almanac," an exquisitely lyrical book that is also a primer in environmental ethics.
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It's such an event that the Almanac will be co-hosting a live stream from Slooh's observatory in the Canary Islands, which you can watch here. [Motherboard]
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Kids learned used an accompanying world almanac — a thing you totally needed before the internet — to find clues about geography and nab the Carmen and her gang.
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According to "Stock Trader's Almanac, " the Santa rally officially begins Friday, the start of the final five trading days of 21.8, and ends at the close Jan.
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As a solo performer, and as a member of the left-wing Almanac Singers in the early 1940s, Seeger had performed mostly at political or labor gatherings.
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There's plenty of people who dismiss the 20 percent rule, including the folks at the Stock Trader's Almanac, who nonetheless agree that March 9, 22011, was important.
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Only Aldo Leopold's "A Sand County Almanac" and Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" equal "Desert Solitaire" in transforming the genre of naturalist studies into manifestoes for social change.
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In the Old Farmer's Almanac, each month's full moon has a different name (next up is the Pink Moon in April, then the Flower Moon in May). Space.
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Oh, and we learned a few fun facts about the girls, too: For example, Skriver is not a fan of oranges, and Strijd is your walking brunch almanac.
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"Thus far we have failed to find a similar trading strategy that even comes close over the past six decades," said Jeffrey Hirsch, who runs Stock Trader's Almanac.
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When, under the eerie gaze of a prowling cat, Minghui gathers shards of moonlight and learns the future from a long-lost almanac, post-Mao "mythorealism" falls away.
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While full moons in June obviously aren't rare, the Farmer's Almanac reports it was the first time since 1967 the "Strawberry Moon" lined up with the summer solstice.
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That's probably the best-known aphorism from the Stock Trader's Almanac, an annual compilation of dates, statistics and advice for investors first published in 19503 by Yale Hirsch.
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According to The Old Farmer's Almanac, the full beaver moon gets its name from early colonists and Algonquin tribes who set beaver traps around this time of year.
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The last seven months of election years tend to be strong, with just two losing streaks (out of 16 elections) since 1952, according to the Stock Trader's Almanac.
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" From a 'secret formula' The 225-year-old almanac, with its kitschy cover and homespun advice, noted in 2015 that it's "useful, with a pleasant degree of humor.
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Since 1950, the S&P 500 has posted an annual gain 87 percent of the time when January is a positive month, according to The Stock Trader's Almanac.
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The Fairmont joined forces with Almanac Beer Co., supplying the sweet stuff to the brewery for a beer exclusive to the hotel, The Fairmont San Francisco Honey Saison.
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" Other nominees from this year use similarly ridiculous florid language: Ethan Canin (A Doubter's Almanac) compares sex to a "a brisk tennis game or a summer track meet.
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After July, he will continue to have a small radio foothold, hosting "The Writer's Almanac," a stand-alone five-minute radio program he started in the early '90s.
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Since World War II, they are the only quarters that average successive declines for the , falling 2.2 percent and 0.9 percent respectively, according to the Stock Trader's Almanac.
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Markets generally rally the day after a presidential election, said Jeffrey Hirsch, editor of the Stock Traders Almanac, because elections, whatever their outcome, eliminate a measure of uncertainty.
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It's happening a bit earlier than usual this year because of positional changes in the earth's elliptical orbit and the uneven length of seasons, according to the almanac.
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In the summer of 1961, at an afternoon devoted to discussing literature over tea in Paustovsky's garden, an idea for a new literary almanac, Tarusa Pages , was born.
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Stock Trader's Almanac, which studied the market phenomenon going back to 1950, found that the first five days have a good track record of predicting the whole year.
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The Dow has only had 22011 losses in the past 2261 years for the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and the Friday after combined, according to the Stock Trader's Almanac.
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The Dow gained nearly 350 points in the days before and after Thanksgiving in 2008, the best two-day performance since 1952, according to the Stock Trader's Almanac.
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Data from the Stock Trader's Almanac shows the Dow has only declined 16 times in the past 66 years the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and the Friday after combined.
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Stocks tend to have unusually strong performance during those trading days with the S&P 500 averaging a 1.3% gain since 1950, according to the Stock Trader's Almanac.
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The almanac documents the other phenomena of January, known as the January barometer, which is the belief that as the market goes in January, so goes the year.
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Stocks tend to have unusually strong performance during those trading days with the S&P 500 averaging a 1.3% gain since 1950, according to the Stock Trader's Almanac.
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According to Pete Geiger, the editor of the Farmer's Almanac, a person who kisses their beloved at the stroke of midnight will have 12 months of continued affection.
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In 1972, Yale Hirsch, founder of the Stock Trader's Almanac, discovered that the Lame Duck Amendment to the Constitution changed the political calendar, and the January Barometer was born.
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According to the Farmer's Almanac, the "Harvest Moon" actually describes whatever full moon arrives nearest to the fall equinox, or the time of year when crops are traditionally harvested.
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Indigenous tribes in North America used to keep track of the seasons by observing the full Moons, according to the Farmer's Almanac, so they would give these events names.
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Sometimes the "January effect" is used to reference a jump in small-cap stocks near the end of a year and into January, a theory popularized by the almanac.
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Entry-level Gallery rooms are plenty spacious at 323 square feet, but it's worth trading up to a signature Almanac room for the windowed seating nook overlooking Gran Via.
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The Farmers' Almanac provides 16 months of weather forecasts for seven zones across the US and Canada and has become a closely watched predictor of weather, particularly winter weather.
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Taylor spent a year working on a small farm in the Berkshires, and her collection takes its lead from Hesiod's ancient farmer's almanac of (just about) the same title.
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"The entire world is participating in the war!" a French almanac exclaimed in 1917, showing its readers a map of the world divided into enemy, ally, and neutral peoples.
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The Stock Trader's Almanac, which studied the market phenomenon going back to 1950, found that the first five days has a good track record of predicting the whole year.
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" MPR announced it would end rebroadcasts of Keillor's "The Best of A Prairie Home Companion" as well as distribution and broadcast of another show he hosts, "The Writer's Almanac.
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History seems to be on the market's side, as December has been the best month for the S&P 500 since 1950, up 1.6%, according to Stock Trader's Almanac.
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The psychological effects of Menlo Park's heightened police presence have demoralized residents of color, who told the Almanac about instances of being profiled by officers or searched during traffic stops.
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The Old Farmer's Almanac says the Algonquin tribe of indigenous Americans called the June full moon by that name because it occurred around the time the strawberries were being picked.
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The Old Farmer's Almanac says that Native American tribes called this moon the Hunter's Moon because they would use its light to hunt and start preparing for colder winter months.
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It has also earned the name "wolf moon" because it appears in January, when wolves would howl in hunger outside villages early in U.S. history, according to The Farmers Almanac.
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Local brewery Almanac Beer Company was set to donate large-format bottles of their new beers to the event, but the brewer got sick and wasn't able to make it.
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The Old Farmer's Almanac says that the Algonquin tribes call the first full moon of the year a "wolf Moon," though a quick search reveals that this probably isn't true.
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The funny thing that resulted from this recognition was that it caused thousands of people to simultaneously trace their fingers back through the almanac and handpick factoids to tell you.
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The last time these events coincided was 2010, and according to the Almanac, the next time a full moon will actually peak during a winter solstice won't be until 2094.
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NASA also has an almanac of all the solar eclipses that will occur until the year 3000, if you (or your descendants) want to plan to catch every last one.
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His most recent, A Doubter's Almanac, is about a mathematical genius named Milo Andret, and the ways his genius becomes a liability, scorching Milo and the people close to him.
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He became a regular commentator on NPR's "All Things Considered," and, through Mr. Keillor's recitations on "The Writer's Almanac," a kind of poet in residence of the public radio airwaves.
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Ben Franklin may have been able to slam a few small beers and then crank out witticisms in Poor Richard's Almanac, but I was completely and utterly cashed by 2PM.
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" Effective immediately, MPR said, it will no longer distribute and broadcast Mr. Keillor's remaining programs, "The Writer's Almanac" and "The Best of A Prairie Home Companion Hosted by Garrison Keillor.
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Alexis sets out to write and illustrate — or rewrite and re-illustrate — one chapter from The Almanac without reading it first, attempting to resolve whether he's simply experiencing déjà vu.
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In November, MPR announced it would no longer distribute and broadcast Mr. Keillor's remaining programs, "The Writer's Almanac" and "The Best of a Prairie Home Companion Hosted by Garrison Keillor."
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Since 211, there have been only nine major contradictions to the so-called January Barometer, according to the Stock Traders Almanac whose founder, Yale Hirsch, devised the indicator in 53.
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" MPR also announced it would end rebroadcasts of Keillor's "The Best of A Prairie Home Companion" as well as distribution and broadcast of another show he hosts, "The Writer's Almanac.
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Other names include the "hay moon," when farmers are beginning to store their hay, and "thunder moon," for the number of thunderstorms that occur at this time, as the Almanac noted.
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According to the Old Farmer's Almanac, the Pink Moon earned its name because it coincides with the appearance of flowers called wild ground phlox, known as "moss pink" for their color.
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In 10 of the last 17 U.S. mid-term election years, equity price moves for the full year followed January's direction, according to Jeff Hirsch, editor of the Stock Trader's Almanac.
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According to The Old Farmer's Almanac, Native American tribes named the moon the full wolf moon because of the wolves who would howl in hunger around the time of its rising.
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The Old Farmer's Almanac reports that Blue Moon happen about every 30 months, because the moon's period of phases lasts 29.5 days and some months of the calendar year are longer.
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The full moon in the month of June got the nickname "Strawberry Moon" from the Algonquin tribes of Native Americans who lived in Eastern North America, according the Old Farmer's Almanac.
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But Michael Barone, who for years literally wrote the book on U.S. congressional elections ("The Almanac of America Politics"), says that predictions of Democrats winning a House majority and making Rep.
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Since 1950, the S&P 500 has ended a calendar year higher 87 percent of the time when January ends up being a positive month, according to the Stock Trader's Almanac.
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In April, the month before the "sell in May" classic adage kicks in, the Dow Jones industrial average is up 1.9 percent, on average since 1950, according to Stock Trader's Almanac.
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According to the Almanac, the moon should be visible to everyone in the Western Hemisphere, but if it's a cloudy night, people may not be able to see the transformation well.
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Fall doesn't technically begin for a few more weeksAccording to "The Old Farmer's Almanac," it's still summer until the official start of fall on September 23, when the autumnal equinox occurs.
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According to Stock Trader's Almanac, going back to 1950, that metric of January's performance predicting the year has worked 87 percent of the time with only nine major errors, through 2017.
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She will serve as the meteorologist, reading the weather instruments and mixing their information with intel from other sources — including the farmer's almanac, horoscopes, and anecdotal news — to deliver unique forecasts.
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"For me going shopping, to see the community on the streets of Chinatown, I could tell," said Joanna C. Lee, who with her husband, Ken Smith, publishes the Pocket Chinese Almanac.
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"For me going shopping, to see the community on the streets of Chinatown, I could tell," said Joanna C. Lee, who with her husband, Ken Smith, publishes the Pocket Chinese Almanac.
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Moreover, in presidential election years, the almanac posits that the market's performance during the first five days of trading will determine if the market ends up or down for the year.
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NASA also has an almanac of all the solar and lunar eclipses that will occur until the year 3000, if you (or your descendants) want to plan to catch every last one.
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Jeff Hirsch, editor-in-chief of the Stock Trader's Almanac, said there's another set of statistics that are in the market's favor for a positive 2019, though they also failed last year.
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According to the Stock Trader's Almanac, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has lost 64.71 points from May through October since 1950 versus a gain of 20183,790.89 for the November through April months.
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According to the Farmer's Almanac, many of the full moon names that we use today have their roots in the traditions of Native American tribes and Pagan or other nature-based faiths.
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Since 1950, the has seen average returns of 1.4 percent in the final five trading days of the year and first two of the new year, according to the Stock Trader's Almanac.
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According to The Old Farmer's Almanac, full moons in June came to be known as "strawberry moons" because they were believed by Algonquin tribes to signify the beginning of strawberry-picking season.
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And yet in April, M.P.R. quietly returned archived episodes of Mr. Keillor's flagship programs, "A Prairie Home Companion" and "The Writer's Almanac," to their websites, and paid him $275,000 for the deal.
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History is against stocks: September ranks as the worst month for stocks, according to the Stock Trader's Almanac, producing an average price return for the S&P 500 of negative 0.5 percent.
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August's full moon, for example, is called the Sturgeon Moon, named for the species of fish that is best caught in the Great Lakes at around that time, according to the Farmer's Almanac.
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Since 1934, the S&P 500 has averaged a gain of 2.7 percent between the five days prior to the election and three days after, according to data from The Stock Trader's Almanac.
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Republican Representative Tom Cole, who represents an Oklahoma district that the Almanac of American Politics described as "countrified," predicted "Congress would look at some of those things differently" from the Trump administration's budget.
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As for Saturday's moon's "full flower" descriptor, the Almanac indicates that this is the name for the full moon during the month of May, simply because it's typically the month when flowers bloom.
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"Positive investor and trader behavior at the beginning of the year shows that there are good economic and market readings out there," said Jeff Hirsch, the editor-in-chief of Stock Trader's Almanac.
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According to The Old Farmer's Almanac, in ancient times people used to track the seasons through a lunar calendar, so names were given to recurring full moons to mark the change in season.
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The Old Farmer's Almanac explains the word "super" is used to designate when the full or new moon is closest to Earth in its orbit, making it appear larger and brighter than usual.
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However, according to The Old Farmer's Almanac, Native American tribes often referred to December's full moon as the full cold moon and the long nights moon because of falling temperatures and declining daylight.
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So by the 33 and 1700s, as Western people started to become interested in astronomy and started creating the first almanac, they were able to successfully predict when a solar eclipse would happen.
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Only here The semi-rock-star and motivational speaker Andrew W. K., Nate Young of Wolf Eyes and Twig Harper of Nautical Almanac, who all attended Community High School in Ann Arbor, Mich.
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This supermoon is also known as the Long Nights Moon, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac, because it takes places close to the winter solstice, the day with the least amount of sunlight.
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According to the Almanac, seasonal blue moons occur on average once every two or three years, and the next one won't be until October 31, 2020, so keep your eyes peeled on Saturday evening.
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MPR added that it will end broadcast of "The Writer's Almanac," which Keillor produced, and rebroadcasts of "A Prairie Home Companion," the weekly radio show Keillor created and hosted from 230 until last year.
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The Farmer's Almanac and human hunches have been trusted sources for centuries, but at this crucial turning point, is it possible to make the industry a more precise science, and potentially save our race?
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The Old Farmer's Almanac reports that the full moon in March is always known as the "worm moon" because it marks the time of year when earthworms begin to come out in the soil.
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It also said it has severed business ties with Keillor's media companies, including ending distribution and broadcast of "The Writer's Almanac" and rebroadcasts of "The Best of A Prairie Home Companion," hosted by Keillor.
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In 1777, Rem Cowenhoven, a Dutch-American farmer who had remained loyal to the British government, advertised in a local almanac to find his runaway slave Jaff, who had adopted the name Jeffrey Johnston.
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The best work of that indie heyday — and 1997 alone offered Elliott Smith's Either/Or, Stereolab's Dots and Loops, Whiskeytown's Strangers Almanac, and Teenage Fanclub's Songs From Northern Britain — compares well to any year.
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Rather, the Pink Moon's name is a signifier of spring: The nickname comes from a plant called moss pink or wild ground phlox — one of the first spring flowers, according to the Farmer's Almanac.
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Established in 19143, the group took its name from an almanac of essays and reproductions edited by Marc and Kandinsky and paid for by the wealthy collector Bernhard Koehler, the uncle of Macke's wife.
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He was a progeny of the notorious Hudson County Democratic organization and its legacy of corruption — but one of its "finest products," as the nonpartisan Almanac of American Politics put it at the time.
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When stocks finish that period higher, the S&P 1.33 has been positive 82% of the time at year-end with an average gain of 13.6%, according to Stock Trader's Almanac and CNBC calculations.
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Since 1950, the benchmark has rallied an average of 1.3% during the final five trading days of the year and the first two sessions of the new year, according to the Stock Trader's Almanac.
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When stocks finish that period higher, the S&P 0.33 has been positive 82% of the time at year-end with an average gain of 13.6%, according to Stock Trader's Almanac and CNBC calculations.
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When stocks finish that period higher, the S&P 500 has been positive 13% of the time at year-end with an average gain of 13.6%, according to Stock Trader's Almanac and CNBC calculations.
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The idea of the 13th day of the month being unlucky may have first taken hold in ancient Greece, around 700 BC, when the poet Hesiod penned a farmer's almanac called Works and Days.
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"Strawberry Moon" is the nickname given to the full moon in June not because of its color, but because it falls at the height of the strawberry harvesting season, according to the Farmer's Almanac.
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"A Doubter's Almanac," which Random House is releasing on Tuesday, features a brilliant mathematician, Milo Andret, who proves a famously impenetrable conjecture as a young man, then destroys himself trying to top his crowning achievement.
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Proceeds from the sales of the new game will go to the Crop Trust, which supports seed banks around the world, and buyers will also get an almanac on the history of the Svalbard vault.
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I sometimes think that if you could look in the safe behind Jeff Bezos' desk, instead of the sports almanac from Back to the Future you'd find an Encyclopedia of Retail, written in maybe 1985.
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Creating 3D image-sculptures made almost exclusively out of magazine and almanac cut-outs, artist Chris Jones takes this facet and amplifies it exponentially, his work acting as the ultimate antithesis to the digital image.
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Bundling was essentially laughed out of business after a lengthy ballad decrying the method — and the women who, as the song said, "follow that reproachful practice" — was published in a widely circulated almanac in 1785.
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"There have been many times when American political dialogue has been as vitriolic as it seems to be today," said Michael Barone, a political analyst, journalist and co-author of the Almanac of American Politics.
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In the past 66 years, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has only posted 16 losses on the Wednesday and Friday surrounding the holiday, combining results from the two days, according to the Stock Trader's Almanac.
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According to the Old Farmer's Almanac, this moon is referred to as "blue" not because of its color or appearance, but because it marks the third time in a season that there's been a full moon.
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According to The Old Farmer's Almanac, Native American tribes had a practical reason for calling December's full moon the Cold Moon: It occurs during a time when the days are long, dark, and, yes, very chilly.
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Individually, he's backed companies like Sweetgreen, the fast casual farm-to-table restaurant chain, that share Blue Hill's focus on sustainable products and socially responsible businesses, and now he's institutionalized that investment approach with Almanac Investments.
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Per Football Outsiders Almanac 2016, Jenkins finished the past two seasons 51st (out of 403 qualified cornerbacks) and 66th (out of 77) in success rate—that's the statistical output of a journeyman corner, not a star.
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According to a poll in the Almanac of American Philanthropy, 79 percent of respondents said the charitable deduction should be protected; and 62 percent of respondents said capping the deduction would negatively affect their personal donations.
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"Valeur et Constance," or "Value and Constancy," is a Parisian almanac for the year 1823, and it slips out of its slot and can be read (albeit with some physical maneuvering) even as its owner sews.
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During the final five trading days of the year and the first two of the new year, the S&P 500 has posted a 1.3% gain on average since 1950, according to the Stock Trader's Almanac.
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The first five trading days of the year are considered "an early warning system" that has accurately predicted full year gains about 25% of the time when their overall performance is positive, according to the almanac.
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Since 1950, the S&P 500 has rallied an average of 1.3% during the final five trading days of the year and the first two sessions of the new year, according to the Stock Trader's Almanac.
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It's commonly called a "sturgeon moon," because the sturgeon, a large fish of the Great Lakes and other major bodies of water, were more readily caught at this time of year, according to Old Farmers Almanac.
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As famine loomed, Columbus turned to an almanac published by a German astronomer and mathematician, Johannes Müller von Königsberg, also known as Regiomontanus, only to find out that a total lunar eclipse was forthcoming, according to Space.
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Speaking on the latest episode of Recode Decode, Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia recalled how he and his co-founder Sarah Leary initially developed Fanbase, an almanac of pro and college athletes, which Benchmark's Bill Gurley invested in.
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Three other rooms function as a museum displaying artifacts from the maybe-real histories described in The Almanac, Bühler's makeshift office, and Alexis's childhood bedroom, where his bed sits beneath a window that is also a screen.
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These clay inhabitants of the glacier and comet are housed in vitrines in the "museum room," where panels describe them as real artifacts attributed to Bühler, who used them to make photographic plates for his illustrated Almanac.
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Jupiter, the next brightest planet in our sky after Venus, will be visible in the sky beginning at dusk and well until the early hours of the morning around the world, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac.
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BIRTHWEEK (was yesterday): Weekly Standard books and arts editor Adam Keiper BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Michael Barone, senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner, co-author of 'The Almanac of American Politics' and a Fox News contributor.
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The title of today's puzzle sounds like a dramatic retelling of the almanac maker Nathaniel Ames getting laid off from his job, but it's actually a great hint as to what we can expect from the theme.
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Because it is so unusual, the Farmer's Almanac will join with Slooh, an online network of robotic telescopes, to live-stream the June solstice full moon, complete with commentary from Berman and Slooh staff astronomer Paul Cox.
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