Long before the internet reached the heartland, there was the DTN terminal, a modern-day Farmer's Almanac.
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To underscore the less-is-more ethic, Hurst cut his 2013 almanac by 64% from last year.
He commutes to Washington daily on Amtrak from his home near Wilmington, Delaware, according to the Almanac of American Politics.
The Almanac of British Politics (Routledge), by Robert Waller and Byron Criddle and also in its seventh edition, is indispensable.
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It is modelled on Michael Barone's "The Almanac of American Politics", which has been published biennially for more than 30 years.
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In both of those elections, notes The Almanac of American Politics, he upset a favored Democratic rival for the party's nomination.
And in 1732 he inaugurated his famous Poor Richard's Almanack with a hoax predicting the death of rival almanac publisher Titan Leeds.
The first rankings were adapted from an ad hoc system developed for a golf almanac by Mark McCormack, founder of International Management Group.
The January Barometer is among the panoply of superstitions surrounding stock market history made popular by the Stock Trader's Almanac founder, Yale Hirsch.
Like its predecessor, "The Areas of My Expertise, " Hodgman's latest is an almanac-style compendium of facts ranging from the historical to the trivial.
In fact, the 1st District of South Carolina is only 21% rural, according to U.S. Census statistics published in the Almanac of American Politics.
He has a liberal to moderate voting record, the almanac indicates, and served as chairman of the powerful Judiciary Committee from 1987 to 1995.
Our research in the Almanac shows that most of the January effect, where small-cap stocks outperformed large caps, happened the last two weeks of December.
Some have been duly celebrated, like Aldo Leopold (1887-1948), author of the remarkable A Sand County Almanac (1949), of Chief Justice William O.
The Almanac offers a complete guide to the electoral map of Britain, with profiles of every constituency and a biographical profile of every member of parliament.
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His son, Jeffrey Hirsch, is editor of the Almanac Investor newsletter and says January's retreat is the latest in a series of bearish developments in recent weeks.
Jeffrey Hirsch, editor of Stock Trader's Almanac Investor, is an unflappable propagator of market truisms, and his father, Yale Hirsch, discovered the "best six months" strategy in 1986.
Those purses are a big reason seven of the 10 top-earning horses--based on career winnings, tabulated by the Thoroughbred Times' Racing Almanac, a trade publication based in Lexington, Ky.
Based on MACD and the coming of the "best six months" period, the Almanac Investor went bullish on Oct. 2 this year, five trading days ahead of the Oct. 9 bottom.
Kerry also has made education a priority in the Senate, sometimes -- as described by The Almanac of American Politics -- parting company with fellow Democrats on issues such as teacher tenure.
The Almanac of American Politics reports that at one point, Hagel had to extricate his brother from an armored personnel carrier that had run over a landmine while his own body was on fire.
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The two eloped in 1988, to save money on a big wedding, a year after she graduated from the University of Idaho, where she studied journalism and political science, according to the Almanac of American Politics.
"The last 35 years, the first five days were followed by full-year gains 30 times, for an 85.7% accuracy ratio and a 13.7% average gain in all 35 years, " reports Jeffrey Hirsch, editor of the Almanac Investor Newsletter, and son of Yale Hirsch.
Airline pricing is enormously complex, often confounding and angering travelers with prices that change several times a day, carry an almanac full of rules, restrictions and penalties and have huge disparities in the price of a trip in different markets or even just different days.
Stock Trader's Almanac founder Yale Hirsch is credited with coming up with the "first five days" indicator, which essentially says that the direction of the first five days of January is predictive of January, which can have bullish implications for the rest of the year.
They could have stopped it at any moment: When they had looked in the almanac to choose the date (there was no day described as good for killing oneself, so they had settled for a day on which it was good to take a journey).
According to data collected by Jeff Hirsch, editor of Stock Trader's Almanac Investor and son of founder Yale Hirsch, the third year of a president's term, going back to 1832 and President Andrew Jackson, has been far and away the most rewarding for stock investors.
We tried to determine which college towns offer solid real estate investments by looking at the top 50 places for education, as ranked in the Millennium edition of the Places Rated Almanac (the rankings were based on such factors as the local school funding, size and popularity of local libraries, and the college options).
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