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Publishes the first edition of Poor Richard's Almanack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Inventor: A Beautiful Mind | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

...this oft-told tale another Founders myth, like Washington's confessing to axing his father's cherry tree? The latest skepticism is voiced in a quirky new book, Bolt of Fate (Public Affairs), that calls the whole thing a hoax, echoing the spoofs Franklin confected for Poor Richard's Almanack. But author Tom Tucker's evidence is slim. He makes much of the improbability of flying a kite weighted down by a heavy key, ignoring Franklin's long history of kite flying, and of his delay in publicizing the experiment, though only three months elapsed. More to the point, scientific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Sparks Flew | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

...repertoire--came easily to him. He was no innocent abroad; he was no more bawdy Poor Richard than he was the self-correcting killjoy of his autobiography. What he was instead was himself, gravitas and raffishness combined, always a winning combination in Paris. The censors approved Poor Richard's Almanack for publication in 1777 but noted that it could have been in better taste. It proved a best seller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winning a Wartime Ally: Making France Our Best Friend | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

HAGERS-TOWN TOWN AND COUNTRY ALMANACK Forecast: The local Maryland annual foresees a season "shorter, colder, but less snowy than last winter" but still calls for a higher-than-average 61 in. of snow. Methodology: Solar activity and other variables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Dec. 2, 1996 | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

Bill O'Toole, forecaster, J.Gruber's Hagerstown Town & Country Almanack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spring, Schming | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

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