| But annual league guides and almanacs take up more space on your bookshelves and credit cards than they are worth. |
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| Anna Howell kept a record of her gardening interleaved in agricultural almanacs and often mentioned the many hazards she encountered. |
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| Maya astronomers observed the movements of the sun, moon, and planets, made astronomical calculations, and devised almanacs. |
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| My second point of dissent is Dean's presupposition that parents were sufficiently informed, by almanacs, about planetary positions. |
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| The almanacs played an important part in educating ordinary people about the advance of astronomy and the understanding of the universe. |
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| Let's discount dog almanacs and tree almanacs and almanacs that predict the best day to harvest the crop so as not to upset the children of the corn. |
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| Even though women had a lot of difficulty with their published works at this time, almanacs were one area of publishing where women were able to make some headway. |
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| The alert urged police pulling over drivers for traffic violations, and conducting other routine investigations, to keep their eyes open for people carrying almanacs. |
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| My favorite two genres of reading as a kid were atlases and almanacs. |
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| Curiously, when you consolidate their replies they tend to cluster around the actual figure as recorded in almanacs, yearbooks, and statistical returns. |
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| Canadian almanacs from the 19th century are an extremely rich source of information on Canadian institutions of their time. |
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| Current and historical weather conditions, forecasts, warnings, almanacs, radar and satellite imagery. |
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| Some of the almanacs also include maps of Canada or of certain regions of the country. |
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| A series of Crockett almanacs, appearing from 1835 to 1856, developed the legend along the lines of Old World folk epics. |
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| Well we learned how to use encyclopedias and almanacs and handbooks. |
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| Encyclopaedias, almanacs, atlases, dictionaries, etc are available on CD-ROM discs. |
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| In addition, the collection includes almanacs from other donated collections and almanacs purchased when available. |
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| Mr Chrétien argued that the government's extravagant sponsorship of festivals and almanacs had reduced support for separatism in the province. |
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| This collection of almanacs published in Montreal and Toronto is relevant to a number of aspects of Canadian history in the 19th century. |
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| Because feast days in such almanacs and calendars were frequently written or printed in red, a red-letter day came to be a term for one that was special. |
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| The lunar calendar and almanacs are also used to determine auspicious and inauspicious days for doing various endeavors, from starting a business, to getting married. |
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| Ancestor veneration and the Daoist rituals of consulting almanacs, geomancy, horoscopes and spirit mediums are seasoned with ethnic flavour. |
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| We'll fill our house with books and newspapers and almanacs, classic films, boxes bursting with crayons and glitter and posterboard. |
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| Recipes were also circulated through almanacs, magazines and newspapers. |
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| The typical medium for literary expression in Norman has traditionally been newspaper columns and almanacs. |
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| For users from outside Canada, one's best available sources for information on Canada are probably major atlases, encyclopedias, almanacs, and, of course, the Web. |
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| At any stage during the voyage, dependable almanacs, sextants, and chronometers made it possible to ascertain the ship's position with great precision through observation of the altitudes and azimuths of a few familiar stars. |
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| Only in works of reference atlases, dictionaries, almanacs, encyclopedias and the like do CD-ROMs now seem to represent a serious challenge to the predominance of books. |
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| The first almanacs were prophetic in nature. |
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| Any use of Chinese in books, calendars, almanacs, food labels, medicines, greeting cards, clothing, decorations, or other logos and signs is banned. |
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| It is a matter of inconvenience that nautical almanacs and other documents use a variety of different symbols for these units, which are likely to continue in use for many years. |
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| It was subsequently decided to supply the tide tables directly to the leading almanacs without charge in hopes that this would improve distribution. |
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| In the following years the tide tables were again supplied to almanacs, but were also distributed directly to newspapers and to steamship companies. |
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| There are also substantial collections of pamphlets, elegies, almanacs, ballads, satires and tracts that Davies had collected. |
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| By 1328, annual sales of printed calendars and almanacs reached over three million in the Yuan dynasty. |
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| Almanacs were very popular, also, Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac being the most famous. |
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