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    Poor Richard's Almanack (sometimes Almanac) was a yearly almanac published by Benjamin Franklin, who adopted the pseudonym of "Poor Richard" or "Richard...
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  • Benjamin Franklin, and the book's title is a tribute to Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack. Net proceeds from sales of the book go to the Munger Research...
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    23. He became wealthy publishing this and Poor Richard's Almanack, which he wrote under the pseudonym "Richard Saunders". After 1767, he was associated...
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  • ships of the United States. Les Maximes du Bonhomme Richard, the French title of Poor Richard's Almanack, for which the ships were named. A pseudonym of Benjamin...
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  • and for want of a horse the rider was lost. —Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanack, preface (1758) Short Variation For want of a nail the shoe was...
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    Almanac (redirect from Almanack)
    annual Poor Richard's Almanack in Philadelphia from 1732 to 1758. Samuel Stearns of Paxton, Massachusetts, issued the North-American Almanack, published...
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    titled Ten Speed. In 2016 she was cast for the USA Network-pilot Poor Richard's Almanack. Lay Over (2013, short film) Ten Speed (2015, short film) "Jordan...
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  • for writing Poor Richard's Almanack, for which the ships have been named, after the French title of the publication. USS Bonhomme Richard (1765), formerly...
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  • American Almanack. He was mentioned as a "good friend and fellow student" of Benjamin Franklin in Franklin's rival publication Poor Richard's Almanack. Titan's...
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    English in 1340. The proverb was rephrased by Benjamin Franklin in Poor Richard's Almanack in 1736, stating "the rotten apple spoils his companion." The phrase...
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