My endeavor is to continuously self-improve and to help as many others as I can to do likewise. So, to start, I'm going to research principles proclaimed by Benjamin Franklin, and share them with all who are interested.
Besides writing many wise sayings in an almanac, Benjamin Franklin was an inventor, statesman, and publisher.
[An almanac is an annual publication that includes information such as weather forecasts, farmers' planting dates, tide tables, and tabular information often arranged according to the calendar. Astronomical data and various statistics are found in almancs, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, church festivals, and so on.]
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Poor Richard's Almanac
[Source: Wikipedia]
[Source: Wikipedia]
Poor Richard's Almanac (sometimes Almanack) was a yearly almanac published by Benjamin Franklin, who adopted the pseudonym of "Poor Richard" or "Richard Saunders" for this purpose. The publication appeared continually from 1732 to 1758. It sold exceptionally well for a pamphlet published in the American colonies; print runs reached 10,000 per year.
Franklin,
the American inventor, statesman,
and publisher, achieved success
with Poor Richard's Almanac.
Almanacs were very popular books in colonial
America, offering a mixture of seasonal weather forecasts, practical household
hints, puzzles, and other amusements. Poor Richard's Almanac was also popular for its extensive use
of wordplay, and some of the
witty phrases coined in the work survive in the contemporary American vernacular. Benjamin Franklin first published the
Almanac under the name of "Richard Saunders" in 1732 and continued
for 25 years.
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