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Additional help was given by a kind of Catholic Churchman's Almanack, called the Ordo Recitandi Divini Officii, published in different countries and dioceses, and giving, under every day, minute directions for proper reading.
Muttiah Muralitharan (; ) ( also spelt as Muralidaran ; born 1972 ), often referred to as Murali, is a former Sri Lankan cricketer who was rated the greatest Test match bowler ever by Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack in 2002.
The first of an occasional series St Helena Almanack and Annual Registers was published with the press in 1842 ( the last and most comprehensive edition being published in 1913 ).
In the 1963 edition of Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack, Grace was selected by Neville Cardus as one the Six Giants of the Wisden Century.
In the 1963 edition of Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack, Bradman was selected by Neville Cardus as one the Six Giants of the Wisden Century.
In 1827 Knight was forced to give up publishing, and became the superintendent of the publications of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, for which he projected and edited The British Almanack and Companion, begun in 1828.
The building, known as Transad House, was in its early years, occupied by the publishers of the Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack and an image of cricket stumps appears above a door way.
He " played all eight matches, scored three tries and was recognised by the Rugby Almanack as one of the 1955 season's most promising players.
The condition of the pitch was subject to criticism and described by the Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack as " a strange sight ".
Poor Richard's Almanack ( sometimes Almanac ) was a yearly almanac published by Benjamin Franklin, who adopted the pseudonym of " Poor Richard " or " Richard Saunders " for this purpose.
Poor Richard's Almanack was popular for all of these reasons, and also for its extensive use of wordplay, with many examples derived from the work surviving in the contemporary American vernacular.
In the early editions of Poor Richard's Almanack, predicting and falsely reporting the deaths of these astrologers — much to their dismay — was something of a running joke.
One of the appeals of the Almanack was that it contained various " news stories " in serial format, so that readers would purchase it year after year to find out what happened to the protagonists.
Nevertheless, the ruse had its desired effect: people purchased the Almanack to find out who was correct.
The Almanack was also a reflection of the norms and social mores of his times, rather than a philosophical document setting a path for new-freedoms, as the works of Franklin's contemporaries, Jefferson, Adams, or Paine were.
Franklin also " borrowed-apparently without asking-and adapted the title of an almanac his brother James Franklin was publishing at Newport: Poor Robin's Almanack ( itself appropriated from a seventeenth-century almanac published under the same title in London ".
This profitable business gained many patents of which the richest was for almanacks including Old Moore's Almanack.
The Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack, in its obituary for him, called him Australia's greatest batsman: " Of all the great Australian batsmen Victor Trumper was by general consent the best and most brilliant.
She was part of the inner circle of the influential salon hostess Natalie Barney, who would become a lifelong friend and patron, as well as the central figure in Barnes's satiric chronicle of Paris lesbian life, Ladies Almanack.
Due to its subject matter, Ladies Almanack was published in a small, privately printed edition under the pseudonym " A Lady of Fashion.
A bookseller, Edward Titus, offered to carry Ladies Almanack in his store in exchange for being mentioned on the title page, but when he demanded a share of the royalties on the entire print run, Barnes was furious.
Barnes dedicated Ryder and Ladies Almanack to Thelma Wood, but the year both books were published — 1928 — was also the year that she and Wood separated.
On erection of the obelisk in 1878 a time capsule was concealed in the front part of the pedestal, it contained: A set of 12 photographs of the best looking English women of the day, a box of hairpins, a box of cigars, several tobacco pipes, a set of imperial weights, a baby's bottle, some children's toys, a shilling razor, a hydraulic jack and some samples of the cable used in erection, a 3 ' bronze model of the monument, a complete set of British coins, a rupee, a portrait of Queen Victoria, a written history of the strange tale of the transport of the monument, plans on vellum, a translation of the inscriptions, copies of the bible in several languages, a copy of Whitaker's Almanack, a Bradshaw Railway Guide, a map of London and copies of 10 daily newspapers.

Almanack and also
Franklin also included the occasional mathematical exercise, and the Almanack from 1750 features an early example of demographics.
The Almanack also had a strong cultural and economic impact in the years following publication.
The prefaces to the Almanack are also reprinted in:
The trade publishing division also features significant reference projects including Wisden, Who's Who, Reeds Nautical Almanac and Whitaker's Almanack.
He feints trying to escape with the Almanack and when Valentine / Carthok opens the book he touches the concealed card-trap and the consciousness / spirits he uses to capture his victims turn on him and kill him led by Fry / Lovemore who also dies in the struggle.
Bowling analyses are generally given for each innings in cricket scoreboards printed in Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack, newspapers and so on, but they are also sometimes quoted for other periods of time, such as a single spell of bowling.
Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack Australia ( also known as Wisden Australia ) was a cricket annual and reference book, the Australian version of Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack, generally known as Wisden.
In 1700 Moore published Vox Stellarum, The Voice of the Stars, containing astrological observations ; this was also known as Old Moore ’ s Almanack.
Smith is also a regular columnist and contributed cricket book reviews for the Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack and history book reviews for the Sunday Telegraph.
Amanugama had also been mentioned in the 1992 Almanack, with match figures of 12 for 91 against Sebastianites, but then under the name of R. K. B. Amanugama, which according to the Wisden editor seemed to confirm the joke.

Almanack and into
Napoleon Bonaparte considered the Almanack significant enough to translate it into Italian, along with the Pennsylvania State Constitution ( which Franklin helped draft ), when he established the Cisalpine Republic in 1797.
He became an avid player and follower of cricket while at school and into adulthood: in his later life he was known as " a walking encyclopaedia of cricket knowledge ", eventually owning all but one edition of < i > Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack </ i >.
In 1963, Barnes was named by Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack in its hundredth edition as one of its " Six Giants of the Wisden Century " and, in 2009, he was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.
The Doctor takes this card and puts it into his Almanack.
In the 1898 season, according to Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack Rhodes " sprang at once into fame, bowling in match after match for Yorkshire with astounding success.

Almanack and French
Both Ryder and Ladies Almanack abandon the Beardsleyesque style of her drawings for The Book of Repulsive Women in favor of a visual vocabulary borrowed from French folk art.
* Les Maximes du Bonhomme Richard, the French title of Poor Richard's Almanack, for which the ships were named.

Almanack and reprinted
Wisden Cricketers Almanack considered the incident of such significance that it reprinted the whole correspondence.

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