The TIME Almanac
1998 edition
CountryUnited States
LanguageAmerican English
SubjectGeneral
GenreAlmanac
PublisherInformation Please LLC
Publication date
1947-2013
Media typeAlmanac
OCLC38222513
Websitewww.infoplease.com/almanacs.html

The TIME Almanac was an almanac published in the United States. The almanac was first published in 1947 as the Information Please Almanac by Dan Golenpaul.[1] The name was changed with the 1999 edition when Time magazine bought naming rights to the almanac.[2]

Information Please was created in 1947 from the host and panelists from the popular radio show by the same name. The radio show which began in 1938 and consisted of a panel of information experts that answered questions sent in by the public. The fact experts answered questions over the air and when the panelists were not able to give a correct answer they used humor instead. Host Clifton Fadiman edited and helped publish the first edition in 1947.[3] In 1997, the Information Please Almanac merged with Time. The Time Almanac for Kids with Information Please was first published in 2000.[2]

With the 2008 edition the almanac began a partnership with the Encyclopædia Britannica, and in 2013, the final edition was published. The Time Almanac for Kids continues in publication.

The almanac contained the following sections:

  • "Current Events"
  • "U.S. Government and History"
  • "U.S. States Statistics"
  • "Great Disasters"
  • "Awards, Entertainment, and Culture"
  • "People"[4]

Competing books

References

  1. ↑ Information Please
  2. 1 2 Company Overview
  3. ↑ Clifton Fadiman | Who2 Biographies
  4. ↑ Brunner, B. (Ed). (2006) Time Almanac 2006 with Information Please. (2006) Boston: Pearson Education Company.


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