Almanach

Scaliger and Salmasius tell us that the word Almanach is of Arabic extraction.

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

The Almanach was the original Paris Hilton playbook.

Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010

The Almanach was the original Paris Hilton playbook.

Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010

Porphyry, Du Cange, after the strictest search, assures us that the barbarous word Almanach is never met with in any MS. Calendars or

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

[B] The German "Almanach" corresponds in a measure with the English

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The history of The Almanach de Gotha offers a fascinating look at the intersection of the personal, the political, the sexual, and the ideological in human history.

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In fact, The Almanach de Gotha, with its heavily researched, in-person verifications of title and peerage, became an indispensable tool for those seeking to ratify their status as heirs in later generations.

Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010

Less well known but arguably more influential was the Almanach de Gotha in English, The Almanac of Gotha—Gotha being a town in what is now central Germany, a pan-European list of royal families first published in 1763.

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Couplings, divorces, truces, invasions—all these contribute to the forking narrative of the Almanach, culminating in the dramatic destruction of the entire archive of the Almanach in 1945 at the hands of the monarchy-intolerant Soviet army.

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Archives or no, the Almanach lives on, its extant and recently updated copies still recognized as the single best source of royal lineage.

Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010