Poor Richard's Almanac was written as a series of antidotes by a young Benjamin Franklin to amuse the townspeople.
A young Benjamin Franklin started out working in his brother's print shop. There he got the idea to print off a regular news item that would be distributed throughout the town. This popular news item was known as Poor Richard's Almanac and it was chock full of flippant quotes sayings and antidotes that always had a ring of truth to them.
This book has been eight years in the making. It is mostly a jumble of thoughts written down in old spiral notebooks and hidden in the bottom drawer underneath various manuals for software packages and hardware long since turned obsolete.
Robert Burns' first daughter was Elizabeth. Her story and the five descendants Scottish lives are recorded here with the Bard's message today as ever in need. Al Quida listen: Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that. That Sense
