The TIME Almanac

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| subject = General

| pub_date = 1947-2013

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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.[http://www.learnersonline.com/weekly/archive99/week3/index.htm Information Please] The name was changed with the 1999 edition when Time magazine bought naming rights to the almanac.[http://www.infoplease.com/aboutip.html?type=books Company Overview]

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.[http://www.who2.com/cliftonfadiman.html Clifton Fadiman | Who2 Biographies] In 1997, the Information Please Almanac merged with Time. The Time Almanac for Kids with Information Please was first published in 2000.

With the 2008 edition the almanac began a partnership with the Encyclopædia Britannica, and in 2013, the final edition was published.{{Citation needed|date=May 2021}} The Time Almanac for Kids continues in publication.{{Citation needed|date=May 2021}}

The almanac contained the following sections:

• "Current Events"
• "U.S. Government and History"
• "U.S. States Statistics"
• "Great Disasters"
• "Awards, Entertainment, and Culture"
• "People"Brunner, B. (Ed). (2006) Time Almanac 2006 with Information Please. (2006) Boston: Pearson Education Company.