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Remembering important dates

Remembering important dates

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Remembering important dates

- Remembering important dates can be made easier by coming up with rhymes. One very popular rhyme you might already be familiar with is about the voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492. The rhyme goes like this: In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. Rhyming like this still requires a little bit of rehearsing, but they make it easier to remember dates. Here are some other examples. The date of the Boston Tea Party was 1773. You take the last part, 73, and try to rhyme it with something like "heavenly tea." So, notice how 73 and heavenly tea have a rhyming pattern. You then build an image based on this. I'm going to imagine tea falling from the heavens into the Boston Harbor. Let's take another historical example. 1861, the start of the Civil War. Let's take the 61 part, and 61 could rhyme with "sticky gun." Now imagine a Civil War soldier struggling with a gun that is covered in honey, a sticky gun. So again, 61, sticky gun. Little rhymes like this make it easier to remember dates…

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