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Have a History Test? How to Memorize Dates
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Using Rhymes To Memorize Dates
- Leave off the century. Example: the American Civil War in 1861 becomes 61.
- Think of a term that rhymes with your date. Example: 61 = Sticky gun
- Make sure your rhyme is a little silly and that it paints a strong picture in your head. Example: Imagine Civil War soldiers struggling with a gun that has been covered with honey.
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Tips To Memorizing Dates With Lines
The most important element of this method is to come up with a great, amusing image. The funnier it is, the more memorable it will be. If possible, come up with a little story to connect all your mental images.
If you have trouble coming up with a rhyme or have a lot of connected information to remember, you could make up your own song or replace the words to a song you know.
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Crafts
Handicrafts such as crochet, knitting, and embroidery—traditionally practiced by women and by the elderly—carry passive associations.
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Crafts during difficult times
- In Ireland, during the famine of the 1840s, crochet schools were established to train impoverished farming families to make lace for export that grew into an art form.
- During World War I, French peasant women cross-stitched military scenes that were sold to raise funds.
- After the war, shell-shocked soldiers were prescribed embroidery therapy.
- In London, people sheltering from the blitz were encouraged to pass the time by knitting.
Make something
Many have turned to yarn crafts as a form of stress relief.
You can learn too. To crochet, or knit, or cross-stitch is to make something and to make sense of it, creating something lasting out of solitude.
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Connect & Link (The Link Method)
This memorization technique involves creating associations between items in a list and assigning images to each connection to help you memorize better.
For instance, your account...
Make a Story (The Story Method)
This approach is really similar to the Link Method. While you create a bunch of different images between each two items using the Link Method, you combine everything into one big picture with the Story Method. This technique helps you memorize the sequence of the images and hence the order of the items.
Associate Objects with Familiar Locations (The Loci Method)
Make these images as absurd, comical, sensory (e.g. can incorporate sounds, smells, tastes), and vivid as possible for best results. This is a centuries-old method started by ancient Romans and is still used today by many World Memory Champions.
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The right place for your first rendez-vous
When choosing the right place for your first date, take into account the risk that things might not work miraculously well from the first try. Therefore, better go for simple places, like pubs, for...
Keep the conversation going
If you are planning your first date with somebody, make sure to pay a special attention to the topics you want to engage in throughout the date. Keep the conversation smart and the exchange of experiences alive.
Shape your mindset
When going on a first date, make sure your mindset is a positive one, no matter what your previous dating experiences felt like. Embrace the fear of a possible failure while hoping for a pleasant outcome.