MNEMONICS

    I enjoy mnemonics - partly because my own memory is so bad for random things and so good for patterns (rhymes, for instance). Here are a few I know of - if you know others, write me and tell me about them!



Mnemonic Subject Explanation
Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me (Quick) Astronomy Stars by temperature - from a Class O blue-white giant, through a G-class yellow dwarf like Sol, to an M-class red dwarf (giant?). The Q-class are oddities like neutron stars and black holes, that don't exactly have a temperature.
Kindly Put Cat Out For Going Stinko or
Kings Play Chess On Five Green Squares
Biology Taxonomic groupings - Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
i.e. - Animalia, Chordata, Mammalia, Primates, Hominidae, Homo, Sapiens (guess who!)
HOMES Geography The five Great Lakes - Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior
Willie, Willie, Harry, Steve
Harry, Dick, John, Harry Three
History Kings of England - William the Conqueror, William Rufus, Henry I, Stephen, Henry II, Richard Lionheart, John, Henry III
There's more to this one - it goes up to Victoria or so - but I don't know the rest. Do you?


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