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That's because of my repeated dittography, max!
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Medical mnemonics galore. (CAUTION: Many are quite terrible and next to useless) http://www.medicalmnemonics.com
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1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
And now, with the number inversion of the ocean blue, I'll remember 1942...
As for the states, it's easier to learn the state song I wrote. Once learned, you get all the states, all the capitals, plus the order in which the states became part of the nation. Impossible to teach here, but of Troy says she wants to learn it at Wordapalooza...or maybe she said the president chant. Whatever, since I can't be a president or a state, at least I can teach 'em.
Music is great mnemonic glue. Who'd ever forget the ABC's?
Then I've heard of the song lines the Aboriginies (sp?) use for following terrain. That sounds mnemonically fascinating.
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Anybody have a mnemonic device for associating the requisite number of humps for the dromedary and the bactrian camels? I get 'em confused....
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>OK, Faldage, I'll bite. Anna, I think that is more information about your personal life than we need to know! 
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number of humps for the dromedary and the bactrian
the dromedary has a hump, the bactrian has a hump and another one.
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Dear Faldage:  What reflief! Thanks! Beast regards, Dub
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Even easier:
A D has one hump, and so does a Dromedary; a B has two humps, and so does a Bactrian. Mentally lay the D and B on their spines, and you'll see the camels' humps.
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The camel has a single hump,
The dromendary, two.
Or else the other way around...
I'm never sure. Are you?(and btw, it is the other way around.)
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Another device to remember pi is the footbal-cheer used at various schools of engineering. The variant I learned is from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute:
e to the X dy/dx,
e to the X dx,
cosine, secant, tangent, sine,
3.14159,
square root, cube root, log of pi,
dis - integrate them RPI!
an aside:
(1) the first two lines allude to the famous and onomatopoeic Croaking Chorus from Aristophanes' comedy, The Frogs: "Brek-kek-kek-kax, co-ax, co-ax. (2) cross-threading: that chorus is also the answer to a poser I posed a few weeks ago: what is a "caxi"?
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