Chapter 39 how to remember dates

When we remember a certain date, we can associate it with important dates we are familiar with, so that the memory effect is the best.For example, it may be difficult for an American to remember the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, but it is much easier to remember the fourth year after the Civil War; Arriving in Australia in the year, this time is easy to forget, just like the loose screws in the car are easy to lose, but if you think of the American Independence Day on July 4, 1776, 12 years later, the first settler in Australia was discovered, it is relatively It's easier to remember, it's like the loose screw has been tightened again.

The same is true when choosing a phone number.For example, my phone number is 1776, which happens to be the year of American independence, and everyone remembers it effortlessly.When picking a number from the phone company, if you get numbers like 1492, 1861, 1865, 1914, 1918, your friends don't need to look in the phone book.For example, the number "1492", isn't it the time when Columbus discovered America?However, if you give this number to your friends in a non-innovative, ordinary way, then they will easily forget it. When Australians, New Zealanders or Canadians read this, when remembering 1776, 1861 and 1865, of course they must think of important times in the history of their own country.

What is the best way to remember the following time? (1) 1564 - Shakespeare's birthday; (2) 1607 - the first Englishman settled in Jamestown, America; (3) 1819 - the birthday of Queen Victoria; (4) 1807 - Robert E. Lee's birthday; (5) 1789 - The Bastille is destroyed. If you memorize the thirteen states that joined the United States in order through purely mechanical repetition, then you must feel extremely tired.However, if they are combined through a story, then this kind of memory will be an instant thing.Now, read the following passage with full attention, and see if you can name the states in order:

One Saturday afternoon, a young woman from Delaware bought a train ticket to Pennsylvania for a short trip.In her suitcase, she had a sweatshirt made in New Jersey, and she was visiting her friend Georgia in Connecticut that day.The next morning, she and the hostess attended a mass at a Maryland church, and then returned home on the Southern Line.At the table, they shared a new breed of ham grilled by Virginia, an excellent cook from New York.After dinner, they took the Northern Line train to the "safety island" in the middle of the street.