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Anniversaries, Birthdays and Other Important Dates 201
If, as in school work, it is necessary for you to remember
the year as well as the month and day—simply get a word
to represent the year into your association. For instance, al-
though everybody knows the date of the signing of the
Declaration of Independence, I can use that as an example.
If you associated the Declaration, or a substitute word, to
"car cash," you would know that it was signed on July 4th
(7-4—car) in the year 1776 (76—cash). It is almost never
necessary to bother with the first two digits of the year, be-
cause you would usually know the century in which an
event occurred. If not, get a word for those digits into your
picture, too.
School students usually have to remember only the year
of an historical event. This is a cinch, because all you need
in your association, besides the event itself, is one word to
represent the year. Napoleon was crowned emperor in the
year 1804. If you made a ridiculous picture of Napoleon
being crowned, and the crown hurting his head, or making
it sore (04), you would remember it.
The Chicago fire was in 1871; just associate fire to "cot"
(71). If you made a ridiculous picture of a giant ocean
liner sinking because it is made of "tin," you would remem-
ber that the Titanic went down in 1912.
Sometimes it is necessary to remember the year of birth
and the year of the death of important people. Just as an
example, if you made an association of a stevedore dressed
as a lass, fighting a bear—you would recall that Robert
Louis Stevenson (stevedore) was born in 1850 (lass) and
died in 1894 (bear).
Now you won't be like the little boy, who when asked
how he was doing in school, complained that the teacher
expected him to know about things that happened before
he was born!
Talking about school work, in Geography it is often im-