Mnemonic verses
Mnemonic verses help in remembering facts.
See also: List of mnemonics
Examples
- The order of the Dynasties of China:
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- Sung to the tune of "Frère Jacques"
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- Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han
- Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han
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- Sui, Tang, Song
- Sui, Tang, Song
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- Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic
- Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic
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- Mao, Deng, Jiang
- Mao, Deng, Jiang
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- (note: in 2002 Hu Jintao becomes president of the Peoples Republic of China)
- The order of the zodiac signs:
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- The Ram, the Bull, the Heavenly Twins,
- And next' the Crab, the Lion shines,
- The Virgin and the Scales.
- The Scorpion, Archer, and the Goat,
- The Man who holds the Watering Pot,
- And Fish with glittering scales.
- Thirty days hath September, a mnemonic for the lengths of the months.
- King Henry Doesn't March Down Chocolate Mountains, order of metric system prefixes.
- The difference between prone (face-down) and supine (face-up):
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- In muggings, muggers must attack
- The victim's proper zone:
- The belly if he's supine,
- And the spine if he is prone.
- The order of British monarchs:
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- Willie, Willie, Harry, Steve,
- Harry, [...], John, Harry three;
- One, two, three Neds, Richard two
- Harrys four, five, six... then who?
- Edwards four, five, [...] the bad,
- Harrys (twain), Ned six (the lad);
- Mary, Bessie, James you ken,
- Then Charlie, Charlie, James again...
- Will and Mary, Anna Gloria,
- Georges four, Will four, Victoria;
- Edward seven next, and then
- Came George the fifth in nineteen ten;
- Ned the eighth soon abdicated
- Then George six was coronated;
- After which Elizabeth
- And that's all folks until her death.
- The parts of the Brain (as sung by Pinky and the Brain from Animaniacs:
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- Sung to Camptown Races by Stephen Foster.
- Brain: Neo-cortex, frontal lobe
- Pinky: Brainstem! Brainstem!
- Brain: Hippocampus, neural node
- Right hemisphere.
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- Brain: Pons and cortex visual
- Pinky: Brainstem! Brainstem!
- Brain: Sylvian fissure, pineal
- Left hemisphere.
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- Brain: Cerebellum left!
- Cerebellum right!
- Synapse, hypothalamus
- Striatum, dendrite.
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- Brain: Axon fibers, matter gray
- Pinky: Brainstem! Brainstem!
- Brain: Central tegmental pathway
- Temporal lobe.
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- Brain: White core matter, forebrain, skull
- Pinky: Brainstem! Brainstem!
- Brain: Central fissure, cord spinal
- Parietal.
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- Brain: Pia mater!
- Menengeal vein!
- Medulla oblongata and lobe limbic
- Micro-electrodes...
- Pinky: Naaarf!
- P+B : THE BRAIN!!!