Mnemonics - Auto Mechanics

Auto Mechanics

Right on! Left off.

Mnemonics - Arithmetic

A Rat In The House Might Eat The Ice Cream: Arithmetic

Sir, I send a rhyme excelling In sacred truth and rigid spelling Numerical sprites elucidate For me the lexicon's dull weight.

Mnemonics - Calendar

Calendars and Time

Spring ahead, Fall back: How you adjust your clocks for Daylight and Standard Time in many places.
30 days hath September, April, June, and November. All the rest have 31 (Except for February which has 28, DAMN!) And then there's leap year...: How to remember the number of days in each month. Contributed by callisto@dorsai.org ... thanks!
Also there's a visual way to remember by putting your hands together (after making a fist, and tucking your thumbs under) then starting on your first knuckle and go across your knuckles and the spaces in between, say the months for each knuckle and space: January (knuckle), February (space), March (knuckle), April (space), May (knuckle), June (space), July (knuckle), August (knuckle), September (space), October (knuckle), November (space), December (knuckle). NOTE: July and August are where your two hands are put together! All the months on the knuckle have 31 days the ones that land on the space have 30--except of course February! This info supplied by Darlene.K.Carlson.2@nd.edu, a veritable fount of information!

Mnemonics - Electronics

Electronics

Better Be Right Or Your Great Big Venture Goes West

Mnemonics - Geography

Geography

Never Eat Slimy Worms

Never Eat Soggy Waffles

(From mackflo@pop.k12.vt.us's students, who have imagination!

Never Eat Sour Watermelon

To remember the directions on a map, place the first letter of each word in a clockwise circle starting at the 12 o'clock position:

                    N
                 W     E
                    S

Thanks go to Darlene.K.Carlson.2@nd.edu for the watermelon one, and also for:

I Am A Person

The 4 Oceans (Indian, Artic, Atlantic, Pacific)

Eat An Aspirin After A Nighttime Snack

The 7 Continents (NOTE: The 2nd letter in the 1st 3 A words help to remember the A continents) : Europe, Antarctica, Asia, Africa, Australia, North America, South America

HOMES

Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior : the Great Lakes in North America.

Sam's Horse Must Eat Oats

The Great Lakes, in order from west to east

See Mr. Huron Eating Oranges

For the Great Lakes in order of size: Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ohio (Thanks, andre@psinet.net.au!)

Elephants Lie Lightly, But Under Mattresses

This is one of three that I made up during a Russian Geography class, to remind me of the Republics (pre-glasnost, etc.) along the western edge of Russia: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (the L's are in alphabetical order), Belorussia, Ukraine, Moldavia.

George Adores Apples

Again, for the Geography class, the next grouping of Republics to the southeast: Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaydzhan.

Cossacks ooze back to Turkey, cursing dead sheiks

The cleverest of all, since the sounds of the words reminded me of the sounds of the names of the Republics: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kirghizistan, Tadzhikistan. Those are the ones to the east of the Caspian Sea.

Sultry Carol Languished Grumpily Near Carl, Always Aware Virginal Men Frequently Take Time.

The Confederate States of America: South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, Virginia, Mississippi, Florida, Tennessee, and Texas.

Mnemonics - Geology

Geology

Camels Often Sit Down Carefully; Perhaps Their Joints Creak? Persistent Early Oiling Might Prevent Permanent Rheumatism.

The first letter of each word is the first letter of the geological time periods, oldest to the present: Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, and Recent. {whew! need a big breath to say all that!!}

Toronto girls can flirt and other queer things can do.

For Moh's hardness scale, from jturnock@ism.ca:

10 - diamond
9 - corundum
8 - topaz
7 - quartz (easily scratches glass)
6 - orthoclase feldspar (barely scratches glass)
5 - apatite (nail is about 5)
4 - fluorite
3 - calcite
2 - gypsum (fingernail is about 2.5)
1 - talc

Mnemonics - History

History

In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
In 1493, Columbus stole all he could see.: That's what happened the following year. From by626@FreeNet.Buffalo.EDU
'59 was the date when Alaska and Hawaii became new states.: 1959, in the United States of America
In 1903, the Wright brothers flew free.: First successful flight
In 1848, Wisconsin became a state.: Again, in the USA.
I sighted Thomas's rights.: Each word in the sentence stands for a numeral in the date -- 1=I, 7=sighted, etc. This is to remember that 1776 is when the American Declaration of Independence was signed.
I captured south's flags.
A neighbor battle ended.

Mnemonics - Music

Music

Fat Corpulent Germans Drink And Eat Badly

Mnemonics - Physics

Physics

ROY G. BIV (pronounced like a person's name)