President Obama and I share similar challenges. We both have challenges remember if it is Labor Day or Memorial Day in May. I came up with the following mnemonic to help me remember. May is the month we celebrate the Military and thus Memorial Day. M+M+M. That might help me keep them separate. L for Labor Day is for Later in the year.
Do you have a better way to keep them separate? Please feel free to share if you do.
In accordance with said system, if it were desired to fix a historic date in memory, it was localised in an imaginary town divided into a certain number of districts, each of with ten houses, each house with ten rooms, and each room with a hundred quadrates or memory-places, partly on the floor, partly on the four walls, partly on the roof. Therefore, if it were desired to fix in the memory the date of the invention of printing (1436), an imaginary book, or some other symbol of printing, would be placed in the thirty-sixth quadrate or memory-place of the fourth room of the first house of the historic district of the town. at Douai with the sanction of that celebrated theological faculty. The most complete account of his system is given in two works by his pupil Martin Sommer, published in Venice in 1619. In 1618 John Willis (d. 1628?) published