Monday January 21, 2013

     Today was only the second time that the Presidential Inauguration was held on Martin Luther King Day. The first was on Monday January 20, 1997 when Bill Clinton began his second term. The next time will be on Monday January 20, 2025.
      Memorizing information largely consists of making connections. You make a connection with two facts and link them together. For example, I have been memorizing facts about the presidents for years now. The more I know the easier it is to make connections. For example, when I was learning about their wedding dates I made a connection that the two most corpulent presidents were married in the same month, which was June 1886. On Wednesday June 2, 1886 President Cleveland married Frances Folsom in the Blue Room. It was the only time a president was married in the White House, although many president's offspring were married there. Two and a half weeks later, on Saturday June 19, 1886 future president William Howard Taft married Helen Herron. You can see how I picked two categories and did a mental cross reference. Heavy set presidents and June 1886 weddings. We will have more on the subject of mental cross referencing in future blogs.