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Cities
* Great Expectations
* A Christmas Carol
* The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
* Martin Chuzzlewit
* Dombey and Son

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TAKING IT FURTHER
    "Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail."
- John Donne

Your journey has just begun.
    Sherlock Holmes says, in the short story Five Orange Pips, that one must keep their little brain attic stocked with only the absolutely necessary furniture, with the rest being available in the lumber room of their library. Sherlock Holmes was wrong. Here's the great secret: It is ALL absolutely necessary! The more you know, the more connections you can make. The more you know, the more you can know. Your foundations are greater. The more knowledge you have in your head onto which you can hang new information, the easier it will be to learn new things.
    You now have perhaps your first spatially-organized entry in your mental library of facts. One little journey later, you've memorized William Shakespeare's 37 plays. Another little mind-waltz, and you've installed Charles Dickens' 20 novels. Your job has just begun. What's stopping you from creating more journeys? It's simply a matter of how many you want. 10 more, 50 more, 100 more? Oh, THINK of the possibilities!
    For several years I have been dreaming about the wonderful future of neuroprosthetics. Get a microchip, insert it into your brain, and install new knowledge. It's the cartoon-ish idea of simply swallowing a book to learn new things.
    The surprising reality, once you learn the Memory Palace Technique, is that we don't need any new hardware.
    In your head sits the world's most powerful computer.
    You just need to learn how to use it.
    You just learned how to use it.

RECOMMENDED READING
    "Wear the old coat and buy the new book."
- Austin Phelps

Remember, Remember
By Ed Cooke
Why? This book contains more stories like our Shakespeare one above to teach you the US Presidents, the entire British monarchy timeline, UK Prime Ministers, and the map of Europe. This man is a big name on the competitive memory championship scene, and his book is brilliant. It's Ed Cooke's work that inspired me to write this. Highly recommended!
    Moonwalking With Einstein
by Joshua Foer
Why? Josh Foer went from audience-member to memory champion in 12 months. The skills you need to compete with the best in the world can be learned by anyone (you've learned some of them in this very book already) and Josh set out to test that theory. He was trained by Ed Cooke (see book above), and shares his journey in Moonwalking With Einstein, a title taken from one of his own crazy mental images.

OTHER INFORMATION TO LEARN
    "How many worthwhile ideas have gone unthought and connections unmade because of my memory's shortcomings?"
- Joshua Foer

Geological Time Periods
    Cambrian
Ordovician
Silurian
Devonian
Carboniferous
Permian
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleocene
Eocene
Oligocene
Miocene
Pliocene
Pleistocene
Recent

Presidents of the United States of America
    George Washington
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe
John Quincy Adams
Andrew Jackson
Martin Van Buren
William Henry Harrison
John Taylor
Millard Fillmore
Franklin Pierce
James Buchanan
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
Rutherford B. Hayes
James Garfield
Chester Arthur
Grover Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
Grover Cleveland
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Warren Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
George Bush
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Barack Obama

The Ten commandments
    Thou shalt have no other gods before me
No false idols, ok?
Thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain
Don't forget to keep the Sabbath holy
Honour