One Pentagon official’s response to the question “What’s your favorite thing about the war in Afghanistan?” and a mnemonic for sixteen chemical elements spelled using the letters of their atomic symbols (He-Li-C-O-Pt-Er-S-Ar-Es-Os-Ti-N-K-In-Ni-Ce = Helium, Lithium, Carbon, Oxygen, Platinum, Erbium, Sulfur, Argon, Einsteinium, Osmium, Titanium, Nitrogen, Potassium, Indium, Nickel, and Cerium).
Non-Essential Mnemonics
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In this space, writer Kent Woodyard shares all the mnemonics
you’ll never really need to remember.
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“Helicopters are
so stinkin’ nice!”
BY Kent Woodyard
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