This ancient mnemonic device was used by orators in Greece and Rome, and is still a trade secret of modern memory-contest champions.
"But I'll guess that when this is over, that this probably will prove to have been the change of hands with the least loss of life of any time in modern memory in that country.
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Scientists continue to monitor the adventures of one of the biggest icebergs in modern memory, and its progeny, using weather satellites and aerial photography.
A judge in New York City declared a mistrial Friday in the case of Pedro Hernandez, a disabled factory worker charged in one of the most famous child abductions in modern memory: the disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz more than 30 years ago.
As a result, one of the most productive presidents in modern memory, who won election in part because of the historic symbolism of his race, has a strong chance of going down come November for failing to use that symbolism to forge a post-racial consensus.
It's over and now we're just waiting for the buy-out and inevitable disappearance of one of the greatest mobile companies in modern memory.
Dr. Paul Fussell, a historian and author of "The Great War and Modern Memory" (Oxford University Press, 1975), compared the task in Lower Manhattan to the devastation in Europe and the Soviet Union at the close of World War II.
One of the more rococo dictators in modern memory, Jean-Bédel Bokassa proclaimed himself Emperor Bokassa I of the desperately poor Central African Empire (now the Central African Republic) in 1977.
The governors were gathered here, at a golf resort just north of Tampa, not because Florida was the scene of the most disputed election in modern memory but because it was Florida's long-scheduled turn to play host to the yearly affair.
