Remember remember ed cooke
You’ll be able to recite all of our kings and queens in order, you’ll be able to draw a freehand map of Europe, you’ll be able to tell any interested parties how many presidents were called ‘James’ and you’ll know which prime minister came before the Earl of Rosebery. INTRODUCTION Read this book, and you’ll be able to do some fun things. To my wonderful sisters, Daisy, Eleanor, Florence and PhoebeĬONTENTS Introduction Kings & Queens of Britain and England The Presidents of the USA Prime Ministers of Great Britain Countries of Europe (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England First published 2008 1 Text copyright © Edward Cooke, 2008 Illustrations copyright © Yeti McCaldin, 2008 The moral right of the author has been asserted All rights reserved Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recorded or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book 978-0-14-190354-5 VIKING Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephens Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi – 110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, North Shore 0632, New Zealand LEARN THE STUFF YOU THOUGHT YOU NEVER COULD ED COOKE On most Sundays he can be found guiding memory walks around London. As well as writing his weekly Mr Memory column in The Times, Ed teaches memory techniques and thinking skills around the UK. He was ranked seventh overall in the 2007 World Memory Championships, in which he has competed since 2003, and coached Josh Foer from novice to US Memory Champion in one year. In order to become a Grandmaster of Memory he had to memorize 1,000 numbers in an hour, ten decks of cards in an hour (520 cards) and one deck in under two minutes.
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REMEMBER, REMEMBER Ed Cooke studied Psychology and Philosophy at Oxford University graduating in 2004.