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Mnemonics

• Memory Improvement Course Links
• SelfImprovementNewsletters.com provides one of the most complete collections of Free Newsletters for Self Improvement and Personal Growth on the internet.
• Mind Tools
• Learning to Learn, Mnemonics
• Exploratorium
• The Memory Page
• Memory Improvement Techniques:
Unique Memory Improvement Book and Memory Game Software combo. Remember things to do or buy without written lists. Recall complex directions step-by-step.
• Mnemonics Bibliography
• 010 Memorizer: software to train you to memorize numbers
• 2Know: free software to translate numbers to words; includes 149,000-word phonetic dictionary

Famous Mnemonists

• Harry Lorayne
• A. C. Aitken
• A. C. Aitken's mental arithmetic
• Savant syndrome
• Funes the Memorious by Argentine short-story writer J. L. Borges

Pi Memorization

• Wikiverse: Read about Pi Day and Pi Approximation Day
• Pi World Ranking List: Site for official pi recitation records
• Olle the Greatest: Pi memorizer Hall of Fame
• Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics: Definitive explanation of pi and other math
• The Joy of Pi: Story of the famous number
• Project Gutenberg: Pi to one million digits and many downloadable books
• The Web Page Devoted to Pi: Pi mnemonics and more
• The Pi pages: Pi computation, people and history
• Exploratorium Pi pages: Science museum in San Francisco that celebrates Pi Day (3/14)
• History of Pi: From the ancients to the present
• Pi Mathematics: Resources for teachers
• Pi: The Movie: A critically acclaimed movie reviewed at a DVD site
• Memorizing Pi to 400 Decimal Places: a great tutorial to get started! Highly recommended!
• Pi memory record holder: Over 40,000 digits!
• Jeff Frohwein: Pi mnemonics
• Mark Dettinger: Pi mnemonics

History

• The Medicine Show exhibit at the National Library of Medicine
• Food and Drug Administration - great site with many pictures; your tax dollars at work!
• Patent Medicine Collection - pictures and articles at Vanderbilt Medical Center
• Cure What Ails You - patent medicine images from theoldentimes.com
• Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company - a bottle collector's site with great pictures!
• Cleaning Up the Patent-Medicine and Other Evils - article about the campaign against patent medicines at Bartleby
• Patent Medicine - a medicine bottle collector's site with pictures and more articles
• Doc Dazzal's Traveling Medicine Show - a spectacularly talented pitchman in Phoenix, Arizona
• The Medicine Show by Lillian Arnold Lopez - a poetical celebration
• The JOMC 191 Virtual Medicine Show - a rich experience!
• Sideshow World
- Preserving the Past...Promoting the Future

Performing Arts in Downeast Maine

• Bar Harbor Times: Arts coverage and events calender (Entertainment section)
• Mount Desert Islander: Arts coverage and events calender
• Criterion Theatre: Bar Harbor's Art Deco Theatre
• Maine Public Broadcasting Community Calender: Events in Maine
• Peter "The Glassman" Bennett: story on street performing in Bar Harbor.
• AllofMaine.com: Arts and Entertainment Listings
• MaineList.com - A Directory Listing for the entire State of Maine. Search by Category, Town, or Alphabetically for Maine web sites. You Can Get There From Here!
• DEFFA: Downeast Friends of the Folk Arts; folk arts listings in Maine
• Song of the Sea: Bagpipes, harps, dulcimers, and other instruments; events calender
• Downeast House Concert Collective: Great music in intimate settings!
• Frogtown Mountain Puppeteers: Bar Harbor's favorite puppeteers!
• Kate Wegner: One of Maine's fiddle greats!
• Tammy Packie: Photographer of the Stars!
• Acappellago: Acappella music from a popular ensemble
• Miller & Wilson's Theater of Marvels: exotic magic from around the world
• Professor Miller: Master of the Chinese Rings!
• Amazing Magic of Wes Booth: The Family Fun Magician Kids Love Best!
• I.B.M. Ring 362: Maine's Ring of the International Brotherhood of Magicians

For Magicians

• The Magic Cafe: Over 15,000 magicians talk to each other here
• Performers.net: Online community for variety performers
• All Magic Dealers Guide: Many magic dealers on one page
• MagicTricks.Com: Fast same-day shipping! Huge in-stock inventory of professional magic tricks, books, videos/DVDs and memorabilia. All tricks rated by skill level for easy selection. Visit their free Magic Library. Includes directory of magicians for hire.
• Keoz: Arts Vertical Portal with directory to the arts, including magic.
• MagicZOOM: Search the web for magic sites
• The Linking Page: Magic's premiere web site for magic
• Flora & Co.: Don't miss Magazine Memory Act, the tape that created Dr. Wilson!
• The Paul Daniels Magic Store: The magician's choice for all magic tricks and related items. A quality UK based magic site.
• Houdini Tribute: a huge site with everything you might ever want to know about Harry Houdini.
• Houdiniana.com: The largest electronic archive in the World on Houdini!
• Houdini: A Biographical Chronology: A summary by Joan F. Higbee, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress
• Houdini Hisorical Center: A historical center in Appleton, Wisconsin, which Houdini claimed to be the town of his birth.
• magictricks.com: a capsule biography with some photographs.
• London Table Magician: Noel Qualter is a London-based table magician.

Miscellaneous

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