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How easy is it to learn the modern periodic table?
Memorization Strategies
- Break down the table into sections.
- Spread out the memorization process.
- Learn the elements in a song.
- Make nonsense words made from element symbols.
- Use color to learn element groups.
- Use a mnemonic device to help remember the order of the elements.
Why is it called the GGS?
They used it to refer to their big farm horses, as well as race horses. The colours of the University of Ottawa are Garnet and Grey, or GG for short. For a long time the uOttawa sports teams were known as the GG’s. Over time this morphed into Gee-Gees, the same as the horses of the Ottawa valley.
Does Gigi mean horse?
: a horse —used especially by children or when referring informally to horse racing Daddy has a bet on the gee-gees.
What is the song modern Major General?
Modern Major General is a song written by Gilbert and Sullivan in 1879. Archibald sings his own rendition of the song in the VeggieTales episode The Wonderful World of Auto-Tainment! . Archibald: Here we go! I am the very model of a modern Major-General. I’ve information vegetable, animal, and mineral.
Who is the inspiration for the character of modern Major General?
Or the character could have been inspired by General Henry Turner, an uncle of Gilbert’s wife who Gilbert disliked – or perhaps a bit of both generals reside in Gilbert’s general. What are the lyrics to ‘Modern Major General’?
How does the major-general find a rhyme at the end?
The stage directions in the libretto state that at the end of each verse the Major-General is “bothered for a rhyme”. Interpolated business occurs here, and in each case he finds a rhyme and finishes the verse with a flourish. The character of Major-General Stanley was widely taken to be a caricature of the popular general Sir Garnet Wolseley.