When I was young, I did this thing called Silva Mind Control. It taught me meditation, and various other mental techniques that have come in handy throughout my life. One of the techniques that we learnt was for memorising lists of things - they called it "Memory Pegs" in Silva. It turns out that this technique is generally known as "The Major Mnemonic System" derived from a technique developed in the 1600s. I became more interested in mnemonics after the book "Moonwalking with Einstein" shot to fame, especially combined with all the studying I have been doing over the years which made me desperate for faster ways of remembering things. It made me dust off this technique and start to use it again.