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The human mind can hold about 7 items at a time in short-term memory.

That means it should be no problem to keep track of Four Turnings and what they mean.

And for each one, you can easily keep track of seven events - seven particular occurrences during Crisis periods,  another seven during Awakenings, etc.

Which yields straightforward access to [seven times four equals] twenty-eight items of interest.

If those 28 items are in distributed fairly evenly by year, that's enough to hold onto about 500 years of history at once - with gaps that are only a few decades at the most.

And if you can find something district and memorable about those years, you can place most of what happened across that half-millennium period near one of these events.

(Hamlet was written around 1601. This is 13 years after yesterday's entry, 1588, the Defeat of the Spanish Armada. And there is likely some connection, there.)

That can be enough to know what's going on for that whole time. 

Which could be cool.

Some of the years in the grid below link to previous posts. Others will be filled in. A few could change.

To be continued. 

	High	Awakening	Unraveling	Crisis
	First	Second	Third	Fourth
				1492
	1506	1534	1580	1588
	1601	1621	1666	1675
	1692	1741	1752	1779
	1806	1827	1848	1861
	1869	1896	1927	1933
	1947	1974	1994	????