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On 5/3/24 10:44 AM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
> In related news, I recently won a bet that I could name all the
> English/British monarchs of the past thousand years.  (It's easier
> than it was at the turn of the century, since there were so many
> between the year 1000 and 1024, whom I no longer need to remember.)

Willie, Willie, Harry, Stee,
Harry, Dick, John, Harry three;
One two three Neds, Richard two,
Harrys four five six, ... then who?
Edwards four five, Dick the bad,
Harrys (twain), Ned six (the lad);
Mary, Bessie, James you ken,
Then Charlie, Charlie, James again;
Will and Mary, Anna Gloria,
Georges four, Will four, Victoria;
Edward seven, George and Ted,
George the sixth, now Liz instead.

-- 
Evelyn C. Leeper, http://leepers.us/evelyn, @eleeper@mastodon.social
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick
themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
--Sir Winston Churchill