Interactive reading is a special technique of memorizing information based on interval repetition.
Dates of important events are missing in the text, and you will need to add them.
If you specify a right date - you move forward, and if youre wrong - start over.
This is a very effective way of learning of new material (as opposed to usual reading).
In such a manner youll actually remember what you read!
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