Talk:Grant's Tomb

message: I replaced this image with a better one (in my opinion). Higher resolution, subject not cropped, better exposure and angle.
--Dschwen 15:44, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Replaced Pic

message: The image, reproduced at right, looks as if the glass plate negative was reversed when it was printed. If the wide boulevard is Riverside Drive, (on the other side, the park side towards the Hudson, the land drops away steeply) then this would have to be a view from the north, where there are a series of terraces and steps, rather than the wide esplanade leading to the structure, as shown here.
Should this image be deleted?--Wetman (talk) 05:58, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Reversed image?

message: As seen , the offical name of the memorial is "General Grant National Memorial."  I think that should be the name of the articlem and Grant's Tomb should be a redirect. --Coingeek (talk) 00:27, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia policy is to use common names for article titles, which may or may not be the "official" name. In this case Grant's Tomb is the more common name and what people are more likely to search for. Station1 (talk) 08:53, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name Change? 

message: I've removed the template that was originally added to this section on June 26, 2008, (not August 2009 as was indicated). There was never any explanation as to why the template was added, nor has there been any discussion in the following 21 months. The template was therefore pointless. If anybody has any opposition to this removal, please feel free to restore it but an explanation as to why it has been restored should be included here; otherwise it serves no purpose. --AussieLegend (talk) 10:08, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Decay and restoration 

message: I note the Popular Culture section regarding this claims it is a riddle with the correct answer being 'no one', however I can find no evidence that it was intended in the way asserted to be there, but was merely meant to be an absurd question, because it was so easy and straight forward (also buried has other secondary meanings/nuances that would work with interred, and it's a common way to refer to it so it seems doubtful to me even as a pedant). Also apparently the question predates Marx, with the earliest written example being a 1925 newspaper column (that appeared to be a collection of preexisting quips) “Ed Wynn’s Question Box". There's a link here from the site Quote Investigator that goes into the various evidence and discusses the question, with supporting reliable cites and references within which could be useful. The section as it stands is not referenced at all.Number36 (talk) 14:04, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Who is buried in Grant's Tomb" -or rather the question of the question 

message: There seems to be some confusion concerning the definition of President Grant's final resting place. Some articles state that Grant is in a crypt, but I don't know if this is the correct term. The word "crypt" has multiple definitions. The most recent definition of this word is "a chamber in a mausoleum." In ancient times, a crypt was a large room that contained the the remains of mulitple dead people.
President Grant is interred in a red, granite sarcophagus, which is located in an atrium within the mausoleum. I don't think that "crypt" is the right word to describe the location of the sarcophagus. Also, is Grant in a "tomb" or a "mausoleum?"
When I edited this article, I replaced most entries of "crypt" with "atrium," because I think that atrium is a better choice of words to describe the location of the sarcophagus. Grant's sarcophagus is in an atrium, which is in a tomb, which is in a mausoleum. Synonyms can include "rotunda" and "enclave," but I don't think that the word "crypt" belongs in the terminology.
Anthony22 (talk) 22:31, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is Ulysses S. Grant interred in a crypt, atrium, rotunda, enclave, or chamber? 

message: A verb has been dropped from Grace's letter. I can't supply it. An editir should check it against the passage in Koch. Wetman (talk) 14:07, 19 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proofread Grace's letter 

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message: I agree that the page should be called the General Grant National Memorial with a redirect from Grant's Tomb. Otherwise, it is like a page about Hillary Clinton being called "Crooked Hillary" ...
I also think that, since two people are interred in the tomb, Mr. and Mrs. Grant, it should be referred to as "Grants' Tomb." Ddnile (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 04:02, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Can't agree about the Hillary Clinton analogy. The monument is universally famous as 'Grant's Tomb', and that should be the title of the page. Valetude (talk) 15:15, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Grammar and redirect

message: My dictionary, and a quick search, describes "interred" as:
place (a corpse) in a grave or tomb, typically with funeral rites.
So I think the sentence "since neither of the Grants' sarcophagi is underground, nobody is interred at Grant's Tomb." is incorrect. Nobody is buried, but they are interred. 
But I may be wrong, often am. johnnycat (talk) 00:43, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Buried is often colloquially used as a synonym for interred. For them to have said "that no one is buried in Grant's Tomb" for the DYK was a bit disingenous and pedantic. Thornfield Hall (talk) 06:56, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: @Jmschilling, I've changed "interred" to "buried". Thanks for the clarification.@Thornfield Hall, the pedantry was intentional but I disagree that it's disingenuous. It's a well-known joke from Groucho Marx's quiz show You Bet Your Life. He often asked contestants, "Who was buried in Grant's Tomb?", but the correct answer is "none" since the Grants are placed in sarcophagi above ground level. Perhaps it would have been clearer to say that no one was buried under Grant's Tomb. – Epicgenius (talk) 13:10, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Did you know nomination