Talk:Lady Sybil Grant

message: Grant's birth and death years are coincident with those of Albert Einstein, which is perhaps as relevant as the RMS Titanic reference. Newyorkbrad 14:26, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
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message: # It's hardly worth mentioning that she was a contemporary of George Bernard Shaw. Everybody was. The man lived to be 150.
# Also, what you actually grammatically speaking state, is that her published works were a contemporary of Shaw et al.
::::::: Bishonen | talk 16:46, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: One of my favorite mystery writers, Jacques Futrelle, did go down on the Titanic, so I suppose it's refreshing to look at it from the point of view of the number of other authors who weren't there. Newyorkbrad 16:57, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: *When one considers the works that he did not write because of his unfortunate sinking, one realises that these events cannot be ignored, Giano 18:28, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Contemporaries

message: Surely we need a bit more evidence to posit a family connection between General Sir Charles John Cecil Grant, KCB, KCVO, DSO and General Ulysses S. Grant, more than "they were both generals so he might have been" (!) I'm sure there are lots of generals (some indeed named Grant, and some not) to whom he "might" have been related but probably was not.  -- ALoan (Talk) 18:15, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Did you see my evidence that she liked Field Marshals even more than she liked generals? If there's a Field Marshal Grant somewhere, we'd be cookin'. Bishonen | talk 18:21, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I had assumed the U.S. Grant line was included to give the Featured Articles team something to change without messing up the real content. :) Newyorkbrad 18:29, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: *It is important to make the American readers feel included, hence knowing one of their compatriots may be related to this flower of the aristocracy must be gratifying indeed to them. I think Ghirlandajo's amazing research which has unearthed that her son married a descendent of the Greatest general is significant, just to think there may be a living human being descended from both Ulysses S. Grant and the Duke of Wellington is amazing.  Incidentally Lady Sybil was descended also from both William Pitts so it is possible that Napoleon is also connected. Giano 18:37, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have made the Australian reader feel positively implicated, I think. And Wellington and Napoleaon are definitely involved, see my new footnote.  Bishonen | talk 20:15, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What about the Russians, I am wondered that Ghirlandajo and his compatriots may feel left out? Giano 07:56, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Both generals

message: There's a great deal of silliness and what seems ironic gushy praise ("insight that few others could possess") that should probably be removed. Too young to understand the dangers of revolution at 38? This whole article seems like a joke, which would probably be funnier if I knew who Sybil Grant was - if only there was a Wikipedia entry about Sybil Grant I could look at! Illuminatedwax 02:40, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
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