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you have to try different ways to ask the question to get the response "no one", otherwise the google machine says "Grant" is the answer. In my view "no one" is correct, as I was influenced by someone who always said to mind what you say about being buried. In a tomb, you are 'entombed' ... In a grave, you are 'buried'

Yet I agree that if it came up on, say, Jeopardy!, you have to accept the answer "Grant"; but even then isn't it "Grant and wife" ?

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no one was buried in grant's tomb?

Grant remains the only president interred in New York City. Today, his memorial is open to visitors year-round and is the frequent site of galas and summer concerts. And the answer to “Who's buried in Grant's tomb?” is: no one. As the sarcophagi are situated above-ground, there is no body “buried” in Grant's tomb
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Why do people ask who is buried in Grant's Tomb?

Sticklers for accuracy have noted that the bodies of Ulysses S. Grant and his wife, Julia Dent Grant, are not actually below ground in the mausoleum. Hence, strictly speaking, no one is buried in Grant's tomb. Perhaps responses of this type may have inspired humorists to create absurdist questions.

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Quote: odiousgambit

you have to try different ways to ask the question to get the response "no one", otherwise the google machine says "Grant" is the answer. In my view "no one" is correct, as I was influenced by someone who always said to mind what you say about being buried. In a tomb, you are 'entombed' ... In a grave, you are 'buried'

Yet I agree that if it came up on, say, Jeopardy!, you have to accept the answer "Grant"; but even then isn't it "Grant and wife" ?

>>>

no one was buried in grant's tomb?

Grant remains the only president interred in New York City. Today, his memorial is open to visitors year-round and is the frequent site of galas and summer concerts. And the answer to “Who's buried in Grant's tomb?” is: no one. As the sarcophagi are situated above-ground, there is no body “buried” in Grant's tomb
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Why do people ask who is buried in Grant's Tomb?

Sticklers for accuracy have noted that the bodies of Ulysses S. Grant and his wife, Julia Dent Grant, are not actually below ground in the mausoleum. Hence, strictly speaking, no one is buried in Grant's tomb. Perhaps responses of this type may have inspired humorists to create absurdist questions.

Is "Grant's Tomb" just the part of the edifice that is below the ground, or the entire complex, above ground mausoleum and all? The Oxford Dictionary allows for both definitions.

Quote: odiousgambit

Quote: GenoDRPh

Quote: odiousgambit

you have to try different ways to ask the question to get the response "no one", otherwise the google machine says "Grant" is the answer. In my view "no one" is correct, as I was influenced by someone who always said to mind what you say about being buried. In a tomb, you are 'entombed' ... In a grave, you are 'buried'

Yet I agree that if it came up on, say, Jeopardy!, you have to accept the answer "Grant"; but even then isn't it "Grant and wife" ?

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no one was buried in grant's tomb?

Grant remains the only president interred in New York City. Today, his memorial is open to visitors year-round and is the frequent site of galas and summer concerts. And the answer to “Who's buried in Grant's tomb?” is: no one. As the sarcophagi are situated above-ground, there is no body “buried” in Grant's tomb
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Why do people ask who is buried in Grant's Tomb?

Sticklers for accuracy have noted that the bodies of Ulysses S. Grant and his wife, Julia Dent Grant, are not actually below ground in the mausoleum. Hence, strictly speaking, no one is buried in Grant's tomb. Perhaps responses of this type may have inspired humorists to create absurdist questions.

Is "Grant's Tomb" just the part of the edifice that is below the ground, or the entire complex, above ground mausoleum and all? The Oxford Dictionary allows for both definitions.

It would be all of it, but read that again: Grant and wife are above the ground, which is I think always the case with a tomb.

Quote: GenoDRPh

Oxford-and wikipedia-state that a "tomb" can also be a place of internment above ground, like a a mausoleum. So, no, burial in a tomb is NOT always burial below ground.

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So if someone asks me "who is buried in Grant's tomb", I would retort, "do you define the "tomb" as being only below ground or does it it also include the above ground mauoleum?".

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In 1986, scientists reviewed calculations and data, after which they determined, to conserve cod fishing, the total allowable catch rate had to be cut in half. However, even with these new statistics brought to light, no changes were made in the allotted yearly catch of cod. With only a limited knowledge of cod biology, scientists predicted that the population of the species would rebound from its low point in 1975.

In the early-1990s, the industry collapsed entirely.

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In 1986, scientists reviewed calculations and data, after which they determined, to conserve cod fishing, the total allowable catch rate had to be cut in half. However, even with these new statistics brought to light, no changes were made in the allotted yearly catch of cod. With only a limited knowledge of cod biology, scientists predicted that the population of the species would rebound from its low point in 1975.

In the early-1990s, the industry collapsed entirely.

The dissenters for this decision were told that they should 'trust the science', and those that persisted were deemed to be Fish Science Deniers; the media went along with that and squashed all articles and such from the Deniers, loving the connection to 'holocaust deniers' and really rubbing it in every opportunity, and I think by now you have figured out that I made all this up in this paragraph. However, the above quote is not fake and is quoted from the below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_of_the_Atlantic_northwest_cod_fishery

Quote: rxwine

I use the wizards quote. It's not whether you win or lose, it's whether you made a good bet. I'd hate to guess how many non-consensus science theories there are that have failed in all different fields. For one guy, who maybe got it right over mainstream science, how many do you think got it wrong? For every Copernicus standing up against the "everything rotating around the Earth", how many other fool alternate theories are there by fools?

Science is almost always slightly wrong. In other words, new information will alter current understanding. So, I guess you can always pick apart something by looking at the self-correction that occurs over time. But overall, it's a bet that pays off in the long run, IMO if not every time.