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That's a paraphrase of Bob Hope. Anybody wanna start an article about Isabella Stewart Gardner? --Jim Luedke [[User:Jimlue|Jimlue]] ([[User talk:Jimlue|talk]]) 03:46, 5 March 2011 (UTC) |
That's a paraphrase of Bob Hope. Anybody wanna start an article about Isabella Stewart Gardner? --Jim Luedke [[User:Jimlue|Jimlue]] ([[User talk:Jimlue|talk]]) 03:46, 5 March 2011 (UTC)' |
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== Her fortune == |
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"Her Stewart ancestry has been traced back to King Fergus I, a contemporary of Alexander the Great."
What rubbish. No-one of European ancestry can go back further than Charlemagne's great-great-great grandfather Armulf of Metz using contemporary sources. For more see wikipedia article on 'descent from antiquity'
According to Burke's peerage the Stewarts go back to "ALAN; Breton noble living c 1045; hereditary Steward of Dol in Britanny" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.129.233.124 (talk) 13:51, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
When, already?
Birth and death aside, six years are named here: 1874, 1896, 1898, 1903, 1912, 1919. In other words, in the first 56 years of this person's life, one datable event occurred.
Anybody wanna buy a tall, thin Buick?
That's a paraphrase of Bob Hope. Anybody wanna start an article about Isabella Stewart Gardner? --Jim Luedke Jimlue (talk) 03:46, 5 March 2011 (UTC)'
Her fortune
The article should address how she made her fortune or did she inherit it.