On Fri, 18 May 2007, K P wrote:
Charlotte, in my view you'd be wrong. Paderewski was hugely and internationally famous as a pianist, whereas his fame as a Prime Minister of Poland is largely limited to Poland ...
'''Ronald Wilson Reagan''' ...
The United States is bigger and much more important in international politics than Poland, and being president of it is much more notable. President of the US and Prime Minister of Poland just don't produce equal amounts of fame.
If you look at the article for Grace Kelly, being an academy award winning actress is mentioned before being princess of Monaco.
Right on. After all, size is all that matters,
Size isn't all that matters, but it's one thing that matters. (Or more precisely, importance, which is often related to size.)
and only the last few hundred years of history have any meaning.
I believe that Paderewski was a pianist and a Prime Minister during the same historical time period. The same for Grace Kelly being an actress and princess of Monaco.