The Outing Club also owns a chain of fourteen cabins and several shelters, extending from the Vermont hills, just across the river from the college, through Hanover to the College Grant -- 27,000 acres of wilderness 140 miles north up in the logging country.

In 1977, she recorded her first album titled Amy Grant, produced by Brown Bannister ( who would also produce her next 11 albums ).

It was during these early shows that Grant also established one of her concert trademarks: performing barefoot.

During the 1980s, Grant was also a backup singer for Bill Gaither.

Kate Lock also wrote four novels centred around more recent characters ; Steve Owen, Grant Mitchell, Bianca Jackson and Tiffany Mitchell.

This song would later be adapted into " Christmas Is All Around " and sung by the character of Billy Mack in Richard Curtis ' 2003 film Love Actually, in which Grant also stars.

* Notting Hill ( 1999 ), also written by Curtis and starring Grant

The song is also become a jazz standard, having been recorded by Grant Green, Fats Waller, Archie Shepp, Hampton Hawes and many others.

Frank Horn, secretary to Cary Grant, was also a frequent guest.

In 1949 Hawks re-teamed with Cary Grant in the screwball comedy I Was a Male War Bride, also starring Ann Sheridan.

Later in 1952 Hawks re-teamed with Cary Grant for the fifth and final time in the screwball comedy Monkey Business, also starring Marilyn Monroe and Ginger Rogers.

Philadelphia Eagles assistant Nick Skorich and a man with Minnesota ties who was working in the CFL, Bud Grant, were also candidates until a different Eagle, quarterback Norm Van Brocklin, was hired on January 18, 1961.

Sinatra received her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on May 11, 2006, which was also declared " Nancy Sinatra Day " by Hollywood ’ s mayor, Johnny Grant.

* 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road ( also known as the Second Battle of Fair Oaks ) ends – Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant withdraw from Fair Oaks, Virginia, after failing to breach the Confederate defenses around Richmond, Virginia.

The proprietor of the latter, Benjamin Grant, also published the St Helena Advertiser ( 1865 – 1866 ).

This was also Kangaroos ' veteran Shannon Grant's last AFL game, and he was given a standing ovation by both Swans and Kangaroos players as he represented both clubs throughout his career ( although it was at North Melbourne where Grant really made his mark in the game ) Their only clash in 2009 ( Round 14, which the Swans won by 15 points to end a four-game losing streak ) was aired into both the Sydney and Brisbane markets rather than the live vs. match which was a high-rating television match around the rest of the country.

During this time, Grant also acquired a slave from Julia's father ; Julia herself had inherited four slaves.

Lincoln was also alarmed at the level of casualties, and queried Halleck as to Grant's potential responsibility for them ; Grant was criticized for his decision to keep the Union Army bivouacked rather than entrenched.

During the Vicksburg campaign, Grant assumed responsibility for refugee-contraband slaves who were dislodged by the war and vulnerable to Confederate marauders ; President Lincoln had also authorized their recruitment into the Union Army.

At the same time, Johnson also suspected Grant to be a potential rival candidate in the 1868 presidential election, and decided to replace Secretary of War Stanton with Grant or Gen. Sherman.

Grant also was able to stand apart from the President's impeachment proceedings which ensued from his attempt to remove Stanton ; none of the principals in the matter benefited from it.

Grant favored limited use of federal troops, lest they engender the notion he was acting as a military dictator ; he was also concerned that increased military pressure in the South might cause white supremacists in the North to bolt from the Republican Party.

Viz also lampoons political ideas-both left-wing ideals, in strips such as " The Modern Parents " ( and to an extent in Student Grant ), and right-wing ones such as " Baxter Basics ", " Major Misunderstanding ", " Victorian Dad " and numerous strips involving tabloid columnists Garry Bushell (" Garry Bushell the Bear ") and Richard Littlejohn (" Richard Littlecock " and " Robin Hood and Richard Littlejohn "), portraying them as obsessed with homosexuality, political correctness and non-existent left-wing conspiracies to the exclusion of all else.

There were also interviews with Alan Grant, Frazer Irving and Alan Moore, as well as an extensive article on breaking into comics as a writer.

At the age of 17, with the help of his father, Grant was nominated by Congressman Thomas L. Hamer for a position at the United States Military Academy ( USMA ) at West Point, New York.

Hamer mistakenly nominated him as " Ulysses S. Grant of Ohio.

After numerous ballots, the Democrats nominated Horatio Seymour to take on the Republican candidate, Civil War General Ulysses S. Grant.

General Ulysses S. Grant announced he was a Republican and was unanimously nominated on the first ballot as the party's standard bearer at the Republican convention in Chicago, Illinois, held on May 20-21, 1868.

In 1870, he was nominated by President Ulysses S. Grant, and confirmed by the Senate, as United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom to succeed John Lothrop Motley, but declined the mission.

The film stars Renée Zellweger ( in an Academy Award nominated role ) as the eponymous heroine, Hugh Grant as Daniel Cleaver, and Colin Firth as Mark Darcy.

Grant was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance.

Grant was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, losing at the 14th Academy Awards to Gary Cooper's portrayal of Sergeant York.

None but the Lonely Heart won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress ( Ethel Barrymore ) and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Cary Grant ), Best Film Editing and Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture ( Hanns Eisler and Constantin Bakaleinikoff ).

Arthur continued to star in films such as Howard Hawks ' Only Angels Have Wings in 1939, with love interest Cary Grant, 1942's The Talk of the Town, directed by George Stevens ( also with Grant ), and again for Stevens as a government clerk in 1943's The More the Merrier, for which Arthur was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress ( losing to Jennifer Jones in The Song of Bernadette ).

Ulysses S. Grant nominated Ebenezer R. Hoar to a new seat on the court.

Grant nominated George Henry Williams to be Chief Justice of the United States in 1873, but he later withdrew from consideration.

Grant nominated Caleb Cushing for Chief Justice on January 9, 1874, but despite Cushing's great learning and eminence at the bar, his anti-war record and the feeling of distrust experienced by many members of the U. S. Senate on account of his inconsistency, aroused such vigorous opposition that his nomination was withdrawn on January 13, 1874.

His recording, The Secret of Time was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1990 ( Best Rock Gospel ) as Peacock continued to perform production and session musician work with Al Green, Twila Paris, and Amy Grant.

Stanton returned to law after retiring as Secretary of War, and in 1869 was nominated as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by Johnson's successor, Ulysses S. Grant ; however, he died four days after his nomination was confirmed by the Senate.

President Ulysses S. Grant nominated Waite as Chief Justice on January 19, 1874, after a political circus surrounding the appointment.

One day after withdrawing Williams, Grant nominated Democrat and former Attorney General Caleb Cushing, but again withdrew it after Republican Senators alleged Civil War-era connections between Cushing and Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

Finally, after persistent lobbying from Ohioans including Interior Secretary Columbus Delano, on January 19, 1874, Grant nominated the little-known Waite who learned of his nomination by a telegram.

He was nominated also for the 1994 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy ( but lost out to Hugh Grant for his role in Four Weddings and a Funeral ), as well as the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, ( where he again lost out to Grant ), and the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, where he instead lost to Nicholas Hope.

In 1873 President Grant nominated him Attorney General of the United States in case then Attorney General George H. Williams was confirmed as Chief Justice of the United States, a contingency which did not arise.

On January 9, 1874, Grant nominated him for Chief Justice of the United States, but in spite of his great learning and eminence at the bar, his anti-war record and the feeling of distrust experienced by many members of the U. S. Senate on account of his inconsistency, aroused such vigorous opposition that his nomination was withdrawn on January 13, 1874.

Wolseley continued to serve on Sir Hope Grant's staff in Oudh, and when Grant was nominated to the command of the British troops in the Anglo-French expedition to China of 1860, accompanied him as the deputy-assistant quartermaster-general.