Grant made her debut as a teenager, and gained fame in Christian music during the 1980s with such hits as " Father's Eyes ", " El Shaddai ", and " Angels ".

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

„ An Investigation into Czech Society during the „ Normalization “ Era: Biographic Narratives of Workers and the Intelligentsia “ ( funded by the Grant Agency AV ČR ).

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Super Bowl IV, the following participants of the game were featured during the coin toss ceremony: Bud Grant, Lamar Hunt, Bobby Bell, Paul Krause, Willie Lanier, Alan Page, and Jan Stenerud.

Grant is said to have inherited a degree of introversion from his reserved, even " uncommonly detached " mother ( she never took occasion to visit the White House during her son's presidency ).

During the battle, Grant attempted to break through Lee's line of defense at the Mule Shoe, which resulted in one of the most violent assaults during the Civil War, known as The Battle of the Bloody Angle.

With the Federal army having rebuilt the City Point Railroad, Grant was able to use mortars to attack Lee's entrenchments ; the most famous and largest mortar used during the Civil War, over 17, 000 pounds, was called the Dictator.

Nevertheless, Grant stepped aside, and incurred the open wrath of the President during a cabinet meeting immediately afterwards, for allegedly breaking a promise not to do so, which Grant disputed.

As was common practice at the time, Grant remained home in Galena during the campaign, and left most of the active campaigning and speaking on his behalf to his campaign manager William E. Chandler and others.

The Department of Justice was created during the Grant administration in an effort to centralize under the Attorney General the hiring of lawyers to represent federal agencies.

Grant did effectively use the military to keep peace during the Election of 1874 in Louisiana, the nation's most highly contested Reconstructed states.

President Grant faced financial corruption charges or scandals in all federal departments during his two terms in office.

Grant's political opponents used the phrase Grantism, coined by Sen. Charles Sumner during the Presidential election of 1872, to describe the many corruption charges during the Grant Administration.

The Crédit Mobilier scandal was exposed during the Grant Administration in 1872 ; the involvement of Vice-President Schuyler Colfax was an embarrassment to the Administration, but the wrongdoing in that instance is not generally imputed to Grant's Presidency.

Bristow discovered that the President's personal secretary Babcock was involved in the ring, Grant became defensive and eventually defended Babcock in an unprecedented 1876 deposition, which biographer McFeely contends was perjurious ; the deposition was read in St. Louis during the Whiskey Ring graft trials.

The Kendall College presidents during 1907-1919 were: Arthur Grant Evans, Levi Harrison Beeler, Seth Reed Gordon, Frederick William Hawley, Ralph J. Lamb, Charles Evans, James G. McMurtry and Arthur L. Odell.

This postal corruption by the rings had stealthily succeeded for many years during both the Grant and Hayes administrations.

Sherman served under General Ulysses S. Grant in 1862 and 1863 during the campaigns that led to the fall of the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg on the Mississippi River and culminated with the routing of the Confederate armies in the state of Tennessee.

In Sherman's case, this was in part because he developed close personal ties to Grant during the two years they served together in the West.

Lincoln happened to be at City Point at the same time, allowing the only three-way meetings of Lincoln, Grant, and Sherman during the war.

He was popular with his classmates, however, and befriended a number of men who would become prominent during the Civil War, including George Henry Thomas, William S. Rosecrans, John Pope, D. H. Hill, Lafayette McLaws, George Pickett, and Ulysses S. Grant of the class of 1843.

On the morning of 20 July 1973, during the band's concert tour of the United States, Peter Grant made a contact with Joe Massot, who had previously directed Wonderwall.

Amy Lee Grant ( born November 25, 1960 ) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, media personality and actress, best known for her Christian music.

During 1976, Grant wrote her first song (" Mountain Man "), performed in public for the first time — at Harpeth Hall School — the all-girls school she attended, recorded a demo tape for her parents with church youth-leader Brown Bannister, then later when Bannister was dubbing a copy of the tape, Chris Christian, the owner of the recording studio, heard the demo and called Word Records.

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

In May 1979, while at the album release party for her second album, My Father's Eyes, Grant met Gary Chapman, writer of the title track ( and future husband ).

To date, Grant continues to take off her shoes midway through performances, as she has said " it is just more comfortable.

Grant received her first Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Gospel Performance, as well as two GMA Dove Awards for Gospel Artist of the Year and Pop / Contemporary Album of the Year.

Grant followed up this album with the first of her Christmas albums — albums that later would be the basis for her holiday shows.

In 1984, she released another pop-oriented Christian hit, Straight Ahead, earning Grant her first appearance at the Grammy Awards show in 1985.

Hardly had Grant established herself as the " Queen of Christian Pop " when she changed directions to widen her fan base ( and hence her musical message ).

Amy Grant scored her first Billboard No. 1 song in 1986 with " The Next Time I Fall ", a duet with former Chicago singer / bassist Peter Cetera.

Grant followed the album with her second Christmas album, Home For Christmas in 1992, which included the song " Breath of Heaven ( Mary's Song )", written by Chris Eaton and Grant, and would later be covered by many artists, including Donna Summer, Jessica Simpson ( who acknowledged Grant as one of her favorite artists ), Vince Gill, Sara Groves, Point of Grace, and Broadway star Barbara Cook.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show was a half-hour newsroom sitcom featuring Ed Asner as her gruff boss Lou Grant, a character that would later be spun off into an hour-long dramatic series.

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.

According to William J. Mann's book, Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910 – 1969, photographer Jerome Zerbe spent " three gay months " in the movie colony taking many photographs of Grant and Scott, " attesting to their involvement in the gay scene.

Behind solid performances by Richardson and veteran Grant Hill, the Suns defeated the Portland Trail Blazers 4 – 2 in the first round of the playoffs, and swept the Spurs 4 – 0 in the second round.

Grant went on to release albums House of Love and Behind the Eyes in the mid-ninetees.

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* Earl Grant on the album Spanish Eyes ( 1968 )

My Father's Eyes is the second album by Christian singer-songwriter Amy Grant, released in 1979 on Myrrh Records.

In 2007, like many other albums by Grant, My Father's Eyes was reissued by Sparrow Records, her current label.

Grant made her debut as a teenager and by the 1980s had gained fame in Christian music thanks to songs " Father's Eyes ", " El Shaddai ", and " Angels ".