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.

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

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.

Notable later editions of the Howard stories include the Donald M. Grant editions ( 1974 – 1989 ); Berkley editions ( 1977 ); Gollancz editions ( 2000 – 2006 ), and Wandering Star / Del Rey editions ( 2003 – 2005 ).

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.

Valli's character was an early yet incomplete example of the Hawkian woman archetype as the sexually aggressive showgirl, while O ' Brien's Michael portrayal of a shy man not interested in sex is a character later elaborated upon by Cary Grant and Gary Cooper in later Hawks films.

Her later film assignments included Father Goose ( 1964 ), with Cary Grant ; Ken Russell's Valentino ( 1977 ), in the role of silent-screen legend Alla Nazimova ; and Louis Malle's Damage ( 1992 ).

Three days later on March 10, the Vikings hired new head coach Bud Grant to replace Van Brocklin, who had resigned on February 11, 1967.

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.

Moore married Grant Tinker, a CBS executive ( later chairman of NBC ), in 1962, and in 1970 they formed the television production company MTM Enterprises, which created and produced the company's first television series, The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

The ( initially hypothetical ) band was with Beahm ( then ' Bobby Pyn ,' and later Darby Crash ) on vocals, Ruthenberg ( then and later called Pat Smear ) on guitar, an early member named " Dinky " ( Diana Grant ) on bass, and Michelle Baer playing drums.

The influence of Grant's family brought about the appointment to West Point, while Grant himself later recalled " a military life had no charms for me ".

Grant later recalled that his departure from West Point was of the happiest of his times, and that his intent had been to resign his commission after serving the minimum term of obligated duty.

Indeed, he later recalled with apparent satisfaction that after that first recruitment meeting in Galena, ' I never went into our leather store again, to put up a package or do other business ..." During this time Grant quickly perceived that the war would be fought for the most part by volunteers, and not professional soldiers.

After President Lincoln relieved Frémont from command, Grant attacked Fort Belmont taking 3, 114 Union troops by boat on November 7, 1861, and initially took the fort, but his army was later pushed back to Cairo by the reinforced Confederate General Gideon J. Pillow.

Grant later expressed regret for this order in 1868 ; his attitude concerning Jews was otherwise undeclared.

The costly June 3 assault at Cold Harbor was the second of two battles in the war which Grant later distinctly regretted.

Trilogy can be credited with popularizing the genre of conspiracy fiction, a field later mined by authors like Umberto Eco ( Foucault's Pendulum ) and Dan Brown ( Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol ), comic book writers like Alan Moore ( V for Vendetta, Watchmen ), Dave Sim ( Cerebus ) and Grant Morrison ( The Invisibles ), and screenwriters like Chris Carter ( The X-Files ) and Damon Lindelof ( Lost ).

Garfield later commanded the 20th Brigade of Ohio under Buell at the Battle of Shiloh, where he led troops in an attempt, delayed by weather, to reinforce Maj Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, after a surprise attack by Confederate General Albert S. Johnston.

A series of small shows were played in 2010, at 250-to 1, 000-capacity venues with the plan not to say who the band really are and just announce the shows as if they are a new band, Grant later hinted it was really Feeder to the fans on their website, which caused a series of rumours that suggested the band changed their name permanently, although " Some people got it straight away ", but as intended got people talking.

" Leonard Woolf, in the 1960s, listed as ' Old Bloomsbury ' Vanessa and Clive Bell, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Adrian and Karin Stephen, Lytton Strachey, Maynard Keynes, Duncan Grant, E. M. Forster, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Roger Fry, Desmond and Molly MacCarthy, with Julian, Quentin and Angelica Bell, and David Garnett as later additions ".

Sitch has claimed that none of the characters were directly based on a single person, and indeed the character of Moore was a combination of well-known characteristics of several high-profile television figures, including A Current Affair host Ray Martin, Martin's predecessor Mike Willesee, and Real Life host Stan Grant.

In August 1933 a motorcyclist named Arthur Grant claimed to have nearly hit the creature while approaching Abriachan on the north-eastern shore, at about 1 a. m. on a moonlit night.

Grant claimed that he saw a small head attached to a long neck, and that the creature saw him and crossed the road back into the loch.

Officers had subdued Grant in a prone position for allegedly resisting arrest, before Mehserle shot Grant in the back with his gun, which he claimed to have mistaken for his stun gun.

They didn't work together until the hit film My Favorite Wife ( 1940 ), at which time, Eliot claimed Grant used his clout and star power to get Scott cast in a supporting role in the film.

In 2012, Scotty Bowers wrote a memoir " Full Service ," where he also claimed that he was a lover of both Grant and Scott.

West claimed she spotted Grant at the studio and insisted that he be cast as the male lead.

Notably, Grant claimed that Spare had been a member of the secretive Cult of Ku, a Chinese occult sect who met in Stockwell to worship a serpent goddess.

After the war, and in his memoirs, Grant claimed that Sheridan was the very man he wanted for the job.

The minority, led by Ted Grant and Alan Woods, claim to have been expelled, while the Militant claimed they had set up an alternative organisation and so had departed.

Emily Grant Hutchings claimed that her 1917 novel Jap Herron: A Novel Written from the Ouija Board was dictated by Mark Twain's spirit through the use of a Ouija board after his death.

Herrmann claimed that he was inspired by lead actor Cary Grant, because he " walked like a tarantula.

The split was caused by the Militant tendency's majority adoption of the ' Open Turn ', Grant's continued support for the tactic of entryism within the Labour Party and what Grant and Woods claimed was the bureaucratic centralist degeneration of Militant's internal regime.

After the debate and conference decision, the Militant tendency claimed that Grant and Woods had begun a separate organisation and had split from Militant, whilst Grant and Woods claimed to have been expelled.

Grant claimed he had been taken out of context, but offered an apology to the family of PC Blakelock.

As a result, Grant Parish Fusionists claimed a landslide victory, even though blacks outnumbered whites by 776 to 630.

Venancio Sanchez still claimed a half share of the Fornells Grant, two of the town lots had been sold to William Harney around 1840, and Osborne and Field had their deed from the Florida Internal Improvement Fund.

Bristow testified in front of a congressional committee on the Whiskey Ring, he would not give any specific information regarding his conversations with President Grant, having claimed executive privilege.

In an April 2010 interview with South Yorkshire newspaper The Star, Grant expressed his disappointment with the side-project band's sudden increase in success and awareness, in which he claimed that he wanted the band to continue playing in clubs with a slower ascendency to the bigger venues.

Responding to criticism of Grant after Shiloh, Lincoln had said, " I can't spare this man.

He obtained Congress's consent to reinstate for Grant the rank of Lieutenant General, which no officer had held since George Washington.

The high casualty figures of the Union alarmed the North ; Grant had lost a third of his army, and Lincoln asked what Grant's plans were, to which the general replied, " I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

Johnson's vintage independent streak put him very much at odds with professional military commanders, including Gen. Don Carlos Buell who left Nashville defenseless when he had to reinforce Grant at the Battle of Shiloh.

Grant has won six Grammy Awards, 25 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards, and had the first Christian album ever to go Platinum.

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 ).

In Anita Richterman's column on May 9, 1975, several correspondents reported that they had heard the puzzle on the Bob Grant radio talk show on WMCA in New York City.

Payson and M. Donald Grant, who became the Mets ' chairman, had been the only Giants board members to vote against the Giants ' move to California.

More than any other president, Grant had to respond to Congressional investigations into financial corruption charges of all federal departments.

The " S ", according to Grant, did not " stand for anything ", though Hamer had used it to abbreviate his mother's maiden name.

He and Julia had four children: Frederick Dent Grant ; Ulysses S. " Buck " Grant, Jr .; Ellen Wrenshall " Nellie " Grant ; and Jesse Root Grant.

In 1853, Grant stated that the Native Americans were " harmless " and that they would be " peaceful " had they not been " put upon by the whites ".

In at least one case Grant had even naively allowed himself to be swindled by a partner.

The commanding officer at Fort Humbolt, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Robert C. Buchanan, a strict disciplinarian, had reports that Grant was intoxicated off duty while seated at the pay officer's table.

Buchanan had previously warned Grant several times to stop the alleged binge drinking.

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

The Union army, known as the Army of the Tennessee, under Grant had increased to 48, 894 men and was encamped on the western side of the Tennessee River.

Without admitting fault, Grant believed he had only complied with the instructions sent from Washington.

" Grant had believed that gold, along with cotton, was being smuggled through enemy lines and that Jews could pass freely into enemy camps.