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unusual facts about Peter J. Grant


Dan Zetterström

He is best known as a co-author of the highly acclaimed Collins Bird Guide, with Killian Mullarney, Lars Svensson and Peter J. Grant.


Adele C. Howells

When Hinckley unexpectedly died in 1943, Howells was chosen by LDS Church president Heber J. Grant as Hinckley's successor.

Albert Grant

Albert W. Grant (1856–1930), admiral of the United States Navy during World War I

Alexander S. Johnson

In October 1875, he was appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant Circuit Judge of the Second U. S. Judicial Circuit.

Alfred McCune Home

Prior to moving to Los Angeles, they donated it to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with the intent that it be used as an official residence for President Heber J. Grant.

American armored fighting vehicle production during World War II

The US version in British service was the Lee (named after General Lee); the British specification version (a different turret) was the Grant (named after General Grant).

Benjamin F. Isherwood

After the presidential inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant, Isherwood's longtime patron, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, could no longer protect him.

Benjamin R. Cowen

From 1871 to 1876 he was assistant secretary of the interior under President Grant.

Big Hole River

Conservationist George F. Grant, Trout Unlimited and local ranchers combined forces to oppose the dam, successfully defeating the proposal in 1967.

Bruce Chadwick

Chadwick’s newest books are 1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War They Failed to See (Sourcebooks, 2008), about the causes of the Civil War.

Claire Slater

Other TV appearances include roles in The Children of the New Forest, the series Is Harry on the Boat? (2002) and the series Helen West (2002), but she is probably best known for playing Martha Cratchit in the 1999 version of A Christmas Carol, in which she appeared with Patrick Stewart, Joel Grey and Richard E. Grant.

College of Insurance

The Manhattan location of the college now houses many graduate business and professional programs of St. John's Peter J. Tobin College of Business.

Colorado Ranger

The original foundation ancestors of the Colorado Ranger were two stallions brought to the United States and given to US president Ulysses S. Grant by the Turkish Sultan Abdul Hamid II in 1878.

David Lewis Rice

Charles Goldmark's brother is Washington State Commissioner of Public Lands and head of the Washington Department of Natural Resources Peter J. Goldmark.

Democracy: An American Novel

In a 1961 foreword to the novel, Henry D. Aiken states that the U.S. president of the novel "bears some resemblance to Andrew Johnson, to Garfield, and to Grant".

Faugh A Ballagh

A variant transliteration of the motto, 'Faj an Bealac!' was inscribed on the regimental colors of the (Federal) 7th Missouri Volunteer Infantry, the "Irish Seventh", which fought in the Civil War's Western Theater as part of Grant and Sherman's Army of the Tennessee.

Frank Cowan

He worked for Johnson for the next year and a half, then opened his own law practice in Washington after Ulysses S. Grant succeeded Johnson.

Geoffrey Perret

He has published over thirteen books dealing with a variety of topics, among them the U.S. Presidency - including several biographies of iconic Presidents such as John F. Kennedy and Ulysses S. Grant - leading American military commanders such as Douglas MacArthur, and pivotal American military engagements.

Hans Gulbranson

He was succeeded by Peter J. K. Petersen in both positions, in 1868 and 1858 respectively.

Holbrooke Hotel

Several notable people stayed at the hotel including “Gentleman Jim” Corbett, Lotta Crabtree, Bob Fitzsimmons, Bret Harte, Jack London, Lola Montez, Emma Nevada, Mark Twain, and five US Presidents: Grover Cleveland, James Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison, and Herbert Hoover.

Hugh L. Nichols

In 1922, Nichols was appointed chairman of the U. S. Grant Memorial Centenary Association, which directed the restoration of the Grant Birthplace in Point Pleasant, Ohio, and directed the state to acquire it.

James G. Batterson

He joined forces with Elizabeth Colt to make the Wadsworth Atheneum a free public institution; on 16 October 1880, he was honored at the Atheneum by ex-President Ulysses S. Grant for his contributions to historic preservation.

Jedediah Hotchkiss

General Ulysses S. Grant had Hotchkiss released from custody and returned his maps to him.

John Arthur Thomson

According to Peter J. Bowler Thomson was a popular science writer who had promoted a nonmaterialist interpretation of science though his interpretation was not accepted by all within the scientific community as some had claimed his views were neovitalist and thus outdated.

John H. Brinton

He served in the capacity of a brigadier surgeon in the American Civil War, later as a member of General Ulysses S. Grant's staff.

Lorenzo Sawyer

In December of that year, as the term of Chief Justice Sawyer was about to expire, President Ulysses S. Grant nominated him to the United States circuit court for the Ninth Circuit (which later became the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit).

Manas International Airport

The American forces christened the site "Ganci Air Base", after New York Fire Department chief Peter J. Ganci, Jr., who was killed in the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Nathaniel Shipman

In 1873, President Ulysses S. Grant named Shipman as a judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.

Pete Peterson

He defeated James W. Grant, a politician who grew unpopular after switching from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party in the middle of his second term.

Peter J. Brand

He completed his PhD in 1998 at the University of Toronto with his dissertation The Monuments of Seti I: Epigraphic, Historical and Art Historical Analysis.

Peter J. Cutino Award

Former major league baseball commissioner and US Olympic Committee chair Peter Ueberroth, himself once a water polo player at San Jose State, presented the first awards on January 22, 2000.

Peter J. Dooling

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

Peter J. Dyck

He graduated from Rosthern Junior College and attended the University of Saskatchewan, but dropped out to pastor several struggling local churches.

Peter J. Fos

Prior to accepting the presidency of UNO, Fos was provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Texas at Tyler.

Peter J. Moore

The album was released in early 1988 on Latent Records in Canada, and re-released worldwide in 1989 by RCA New York.

Peter Kelly

Peter J. Kelly, Mayor of the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2000–2012

Peter Ryan

Peter J. Ryan (1841–1908), Union Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

Port Gibson, Mississippi

Port Gibson was the site of several clashes during the American Civil War and figured in Ulysses S. Grant's Vicksburg Campaign.

Robert J. Grant

Before becoming Director of the U.S. Mint, Grant was the Superintendent of the Denver Mint.

Rodney A. Grant

He has also appeared in other films such as John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars, Wild Wild West, Geronimo: An American Legend, White Wolves III: Cry of the White Wolf, Wagons East!, The Substitute, War Party, and Powwow Highway.

He has also had guest roles in a television series such as Due South, Two, and the Stargate SG-1 episode "Spirits".

Saint Croix-Vanceboro Railway Bridge

The first railway bridge over the St. Croix River at this location was opened in October 1871 by U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant and Governor General of Canada Lord Lisgar on the completion of the European and North American Railway (E&NA) between Bangor, Maine and Saint John, New Brunswick.

The Crimson Petal and the White

The adaptation's cast includes Romola Garai, Chris O'Dowd, Gillian Anderson, Richard E. Grant, Shirley Henderson, Amanda Hale, Mark Gatiss, Tom Georgeson and Liz White; it was adapted by Lucinda Coxon and directed by Marc Munden.

Thomas Jenckes

President Ulysses S. Grant then signed the bill into law on June 22, 1870.

Transportation in the Halifax Regional Municipality

The current mayor, Peter Kelly, and several regional councillors have favoured instituting a commuter rail or a light rail system on current and abandoned railway lines and several streets in the urban core, however such a proposal would require provincial and federal funding and agreement with railway companies.

United States Military Railroad

At the conclusion of the Overland Campaign in 1864, LTG Grant directed MG Meade to transfer his Army of the Potomac to the south side of the James River in effort to capture the Confederate rail center of Petersburg and sever Richmond’s supply lines.

United States presidential election in California, 1872

California narrowly voted for the Republican incumbent, Ulysses S. Grant, over the Liberal Republican nominee, New York Tribune publisher Horace Greeley.

Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club

In 1856, the botanist George Bentham (who lived at Pontrilas) was an honorary member, as were the geologists the Rev. Peter Bellinger Brodie, William Henry Fitton, Leonard Horner, Sir Charles Lyell, Sir Roderick Murchison, Prof. John Phillips, and the Rev. Prof. Adam Sedgwick, the botanist John Lindley, the naturalist Sir William Jardine, and the zoologist Prof. Robert E. Grant.


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