Grant
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Grant may refer to:
Places
United Kingdom
- Castle Grant, 1.5 miles north of Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland
United States
- Grant, Alabama
- Grant, Inyo County, California
- Grant, Sonoma County, California
- Grant, Colorado
- Grant-Valkaria, Florida
- Grant, Iowa
- Grant, Michigan
- Grant, Minnesota
- Grant, Nebraska
- Grant, Wisconsin (six towns)
- Grant City, Indiana
- Grant City, Missouri
- Grant City, Staten Island
- Grant Park, Illinois
- Grant Park (Chicago) Grant Park is a large park (319 acres or 1.29 km²) in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States. The park's most notable features are Millennium Park, Buckingham Fountain and the Art Institute of Chicago. Grant Park is frequently referred to as the city's front yard. It is bordered on the north by Randolph Street, on the south
- Grant Town, West Virginia
- Grant Township (100 townships in 12 states)
- Grants, New Mexico Grants is a city in Cibola County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 8,806 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Cibola County
- U.S. Grant Bridge over Ohio River and Scioto River
Australia
Slovenia
India
- Jolly Grant, Dehradun, Uttarakhand Airport
Businesses
- Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., a fantasy and science fiction small press publisher in New Hampshire
- W. T. Grant variety store, a chain of mass-merchandise stores
- William Grant & Sons, a Scotch whisky distilling company
Military history
- USS Albert W. Grant (DD-649), a US Navy destroyer
- M3 Lee The Medium Tank M3 was an American tank used during World War II. In Britain the tank was called "General Lee" named after General Robert E. Lee, and its modified version built to British specification, with a new turret, was called "General Grant" named after General Ulysses S. Grant, an American tank, a modified version was called the Grant
Law and philanthropy
- Grant, in United States law, a term in conveyancing In law, conveyancing is the transfer of legal title of property from one person to another, or the granting of an encumbrance such as a mortgage or a lien
- Grant (money) Grants are funds disbursed by one party , often a Government Department, Corporation, Foundation or Trust, to a recipient, often (but not always) a nonprofit entity, educational institution, business or an individual. In order to receive a grant, some form of "Grant Writing" often referred to as either a proposal or an application is, an award usually funded by a government, business, or foundation, often with not-for-profit preconditions
Other
- Colloquial term for a United States fifty-dollar bill which bears a portrait of President Ulysses S. Grant
- Grant of Arms in nobility
- "Grant", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1978 book Babel (book) Babel is a book by Patti Smith, published in 1978, and contains Smith's poems along with her prose, lyrics, pictures and drawings
- Grant (automobile), a defunct Findlay, Ohio auto manufacturer
- In Search of the Castaways (originally titled The Children of Captain Grant), a novel by Jules Verne
People
Main article: Grant (name)- Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses Simpson Grant born Hiram Ulysses Grant was the 18th President of the United States (1869–77) as well as military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction periods. Under the command of Grant, the Union Army defeated the Confederate military and ended the Confederate States of America. His image as a war hero was, the 18th President of the United States and general of the Union during the American Civil War
- Frederick Dent Grant, son of the 18th President
See also
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