A blight in the early 20th century wiped out nearly every American Chestnut tree, but those in western Michigan developed a mysterious resistance and survived.

* 1983 – Joey Chestnut, American competitive eater

Chestnut was the first African American ever to lie in honor in the Capitol.

Chestnut oak sometimes grow on rocks This species is a predominant ridge-top tree in eastern North American hardwood forests.

Morris L. Chestnut ( born January 1, 1969 ) is an American film and television actor.

Chestnut trees are of moderate growth rate ( for the Chinese chestnut tree ) to fast-growing for American and European species.

The American Chestnut Foundation recommends waiting a little while more before large-scale planting.

This is because it and its associates ( the American Chestnut Cooperators ' Foundation and many others from education, research and industry sectors contributing to the program ) are at the last stages of developing a variety that is as close as possible to the lost American chestnut, while having incorporated the blight-resistant gene of the Asiatic species.

" This famous reference is much remarked upon by those involved in projects to return the American chestnut to the wild, although Longfellow's chestnut is well documented to have been Aesculus hippocastanum ( the European Horse Chestnut ).

* The American Chestnut Foundation

The blight-resistant Chinese Chestnut is now the most commonly planted chestnut species in the U. S. It can be distinguished from the American chestnut by its hairy twig tips which are in contrast to the hairless twigs of the American chestnut.

American chestnut field trial sapling from the American Chestnut Cooperators Foundation

One of these is the American Chestnut Cooperators Foundation, which breeds surviving all-American chestnuts, which have shown some native resistance to blight.

Another is The American Chestnut Foundation, which is backcrossing blight-resistant American chestnut X Chinese chestnut hybrids to American parents, to recover the American growth characteristics and genetic makeup, and then finally intercrossing the advanced generations to breed consistently for blight resistance.

One of them has been pollinated with hybrid pollen by members of The American Chestnut Foundation ; the progeny will have mostly American chestnut genes and some will be blight resistant.

The American Chestnut Foundation was also only recently told about the tree's existence.

The American Chestnut Council, located in the local town of Cadillac, Michigan, has verified the identity and existence.

* Hundreds of healthy American chestnuts have been found in the proposed Chestnut Ridge Wilderness Area in the Allegheny National Forest in northwestern Pennsylvania.

Economic conditions were favourable in the peaceful Restoration period from 1660 to 1688, as land owners promoted better tillage and cattle-raising, and Glasgow became an increasingly important commercial centre, opening up trade with the American colonies.

England did set the fashion of written constitutions during the Civil War but after the Restoration abandoned them to be taken up later by the American Colonies after their emancipation and then France after the Revolution and the rest of Europe including the European colonies.

In 1937, American hunters successfully lobbied the US Congress to pass the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act, which placed an eleven percent tax on all hunting equipment.

* American Chestnut Research and Restoration Center, SUNY-ESF

The church claims itself the " oldest independent Christian Church of the American Restoration Movement.

Restoration of an American specimen

Restoration is a 1995 American historical drama film directed by Michael Hoffman.

" The term " restorationism " is sometimes used more specifically as a synonym for the American Restoration Movement.

" A number of historical movements within Christianity may be described as " restoration movements ," including the Glasites in Scotland and England, the independent church led by James Haldane and Robert Haldane in Scotland, the American Restoration Movement, the Landmark Baptists and the Mormons.

* Capitalized, the term is also used as a synonym for the American Restoration Movement.

The American Restoration Movement aimed to restore the church and sought " the unification of all Christians in a single body patterned after the church of the New Testament.

The Restoration Movement ( also known as the American Restoration Movement or the Stone-Campbell Movement, Campbellites, and Campbellism ) is a Christian movement that began on the American frontier during the Second Great Awakening ( 1790 – 1870 ) of the early 19th century.

* Marshall Keeble ( 1878 – 1969 ) His successful preaching career notably bridged a racial divide in the Restoration Movement prior to the American Civil Rights Movement.

Spin-off TV show American Restoration also has a simpleton ( folklore ) employee Brettly, who often acts without thinking.

The movement's origination during the Second Great Awakening parallels the founding of numerous other indigenous American religions, especially in the Burned-over district of western New York state, and in the western territories of the United States, including the Adventist movement, the Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Science ( which had roots in Congregationalism, but regarded itself as restorative ), and the Restoration Movement ( sometimes called the " Stone-Campbell Movement ", which include the Evangelical Christian Church in Canada, the Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ), and the Churches of Christ ).

; David Lipscomb: David Lipscomb ( 1831 – 1917 ) was a minister, author and member in the American Restoration Movement.

Years after her release, she wrote a book about her experience, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God: Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, which is considered a seminal American work in the literary genre of captivity narratives.

Following the Meiji Restoration in 1867, the new Imperial government of Japan set out upon a path of rapid modernization and recruited many European and American academics and military experts to help expedite the process.

Later examples are The Penguin Book of Modern American Verse ( D22 ), 1954, and The Penguin Book of Restoration Verse ( D108 ), 1968.

This tipi is used for Peyote ceremonies in the Native American Church, one of the main religions affected by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act applies to all religions, but is most pertinent to Native American religions that are burdened by increasing expansion of government projects onto sacred land.

* Gerald Graff ( 1973 ) The Myth of the Postmodernist Breakthrough, TriQuarterly, 26 ( Winter, 1973 ) 383 – 417 ; rept in The Novel Today: Contemporary Writers on Modern Fiction Malcolm Bradbury, ed., ( London: Fontana, 1977 ); reprinted in Proza Nowa Amerykanska, ed., Szice Krytyczne ( Warsaw, Poland, 1984 ); reprinted in Postmodernism in American Literature: A Critical Anthology, Manfred Putz and Peter Freese, eds., ( Darmstadt: Thesen Verlag, 1984 ), 58 – 81.

Of the events that debuted in the show's first season, only six lasted the entire original run on American television: Breakthrough and Conquer, The Wall, Joust, Assault, Powerball, and the Eliminator, although The Wall did not debut until the second half of the first season.

* The Breakthrough, a 2005 album by American singer Mary J. Blige