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  2. Restoration (Tremain novel) - Wikipedia

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    Restoration is a novel by Rose Tremain, published in 1989. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989 [ 1 ] and was the Sunday Express Book of the Year . It was made into a film in 1995.

  3. Restoration literature - Wikipedia

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    The English monarchy was restored when Charles II of England (above) became king in 1660.. Restoration literature is the English literature written during the historical period commonly referred to as the English Restoration (1660–1688), which corresponds to the last years of Stuart reign in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland.

  4. List of dates in the history of conservation and restoration

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    1777, 1785, Pietro Edwards, Director of the Restoration of the Public Pictures of Venice and the Rialto, published on basic concepts of preventive conservation, original vices of painters’ materials, respect for the artist's original intent, and reversibility. 1794, Charles Willson Peale recorded in his memo book using wax to impregnate ...

  5. Empire (Card novel) - Wikipedia

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    Empire is a 2006 dystopian novel by American writer Orson Scott Card. It tells the story of a possible Second American Civil War, this time between the Right wing and Left wing in the near future. It is the first of the two books in the Empire duet , followed by Hidden Empire with the video game Shadow Complex bridging the two.

  6. Books in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The nonprofit Internet Archive began scanning books in 2004, in the same year that Google Inc. launched Google Book Search. In 2005, Google began scanning pages of volumes in several large research libraries in the US, as part of its new Google Books Library Project. The Open Content Alliance formed in 2005.

  7. Campbellite - Wikipedia

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    Members of these groups generally consider the term Campbellite inappropriate, saying that they are followers of Jesus, not Campbell. [3] [4] [5]: 85–87 [6]: 91–93 They draw parallels with Martin Luther's protest of the name Lutherans [7]: 162, 163 and the Anabaptists' protest of the name given to them by their enemies.

  8. Colonial history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The first religious services held in colonial America were Anglican services held in Jamestown, Virginia, according to the Book of Common Prayer. The practice of the religion of the Church of England in Jamestown predates that of the Pilgrim settlers who came on the Mayflower in 1620 and whose separatist faith motivated their move from Europe.

  9. Restoration Movement - Wikipedia

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    Early leaders of the Restoration Movement (clockwise, from top): Thomas Campbell, Barton W. Stone, Alexander Campbell, and Walter Scott. The Restoration Movement (also known as the American Restoration Movement or the Stone–Campbell Movement, and pejoratively as Campbellism) is a Christian movement that began on the United States frontier during the Second Great Awakening (1790–1840) of ...