When Albert R Chestnut was born on 17 December 1910, in Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Jacob Chestnut, was 37 and his mother, Mary Balazentis, was 27. He died in March 1980, at the age of 69.
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Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
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Scottish (Renfrewshire and Lanarkshire) and northern Irish: altered form of Chesney , shortened from McChesney . Its assimilation to the English word chestnut is due to folk etymology, the word itself being first recorded in 1519. The surname was probably taken to Ireland at the time of the 17th-century Plantation of Ulster.
English (Norfolk): probably a variant of Chestney (see Chaney ), altered by folk etymological association with the word chestnut.
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