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An archaeologist investigates the burial while wearing a suit that will minimize contamination to the historical site. Credit: Jamestown Rediscovery Archaeologists digging in a 400-year-old church in Jamestown, Virginia, have found a headless body that might be that of Sir George Yeardley, one of the first politicians — and slave owners — in the American colonies. Few people have heard of Yeardley, but he played a key role in America's history. The Jamestown governor oversaw the House of Burgesses, the first elective governing body in the English colonies. Scientists still aren't sure if the headless body is Yeardley's, but shortly after uncovering the skeleton, they made another finding that could help answer that question. They discovered a handful of teeth, 10 in all, on Sunday (July 22) that fit into a skull previously unearthed in the church. [ In Photos: New Jamestown Settlers Identified ] If DNA from the teeth and skull matches that from Yeardl...

Monsanto Company , formerly (1933–64)  Monsanto Chemical Company  and (1901–33)  Monsanto Chemical Works , leading American producer of chemical, agricultural, and biochemical products. It is based in St. Louis,  Missouri . The Monsanto Chemical Works was founded in 1901 by  John F. Queeny (1859–1933), a purchasing agent for a wholesale drug company, to manufacture the  synthetic  sweetener  saccharin , then produced only in Germany. Queeny invested $1,500 of his own money and borrowed another $3,500 from a local Epsom salts manufacturer to launch his new company, which he named Monsanto, after his wife’s maiden name. The firm was up to full-scale  saccharin  production in 1902, added  caffeine  and vanillin to its product line over the next few years, and in 1905 began turning a profit. With the  Coca-Cola Company  as one of Monsanto’s chief customers, sales reached $1 million in 1915. Monsanto began producing...

 

A House report gives more details of its allegations against the Los Angeles Democrat. Her chief of staff and grandson is accused of being 'actively involved' in helping a bank with ties to her husband.     Reporting from Washington — As Rep. Maxine Waters was warned against interceding on behalf of a bank with ties to her husband, her chief of staff, who is also her grandson, was "actively involved" in working to help the institution, according to a House Ethics Committee report released Monday that accuses the longtime Los Angeles political figure of three ethics violations. Waters was accused of violating three rules — one that requires its members to "behave at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House," a second that prohibits lawmakers from using their influence for personal benefit and a third forbidding the dispensing of favors. The Democratic congresswoman has vowed to fight the charges in a trial before fellow H...

Samuel Prescott Bush  (October 4, 1863 – February 8, 1948) was an American businessman and industrialist. He was the patriarch of the  Bush political family . He was the father of  U.S. Senator   Prescott Bush , grandfather of former  U.S. President   George H. W. Bush , and great-grandfather of former U.S. President  George W. Bush  and Governor  Jeb Bush . Bush was born in  Brick Church, Orange, New Jersey , to Harriet Eleanor Fay and Rev.  James Smith Bush  (1825–1889), an  Episcopal   priest  at Grace Church in Orange. His siblings included James Freeman Bush (1860–1913), Harold Montfort Bush (1871–1945), and Eleanor Bush Woods (1872–1957) He grew up in  New Jersey ,  San Francisco , and  Staten Island , but spent the majority of his adult life in  Columbus, Ohio . Bush graduated from the  Stevens Institute of Technology  at  Hoboken, New Jersey  in 1884, where ...

Image: George W. Bush’s Grandfather, Senator Prescott Bush This article was first published on GR in March 2016. * “A  famous American family” made its fortune from the Nazis, according to   John Loftus’  documented historical analysis .     The Bush family links to Nazi Germany’s war economy were first brought to light at the Nuremberg trials in the testimony of Nazi Germany’s steel magnate Fritz Thyssen. Thyssen was a partner of George W. Bush’s grandfather Prescott Bush:  From 1945 until 1949 in Nuremberg, one of the lengthiest and, it now appears, most futile interrogations of a Nazi war crimes suspect began in the American Zone of Occupied Germany. Multibillionaire steel magnate  Fritz Thyssen -the man whose steel combine was the cold heart of the Nazi war machine-talked and talked and talked to a joint US-UK interrogation team. … What the Allied investigators never understood was that they were not asking Thyssen ...