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Washington State University has developed a new variety of wheat, which is part of what an ag college like WSU does, and named it after George Bush. Not one of the monstrous ex-presidents, though... (www.nwnewsnetwork.org)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Know it's in the title, but in case anyone thought they named it after a certain war criminal:

Settler George Bush was a Black pioneer on the Oregon Trail. He aided Indigenous populations battling disease, saved fellow settlers during the famine of 1852 and helped develop what’s now the city of Tumwater, a recent Washington State University Insider story said.