At the Versailles peace conference in 1919, Canada's prime minister Sir Robert Borden, chatted to Britain's David Lloyd George about taking over the West Indian colonies.

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After all, it spawned George and Robert Stephenson's railway engines, Joseph Swan's electric light bulbs, and Sir Charles Parson's steam turbines and electricity generators.

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George Bush's was Robert Mosbacher, the finance chairman of the 1988 Bush campaign.

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