Word: progenitor
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...grandfather, Ezra Taft Benson, was a Mormon apostle. His father, George Taft Benson, was a farmer at Whitney (southern) Idaho, where Ezra was born. As the middle name indicates, he is a remote relative of Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft. Said Benson: "We have a common ancestral progenitor about six generations back. My great-great-grandmother was a Taft." Benson attended Oneida Stake Academy (Mormon) at Preston, Idaho and the Utah State Agricultural College, got his bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University in 1926, a master of science degree in agricultural economics from the University...
Usually when a stellar explosion occurs a very faint star is found on earlier plates in the same position as the explosion, but no progenitor has been found for the new blazing star, which is known as the Nova Lacertae...