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Jeff Wallenfeldt
Former Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
Jeff Wallenfeldt, manager of Geography and History, worked as an editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica from 1992 to 2024. Previously he wrote rock criticism for Cleveland’s Scene magazine, worked for study-abroad programs in England, and was an editor at CineBooks, publisher of The Motion Picture Guide.
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Michael D. Higgins Irish politician, human rights activist, university lecturer, and poet who served as president of Ireland (2011– ). At age five Higgins was separated from his parents, whose struggle to make ends meet was partly the product of his father’s ill health. He was raised in modest…
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