Melinda C. Shepherd
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Melinda Shepherd received a B.A. (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in English Literature from the University of Illinois, Urbana, and an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She also studied for two years as a postgraduate at the University of Toronto.
She became an editor at Encyclopædia Britannica in 1988 and served as a senior editor of Britannica Book of the Year from 2004 to 2016.
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Mick Sullivan was a British rugby player who was one of Britain’s most reliable and respected rugby league players for a decade (1954–63). Sullivan attended Dewsbury (Yorkshire) Technical School and was working as a plumber when he began playing rugby with a local amateur club. He made his…
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