Michael Ray
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Michael Ray earned a B.A. in history from Michigan State University in 1995. He was a teacher in the Chicago suburbs and Seoul, South Korea, prior to joining Britannica as a freelancer in 2000. Hired as a full-time copy editor in 2003, he currently works as an assistant managing editor leading the Geography and History team.
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Alex Chilton was an American singer and songwriter who, as frontman of the seminal power pop band Big Star, crafted a body of work whose influence far outstripped its volume. Chilton was age 16 when he began his musical career as the lead singer of the Memphis blue-eyed soul group the DeVilles. The…
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