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19 Facts About Christine Maxwell

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Christine Maxwell is the creator and co-founder of Magellan, co-founder of the software company Chiliad and the author of several books.

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Christine Maxwell was the Program Manager of Learning Technologies at the University of Texas at Dallas.

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Christine Maxwell was born in Maisons Laffitte, France, on August 16,1950.

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Christine Maxwell is the daughter of Elisabeth Maxwell, a French-born Holocaust scholar, and Robert Maxwell, a Czechoslovak-born British media proprietor.

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Christine Maxwell's father was Jewish and her mother was of Huguenot descent.

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Christine Maxwell's mother stated that all of her children were brought up Anglican.

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In September 1973, Christine Maxwell entered Lady Spencer Churchill College of Education.

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Christine Maxwell graduated in June 1974 with a Post-Graduate Teaching Certificate.

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Christine Maxwell later earned a master's degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Texas at Dallas.

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Christine Maxwell was an editor for Pergamon Press Publishers, in the early 1970s.

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From September 1974 to June 1976, Christine Maxwell worked as a middle-school teacher at Shepherd's Hill Middle School in Blackbird Leys, Oxford.

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Christine Maxwell is the author of The Pergamon Dictionary of Perfect Spelling, first published by Pergamon Press Ltd.

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Christine Maxwell's book has been republished several times: in 2005 under the title Dictionary of Perfect Spelling by Barrington Stoke Publishers, in 2007 under the title Spell it Right by Berlitz, and most recently as the School Spelling Dictionary in 2012 by Barrington Stoke.

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Christine Maxwell became a resident of the San Francisco Bay Area in 1979.

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In 1982, Christine Maxwell acquired Information on Demand, one of the earliest information brokers, which was later renamed Research on Demand.

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Christine Maxwell is the Program Manager of Learning Technologies at The University of Texas at Dallas where she is involved in Special Projects for Information Resources.

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Christine Maxwell is a former Trustee for Vint Cerf's Internet Society and The Santa Fe Institute.

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Christine Maxwell was appointed director of The Environment4Change Foundation, a London-based environmental consulting organization, in June 2019.

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Christine Maxwell has a second residence in France in Meyreuil, a village near Aix-en-Provence.