
Yodit Tesfu
Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
Yodit Tesfu is the Media Department Administrator at Encyclopædia Britannica. Yodit earned a B.A. in Neuroscience from the University of Chicago where she also explored her passion for film. Yodit values uplifting marginalized communities and making sure untold stories are heard.
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On June 16, 1904, Irish writer James Joyce had his first date with Nora Barnacle, a woman from western Ireland who worked as a chambermaid in Finn’s Hotel in Dublin. This romantic encounter led to a lifetime together, in which the couple lived a peripatetic life on the European continent and had…
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