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Joy Adamson

Jan 20, 1910 - Jan 03, 1980 (69 years old) in Troppau, Silesia, Austria-Hungary [now Opava, Czech Republic]

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Joy Adamson (20 January 1910 – 3 January 1980) (born Friederike Victoria Gessner) was a naturalist, artist, and author best known for her book, Born Free, which describes her experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa. Born Free was printed in several languages, and made into an Academy Award-winning movie of the same name.

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R.U.R.
Sulla, a robotess
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Elsa the Lioness
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Fcb TV Show No.1
Women

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