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Joy Adamson

Joy Adamson

Born: January 20, 1910
Died: January 3, 1980
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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Elsa the Lioness
Title: Elsa the Lioness
Character: Self
Released: February 3, 1961
Type: Movie
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First transmitted in 1961, David Attenborough travels to Meru National Park in Kenya to visit Joy and George Adamson and meet Elsa the lioness and her cubs shortly before Elsa's death.
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R.U.R.
Title: R.U.R.
Character: Sulla, a robotess
Released: March 4, 1948
Type: Movie
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A story of robots leading a revolution against their human creators. It explored dehumanization through technology and the failure of a technologically driven utopia.
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