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Orczy, Emmuska
Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orczi, or Emmuska, which she preferred to be called, was born in Tarnaörs, Hungary. Her parents were Baron Félix Orczy de Orczi and Countess Emma Wass de Szentegyed et Cege. Both parents were descended from a prominent Austro-Hungarian noble family and related to many others. Félix Orczy was the son of a royal councillor and a well-...
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Ball, John
John Dudley Ball was an American author, editor and music critic whose award-winning crime novel In the Heat of the Night (1965), adapted for the screen starring Sidney Poitier, was much discussed at the time. The film was awarded five Academy Awards in 1967.
John Dudley Ball was born in Schenectady, New York. His family moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, soon afterwards. His father was a...