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Despite moving to Australia, he was a proud Hungarian and his ex-libris included a portrait of Lajos Bíró.
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He received the Order of Australia (AM) from Queen Elizabeth II in 1985.
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He was made a Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1988, a few days before his death in Adelaide.
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He bequeathed his library and collections to the Hungarian Museum of Natural History in Budapest.
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Roger Steinmann
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Roger Steinmann ([]; born November 6, 1961 in Zurich, Switzerland) is a filmmaker and entrepreneur.
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Most notable is his biopic "Illusion Infinity" (aka "Paradise", 2004), starring Dee Wallace, Mickey Rooney, Timothy Bottoms, Barbara Carrera, Martin Kove, and Theresa Saldana.
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At the age of eight, Steinmann borrowed his uncle’s Super-8 camera.
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He shot his very first motion picture ‘Zurich’ (1969), a five minute-documentary.
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When the Swiss national TV in 1974 launched a youth-film-competition based on the key-word ‘door’, Steinmann directed his first feature ‘Die Türe’ (‘The Door’, 1975).
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Steinmann casted both lead roles in ‘Die Türe’ with Peter Bürgisser and André Bellmont.
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A string of short features and documentaries followed.
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Notably are:
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‘Die Flutkatastrophe’ (‘Flood Disaster’, 1977) was labeled ‘Switzerland’s first disaster movie.
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It depicts a major water dam-break what subsequently floods the metropole of Zurich.
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It won numerous awards.
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And, it was aired on Swiss national TV on November 4, 1978 together with a live-interview with Steinmann.
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‘’ ('The Machine-Animals', 1977) is a 22-minute documentary analyzing large-scale husbandry against classic farming.
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Still in his teens, Steinmann aimed to execute larger scale feature-projects based on his original screenplays.
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In 1978/79, he developed the conception ‘Krebs!’ (‘Cancer!’) about the life-threatening virus in a woman’s organism, visualized by a simultaneous life-threat of the organism of an entire city by a Godzilla-like monster-crab.
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In German language the title ‘Krebs!’ bears the double meaning of Cancer and Crab.
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The project had huge dimensions in respect of budget but as well of, at the time, demanding special effects.
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Therefore, the project stalled.
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Steinmann turned to theater as well; notable are:
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1982: ‘Beschti Referenze’ (aka ‘Buchhalter Noetzli’, ‘Bookkeeper Noetzli’) with Steinmann producing and directing.
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1986: ‘Achtung-Fertig-Los!’ (‘Ready-Steady-Go!’) as producer and writer, with directing.
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Imthurn became Steinmann’s long time partner.
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1988: ‘Schelmereie’ (‘Sweet Cheating’, 1988) as a director at the theater in Oberentfelden, Switzerland.
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From 1991, Steinmann lived alternatively in Los Angeles.
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There, he wrote several screenplays on spec, alone but mostly in association, e.g.
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'Bum and the Kid' with Scott Steindorff, outlines, e.g.
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‘Love of my Life’ with Don Mankiewicz, rewrites, e.g.
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‘Project: Metalbeast’.
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Among Steinmann´s several projects, Illusion Infinity (aka Paradise, 2004) caught the eye of casting director Gerald I. Wolff.
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He was able to engage six well known Hollywood actors: Dee Wallace, Mickey Rooney, Timothy Bottoms, Barbara Carrera, Martin Kove, and Theresa Saldana.
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‘Illusion Infinity’ was labeled as biopic; however, it was an original screenplay by Steinmann about the supposed real Las Vegas singer Patricia Paradise (played by Dee Wallace) and her life-long search for a genuine soul-mate, and a home she calls ‘Shangri-La’.
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In 2014, Thai film star Mike Angelo became interested to star in ‘The Partykillers’, a screwball-comedy about a humble inventor of a magical teddy-bear crashing the engagement party of a toy manufacturer.
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This screenplay Steinmann wrote back in 1995/98 in collaboration with Rodney Heeringa.
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But another concept of a screwball comedy fit Angelo’s talent even better: A male singer gaining success only when performing as a woman, attracting both a father and his daughter.
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After Angelo agreed to star in this dual role, Steinmann originated the 2015-screenplay ‘Ladies First’.
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Swiss actors Beat Schlatter and Pascal Ulli confirmed their interest to participate, the latter also as co-produce.
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Our world caught up with constant (ab-)use of cell-phones: What would happen if all cells and computers became unusable?
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This topic led to the 2016/2018-screenplay 'PhonY' with the unique interactivity between segments in Los Angeles, Switzerland, Australia, Thailand and Canada.
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In spring 2018, the filming commenced in Switzerland with Pascal Ulli and Gilles Tschudi; it was followed by the Thai segment.
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The remaining segments with Burt Reynolds and Barbara Carrera were scheduled in Los Angeles for October 2018.
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Though, a mere month before, Burt Reynolds untimely passed away, and the production stalled temporarily.
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It is aimed for a 2020 delivery.
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In 2018, Steinmann started to film the farce-comedy "PhonY" in Switzerland and Thailand.
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The Los Angeles-segment had to be canceled due to lead actor Burt Reynolds' untimely death.
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In December 2019, Golden Globe winner Elke Sommer agreed to participate.
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1983: Steinmann invented an automatic bottle stopper; patented in 1985.
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1983: Steinmann prevailed over 73 candidates in the German TV-quiz show ‘Alles oder Nichts’ with a record-breaking TV-live-audience of 15 Mio.
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1984: Steinmann founded the Rotsch AG, a joint-stock company, to market his invention.
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At that time, he was 22 years old and became the youngest president ever of such an entity in Switzerland.
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He sold that entity in 1996.
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1995: Steinmann founded the SUNSET International AG, a joint-stock company, to produce films.
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Mamta Devi
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Mamta Devi is an Indian politician from Jharkhand and a member of the Indian National Congress.
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She is a member of the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly from Ramgarh.
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Janhavi Panwar
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Janhavi Panwar (born 2003 or 2004) is a child prodigy from Haryana in India.
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Nicknamed the "Wonder Girl of India", Panwar has given lectures to Indian Administrative Service officers.
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At the age of 10 Janhavi was able to speak in 12 foreign accents.
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Sebastian Plano
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Sebastian Plano (born 1985) is an Argentinian composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist based in Berlin, Germany.
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His 2019 album "Verve" has been nominated for Best New Age Album at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards.
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He has composed the soundtrack for the video game Everything alongside Ben Lukas Boysen.
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Sebastian Plano was born into a musical family in Rosario, Argentina in 1985.
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He started playing cello at the age of seven before creating his own music from the age of twelve.
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Lac à Mars
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The lac à Mars is a fresh body of water in the watershed of the rivière à Mars North-West, the rivière à Mars and the Saguenay River.
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This body of water is located in the unorganized territory of Lac-Pikauba, in the Charlevoix Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, in the province of Quebec, in Canada.
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Lac à Mars is located in the central eastern part of the Laurentides Wildlife Reserve.
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Upstream of the port, industrial and urban area, the rivière à Mars valley is mainly served by the Consol Paper road.
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The rivière à Mars North-West is served by a few other secondary forest roads for forestry and recreational tourism activities.
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Forestry is the main economic activity in the sector; recreational tourism, second.
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The surface of the lac à March is usually frozen from the beginning of December to the end of March, however the safe circulation on the ice is generally made from mid-December to mid-March.
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The mouth of Lac à Mars is located about northeast of the boundary of the administrative regions of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean and Capitale-Nationale.
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The main watersheds near Lake Mars are:
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Lac à Mars has a length of in the shape of a woman's head seen in semi-profile, a maximum width of , an altitude is and an area of .
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This lake has a narrow bay stretching to the east.
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It also has a narrowing to in its southern part.
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A peninsula attached to the eastern shore stretching on in the shape of a hook causes another narrowing in the northern part of the lake.
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The mouth of this lake is located at the bottom of a bay on the north shore, at:
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From the confluence of the lac à Mars, the current descends the course of:
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The place names “Rivière à Mars”, “Rivière à Mars Nord-Ouest” and “Lac à Mars” have the same origin.
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The toponym "lac à Mars" was formalized on December 5, 1968 by the Commission de toponymie du Québec.
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Arno Volk
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Arno Volk (15 January 1914 – 7 July 1987) was a German musicologist and music publisher.
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Born in Würzburg, Volk studied at the University of Cologne under Karl Gustav Fellerer in 1943 with the dissertation "Ernst Eichner.
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Sein Leben und seine Bedeutung für die Entwicklung der Kammermusik und der Solokonzerte".
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In 1950 he founded the Arno-Volk-Verlag in Cologne, which later merged with the .
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Volk died in Ingelheim am Rhein at the age of 73.
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Amba Prasad (politician)
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Amba Prasad is an Indian politician from Jharkhand and a member of the Indian National Congress.
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She has been elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Jharkhand from Barkagaon in 2019 Jharkhand Assembly Election .
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She is the youngest legislature of the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly to be elected in 2019
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Naushera, Budaun
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Naushera ("in hindi:नौशेरा") is a village in Ujhani Tehsil and Budaun district, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Its village code is 128284.
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