Houdini, Harry (1874-1926)
Before there was a Doug Henning, a David Copperfield, or a Siegfried and Roy, Harry Houdini was the celebrity magician without peer. A worldwide celebrity thanks to his rele...
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Harry Houdini (1874-1926)--The Great Houdini--is a name that will forever define the term ``escape artist." As the Budapest-born, American-bred performer would so often proclaim, "No prison can hold m...
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Fast-paced and easy-to-read, these 32-page graphic biographies teach students about historical figures: those who lead us into new territory, pursued scientific discoveries; battled injustice and p...
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A team of forensic experts will test the remains of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini once his body is exhumed from a New York cemetery, searching for clues to his rumored murder, the head o...
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The family of Harry Houdini's widow wants to block a plan to exhume the escape artist's remains, saying a disinterment to determine whether he was murdered smacks of sensationalism."It is our firm ...
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The family of Harry Houdini's widow wants to block a plan to exhume the escape artist's remains, saying a disinterment to determine whether he was murdered smacks of sensationalism."It is our firm ...
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8:30 a.m. The Murphy Institute for Labor, Community, and Policy Studies and the New Labor Forum holds a breakfast forum featuring Jason Furman, director of The Hamilton Project, and Mark Levinson, ...
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The circumstances surrounding Harry Houdini's sudden death were as murky as the rivers where he often performed death-defying stunts. Despite a medical explanation, rumors that the escape artist wa...
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Get ready for "CSI: Houdini."A team of forensic experts will pore over the exhumed remains of renowned escape artist Harry Houdini to determine whether he was murdered more than 80 years ago, the h...
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Oct 24 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major events to
have occurred on Oct. 31 since 1900: 1918 - In Hungary, former prime minister Count Istvan Tisza
was assassinated by disaffected soldie...
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10:
David
Devant
The first truly important British magician,
David
Devant
became famous at the turn of the 20th Century and is still remembered today for serving as the first president of the M...
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For all his death-defying stunts, Harry Houdini couldn't escape the Grim Reaper: He died on Halloween 1926, apparently from a punch to the stomach that ruptured his appendix. But rumors that he was...
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Houdini, Harry (1874-1926)
Harry Houdini
Houdini Graphic Biography
Family of Harry Houdini seeks exhumation of body to see if he was murdered.
