When he became a magician, Houdini started to call himself Harry Houdini after the French magician Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin.
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And the reason why I did that is because [Harry] Houdini claimed that he could take any man's punch and that's what killed Houdini in 1926.
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Meanwhile, the long-gestating Broadway production of "Houdini," which Mr. Sanders is producing, remains in flux: "I'm brewing on a new idea for 'Houdini' that hasn't yet been fully realized."
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" She joked, "Do they think Dorinda's like Harry Houdini?
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Houdini Mono Air, $200 — available in April 2020The Mono Air (men's and women's) from Houdini are not only made from 100% recycled polyester but it's also recyclable itself, giving it circular sustainability.
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This room, though, the Houdini Séance Room, was completely spared.
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I knew from my research that Harry Houdini and Gen.
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On this day in 1926, the magician Harry Houdini died.
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The I.R.S. gave Houdini a refund of close to $300,000.
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" Schumer: "The worst one I've ever heard is 'the Houdini.
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Houdini went on to denounce mediums vociferously; the friendship ended.
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JARRETT: The Clintons are escape artists that would make Houdini proud.
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The Houdini House in Hollywood, starting at $1,000 per night; airbnb.
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Kendrick ascending in what was essentially a sparkling chandelier Houdini cage.
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"Houdini & Doyle" isn't nearly as much fun as its predecessors, however.
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In the play Houdini is flirting with death with these tricks.
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Joe Furlow: We do the Houdini séance experience inside that room.
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And what's really interesting is that Houdini died on Halloween, right?
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Win it, and Mr Johnson will be remembered as a political Houdini.
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Houdini is designed to give you access to the browser's rendering engine.
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David Copperfield is more Cathy Rigby in Peter Pan than Harry Houdini.
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It's like Houdini would say, 'These are the shackles; they're real locks.
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Houdini confronted him from the stage, telling the audience about Mackenberg's experiences.
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The unnamed adviser compared the president to the escape artist Harry Houdini.
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If you're in the mood for chewy, thin-crust pizzas, Houdini Kitchen Laboratory (named for this converted brewery's proximity to Machpelah Cemetery, where Harry Houdini is buried) turns out plenty from the brick oven in its open kitchen.
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And Houdini actually hired Lovecraft on occasion to do some ghostwriting for him.
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Thankfully, Houdini code will coexist just fine with traditional CSS layout and styling.
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Another said I looked like Houdini trying to escape a water torture cell.
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Crafting a Houdini-style escape from an arena, and trampling someone's rose garden.
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The gate wasn't latched properly and she did a Houdini and got out.
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"Of course he can escape again, because it's Chapo, Harry Houdini," Maltz said.
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A kind of Texas Houdini, the governor is a great big disappearing act.
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Late development of software like Houdini (SideFX) and terms like proceduralism are also influences.
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Houdini would be envious; making Jennie the Elephant disappear was child's play in comparison.
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The inmate known as "Prison Houdini" was originally sentenced to four years behind bars.
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It makes sense that Harry Houdini became the foremost debunker of the spiritualist con.
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For the modern politician, Harry Houdini, more than McCarthy, is the man to learn from.
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For water effects, the company relied heavily on SideFX's Houdini, a procedural tool for animation.
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Joe Avella: Houdini was obsessed with séances, attempting to reach his mother in the afterlife.
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Martin, the textiles guy, played Houdini in the Egyptian gallibaya he had happened to pack.
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Mr. Lynch said he grew up nearby and became interested in Houdini as a child.
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The stretcher rose into the air again, its contents twisting like Houdini in a sack.
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Houdini is known for its versatile, sustainable outerwear designs and the Cloud is no exception.
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He was also nicknamed Houdini because of his knack for wriggling out of tight spots.
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So yeah, Houdini and Lovecraft knew each other historically, and they even had things in common.
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"I have to be Houdini, just being out of the game for so long," Arroyo said.
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His owner tells WJLA that General is "a little Houdini," and he's always getting through doors.
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Too bad Houdini couldn't find a way to break free from that cone like the magician.
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Before becoming the greatest magician, Harry Houdini ran away from home at the age of 12
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But he has shown a Houdini-like knack for extricating himself from seemingly impossible political traps.
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"Houdini used to say, 'My brain is the key that sets me free," Mr. Dreyer said.
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Team Houdini was up to its old tricks, crawling out of another trap of its own devising.
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Next, we went to one of my favorite rooms in The Castle: the Harry Houdini Séance Chamber.
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"We grew up hearing stories of Houdini and his escaping," said David Orenstein, a tourist from Israel.
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But when they ran the first mud tests on Side FX's Houdini software, they ran into problems.
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"I'm thinking, 'Gosh, as crazy as it is, this is a good deduction for Houdini,'" he said.
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Not long after, his father gave him a book about Harry Houdini that described other swallowing tricks.
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"Being on a parallel path with Houdini, I knew I'd wind up in New York," he said.
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By 3103, however, Houdini wasn't content with renouncing any claim to having mystical abilities of his own.
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" She also expressed gratitude toward her collaborators, especially Bradley Cooper, whom she called a "modern directorial Houdini.
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The disagreement between Houdini and Doyle on the subject of spirit photography left their friendship in tatters.
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Houdini dictated the story to Lovecraft, who realized it was fantasy and asked permission to take creative license.
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After a visit to the vet, this dog named Houdini was ready for a little game of ball.
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It's about Harry Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle teaming up to solve crimes, and it is not good.
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RJ: We work with Houdini software, and then we worked alongside a programmer to make this specific tool.
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And if you missed the Crosswords Live solve, you can watch HARRY HOUDINI mysteriously disappear here: Your thoughts?
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" To expose fake psychics, Houdini employed a small army of undercover agents, calling them "my own secret service.
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" She was frequently groped and propositioned by flimflam men, but as Kenneth Silverman wrote in his book "Houdini!!!
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He was friends with Harry Houdini and joined up with a gang of extremist warlocks led by Aleister Crowley.
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Despite a perennial battle with sickle cell anemia, the Crime Rhyme Houdini P seemed immortal as a death deity.
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Leadville then had two dozen theatres, including the grand Tabor Opera House, where Oscar Wilde and Harry Houdini performed.
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And Houdini and Dante had a big rivalry, almost like a Hollywood rivalry, where they absolutely hated each other.
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" Alex Stone is the author of "Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks and the Hidden Powers of the Mind.
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On a recent afternoon, Mr. Lynch stood near a bust of Houdini that once adorned Houdini's grave in Queens.
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The couple once invited their friend Harry Houdini to a séance; Lady Conan Doyle contacted Houdini's beloved dead mother.
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The first time he performed the stunt, Houdini emerged from the water after two and a half minutes, Gizmodo reported.
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"Procedural" in this case means that everything Houdini outputs is the result of math: simulations and equations all the way.
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So, speaking of web technology proposals that languish for years stuck in standards committees... let me introduce you to Houdini.
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"Fifth inning, to get out of the jam was a little bit of Houdini there," Rockies manager Walt Weiss said.
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This was no Houdini, but rather a common New Zealand octopus called Inky, about the size of a soccer ball.
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Following one of the famous magician's final performances in 1926, Harry Houdini suffered an injury that led to his death.
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Then, when it realized what had happened, it doubled back and audited the company, demanding that Houdini return the money.
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And the revealer, the "Subject of this puzzle (who has himself done a 39-Across)" is, of course, HARRY HOUDINI.
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The Houdini Museum — tucked away on the fourth floor of a building in Midtown Manhattan — is not one of them.
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She reported her findings to Houdini, who arrived in Indianapolis six weeks later to give a performance that Gunsolas attended.
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The stagehands of old opera houses in towns like Galveston and Lexington would boast that Harry Houdini had performed there.
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Kanye West is the Harry Houdini of the rap world ... refusing to reveal cast secrets in his new music video.
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Then later we head to the storied Magic Castle to sit in on Lee's performance of her famous Houdini seance.
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That Houdini trick didn't save her from ending up in jail, where she was sadly left shoeless, wearing just a sundress.
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Houdini refers to a set of new features that allow developers to talk more directly to a browser's CSS rendering engine.
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On the poster you see on the left there's the death character, and on the other side there's Houdini in water.
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Such tales speak sweetly to those of us who would rather own a Houdini grocery list than a Malibu beach house.
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Harry Houdini would've turned 142 this month, and his craft is kept very much alive by New Yorkers like Adam Blumenthal.
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The Houdini act was impressive, but the Yankees are likely concerned that their fragile ace is already up to 45 pitches.
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TENNIS-AUSOPEN-FEDERER/ Reprising Houdini act, Federer scrapes through against Sandgren MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Roger Federer performed his second Houdini act of this year's Australian Open on Tuesday, saving seven match points en route to a nerve-wracking 6-3 2-293 2-6 7-6(8) 6-3 comeback victory over American world number 100 Tennys Sandgren.
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Today, a much larger Herman can often be found taking a swim with his friends and fellow rescue ducks, Harry and Houdini.
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But if web apps are ever going to look and feel "native," Houdini might be the path they take to get there.
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Rmax: When Houdini was famous, there was a couple other magicians who were dueling at the time, one of whom was Dante.
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The museum holds the Allan Slaight Collection, which includes over 600 posters, along with more than 1,000 documents related to Harry Houdini.
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Houdini, a star witness, shared the results of his investigations into spiritualism, calling mediums "mental degenerates" and cross-examining professional psychics himself.
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Tragic magic: An Indian magician known as Wizard Mandrake attempted an underwater escape stunt inspired by Harry Houdini in Kolkata on Sunday.
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Below is a demo reel for what can be done with Houdini, a software package that's used extensively in VFX and animated films.
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An Indian magician attempting a Harry Houdini-inspired trick went missing after being lowered into the water while bound, according to local authorities.
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But Robertson, known as the Houdini of the Bullpen, lived up to his nickname, getting out of the inning with no further damage.
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Coming from a motion design background, Woll Söder wanted to express his visions through Houdini Software, a program that was new to him.
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"Houdini and Doyle," Fox's new wunza cop show — as in "one's a [this thing], one's a [another thing]" — premieres Monday at 9 p.m.
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Behind the Poster "Death & Harry Houdini" is a biographical show about the famed death-defying magician, featuring live magic and vaudeville-style music.
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Not since Harry Houdini nearly ran out of air in a water-filled milk can has anyone been in a more difficult position.
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Two months ago, Rajon Lynch, 23, was teaching magic in Shanghai when he got an email from the Houdini Museum of New York.
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The museum's displays range from a trunk that Houdini would lock himself in to small lock picks he would regurgitate during his escapes.
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However, after his Houdini-like escape in 2015, when his associates tunneled him out of Mexico's most secure prison, officials began to reconsider.
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On the field or in the stands, you simply lost sight of the football once Parilli had it in his magical Houdini hands.
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Adam Realman, will extricate himself, Houdini-style, from ropes, handcuffs and a straitjacket — and reveal a few secrets about how it's all done.
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If you search YouTube, you'll find plenty of videos of people covering their bodies in tape and attempting to pull a Harry Houdini.
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It's hard to tell if the Houdini proposals will ever advance deeply enough into the browser's internals to mimic everything Flutter does with Skia.
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Magic has long relied on celebrity, puffing up the legends of figures like Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin, John Henry Anderson, and, of course, Houdini.
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Is it a fictional character like Steve Carrell in The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, or Edward Norton in The Illusionist, or Adrien Brody in Houdini?
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Given his Houdini-like talents, authorities in New York immediately placed Mr. Guzmán in 10 South, the maximum security wing of Manhattan's federal jail.
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Nobody more so than Willem Dafoe, who labored quietly and deliberately downtown at the Wooster Group, like Houdini practicing escape acts over and over.
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By her count, Mackenberg investigated more than 2310 psychics and seers in the two years she worked for Houdini and many more after that.
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Another of his nicknames was "Houdini", a reference to his knack for managing to escape serious punishment, despite the allegations of misuse of funds.
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Conan Doyle cared too much for his child to let him go, and Houdini cared too much for his mom to take false comfort.
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On Wednesday morning, two days after Derrick Rose performed his Houdini act before the Knicks took on the Pelicans at Madison Square Garden, ESPN.
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A few years later, he moved to New York City with his father, but they were so poor Houdini had to panhandle on the streets.
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He shares with The Creators Project that he is currently experimenting with abstract and generative digital drawings that use 3D software like Cinema4D and Houdini.
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The most important revelation emerging from Wednesday's testimony was that Ms. Coronel, then 26 years old, was neck deep in planning the Houdini-like escape.
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Patagonia Men's Houdini Snap-T Pullover for $2245 ($2255 off): Patagonia's ultra-lightweight, water-repellent pullover is roomy enough to accommodate an insulating layer underneath.
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Harry Houdini left precise instructions with his wife and friends as to just how he would reach out, if it were possible, after his death.
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The Career of Ehrich Weiss, American Self-Liberator, Europe's Eclipsing Sensation, World's Handcuff King and Prison Breaker — Nothing on Earth Can Hold Houdini a Prisoner!!!
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In in 1909, Houdini described his encounter with Evanion: With some hesitancy of speech but the loving touch of a collector he opened his parcel.
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He was befriended by the magician Harry Houdini, a fellow debunker, and corresponded with the detective novelist Arthur Conan Doyle, a believer in fairies and spiritualists.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Illusionist Criss Angel received a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame on Thursday, saying he drew inspiration from another famous magician, Harry Houdini.
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" It rests on a repeated sample of "Bobby Sox Idol," by the calypso singer Wilmoth Houdini, and then turns to the melody of "My Favorite Things.
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Across another is the Imperial Theater, a 1913 vaudeville house where Harry Houdini once performed, and which has been restored to its former movie-palace splendor.
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If you decide to write in HARRY HOUDINI, the Down entries appear to be real words, but something is wrong: the clues are all messed up.
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Mr. Lynch turned off the lights in the museum and used a tambourine and crystal ball that belonged to Houdini to try to summon his spirit.
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"He was buried in 1915 and died in 1926" refers to HARRY HOUDINI, who attempted the "Buried Alive" trick in 1915 and who died in 1926.
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" What makes the secluded property intriguing is that it still has caves, hidden tunnels and a deep-water tank where "Houdini reportedly practiced his underwater escapes.
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In the end, though, a win — however frozen — is a win, even if this one required a degree of luck that was improbable even for Team Houdini.
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"He loved the technology that was coming out, but to him it was like Houdini," said his longtime friend Kim Hastreiter, the co-founder of Paper magazine.
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Iglesias' best Houdini act, however, came in the fourth when the Pirates loaded the bases with one out but Mercer grounded into an inning-ending double play.
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Famed illusionist Harry Houdini died on Halloween in 1926 after suffering a ruptured appendix, though many claim that the story surrounding his death is shrouded in mystery.
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"Frankie Sinatra," the first single from the new record features a sample of a song called "Bobby Sox Idol" by a 1930s calypso singer named Wilmouth Houdini.
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Instead, Ms. Hickman is one of 11 cast members (about half the ensemble) who double here as musicians; the Harry Houdini (Christopher Dickins) plays a mean accordion.
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Other artifacts were acquired by escape artist Harry Houdini, and are now part of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Houdini was carrying out a war against spiritualists and these superstitious table-knocker people who were trying to raise spirits, and Lovecraft also despised that kind of stuff.
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Instead of merely defining a set of style rules and letting the browser handle it, a designer working with Houdini could create incredibly custom layouts, styles, and animations.
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Unfortunately, right now most of the Houdini spec is still up in the air, and Chrome is the only browser you can test many of these ideas in.
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Michael Weston plays the escape artist Harry Houdini and Stephen Mangan is the Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle, reluctant partners investigating supernatural crimes for New Scotland Yard.
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She suggested a scenario in which Merlini, in an attempt to one-up Houdini, would, with the supernatural help of Madam Klotsky and almost everyone else, escape death.
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"He was intrigued I was from same place as Houdini," recalled Mr. Lynch, who immediately bought a one-way ticket to New York to meet with Mr. Dreyer.
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Famous skeptics like Harry Houdini left precise instructions with his wife and friends as to just how he would reach out, if it were possible, after his death.
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Rotten Tomatoes score: 42%Synopsis: "Death Defying Acts" concocts a fictional romance between famous illusionist Harry Houdini (Guy Pearce) and impoverished Scottish con artist Mary McGarvie (Catherine Zeta-Jones).
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The inmate, who was nicknamed the "Houdini" of death row because he'd had seven prior execution dates postponed, died by lethal injection at the Holman Correctional Facility at Atmore.
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As I attempted a Houdini maneuver getting her out of the car, up the curb and down the sidewalk to the church door, she somehow slithered from my grasp.
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In season 2 of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, we can expect to learn more about Ambrose's past as a raconteur warlock who taught Houdini magic and painted with Surrealists.
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At a conference last week, Mackey said he couldn't elude the moniker and even compared himself to the magician Harry Houdini, who's best known for his sensational escape performances.
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Here you can see the straitjacket and the giant milk can from which Houdini escaped, as well as the rifle that in 1918 killed the illusionist William Robinson, a.k.a.
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The bust is on loan from the Society of American Magicians, which was founded in 1902 in a Manhattan magic shop and was led by Houdini for many years.
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NEW DELHI — An Indian magician was believed dead on Monday after attempting a stunt inspired by Harry Houdini that involved an underwater escape from half a dozen locked chains.
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One development was the rise of "modern magic" — the style of performance spearheaded by the French stage magician Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, from whom Houdini adapted his own stage name.
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They cuffed her and put her in the back of a police cruiser—apparently failing to realize the woman they'd just apprehended was some sort of secret Houdini of Crime.
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An Indian magician inspired by Harry Houdini is feared dead after he was tied up with ropes, locked in chains and dropped into a river, The Times of India reports.
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Houdini, he said, "used to practice his underwater escapes in manacles and chains in the pool," a fact that delights him, because he was an avid magician as a child.
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But his trademark generosity remains: in the newfound openness to co-writing, in the singalong choruses, in the appropriation of real and imagined characters like Houdini or Brecht's Pirate Jenny.
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For Mr. Lynch, who grew up in Wisconsin performing in the same childhood town as Harry Houdini, it was a request that seemed set up by the gods of magic.
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Carlos Ghosn said his family didn&apost help with his Houdini-like escape from Japan to LebanonHere are all the bizarre theories surrounding Carlos Ghosn&aposs international bail-jumping escapade
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Death was something even Harry Houdini (1874-1926) couldn't escape, but those who have always wished they could see him can enjoy close approximations of his artistry at this museum.
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R. Kelly is the Houdini of street charity ... at least according to the homeless guy who claims Kelly pulled a fast one with a hundo -- but our video might prove otherwise.
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He tries to see how high of a bar he can reach under as many constraints as possible, so he uses a cheap copy of Houdini Indie to make his work.
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The parallel to Mulder and Scully is one of the hodgepodge of elements that make up the new series "Houdini & Doyle," a British-Canadian-American production that begins on Monday night.
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Houdini was in Montreal, and had just finished teaching a class on spiritual tricks, when he began bragging that his stomach muscles were so tough that he could withstand hard blows.
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Harry Houdini and Fred Astaire both performed in the city, and the comedy team of George Burns and Gracie Allen met at a Union City vaudeville theater in the early 1920s.
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By age 9, he was learning magic and by his teens he was performing in Appleton, at Houdini's Escape restaurant, for example, and at a local museum with a Houdini exhibit.
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Knowing that Houdini eventually settled in New York with his family as a teenager, Mr. Lynch hoped to one day move to New York and break into its active magic scene.
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After Houdini died unexpectedly in 1926 at 52, Mackenberg continued their work, taking on clients that had an interest in combating fraud, including police agencies, insurance companies and Better Business Bureaus.
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It makes some sense: No matter what the Democrats do -- or try to do -- he escapes, Houdini-like, through the tangle of constitutional and legal questions raised by his unprecedented behavior.
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With a Houdini-like recovery to save par on the 18th, Mr Koepka staggered into the clubhouse with a four-over-par 503—and a second consecutive inscription on the Wanamaker Trophy.
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Being a naïve teenager—or maybe a complete idiot—it took me until the end of my employment to link these Houdini-like reptilian feats to the guy who closed on weeknights.
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His arrest follows January's extradition of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the Houdini-like master of escape who is accused of running the Sinaloa cartel -- one of the world's largest drug trafficking organizations.
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Houdini was teaching students in Montreal a series of tricks, and mentioned that his stomach muscles were so strong they could withstand punches without injury, according to the New York Times archives.
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Part of the society's Summer of Magic, a salute to all kinds of illusion, this themed weekend will begin on Friday night at 7 with a screening of "Houdini," a PBS documentary.
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After 36 years, most of them spent behind bars, the man whose seven successful prison escapes earned him the nickname of Florida's "Prison Houdini" was granted parole by a state board on Thursday.
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"I used Houdini, which has a built-in functionality to convert a geometric model into three signals that correspond to the coordinates [xyz] of the object's point array," Cherouvim tells The Creators Project.
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A Houdini-like master of escape in his native Mexico, Guzman could be sent to the Brooklyn lockup, where he will stay while he stands trial on federal charges, according to American officials.
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Houdini, who lived on the Upper East Side and Harlem, was buried in Machpelah Cemetery, a Jewish cemetery in Glendale, Queens and left no record of how he performed his most famous tricks.
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He had already achieved a nifty trick in getting a room full of chatty teens to remain silent for two minutes as he called — seemingly in vain — for Houdini to give a sign.
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Chief among these was Energy Transfer Equity's Houdini-like escape from the merger with the Williams Companies, which came down to the nuances of when a tax opinion can and cannot be given.
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Chloe's parents, who found the little Houdini in the hallway shortly after she escaped and safely returned her to bed, were baffled about how their toddler was able to pull off such a feat.
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Since then, Mr. DeFriest, now 55, has remained a prisoner because of his 13 escape attempts, seven of them successful, earning him the nickname "Prison Houdini" and more than 30 additional years of incarceration.
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When you find yourself in the captain's chair on one of these movies, you feel a little like Houdini—you're in a restraint system, and you're trying to figure out how to get out.
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Kadish uses the plague and the Great Fire of London just as Leonardo Padura used Rembrandt in his recent book Heretics and E. L. Doctorow used Harry Houdini and Booker T. Washington in Ragtime.
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The House of Houdini, a museum in Budapest's historic Castle district, seeks to shed light on the illusionist's roots with a display of memorabilia and a research team tracking down documents about his life.
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Buster Keaton, whose given name was Joseph and whose nickname was, according to one legend, bestowed on him by Harry Houdini, is one of the few film artists to achieve immortality as an adjective.
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With flocked wallpaper and vintage ephemera such as Houdini books and curious objects, and cocktails that have their own brand of magic, this is a must for visitors who enjoy a unique bar experience.
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He will just have to hope the comeback is more successful than Cousy's: The man they called Houdini of the Hardwood scored just 5 points in seven appearances before once again fading into retirement.
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Harry Houdini, the renowned illusionist and escape artist, attended hundreds of séances, trying to communicate with his dead parents, before deciding that many self-described seers were in fact con artists soaking the gullible.
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To play your very best, to make a Houdini-like escape from impossible conditions, you need a partner who handcuffs you and stuffs you in a mail sack, then hurls it into the river.
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During a secret live iHeartRadio concert at the gorgeous Houdini Estate in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills, Lorde opened up about the emotional event that inspired the song, "Liability," that she wrote with Bleacher's Jack Antonoff.
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L. L. Bean, Helly Hansen and Houdini, the Swedish outdoor clothing brand, have all made "concept jackets" from the material, which may become available to athletes and other shoppers in the next year or two.
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"Not unless Harry Houdini wins a special election to help us," Mr. Long said about the prospects of cobbling together a coalition that could agree on how to repeal and replace the health care law.
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When a banker asked her to look into a medium who had advised him to invest in a stock that proved worthless, she consulted Houdini, who was already famous for his crusade against psychic swindlers.
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Once he could stand, he would Houdini out of the shoulder restraints in his stroller and stand, arms flung out like Kate Winslet on the prow of the Titanic, reaching out to pedestrians, embracing the world.
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During OR, we wore the Houdini Power Air Houdi around Denver — which uses the first version of Polartec Power Air that launched in 2019 — to get a feel of how the newer Mono Air would perform.
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Those too certain of a Netanyahu defeat, Mr. Verter said, should keep in mind the old joke about his Houdini-like ability to evade disaster: "He gets hit and hit and hit, and finally he wins."
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It took Houdini less than a minute to escape his confines and when the crate was pulled to the surface again it was found to be intact and contained the manacles with which he had been secured.
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Halep began to feel the strain, shooting angry looks at her coach Darren Cahill as Kerber broke for 6-5, then led 40-15, only for Houdini-like Halep to extricate herself with some courageous deep hitting.
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"When I was in first grade I watched "First Blood," and I filled my Fisher-Price Houdini kit with steak knives and brought them to school and started throwing them at kids in recess," Gosling told Macleans.
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Chanchal Lahiri, 41, whose stage name is Jadugar Mandrake, hasn't reappeared from the Hooghly River since Sunday afternoon, when he attempted to perform the underwater escape act that became famous with Houdini more than 85033 years ago.
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Alas, even the Agassi triumph was obscured by Connors, who summoned his inner Houdini in a first-round night match against Patrick McEnroe, rallying from two sets down and 5003-3, 0-40 behind in the third.
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However, she and her team can carefully choreograph a rotating box to make it appear as if the prodigy is having a Houdini-inspired moment, and SNL broke down the specifics in a behind-the-scenes video.
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Ahí ha dejado pasmados a espectadores del metro, entre ellos al fotógrafo Jaime Permuth, quien captó hace poco el acto de Rentería, quien usa como nombre artístico Olmedini, una combinación de su nombre con el de Houdini.
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In an interview with Offscreen, Snow recounts his implementation of the Houdini software (now used for 3D animation for video games and blockbusters) as well as hiring recent graduates of Toronto's animation schools to help on the production.
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" For the singer's glittery eye, Sir John started by putting the iridescent Lemonhead Houdini Highlite Spacepaste ($22) all over her eye with a pop of Lemonhead's Dirty Penny Spacepaste ($22) glitter in the middle "to add extra dimension.
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Un hombre con escasa educación formal, hijo de un campesino que logró convertirse en un poderoso narcotraficante, se casó con una reina de belleza y ejecutó dos escapes dignos de Houdini, El Chapo quería producir su película biográfica.
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Though he proved himself to be a veritable Houdini in escaping Mr Carlsen's pincer binds, the fourth and final tiebreaker forced Mr Karjakin in the unfamiliar territory of having to play for a win rather than a draw.
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And the company is also working on integrations for Amazon Sumerian, Blender, Substance, Modo, Cinema 4D, Octane, HighFidelity, Aframe, Houdini, Sansar, Mimesys, The Wave VR, Masterpiece VR, Artomatix, Flipside VR, Blend Media, NormalVR, Vectary, Streem, and Meta glasses.
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Mr. Trump, with his Houdini-like ability to squirm out of direct answers, is a particularly tough subject for interviewers, who will be forced to determine on the fly when to interrupt with a prime-time fact-check.
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She has included an installation about escape artists like Harry Houdini, an explainer on chastity belts and a trompe l'oeil scene of Gramercy Park in Manhattan, a private space that is open only to those who live nearby.
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In the months of heartbreak and rage that followed, New Iberians tended to believe the official account of the "Houdini suicide" to the extent that they approved of the performance of Louis Ackal, the sheriff of Iberia Parish.
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I try to remain relevant as Houdini did for his day and age and bring to the public on television, at my live [Las Vegas] show at the Luxor, demonstrations that you can't see anywhere else in the world.
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Watching someone struggle to get out of handcuffs for almost two hours sounds like a bad Houdini experiment, so almost all of the action takes place inside Jessie's (Carla Gugino) head as she attempts to free herself from bondage.
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While some Lebanese media have floated a Houdini-like account of Ghosn being packed in a wooden container for musical instruments after a private concert in his home, his wife called the account pure fiction when contacted by Reuters.
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Image: Egor Larionov, Christopher Batty, Robert Bridson Those mathematical equations are then written into computer code, which is incorporated into animation software such as Houdini or AutoDesk's Maya—the programs behind the blockbusters Moana and Lord of the Rings.
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Amidst the chaos, the two-time prison escapee used his Houdini-like tactics to steal out of the house through a secret passageway, dropping into a manhole that led him to a maze of drains below the streets of Los Mochis.
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OHRID, Macedonia (Reuters) - Swimming instructor, lifeguard and adventurer Yane Petkov - Bulgaria's answer to Houdini and Michael Phelps combined - reclaimed on Tuesday the Guinness world record for swimming along with his hands and feet tied while fully wrapped inside a sack.
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Federer heads into the semi-final clash having performed another Houdini act in this year's tournament, saving seven match points to overcome American world number 100 Tennys Sandgren 6-3 2-6 163-6 7-6(8) 6-3 on Tuesday.
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Professor Silverman, a specialist in Colonial American literature and the co-director of the program in American civilization at New York University, also wrote well-received biographies of Edgar Allan Poe, Harry Houdini, Samuel F. B. Morse and John Cage.
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New York (CNN)Drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, a Houdini-like master of escape accused of running one of the world's largest drug trafficking organizations, entered a not guilty plea through his attorney at an arraignment Friday in federal court in Brooklyn.
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Nevada political reporter Jon Ralston once told Vox that Heller was the "Houdini of Nevada politics" because he had never lost a race, but Nevada's Democratic voters sent a message about Heller's health care vote and sudden embrace of President Donald Trump.
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The resonance with "Who" is compounded by the presence of a young police constable (Rebecca Liddiard) assigned to work with Conan Doyle (Stephen Mangan of "Episodes") and Houdini (Michael Weston) who serves a function similar to that of the Doctor's doughty female companions.
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Even almost 100 years after his death, the name Harry Houdini is synonymous with escapology, but less is known about his first great escape - how he left his Hungarian home as a child for a new life in the United States.
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Some oil diffusers come with confusing assembly instructions, even lengthier directions on how to reach certain settings, fussy specifications (like only using distilled water), and designs so complicated that only Houdini could figure out how and where to add the essential oils.
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For those lost in the conceptual spume of contemporary exhibitions, Facility of DECLINE is a gut-punch worthy of Harry Houdini, one that will take you back to the days in which modern giants like Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst still had things to prove.
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They captured a 10-foot caiman (by luring him to stick his snout through a lasso), a manatee, a peccary named Houdini (because of its frequent escapes), a baby orangutan, a 12-foot python, a giant anteater, a bear cub and tons of other animals.
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The team went so far as to built an Android app they call ODINI, named for the escape artist Harry Houdini, to catch those signals using a phone's magnetometer, the magnetic sensor that enables its compass and remains active even when the phone is in airplane mode.
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"[Arthur] Conan Doyle thought about Houdini that his illusions didn't have to do with tricks, that it was about magic, about something transcendental," said newly-appointed Broad director Marc-Olivier Wahler, in an interview with Hyperallergic about the foundational concepts behind his inaugural exhibition for the museum.
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We see superstar surgeon Robert Liston at work, and learn about the medical troubles of Queen Victoria, Harry Houdini, Vladimir Lenin, a smattering of popes, and the Sun King himself, Louis XIV, who became the proud (and very public) recipient of France's first successful anal fistula removal.
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Among the missing works were depictions of the then-married Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh in the 1953 movie "Houdini," and Denzel Washington, Paul Winfield and Ruby Dee in the 1988 Broadway play "Checkmates," while the unauthorized copies depicted Carol Burnett, Bob Hope and other subjects.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Roger Federer performed his second Houdini act of this year's Australian Open on Tuesday, saving seven match points en route to a nerve-wracking 22018-227 2-6 2-6 7-6(20183) 6-3 comeback victory over American world number 100 Tennys Sandgren.
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Or one particularly crafty mammal from the annals of history: the Harry Houdini of orangutans, with the unassuming name of Ken Allen, who rose to fame in the 1980s for escaping the San Diego Zoo not once, not twice, but thrice — sometimes colluding with other primates.
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Also known by his stage name "Jadugar Mandrake," Lahiri was initially feared dead after he failed to emerge from the river on Sunday after a Harry Houdini-inspired trick attempt that saw him chained up and submerged into the water near Kolkata's Howrah Bridge, CNN reported on Monday.
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Numerous stories didn't make it in — whether the first acts of Harry Houdini or the strolls of Woody Guthrie and the eventual scattering of his ashes on its beach; neither did certain lesser-known artists, like the mysterious Larry Millard whose hand-painted murals adorned the recently demolished Playland Arcade.
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Even in the context of a pared-down show, the quantity of styling gimmickry was a burden: Houdini leg straps; rubber tape hieroglyph patterns on fabric; harnesses; and rabbit-and-wool felt caps made at the Cappellificio Cervo, a traditional hat-maker in northern Italy purchased by Zegna last year.
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Matt was drinking a peach-colored cocktail and told me that when he first got to the theater he went up to the balcony and someone had told him that a small hole in the ceiling (he pointed) was where Harry Houdini used to hang his ropes and things for magic tricks.
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The mysteries — involving nuns possibly murdered by a ghost in the pilot, and deaths connected to a faith healer in a subsequent episode — are too thinly constructed to hold your interest, and the characters are likewise one-dimensional and dull, quite a trick considering how interesting the actual Conan Doyle and Houdini were.
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In an era of Harry Houdini, Barnum & Bailey and other death-defying showmen, Taylor, who was about 10 years old, became front-page famous when, in a moment of unequivocal courage and questionable decision-making, she crawled into a white-oak barrel of her own design on a late October afternoon in 224.
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While there were hints that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could be losing support, his right-wing allies appeared to be sticking with him and no one was foolish enough to write off a politician who still retains a strong base and has shown Houdini-like skill in escaping seemingly impossible jams before.
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This persona, combined with his work — monumental public photography projects often made in parts of the world wrenched by political strife or made inaccessible by military conflict — has lent JR the aura of an empathetic Houdini, magicking himself into unkind places and performing the dual trick of not getting killed while stirring warm feelings.
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" When the length of the rope is exhausted, Houdini finds himself trapped in a secret cavern below the Sphinx, where strange creatures perform a ceremony to ancient gods, evoking "a terror peculiarly dissociated from personal fear, and taking the form of a sort of objective pity for our planet, that it should hold within its depths such horrors.
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Playlist: "Feel It" / "The Saxophone Song" / "The Kick Inside" / "Symphony In Blue" / "The Infant Kiss" / "Houdini" / "The Sensual World" / "The Song Of Solomon" Spotify | Apple Music Long into post-adolescence and self-sufficiency, Kate was still referred to as the "doctor's daughter," and far into her forties, critics still tied Kate's music to her father's Englishness and her mother's Irishness.
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L.S.U. rose to the top of college football with its embrace of a spread offense, introduced after years of underwhelming passing statistics in Baton Rouge, and with a quarterback, Joe Burrow, who used his final year of eligibility to throw dozens of touchdowns, dazzle audiences with Houdini-like escapes from blitzing defenders and win the Heisman Trophy in a landslide.
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Ally (Burmese Python) Dozer (Potbellied Pig) Turdell (Snapping Turtle) Finnian (Angora Rabbit) Josephini Houdini (Tarantula) Pax (Peacock) Wicket and Truffle (Rats) Pippin (Sugar Glider) Marvin (Chameleon) Felix (Chinchilla) Rico (Sonoran Kingsnake) Wendy and Gabby (Finches) Kiva (Hedgehog) Tumnus (Bearded Dragon) Paco (Alpaca) Medusa (Green Tree Snake) Hermit Crab The dog may be man's best friend, but pot-bellied pigs, alpacas and pythons make fine companions, too.
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Californians and visitors will have close-up access to some of the country's most iconic photography: a carte-de-visite of seated underground railroad leader Harriet Tubman in the late 1860s; Dorothea Lange's 1936 "Migrant Mother" image, which has come to symbolize the Great Depression; an intimate snapshot of John F. Kennedy and Jackie Bouvier on their wedding day in 1953; the Wright brothers' first flight, in 1903; and Harry Houdini doing a magic trick in 1908.
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Although I'm fairly familiar with the popular theater genre where people place themselves in Houdini situations for fun [shudder] that goes by the term "escape room," my mind usually goes to the Jodie Foster movie (which also featured a super young Kristen Stewart for all of you escape-room-loving millennials), and the whole neurotic phenomenon of self-protection for the elite from the rabble (although there's actually a long and sympathetic history of safe rooms — they're even in the pyramids).
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