Houdini

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• Much of the collection could be see at the Houdini Museum in Appleton, Wisconsin, until Radner auctioned it off in 2004. Five People Born on March 24 | myFiveBest
• Houdini could walk a tightrope, untie knots with his toes, scale skyscrapers, dislocate his shoulders, and hold his breath for over three minutes. The Magician Escapes the Show
• When he conned Scotland Yard detectives into trying their "darbies" (handcuffs), they locked Houdini's arms around a stone pillar and left him to suffer.
• Houdini exerted a preternatural control over his body, wriggling out of straitjackets by dislocating his shoulders.
• Among the myths exposed along the way is the idea that Houdini, great escapologist though he was, could do magic.
• Houdini, who preferred the description mystifier to magician, appealed to that basic compulsion. Kelly Candaele: Harry Houdini's Message from the Grave
• Depicting a confident Houdini at the peak of his career, the stamp is based on a 1911 lithographed poster.
• ‘This ability ‘, Doyle stated publicly, ‘to unbolt locked doors is undoubtedly due to Houdini's mediumistic powers and not to any normal operation of the lock.’
• Keaton was given the name Buster by Houdini, Adam said. Rebecca Campbell and Nicole Walker: 7 Rings Day 1: Featuring Poet and Essayist Nicole Walker
• Houdini could get out of a glass box full of water in a couple of minutes, even chained up and in a straitjacket.