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Black and white photo of Harry Houdini with folded arms and gold chains around his wrists, set against a theater audience background with the text: the wild TRUTH about Houdini.

Harry Houdini stands in a wooden box on a boat above the East River, holding up his handcuffed wrists, surrounded by onlookers in 1912.

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Black and white photo of Harry Houdini with folded arms and gold chains around his wrists, set against a theater audience background with the text: the wild TRUTH about Houdini.

How Harry Houdini Became the World's Most Famous Magician

Houdini could escape anything—even the truth.

Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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The Conjurer

The Conjurer

The Conjurer, an oil painting by Hieronymus Bosch illustrating the shell...

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Harry Houdini stands in a wooden box on a boat above the East River, holding up his handcuffed wrists, surrounded by onlookers in 1912.

Harry Houdini

Harry Houdini preparing to be submerged in a box in the East River, New York City,...

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