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Also Known As sleight of hand • conjuring • prestidigitation • legerdemain • stage magic

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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.
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.
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Key People

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John Mulholland
American magician
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Doug Henning
Canadian magician
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Pinetti
conjurer
David Copperfield wearing a dark jacket and shirt, standing at a microphone outdoors with a blurred palm tree in the background.
David Copperfield
American entertainer
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Dai Vernon
Canadian magician and sleight-of-hand artist
Ricky Jay
Ricky Jay
American magician, actor, author, and historian
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
American magician
Harry Blackstone, Sr.
Harry Blackstone, Sr.
American magician
Alessandro, count di Cagliostro
Alessandro, count di Cagliostro
Italian charlatan
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Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin
French magician
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John Henry Anderson
British actor and magician
Poster showing magician Harry Kellar in a tuxedo performing a levitation illusion, with a young woman in a red dress floating horizontally in front of him. Text above reads Kellar and below reads Levitation.
Harry Kellar
American magician
Chung Ling Soo
Chung Ling Soo
American magician
Maskelyne, John Nevil
John Nevil Maskelyne
British magician
Thurston, Howard
Howard Thurston
American magician
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Maximus Of Ephesus
Ephesian philosopher and magician
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Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser
Austrian magician
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Robert Heller
American magician