 "Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)")
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MASTER OF MYSTERY HARRY HOUDINI DIED 80 YEARS AGO TODAY, BUT THE FASCINATION WITH HIS LIFE CONTINUES, AS REFLECTED IN A NEW BOOK.(DAYBREAK)
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
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October 31, 2006
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Byline: WILLIAM R. WINEKE bwineke@madison.com 608-252-6146
Perhaps the greatest illusion that master magician Harry Houdini created was the assumption he spent his life doing illusions.
Houdini, the Appleton resident who died on Halloween 1926, was certainly an illusionist. He may also have been a spy for both England and the United States, was asked to take the place of the Russian mystic Rasputin, and was a major nemesis to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the Sherlock Holmes detective stories.
William Kalush, founder of the Conjuring Arts ...
 "The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)")
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CHINA PUBLISHES A GREAT WALL GUEST BOOK.(NEWS)
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; ...took power and Mao proclaimed the People's Republic of China. But no photos were available until 1957 when Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, the 76-year-old chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, donned a pith helmet and trudged skyward...
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