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	Harry Houdini Harry Houdini , 1874-1926, American magician and writer, b. Budapest, Hungary. His real name was Erich Weiss; he took his stage name after the French magician Houdin . He was famed for his escapes from bonds of every sort—locks, handcuffs, straitjackets, and sealed chests underwater. While... Read more
	Eubie Blake Eubie Blake (James Hubert Blake), 1883-1983, African-American pianist and composer, b. Baltimore. His career has extended from ragtime (see jazz ) to the 1980s. With the songwriter Noble Sissle he produced early African-American Broadway musicals, e.g., Shuffle Along (1921). His most famous... Read more
	American Museum of Magic American Museum of Magic Established in 1978 by Robert Lund, a collector of books, movies, recordings, posters, and apparatus associated with conjuring magic and magicians. The collection includes some of the apparatus of the great magician Harry Houdini. The museum also issues a periodic... Read more
	Jean Eugene Robert Houdin Jean Eugène Robert Houdin or Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin , 1805-71, French conjurer and magician. Originally a clockmaker, he was celebrated for his optical illusions and mechanical devices and for his attributing his "magic" to natural instead of supernatural means. Houdin was... Read more
	Argenteuil Argenteuil , city (1990 pop. 94,162), Val-d'Oise dept., N France, on the Seine, a suburb of Paris. It has important metalworks and factories making furniture, railroad and airplane parts, and chemicals. Once famous for its asparagus and grapes, industry and suburban housing have taken over the... Read more
	Itsuku-shima Itsuku-shima , sacred island, 12 sq mi (31 sq km), in the Inland Sea, Japan, SW of Hiroshima. It is the site of an ancient Shinto shrine, famous for its magical beauty. It is also known for a 9th-century Buddhist temple, a pagoda (built 1407), a 16th-century hall built by Hideyoshi, and a huge torii... Read more
	Theodore Dwight Theodore Dwight 1764-1846, American author, b. Northampton, Mass.; brother of Timothy Dwight and grandson of Jonathan Edwards. A leader of the Federalist party in New England, he became famous for his political pamphlets and articles. As one of the younger Connecticut Wits he proved himself a... Read more
	P L Travers P. L. Travers (Pamela Lyndon Travers), 1899-1996, British author best known for her Mary Poppins children's books, b. Australia as Helen Lyndon Goff. She worked as an actress and journalist and moved to London in 1924. With Mary Poppins (1934), Travers introduced the world's children to that... Read more
	L Frank Baum L. Frank Baum (Lyman Frank Baum) , 1856-1919, American journalist, playwright, and author of children's stories, b. Chittenango, N.Y. He and his family moved to South Dakota in 1888, where he ran a newspaper, and to Chicago in 1891, where he worked as a journalist. His first children's book, ... Read more
	Lourdes Lourdes , town (1990 pop. 16,581), Hautes-Pyrénées dept., SW France, at the foot of the Pyrénées. It is famous for its Roman Catholic shrine where Our Lady of Lourdes (Feast: Feb. 11) is believed to have repeatedly appeared (1858) to St. Bernadette . Millions of people... Read more