This escape artist who died in 1926 is called the "World's Handcuff King" in a new book by Kenneth Silverman
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Houdini_WallText.doc - Contemporary Jewish Museum  Remarkably, Houdini (18741926) rose to worldwide celebrity from the ... World's Handcuff King and Prison Breaker and The Justly World-Famous ... his image during his lifetime, after his death in 1926 and Bess's death in 1943, ... Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York .... Collection of Kenneth Silverman.
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Harry Houdini - Wikipedia  Harry Houdini was an American illusionist and stunt performer, noted for his sensational .... Houdini's brother, (who was also an escape artist, billing himself as Theodore .... Houdini continued to perform the escape until his death in 1926. ..... The Career of Ehrich Weiss, author Kenneth Silverman summarizes how reporters...
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HOUDINI BOOK: Harry Houdini Silverman Museum Scranton Wilkes ...  Best book in the world devoted to escape artist Harry Houdini. ... World's Handcuff King & Prison Breaker- Nothing on Earth Can ... A new book by Kenneth Silverman ... Seventy years after his death, Harry Houdini still whips the competition.
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Harry_Houdini : dfinition de Harry_Houdini et synonymes de ...  In later life, Houdini would claim that the first part of his new name, Harry, was a homage to .... expert, magician and escape artist Dorothy Dietrich of Scranton's Houdini Museum. ... Houdini continued to perform the escape until his death in 1926. ..... The Career of Ehrich Weiss, author Kenneth Silverman summarizes how...
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The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero ...  $18.92 127 Used from $0.01 56 New from $6.05 6 Collectible from $9.85  Audible ... Since his death eighty-eight years ago, Harry Houdini's life has been .... Like the biography "Houdini, the Career of Ehrich Weiss" by Kenneth Silverman, the ... of this book have ever heard of the Hungarian escape artist called Hanelo?
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Escape From Alcatraz! 7 Things You Didn't Know About The Prison ...  Mar 22, 2013 ... Once home to the most notorious criminals in history including Al Capone, Robert Birdman of Alcatraz Stroud, George Machine Gun ... security federal penitentiary finally closed its steel doors on March 21, 1963, after 29 ... after his escape, only to be arrested by the Presidio police and returned to his cell.
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Robert Stroud - Wikipedia  Robert Franklin Stroud (January 28, 1890  November 21, 1963), known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz", was an American federal prisoner and author who has been cited as one of the United States' most notorious criminals. During his time at Leavenworth Penitentiary, he reared and sold birds and ... In January 1909, he shot and killed a bartender who had attacked one of his...
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Martin Beck | Travalanche  Jul 30, 2010 ... Stranded by his company in Chicago, he took a job as a waiter in music ... magician to the Handcuff King, vaudeville's premier escape artist, loved by audiences for his uncanny ability to work his way out of handcuffs, shackles, .... And Martin Beck earned his nickname Two Beers Beck by working as a...
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Harry Houdini - Wikipedia  Harry Houdini was an American illusionist and stunt performer, noted for his sensational .... His straitjacket escape was originally performed behind curtains, with him ..... acknowledge the part Houdini played (Harry Houdini can't escape being part of ..... Conjuring (1926), article for the Encyclopdia Britannica's 13th edition.
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Morton Freedgood - Wikipedia  Morton Freedgood (1913  April 16, 2006) was an American author who wrote The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and many other detective and mystery novels under the pen name John Godey. Biography[edit]. Freedgood was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York in 1913 and ... the hijacking of a New York City Subway train, was a best seller in 1973 and...
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A classic revisited: The Deep Blue Good-by  CRIME FICTION LOVER  Feb 16, 2013 ... Writing Travis McGee from 1964 to 1984, John D MacDonald earned ... Stephen King, Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen have all praised him. ... Macdonald's colours have been followed in the titles of Walter ... But McGee sees his real job as being a sort of hardboiled .... Gondolas and gripping mysteries.
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Jerry Lee Lewis - Wikipedia  Jerry Lee Lewis (born September 29, 1935) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and pianist, often known by his nickname, The Killer. He has been described as "rock & roll's first great wild man. ... He followed this with "Great Balls of Fire", "Breathless" and "High School Confidential". However, Lewis's rock and roll...
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Page 1 Shel Silverstein 1932-1999 (Full name Shelby Silverstein ...  Silverstein's verse story The Giving Tree ... for the military newspaper Pacific Stars and Stripes. His ... gained widespread recognition as a children's book ... originally published in Playboy were included in these ... Falling Up, the speaker relates that he tripped on his .... Gorilla, the reviewer praises the work as a savagely.
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10 of History's Most Death-Defying Stunts - Popular Mechanics  Sep 25, 2015 ... His most famous stunt was in a scene from John Ford's 1939 ... Jackie Chan's Helicopter Stunt from 'Police Story III: Supercop'. There's a certain type of respect that moviegoers give to actors who perform their own stunts.
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Detailed Bio of Carl Panzram in the Serial Killer Calendar  But when he was on the loose, Panzram murdered, raped and burned his way ..... "Whenever I met one that wasn't too rusty looking I would make him raise his ..... in the local village and got enough money to buy a fare to the Canary Islands . ...... history of the state was to Robert Stroud, the so-called "Birdman of Alcatraz.
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jeopardy/1013_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  LOST ART | In the 1972 book "Working", a man with this music-related job says ... FEARFUL QUOTES | "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear", opined this master of horror novels like "The Lurking Fear" | H.P. Lovecraft. right:.
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News Spike: Irving  Jul 20, 2015 ... Bamford became a hero with his 1982 work, The Puzzle Palace, which detailed ..... These writers include well-known personalities such as Jack ... I quote The Enemy : ..... he called flexible responsea strategy of calibrated force that his White .... A credible deterrent cannot be based on an incredible act.
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The Big Apple: Dead Man's Hand - Barry Popik  Jan 1, 2007 ... The hand is widely believed to be aces and eights, but early citations ... It's a modern myth that Wild Bill Hickok was playing poker when he was shot ... hand held by Wild Bill Hickok at the time of his murder, which is ... His gunfighting skills led to his nickname, Wild Bill. (...) Death On August 2, 1876, while...
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Amazon.com: FROGMEN: The True Story of My Journeys With ...  Editorial Reviews. About the Author. Richard Hyman is one of few Americans who dove with ... In his personal account of expeditions with legendary French explorer ... Cousteau and the crew of research vessel Calypso, Richard Hyman takes us ... In 1973, at the age of eighteen and just out of high school, he drives a truck...
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Catch Me If You Can by Frank W. Abagnale, Stan Redding ...  Aug 28, 2000 ... Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank .... A Stolen Life: A Memoir ... "The Skywayman," Abagnale lived a sumptuous life on the lam-until the law ... bestselling true story of the world's most sought-after con man was ... When you're done, you'll want to share the book with a friend; it's...
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Neil Simon:The Prisoner of Second Avenue - YouTube  Feb 14, 2012 - 1 min - Uploaded by ingecenterPlaywright Neil Simon was born on July 4, 1927 and lived most of his life in New  York ...