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Born in Budapest, Hungary. (pg 1)
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Learned his first trick at 15, how to make a coin vanish. (pg 4)
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His father Mayer Weiss didn't appreciate the career and died never seeing a show.(pg7)
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Metamorphosis. He has used the trick for years at this point but at the Colombian exposition, it's the trick that started his escape artist career. (pg10)
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At the Colombian Exposition, he also learned how to "swallow" a mouthful of needles and string, and pulled them all out threaded on the string. (pg 9)
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Buys his first house in Harlem with his wife Bess. With a total of 26 rooms, 12 bathrooms, and multiple bath and fire places. (pg 69)
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Houdini jumped into the Woolloomoolo Bay to do a weighted dive and when the weight hits the bottom it dislodges a corpse in the bottom of the river. (pg 99-100)
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Houdini The first person to fly a plane over Australia. (pg100)
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His mothers death was the biggest turmoil of his life. He promised his dad to take care of her, and he did but he was so focused on that promise he almost felt purposeless after. (pg 113)
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He dies and his wife Bess sings the song she performed when she met him the first time.
