Henry Gordon (March 19, 1919 – January 24, 2009) was a Canadian author, journalist, magician and skeptic. He was the founder of the Ontario Skeptics and...
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actor Harry Gordon (entertainer) (1893–1957), British performer Henry Charles Gordon (1925–1996), American astronaut Henry Gordon (magician) (1919–2009)...
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astronaut Henry Gordon (magician) (1920–2009), Canadian magician and writer Herbert Gordon (cricketer) (1898−1965), English cricketer Herbert Gordon (footballer)...
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Harry Houdini (redirect from The Great Houdini: Magician Extraordinary)
expose their fraudulent methods. As president of the Society of American Magicians, he was keen to uphold professional standards and expose fraudulent artists...
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The Magicians is an American fantasy television series that aired on Syfy, based on the homonymous trilogy of novels by Lev Grossman. Michael London,...
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Kurtz criticized the book for endorsing pseudoscience. Magician and noted skeptic Henry Gordon has written: A reading of Krippner's book, Human Possibilities...
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fire feats and handling a heated lump of coal taken from a fire. The magician Henry R. Evans wrote that the coal handling was a juggling trick, performed...
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Chung Ling Soo (category American magicians)
William Ellsworth Robinson (April 2, 1861 – March 24, 1918) was an American magician who went by the stage name Chung Ling Soo (Chinese: 程連蘇; pinyin: Chéng...
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Kuda Bux (category Indian magicians)
Kuda Bux (15 October 1905 – 5 February 1981, born Khudah Bukhsh) was a magician and firewalker beginning during Crown Rule. Khudah Bukhsh was born in Akhnur...
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Merlin (redirect from Merlin the Magician)
prominently featured in the legend of King Arthur and best known as a magician, with several other main roles. The familiar depiction of Merlin, based...
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Popeye Meets the Man Who Hated Laughter (category Flash Gordon films)
Bringing Up Father Flash Gordon Henry Hi and Lois The Katzenjammer Kids Little Iodine The Little King Mandrake the Magician The Phantom Popeye Prince...
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Paschal Beverly Randolph (redirect from Paschal Beverly Randolph: A Nineteenth-Century Black American Spiritualist, Rosicrucian, and Sex Magician)
A Nineteenth-Century Black American Spiritualist, Rosicrucian, and Sex Magician by John Patrick Deveney and Franklin Rosemont. 1854 Waa-gu-Mah 1859 Lara...
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in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. He has written and directed a short film The Magician which was to be released in March 2012. He was also in an episode of Holby...
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Davenport brothers (redirect from William Davenport (magician))
8, 1911) and William Henry Davenport (February 1, 1841 – July 1, 1877), known as the Davenport brothers, were American magicians in the late 19th century...
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Atom Squad. In 1954, he was the featured pitch-man (acting as an amateur magician) for Bakers Instant Cocoa Mix television commercials. His first recurring...
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(12 August 2008). "While a Magician Works, the Mind Does the Tricks". The New York Times. p. F1. ISSN 0362-4331. Gordon, Henry. (1988). Extrasensory Deception:...
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United States and England, and today claims healing powers. Magicians John Booth and Henry Gordon have suspected Manning used trickery to perform his feats...
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Uri Geller (category Israeli magicians)
Hebrew: אורי גלר; born 20 December 1946) is an Israeli-British illusionist, magician, television personality, and self-proclaimed psychic. He is known for his...
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Couttie wrote Inglis had not familiarized himself with magician techniques. In 1990 the researcher Gordon Stein discovered that the levitation photograph of...
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trick where he would play an accordion with one hand under the table. The magician Chung Ling Soo exposed how Slade had performed the trick. Johann Karl Friedrich...
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John Henry Anderson (1814–1874) was a Scottish professional magician. Anderson is credited with helping bring the art of magic from street performances...
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Faber, 1993, Revised Edition 2004, p. 75-93. Friedman, Jack. "Movie Magician Gordon Willis Explains the Tricks That Make Zelig a Treat", People Magazine...
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The Incredible Hulk; Once an Eagle; The Greatest American Hero; and The Magician.[citation needed] In the 1990s, Merrow returned to Britain to run a family...
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Murray Graydon) The Union Jack (2nd Series) 1,207 The Mystery of the Masked Magician Anon. (Robert Murray Graydon) The Union Jack (2nd Series) 1,208 The Adventure...
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Antonio Esfandiari (redirect from The Magician's Secrets for Winning Tournaments)
Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari (Persian: امیر اسفندیاری; born December 8, 1978, as Amir Esfandiary), is a professional poker player and former professional...
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Henry Ridgely Evans (1861 – 1949) was an American magician and journalist. Evans worked in Baltimore, Maryland as a journalist and wrote books on conjurer...
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James Randi (category American magicians)
Zwinge; August 7, 1928 – October 20, 2020) was a Canadian-American stage magician, author, and scientific skeptic who extensively challenged paranormal and...
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a magic competition television series in which magicians perform tricks in front of American magician-comedian duo Penn & Teller. Its first two seasons...
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trickery by James Randi, but Roll had endorsed her phenomena as genuine. Henry Gordon has stated that parapsychologists such as Roll and Nandor Fodor took...
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This is in opposition to magicians and skeptical researchers who evaluated Crookes' reports from the experiment. The magician Henry Evans suggested the accordion...
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