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    John Nevil Maskelyne (22 December 1839 – 18 May 1917) was an English stage magician and inventor of the pay toilet, along with other Victorian-era devices...
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    Nevil Maskelyne FRS FRSE (/ˈmæskəlɪn/; 6 October 1732 – 9 February 1811) was the fifth British Astronomer Royal. He held the office from 1765 to 1811...
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    Herbert Nevil Story Maskelyne (3 September 1823 – 20 May 1911) was an English geologist and politician. Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, Maskelyne taught...
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    John Nevil Maskelyne, known professionally as Nevil Maskelyne (1863–1924), was a British magician and inventor. Maskelyne was born in 1863 Cheltenham...
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  • established family of stage magicians, the son of Nevil Maskelyne and a grandson of John Nevil Maskelyne. He is most remembered for his accounts of his work...
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  • Nevil Maskelyne (MP) (1611–1679), English MP for Cricklade Nevil Story Maskelyne (1823–1911), English geologist and politician John Nevil Maskelyne (1839–1917)...
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  • Nevil Maskelyne (1611 – 30 August 1679) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660. Maskelyne was the son of Edmund...
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  • geological process Metamorphosis (illusion), a stage illusion invented by John Nevil Maskelyne Shapeshifting, a common theme in mythology, folklore and other fiction...
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  • British Army officer John Nevil Maskelyne (1839–1917), English stage magician and inventor of the pay toilet Nevil Maskelyne FRS (1732–1811), the fifth...
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    to the first historic phase of Spiritualism. Stage magicians like John Nevil Maskelyne and Harry Houdini made a side-line of exposing fraudulent mediums...
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  • Maskelyne may refer to: Nevil Maskelyne (MP) (1611–1679), English landowner, MP for Cricklade Nevil Maskelyne (1732–1811), the fifth British Astronomer...
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  • Metamorphosis is the name of a stage illusion invented by John Nevil Maskelyne, but most often associated with famous escape artist Harry Houdini and performed...
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    "Levitation of Princess Karnac", copied from an illusion invented by John Nevil Maskelyne, which was later bought by Harry Blackstone Sr. He was a longtime...
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  • magicians. Outside the film, similar rivalries include magicians John Nevil Maskelyne and Harry Kellar's dispute over a levitation illusion. Gary Westfahl...
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    form. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, magicians such as John Nevil Maskelyne and David Devant, Howard Thurston, Harry Kellar, and Harry Houdini...
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    old. While Aykroyd was a close friend and partner with fellow cast member John Belushi and shared some of the same sensibilities, Aykroyd was more reserved...
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    reports by the investigators such as Richard Hodgson and magician John Nevil Maskelyne, all the phenomena observed in the Cambridge sittings were the result...
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    device and many others were described in detail by the magician John Nevil Maskelyne. The main purpose of any holdout device is to temporarily hold a...
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    magician Nevil Maskelyne. The production premiered at Saint George's Hall in London on 2 January 1905. Both Nevil Maskelyne and his father John Nevil Maskelyne...
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    Devant and John Nevil Maskelyne were regularly seen performing. Devant became the first president of The Magic Circle, and in 1906, Maskelyne edited the...
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  • one could enjoy the use of a pool, use the toilet or socialize. John Nevil Maskelyne, an English stage magician, invented the first modern pay toilet...
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    of Psychical Research, and professional conjurers such as John Nevil Maskelyne. Maskelyne exposed the Davenport brothers by appearing in the audience...
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  • Émile and Vincent Isola, the British magicians David Devant and John Nevil Maskelyne, and the American cinematographers Billy Bitzer, James Stuart Blackton...
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    Estate". John Cox and Patrick Culliton. Retrieved March 30, 2012. "The true story of the Laurel Canyon Houdini Estate". Patrick Culliton and John Cox. Retrieved...
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  • Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician and academic (d. 1892) 1839 – John Nevil Maskelyne, English magician (d. 1917) 1850 – Victoriano Huerta, Mexican general...
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    having fraudulently produced paranormal phenomena by skeptics such as John Nevil Maskelyne, Robert Todd Carroll, and James Randi. Peter Washington notes that...
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  • Marshall, Jay (James Ward Marshall) Marvey, Peter Maskelyne, Jasper Maskelyne, John Nevil Maskelyne, Nevil Masklyn ye Mage: see Tony Andruzzi de Matos, Luis...
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    criteria agreed to by both sides. Based on the paranormal challenges of John Nevil Maskelyne and Houdini, the foundation began in 1996, when Randi put up $1,000...
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    as Master Fellowship, by the Academy of Magical Arts, 2012. The John Nevil Maskelyne Prize (2013) List of magicians Hartlaub, Peter (2 December 2001)...
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    its true source must have been looked for elsewhere." The magician John Nevil Maskelyne also criticized the design of the experiment for taking place under...
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