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First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

What religion did Sir Arthur Conan Doyle follow?

His beliefs included all sorts of supernatural phenomena such as ghosts, fairies and ESP.His interest in magic led him to strike up a friendship with Harry Houdini. But Conan Doyle was disappointed to learn Houdini had no special powers. And they broke ... [Published WCSH-TV - May 22 2013]

Entities: Harry Houdini, Arthur Conan Doyle, Religion

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

?Ragtime? once more

the Kensington Arts Theatre is presenting the musical “Ragtime,” to May 25 at the Kensington Town Hall/Armory. From left are Harrison Smith as Younger Brother and Sayne Lewis as Coalhouse Walker.More News“Ragtime” lowers its curtain by raising a ruckus ... [Published Gazette.net - May 22 2013]

Entities: Harry Kendall Thaw, Evelyn Nesbit, Matthew Henson

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Lincoln Chafee

Welcome home party for RI marathon bombing victim

PrintEmail Comments (0)NEWPORT, R.I. — A Rhode Island woman who was injured in the Boston Marathon bombings is preparing to attend a welcome home party at Rosecliff, a Newport mansion featured in the film version of "The Great Gatsby."Heather Abbott of ... [Published Boston Herald - May 18 2013]

Entities: Bombing, Marathon, Harry Houdini, Lincoln Chafee

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Flows 38 cents monthly mystery

THE EDITOR: This is an open letter to the management of Flow cable company. I was wondering, which abyss has my $0.38 cents been disappearing into?When paying my bill, I have been rounding off to the nearest dollar and there seems to be no credit printed ... [Published Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday - May 18 2013]

Entities: Harry Houdini, David Copperfield

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Do the spirits return? Performer taps into Golden Age of Magic

When he was eight years old, Sean-Paul was bitten by the magic bug in the basement of a Presbyterian church in St. Paul, Minn.He was attending his Cub Scout pack's Blue and Gold banquet. In addition to the awards ceremony, a magician performed."I watched ... [Published Lovely County Citizen - May 16 2013]

Entities: Harry Houdini, Goldfish, Jim Steinmeyer, Saint Paul (Minnesota, United States)

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Adrien Brody's Houdini series, 'Those Who Kill' remake picked up

A&E Networks has announced a slate of new commissions to air across its cable channels. Chloe Sevigny and James D'Arcy will be starring in a remake of the Danish series Those Who Kill for A&E. $ WENN / Ivan Nikolov/WENN.comChloe Sevigny$ PA Images / Ian ... [Published Digital Spy - May 09 2013]

Entities: Harry Houdini, Chloë Sevigny, Brian Grazer

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Staycation destinations

Nicole SchafferFeatures EditorWith the money earned from selling school books in our pockets and the entire summer ahead of us, there are many places waiting to be explored throughout P.A. While our city of Lancaster is considered to be a unique place, ... [Published Millersville University Snapper - May 09 2013]

Entities: New Hope Corporation Ltd, Harry Houdini, Jim Thorpe, Coal Mine

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

West End news round-up: 7 May 2013

All the hottest news and gossip from the West End and beyond…Dame Helen Mirren ‘shouts at drummers’ making noise during a performance of The AudienceAccording to several news reports, on Saturday 4 May, Dame Helen Mirren ran into the street – in full ... [Published So So Gay - May 07 2013]

Entities: Harry Houdini, Kim Cattrall, Tennessee Williams, Brid Brennan

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Stop our games being last on TV

AS A continued critic of Tony Pulis and his negative attitude to the beautiful game, I am the first to congratulate him on, albeit on his final lap, securing Premier League status for another year.I am not going to analyse this season's performance, a ... [Published Stoke-on-Trent Sentinel - May 06 2013]

Entities: Tony Pulis, Premier League, Harry Houdini

First reported May 04 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 2 reports

Brody unfazed by deep Houdini role

Adrien Brody has revealed that the challenge of portraying legendary magician Harry Houdini is "very exciting". ... [Published Dorset Business - May 04 2013]

Entities: Harry Houdini, Adrien Brody

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Fairfax Archive: Early Aviation

Ehrich Weiss, better known as Harry Houdini, and his Voisin box kite bi-plane, were aloft for 7 minutes 37 seconds, a then record flight.. Houdini was credited, even though disputed, with making the first flight in Australia at ... [Published Sydney Morning Herald - May 01 2013]

Entities: Harry Houdini, Aviation, Australia

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

Steve Jobs, Harry Houdini, and Beyoncé | What We’re Reading

This week, Library Journal and School Library Journal staffers are dipping into some classics (both new and old) of the horror genre, going behind-the-scenes of today’s technology, and looking at historical figures with new eyes.Mahnaz Dar, Associate ... [Published Library Journal - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Harry Houdini, Steve Jobs, Billy Lynn, Rebecca MacKinnon

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?Ragtime? once more [Published Gazette.net - May 22 2013]
Minnehaha store aims to keep the magic alive (w... [Published Columbian.com - May 19 2013]
Welcome home party for RI marathon bombing victim [Published Boston Herald - May 18 2013]
Dan Brown’s secret: He’s our patron saint of se... [Published Globe and Mail - May 18 2013]
Flows 38 cents monthly mystery [Published Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday - May 18 2013]
Do the spirits return? Performer taps into Gold... [Published Lovely County Citizen - May 16 2013]
Ravine Flyer opens [Published Erie Times-News - May 16 2013]
Town of Marshall devoted to keeping its rich hi... [Published Chicago Tribune - May 14 2013]
QPR Fans: Ever Wondered What Happens Inside the... [Published Sabotage Times - May 11 2013]
Fixations of a Fabulist, Hermetic and Mystical [Published New York Times - May 09 2013]
Adrien Brody's Houdini series, 'Those Who Kill'... [Published Digital Spy - May 09 2013]
Six People [Published Crosswalk - May 09 2013]
Staycation destinations [Published Millersville University Snapper - May 09 2013]
West End news round-up: 7 May 2013 [Published So So Gay - May 07 2013]
The Best Six Pack Ab Workout Is Now On An App [Published PRWeb - May 06 2013]
Stop our games being last on TV [Published Stoke-on-Trent Sentinel - May 06 2013]
Marie Fleming on dignitas Marie Fleming discuss... [Published Irish Independent - May 04 2013]
Brody unfazed by deep Houdini role [Published Dorset Business - May 04 2013]
Brody unfazed by deep Houdini role [Published Jersey Evening Post - May 04 2013]
Statement on Jewish American Heritage Month 2013 [Published Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz - May 04 2013]
Lucas County dogs for adoption: 5/4 [Published Toledoblade.com - May 04 2013]
Trying To Normalize Illegal Aliens [Published NewsBlaze - May 04 2013]
Westminster Life: Lending weight to worthy causes [Published Peterborough Evening Telegraph - May 03 2013]
Cutting-edge magician coming to Clark Center [Published Times-Press-Recorder - May 03 2013]
Fairfax Archive: Early Aviation [Published Sydney Morning Herald - May 01 2013]
Just what the doctor ordered [Published WA Today - Apr 30 2013]
WBHS Presents ?Ragtime? April 25-27 - April 24,... [Published Spinal Column Online - Apr 29 2013]

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But Satan is waiting his turn [Published Balloon Juice - Apr 26 2013] It’s easy to make fun of Politico, but Jim Newell does it particularly well : It’s not fun, having to apply a therapeutic reading to some of the Washington press corps’s most inscrutable minds. We really don’t want to know—and don’t have the requisite ...
Brian Levin, J.D.: Jackie Robinson's Big Dreams... [Published The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - Apr 12 2013] Baseball and Brooklyn Dreamers When the nation needed transformational magic, two unlikely, yet quintessentially American institutions, baseball and Brooklyn , found a sharecropper's son, Jackie Roosevelt Robinson, to do it. Hidden in the hearts of ...
Andrew Breitbart was my friend [Published Boing Boing - Feb 28 2013] A year ago I lost a friend. On March 1st, 2012 Andrew Breitbart died but every day, I still see both his personal and mobile IM accounts online. They serve as a sad reminder of the loss of a man I will always remember as kind. I gather his IM accounts ...
Is this really Abraham Lincoln's business card? [Published Kottke.org Blog - Feb 04 2013] Last week, I ran across this list of business cards of famous people , among them Isaac Asimov, Mark Zuckerberg, and Harry Houdini. There was also this curious card for Abraham Lincoln: It seemed a little too jokey for a proper business card, so ...
David Cameron: the Harry Houdini of British pol... [Published News » Politics - Jan 23 2013] David Cameron can be an infuriating politician: too busy "chillaxing", as the caricature has it, to get a grip on a sclerotic and slapdash government machine. He's also been castigated for his poor party management skills. Yet he still has an extraordinary ...