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Pick A Card, Any Card!

26 Jun 2024

The curtain went up in 鈥淗eller鈥檚 Wonder Theatre鈥 on Broadway to reveal a blindfolded lady comfortably seated center stage. A volunteer from the audience was solicited to 鈥減ick a card, any card!鈥...

A Houdini Low Point

27 Oct 2023

National Magic Day is celebrated annually on October 31st in memory of Harry Houdini who passed away on that day in 1926.

The Two Types of Erasable Ink and Why One Is Much Cooler Than the Other

4 Nov 2022

Introduced in 1979, the Papermate Erasermate offered something that, up until then, had been science fiction: an erasable pen. While correction fluids and tape were a well-established solution to...

Remembering Houdini

26 Oct 2022

For many years members of the American Society of Magicians gathered on October 31 at Machpelah Cemetery in New York to break a magic wand over the grave of the man whose name is synonymous with...

The Bottle Jumper

31 Aug 2022

The scene was a street corner in London sometime in the 17th聽century. A skeptical crowd had gathered to see if the performer could deliver on his promise to pour whatever drink asked for, be it...

How Come You Never See a Baby Housefly?

16 Jul 2021

Simple. Because baby houseflies don鈥檛 exist. A little backgrounder on the flies鈥 reproductive cycle can clear up this apparent conundrum. Within a week of mating, a doggie-style activity lasting...

Bottled Superstition: Then and Now

5 Apr 2019

Workers at a London construction site were mystified when they unearthed a sealed stoneware bottle with some very strange markings including the image of a scary bearded man.聽The bottle, obviously...

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