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Harry Houdini: Ehrich Weiss
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Perhaps the researchers turned up the fact that Harry Houdini's real name was Erich Weiss. Other than that, perhaps JK Rowling, who has scads of money and bloodthirsty barristers at her command, might take exception to another 'Harry' out there.
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Harry Houdini remains to this day the most famous artist escape all of time. His name real was Weiss,. Harry Ehrich (March 24, Houdini 1874 October 1926), 31, real whose name was Ehrich
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Houdini's name was Ehrich Weiss until he changed it in the early 1890s as a tribute to the famous French illusionist, Jean-Eugene Robert-Houdin. He began performing escape tricks on vaudeville stages in the spring of 1899, and by the following spring he had become a star known as the King of Handcuffs. Houdini astonished audiences with his daring escapes, not only from handcuffs but from straitjackets, ropes, chains, jail cells, and trunks submerged in water.
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Houdini, born Erich Weiss, was born in Wisconsin in 1874. As a teenager, he spent his time entertaining in the circus, performing on the trapeze and doing conjuring tricks. As his fame began to spread, he changed his name to Harry Houdini.
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Difficult though it was, Houdini's entire act, including escapes, was ... performed on a coordinated but separate tour schedule by his brother, Theo Weiss, under the name "Hardeen". In 1910, while on a tour of Australia, Houdini brought with him a primitive bi-plane with which he made the first controlled powered aeroplane flight in Australia, at Diggers Rest, Victoria
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Houdini's father, Mayer (Mayo) Samuel Weiss (1829-1892). Weisz, was a rabbi; his mother was Cecilia Steiner (1841-1913). Ehrich had six siblings: Herman M. Weiss (half-brother) (1863-1885); Nathan J. Weiss (1870-1927); Gottfried William Weiss (1872-1925); Theodore Weiss (Dash) (1876-1945); [2] Leopold D. Weiss (1879-1962); and Gladys Carrie Weiss (1882-?).
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