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1. Harry Houdini
   In 1894 Ehrich Weiss (Later Known As Harry Houdini the great Magician of all time) became influenced by a French Magician that was said to be one of the best French Magicians of his time. The French Magicians name was Jean Eugene Robert-Houdini. In the start Harry Houdini did mostly card tricks for his audiences. Later he did make an Elephant and its trainer disappear or vanish on stage. It was said there was a pool under the stage. That gives pool tricks a new meaning :) Soon after he began his escape acts for his magic tricks on stage.
2. Harry Houdini -- Students
   Pop legend states that Harry Houdini died of multiple blows to the abdomen delivered by a McGill University student, J. Gordon Whitehead, in Montreal on October 22, 1926. Modern medical science... discounts that Houdini's acute appendicitis was caused by any physical trauma; it appears that the blows he suffered were not fatal, but aggravated an existing undetected illness.
3. Harry Houdini -- Life
   If there is a specific era that you are looking for in Harry Houdini's life, it is listed by subject. But the order listed is chronological. There will be numerous outside links made available for your research.
4. Harry Houdini -- Planes
   Harry Houdini has fully established his claim to be considered the first successful aviator in Australia. To his records he added, on the morning of March 31st, a flight of about 6 miles, covered in 7 min. 37 sec., on his Voisin bi-plane, at Digger's Rest. The time was taken by Mr. W. M. Marks, owner of the Sydney yacht "Culwalla II." (who had motored up from town with Mr. John Dixon, "Sayorana's" owner), and was checked by another stop-watch in the hands of a reporter of "The Argus". The performance far excels Houdini's previous flights, and constitutes the Australian record.
5. Harry Houdini -- People
   Some people have suggested the possibility that Houdini died of poison. There is evidence suggesting that one or more supporters of the Spiritualists murdered Houdini, possibly by poisoning his food with arsenic or another deadly substance. In 2007, some of Houdini's descendants and several notable forensic pathologists tried to gain permission to exhume Houdini's remains and search for evidence of poisoning. Dr. Michael Baden, who chaired panels re-investigating the deaths of President John F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., pointed out an oddity in Houdini's death certificate: It noted that his appendix was on the left side, rather than the right.[25]
6. Harry Houdini -- Spiritualism
       Grand illusionist Harry Houdini wasn't one to be taken in by anybody else's trickery. He was especially suspicious of spiritualism, which was all the rage during the 1920s. to the full satisfaction of [a panel of five] judges." One of those judges was Houdini. … Joseph Gangemi has taken several of these historical ingredients and, in his debut novel, Inamorata, whipped them into a wonderfully light and savory souffle.
7. Harry Houdini -- Wifes
   What really happened was that Houdini, while on tour in Montreal, Canada, was relaxing backstage where some college students came to see him. Houdini often challenged people to punch him in the stomach with all their strength, and he agreed to let one of the students take a swing. But the punch came while Houdini was lying on a couch, before he had prepared for the impact. An injury to the appendix resulted. Left untreated for several days, it turned into an infection that struck Houdini down during a performance in Detroit, Michigan. Rushed to a hospital, he held on for a few days before dying in his wife's arms on October 31, 1926—Halloween day.
8. Harry Houdini -- Magicians
   Harry Houdini (1874-1926) was the best-known magician of the 20th century. He was famous, said Encyclopaedia Britannica, for his "daring feats of extrication from shackles, ropes, and handcuffs and from various locked containers. . . . In a typical act he was shackled with irons and placed in a box that was locked, roped, and weighted. The box was submerged from a boat, to which he returned after freeing himself underwater."
9. Harry Houdini -- Performing
   Harry Houdini (March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926) was a human from Earth who lived in the 19th and 20th centuries. Houdini was regarded as one of the best escape artists in human history.
10. Harry Houdini -- Audiences
    It is 1926, and Harry Houdini is the most famous performer in the world. Audiences flock to watch him perform his amazing stunts. But the man behind the legend is a tortured soul, having been unable to hear his mother’s dying words.

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