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A man in a swimsuit and chains stands on the top of a bridge in a 1900s photograph

A man in a sepia black and white photograph stares into the camera

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"Then escapes started to appeal to him … and then he was doing more and more insane escapes."

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Harry Houdini splashes into the Yarra River as crowds watch on from the bank, a bridge and boats.

A man's head peeks out of a milk can as three police officers stand around him

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"He was a movie star, a movie producer and aviator and author and a debunker of fake psychics with Scientific American and it's all in addition to being a magician."

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