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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 64. Chapters: Cancer deaths in Michigan, Cardiovascular disease deaths in Michigan, Infectious disease deaths in Michigan, Minoru Yamasaki, Harry Houdini, Eero Saarinen, Son House, Forest Evashevski, Bo Schembechler, Florence Ballard, Ernie Harwell, Arthur H. Vandenberg, John Benjamin Murphy, Carl Eugene Watts, Samuele Bacchiocchi, Walter Adams, Muddy Waters, Ron Asheton, Ron Milner, Fred Burke, Levi Stubbs, Paul B. Henry, Richard Vander Veen, Joseph R. Williams, Calvin Frazier, Bill Flemming, Tom Slade, Geraldine Doyle, Gabriel Richard, William Dufty, Carolyn Franklin, Dean Miller, Marshall Thompson, Miriam Davenport, Robert E. Webber, Harold Cruse, Al Dorow, Ronald Davis, Jim Rohn, Lightnin' Slim, Ronald Winans, James Wieghart, Uriel Jones, Elizabeth Parcells, James Vernor, Joe Koppe, Kid Lavigne, Harold S. Sawyer, James DeAnda, Bobby Kromm, King Cole, Bob Miller, George Bryan Porter, Harold Davis, Susie Garrett, Jim Podoley, Salvatore Catalanotte, Wally Bronner, Barbara Whiting Smith, Robert Teeter, Herb Kehrl, Pervis Jackson, Wade Flemons. Excerpt: Harry Houdini (born Erik Weisz; March 24, 1874 - October 31, 1926) was a Hungarian-born American magician and escapologist, stunt performer, actor and film producer noted for his sensational escape acts. He was also a skeptic who set out to expose frauds purporting to be supernatural phenomena. Not yet Houdini, Ehrich Weiss is shown exhibiting his competitive spirit and wearing medals he won as a member of the Pastime Athletic Club track team in New York circa 1890.Harry Houdini was born as Erik Weisz (he later spelled his birth name as Ehrich Weiss) in Budapest, Hungary, on March 24, 1874. From 1907 on, however, Houdini would claim in interviews to have been born in Appleton, Wisconsin, on April 6, 1874. His parents were Rabbi Mayer Samuel Weiss (1829-1892) and his wife, Cecelia (...
