The Life Of Harry Houdini
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The performer known world wide as Harry Houdini was born on March
24, 1874 in Budapest. Although Houdini often claimed to be born in Appleton,
Wisconsin, Houdini actually came to the United States when he was four
years old. To this day many connected with the small town of Appleton still
claim the ....
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.... Houdini's original
family pictures are on display at the Houdini Museum in Scranton,
Pennsylvania in the Pocono region.
His parents spoke only Yiddish, Hungarian, and German. The family
was quite poor so most of the children began to work at an early age. From
the age of eight young Ehrich Weiss sold newspapers and worked as a shoe
shine boy. Please note that when coming to the United States there were
often many spellings of names as people adjusted to English. At the age of
12, ....
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