Magician John Henry Anderson died in 1874, the same year Harry Houdini was born - yet despite the two never meeting, Anderson ...

Gloria Dea, the first magician to perform on what would be the Strip, only to be rediscovered in the twilight of her life, has died. She was 100. Dea died of coronary artery disease at 6:35 a.m ...

NASM 2001-14087 He wasn’t the first magician to attempt flight. As early as the 1800s, at least four others used balloon ascensions to stir up publicity. But Harry Houdini was the only ...