Los Angeles Times

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Critics of President Donald Trump routinely depict his maneuvers - such as shutting down the government and threatening to close the southern border - as distractions. "He loves the distraction from his other problems," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-

Fortean Times

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When I lived in Derbyshire I loved the bus ride on the TP – or ‘Trans Peak’. That dull name changed from ordinary to extraordinary when trans (as in ‘transit’ – here, across the beautiful Peak District) came to mean something entirely different in 20

The Paris Review

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Zeb Bangash performing on Coke Studio. Photo courtesy of Coke Studio Pakistan. There are many things I love about Coke Studio. One of them is the show’s commitment to lyrics and subtitles; on most songs, such as this season’s “Roshe,” they are presen

Art & Antiques

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THE GOLDEN Age of Magic, in which elaborate stage illusions and over-the-top personae came into their own, lasted from around 1880 to 1930. Coincidentally—or not—this was also the golden age of the poster, a gaudy, larger-than-life art form perfectly

MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History

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“All warfare is based on deception,”Sun Tzu, the legendary Chinese general and military strategist, wrote in The Art of War. Centuries earlier, of course, the ancient Greeks had employed deception on a grand scale—a huge wooden horse presented as a p

Ask Science and Arts Magazine for Kids and Children

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Have you ever seen a magician levitate a woman? To “prove” that nothing is holding her up, he passes a metal hoop around her, from head to toe. How in the world can he do it if she’s not really floating? Here’s how one magician did the trick. 1 As h

KRASH

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Name: Apollo Jackson. Age: 28. Occupation: Professional Magician. KRASH: When did you discover your interest in magic? APOLLO: When I was seven-years-old, my Dad showed me a trick where he made a ball of foil vanish and I was amazed. That year,

The Knot California

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Dre Smith (26 and a musician) and Dan Jones (41 and a journalist) believe in magic. Not only did they meet by the magic of “booze and serendipity,” as Dre calls it, but five years later, they planned a magical wedding—in the most literal sense of the

Reason

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Derek DelGaudio’s In & Of Itself is not merely a magic show, though the award-winning magician pulls off a handful of truly amazing tricks during the performance. It’s not simply a one-man play, though DelGaudio’s engaging autobiographical monologues

Nautilus

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In his rather untidy office at Goldsmiths, University of London, the cheerful and vaguely rumpled Gustav Kuhn grabs what looks like a wire-frame pyramid off of an otherwise empty shelf. Holding it gently, his Swiss-English accent crackling over our t

The Guardian

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Those attending the press preview of the New York Historical Society’s latest exhibition expected a tour of David Copperfield’s personal collection of magic paraphernalia, widely regarded to be the biggest and most comprehensive such archive in the w

The Atlantic

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At the heart of the appeal of magic is wonder—the joyful astonishment of childhood that we tend to forget as adults.

REVOLUTION DIGITAL

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At first glance, you might think that magic and watches are two separate items, but magician Dan White was quick to emphasize that magic, from its earliest origins, has always been very mechanical. In fact, White pointed out that Jean Eugène Robert-H

Antique Trader

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Ken Klosterman’s world-famous collection of magicana cast a spell on collectors and conjured huge magical results, becoming the highest-grossing magic auction in history. Part 1 of the record-breaking Salon de Magie on October 30 at Potter & Potter A

Literary Hub

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A decade ago, a friend told me about his previous life as a stage magician in his late teens. His career came to an abrupt end when an escape he’d practiced countless times went wrong—he’d found himself handcuffed to a grate at the bottom of a swimmi

NPR

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Ask Me Another rises from the ashes in Phoenix, AZ with Penn Jillette! He pulls back the curtain on his distaste for magic, his strictly working relationship with Teller, and his love of being fooled.

The Classic MotorCycle

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Words: JAMES ROBINSON Photographs: GARY CHAPMAN The illusionists’ art has been in the news recently, when well-known magician David Copperfield was taken to court after one of the punters at his show chosen from the audience to participate in a disa

The Paris Review

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Advances in technology, despite their benefits, often coincide with spikes in fear, paranoia, and doubt. Just as the internet has fertilized the deep, rich soil of conspiracy theory, the rise of photography and the birth of modern spiritualism in the

Stamp Collector

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To our ancestors, the world may have seemed wild and unfathomable but, whatever the problem, there was sure to be a mystical solution. From those who claimed to be able to read the future in animal entrails, to practitioners of palmistry and dream-in

PC Gamer (US Edition)

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In 1985, brothers James and Jim Thomas penned a film script, The Hunter, about an otherworldly creature armed with near-magical powers of camouflage. The script has a counter-intuitive take on the concept of invisibility. Rather than a mere blank spo

Nautilus

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Norman Triplett was a pioneer in the psychology of magic, and back in 1900, he published a wonderful scientific paper on magic that, among many other things, discusses an experiment on an intriguing magical illusion. A magician sat at a table in fron

Ask Science and Arts Magazine for Kids and Children

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Can you escape from a friend if your arms are tied? You can, if you’re as clever as Houdini. The great magician Harry Houdini was also a famous escape artist. And you can be too. This simple trick will amaze your friends, and also leave you free

The Paris Review

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Harry Houdini in The Grim Game. In 1919, a year after he’d startled America by vanishing a four-thousand-pound elephant named Jenny onstage at the New York Hippodrome, Harry Houdini arrived in Hollywood to make his first feature film. Already, the ma

Poolside Showcase

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Inspired by the huge success of the premium trampoline display on the beach on the Mornington Peninsula in the last week of January, Mr Trampoline is now taking it to the next level, working on a stainless-steel-framed trampoline that can float on th

Journal of Alta California

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Jeff Schaffer served as an executive producer on Seinfeld and The League. He is the showrunner on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm and the FX comedy Dave. The Magicians streams on Netflix. I guess the easiest way to describe The Magicians would be “Harry P

HELLO magazine

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He has entertained the Queen with card tricks, recruited the Prince of Wales as his assistant and taken a swipe at the Duke of Cambridge with a sword, so there’s no denying that Lance Corporal Richard Jones knows how to work his magic on the royal fa

KRASH

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CHECK OUT SOME OF THE A WESOME JOBS IN LONEL Y PLANET’S NEW BOOK, WORLD’S COOLEST JOBS BELOW! WHERE: LEGOLAND® PARKS, WORLDWIDE Spend your days building a world out of LEGO® bricks. There are LEGOLAND® resorts around the world and all of them requi

Writing Magazine

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Everyone needs a little magic in our lives and that Perhaps there is someone who the character knows that applies to our writing too. We could all do with a magic potion or incantation that will encourage the words to flow and magic us all a publishi

FHM US

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Jason Ladanye is a professional, award-winning sleight-of-hand entertainer who has performed card magic all around the world for the last twenty years. He specializes in corporate events, trade shows, and private parties for Fortune 500 companies.

PC Gamer

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In 1985, brothers James and Jim Thomas penned a film script, The Hunter, about an otherworldly creature armed with near-magical powers of camouflage. The script has a counter-intuitive take on the concept of invisibility. Rather than a mere blank spo