Grand Rapids residents gathered at Monroe and Ionia to witness the legendary escape artist free himself from restraints.

Harry Houdini may not have escaped death — but the legendary magician is still remembered for his daring acts. The Hungarian-born American illusionist died at 52 on Halloween day in 1926 — not from a ...

It is an oddity of our time that, while psychoanalysis is widely derided by both highbrows and populists, its mutant stepchild--the therapeutic culture--grows monstrously stronger year by year. The ...

When vaudeville impresario Martin Beck "discovered" a struggling Harry Houdini in 1899, it was Houdini's ability to escape from handcuffs which caught his attention. Although Houdini was hardly the ...

Before David Copperfield made the Great Wall of China disappear and David Blaine was frozen in a block of ice, there was a Hungarian-born Jew who made a career of escaping from handcuffs, milk cans ...

We might think of intellectual property as a modern concept, but the politics surrounding ownership of innovations at the turn of the 20th century were an absolute bloodbath. With patent trolls like ...

Harry Houdini made two appearances in Fort Worth, one in 1916 and again in 1924. Max Faulkner Star-Telegram/Max Faulkner Harry Houdini (1874-1926) was the stage name of Ehrich Weiss, arguably the ...

SCRANTON, Pa. and NEW YORK, June 19, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Houdini and Female Houdini Dorothy Dietrich are the inspiration for the new novel "The Art of Escaping." Dorothy Dietrich has been named as ...

When vaudeville impresario Martin Beck "discovered" a struggling Harry Houdini in 1899, it was Houdini's ability to escape from handcuffs which caught his attention. Although Houdini was hardly the ...