Houdini has escaped from handcuffs, while on stage and submerged under water. He has also escaped from being in locked chests and creates, being chained or tied up. What’s more he also has escaped from giant milk cans filled with water and then padlocked. Lastly he was able to escape from strait jackets. David Copperfield is known as one of the greatest illusionists to walk this earth. Copperfield’s most famous trick was when he made the Statue of Liberty disappear in front of a live audience. He has also walked through the Great Wall of China and levitated over the Grand Canyon. A couple more of his tricks include flying without wires, transportation of him and a guest from on an elevated platform on stage to somewhere else like Hawaii, and cutting his assistant or himself into two or more parts and starts walking. Harry Houdini made more than $2,000 per week in Europe in 1900. In today’s dollar, adjusted for inflation, it would be approximately $2.7 million dollars. Houdini decided to stop doing magic from 1916 to 1923 to get into the movie business. Houdini was not very successful with that career. Houdini was not given any special awards or any honorable titles. Houdini had performed in Europe and Asia, the United Stated of America and …show more content…
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