Harry Houdini Escape Tricks

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I think the two evidence support the the central idea because because he was famous and the first evidence talks about fame.how he became famouse is by doing escape tricks and a lot of people liked watching his escape tricks.He did escape tricks that would empress the people.people tride to copy harry houdini’s escape tricks so he sew them and then he tried to make his escape tricks more interresting so they won’t be able to copy his escape tricks. Harry houdini did all kinds of escape tricks and he did deathifying tricks.

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