^ haha! ten out of ten for getting your Houdini's in the right chronological order!
The other Houdini:
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Harry Houdini (/huːˈdiːni/; born Erik Weisz, later Ehrich Weiss or Harry Weiss; March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926) -Wikipedia
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This Houdini:
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A few years ago he left Trinidad and worked his way to New York as a greaser on a freighter. He lives in a furnished room on West 114th Street, in lower Harlem, where there is a large settlement of immigrants from trinidad. His passport name is Edgar Leon Sinclair; in Harlem he is called Mr. Houdini. He took the name from a movie serial he saw in 1916, in which Houdini, the magician, was featured. - Up In The Old Hotel
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I wonder if there's a Houdini out there who was actually born with the name instead of adopting it as an adult.