Harry Houdini remains an endlessly fascinating figure ... As for where Houdini and his wife actually lived, well, that's the ...

Ehrich Weiss (Harry Houdini) born to Rabbi Mayer Samuel Weiss and his wife Cecelia on March 24 in Budapest, Hungary. At age nine, Ehrich and some neighborhood friends establish a five-cent circus.

In the last years of his life, Harry Houdini became, to borrow the title ... The thirty-six-year-old wife of a prominent Boston surgeon, Crandon was the most serious contender for a $2,500 prize ...