Cliquez ici pour avoir accès à une série de vidéo (Sacrée Montagne) produite par l’ONF.
Harry Houdini - THE WORLD'S GREATEST ESCAPE ARTIST
Houdini, de son prénom Harry, est né en Hongrie, plus précisément à Budapest, le 24 mars 1874. Sa carrière de musicien a débuté dans les foires, en compagnie de son frère Théodore. À cette époque, il épatait le public en réalisant l'un de ses meilleurs tours, consistant à s'évader d'une malle fermée et enchaînée, en plus d'avoir été remplie d'eau. Quand le spiritisme fit son apparition, Houdini consacra ses énergies à parcourir le pays, afin de démasquer ceux qu'il croyait être de faux médiums. Cette quête contribua grandement à accroître sa popularité. C’est en 1926, à Montréal, que Houdini sera frappé au ventre par un participant lors d’un spectacle. Il avait l’habitude de demander à quelqu’un du public de lui infliger un coup de poing pour montrer à quel point il était résistant. Quelques jours plus tard, il décédera d’une péritonite consécutive à la rupture de l’appendice. À sa mort, il a fait don d’une des plus grandes collections de livres sur la magie à la Bibliothèque du Congrès américain. Sources : taxiclic.com
Harry Houdini (born Erik Weisz, later Ehrich Weiss or Harry Weiss; March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926) was an Austrian-Hungarian-born American stunt performer, noted for his sensational escape acts. He first attracted notice as "Harry Handcuff Houdini" on a tour of Europe, where he sensationally challenged different police forces to try to keep him locked up. This revealed a talent for gimmickry and for audience involvement that characterised all his work. Soon he extended his repertoire to include chains, ropes slung from skyscrapers, straitjackets under water, and having to hold his breath inside a sealed milk can. In 1904, thousands watched as he tried to escape from a special handcuff commissioned by London's Daily Mirror, keeping them in suspense for an hour. Another stunt saw him buried alive and only just able to claw himself to the surface, emerging in a state of near-breakdown. While many suspected that these escapes were fabricated, Houdini meanwhile presented himself as the scourge of fakemagicians and spiritualists. As President of the Society of American Magicians, he was keen to uphold professional standards and expose fraudulent artists who gave practitioners a bad name. He was also quick to sue anyone who pirated his own escape stunts. Houdini made a number of movies, but quit acting when it failed to bring in money. He was also a keen aviator, and aimed to become the first man to fly a plane in Australia, but according to the official definition of sustained flight, he was beaten to it by two others. Even the circumstances of his death in 1926 were dramatic and mysterious. According to one version, a student in Montreal asked him if his stomach was hard enough to take any blow, to which he replied that it was, whereupon the student rained a series of blows on it before Houdini had had time to tense up. A few days later, he died of a ruptured appendix. This may have been unconnected, as he had already been suffering appendicitis and refusing to seek medical attention. Souces:Wikipedia Cliquez (click)
Elle est certifiée anti-moldu
 |
 |
 |
| Z0ran, Swat, Kris prolls, tazator et Arf |
Les 2 Bengales |
Capucine |
