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The Game of Authors is one of the earliest versions of the family of Go Fish games, in which players call on each other to give up a named card. [3] The play is based on a specialized deck of playing cards. Later decks included additional authors, but the authors represented in most decks are: Louisa May Alcott; James Fenimore Cooper; Charles ...
He spoke often of his association with an amazing card cheat, Walter Scott, and his unbelievable skills at the card table. In New York, on 14 June 1930, McGuire arranged a special presentation to the Inner Circle of the New York magic elite. Scott wowed his audience and became an overnight sensation.
A History of New York, subtitled From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, is an 1809 literary parody on the early history of New York City by Washington Irving. Originally published under the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker , later editions that acknowledged Irving's authorship were printed as Knickerbocker's History of ...
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, was a literary magazine of New York City, founded by Charles Fenno Hoffman in 1833, and published until 1865. Its long-term editor and publisher was Lewis Gaylord Clark , whose "Editor's Table" column was a staple of the magazine.
The village of Dearman, New York, changed its name to "Irvington" in 1854 to honor Washington Irving, who was living in nearby Sunnyside, which is preserved as a museum. [121] Influential residents of the village prevailed upon the Hudson River Railroad , which had reached the village by 1849, [ 122 ] to change the name of the train station to ...
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Walter Irving Scott (July 1, 1895 – May 12, 1995) was an American musician, cardsharp and amateur magician.His glowing reputation among magicians and card men revolves around his time as a card cheat and a single demonstration of sleight-of-hand to some of the era's best magicians in New York in 1930.
The fictional "Diedrich Knickerbocker" from the frontispiece of A History of New-York, a wash drawing by Felix O. C. Darley. Diedrich Knickerbocker is an American literary character who originated from Washington Irving's first novel, A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker (1809).