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A man attempting to blow out trick candles on a cake. A trick candle, also known as magic candle, is a novelty candle capable of relighting itself. By igniting magnesium inserted into the wick of the candle, the paraffin vapor given off when a candle is blown out can be set alight, allowing the candle to reignite itself. [1] Trick candles were ...
The magician Ben Harris published step-by-step photographs and text showing how to bend keys and cutlery by trick methods. [ 17 ] [ page needed ] Some novelty or magic shops sell self-bending spoons (utilizing the physical properties of a shape-memory alloy ) which can be used by amateur and stage magicians to demonstrate "psychic" powers or as ...
Ambitious Card Routine – A common trick where a card seemingly rises to the top of the deck. Also called ACR. Angles – the lines of vision of people sitting at certain position in the audience which enable a secret to be spotted* usually extreme left or right or behind. If a trick is "angly" it can only be done with limited audience viewpoints.
Fewer fans appeared to attend the postponed Sugar Bowl between Notre Dame and Georgia on Thursday in light of the terror attack in New Orleans.
Michael Brewer, one-half of the folk-rock duo Brewer & Shipley, has died. He was 80. On Tuesday, Dec. 17, Brewer's musical partner, Tom Shipley, confirmed the news of his death in a Facebook post ...
Longtime USC and Los Angeles Rams head coach John Robinson died on Monday, both the university and franchise confirmed. Robinson died in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, due to complications from pneumonia.
In magic literature, tricks are often called effects. Based on published literature and marketed effects, there are millions of effects; a short performance routine by a single magician may contain dozens of such effects. Some students of magic strive to refer to effects using a proper name, and also to properly attribute an effect to its ...
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