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Close-up magic

Index Close-up magic

Close-up magic (also known as table magic or micromagic) is magic performed in an intimate setting usually no more than ten feet (three metres) from one's audience and is usually performed while sitting at a table. [1]

142 relations: Al Koran, Alain Nu, Alan Shaxon, Alex Elmsley, Ali Cook, Ambitious card, Andi Gladwin, Ariann Black, Étienne-Gaspard Robert, Barry and Stuart, Brian Rolè, Burling Hull, Canuplin, Card manipulation, Card warp, Cardistry, Charles Cameron (magician), Charles Jordan (magician), Coin magic, Cold reading, Cups and balls, Cyril Takayama, Dai Vernon, Darwin Ortiz, Daryl (magician), David Blaine, David Nixon (magician), David Roth, Dean Dill, Dedi, Derek Dingle, Derren Brown, Detachable thumb, Dominic Reyes, Doug McKenzie (magician), Dover Publications, Drummond Money-Coutts, Duane Laflin, Ed Marlo, Extrasensory perception, Fakir of Ava, Fay Presto, Floating match on card, Franz Polgar, Fred Kaps, French drop, Gérard Majax, Geoffrey Durham, Glorpy, Gregory Wilson (magician), ..., Gustavus Katterfelto, Harlan Tarbell, Harry Lorayne, Healed and sealed, Herb Zarrow, Herbert L. Becker, Horace Goldin, Howie Schwarzman, Ian Saville, Igor Kio, J. B. Bobo, Jacob Philadelphia, Jay Alexander, Jay Sankey, Jerry Sadowitz, Jewel Aich, Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser, John Carney (magician), John Cassidy (magician), John Hamman, John Scarne, Johnny Ace Palmer, Joshua Jay, Juan Tamariz, Juggling, Keith Barry, Lance Norris, Larry Jennings, Lennart Green, Leon Mandrake, Levitation (illusion), Lewis Davenport, Lisa Menna, Magic (illusion), Martin Gardner, Matt Marcy, Matthias Buchinger, Max Malini, Mentalism, Michael Ammar, Michael Skinner (magician), Michael Vincent (magician), Milbourne Christopher, Neil Tobin, Orson Welles, Oscar Munoz (magician), Palming, Paul Curry, Paul Daniels, Paul Gertner, Paul Harris (magician), Paul Zenon, Persi Diaconis, Precognition, Psychokinesis, René Lavand, Retention of vision vanish, Richard Jones (magician), Richard Turner (magician), Ricky Jay, Rob James (magician), Roy Walton, S. W. Erdnase, Scotch and soda (magic trick), Scott Interrante, Scott Penrose, Shoot Ogawa, Simon Drake, Simon Lovell, Sleight of hand, Stephen Mulhern, Steve Dacri, Sylvester the Jester, Telepathy, Teller (magician), The Best Coin Fold, The Four Burglars, Theatrical séance, Thomas Solomon, Thumb tip, Tim Ellis, Tobias Bamberg, Tom London (magician), Tom Stone (magician), Tommy Wonder (magician), Tony Andruzzi, Tony Slydini, Val Walker, Walter B. Gibson, Whit Haydn, Will Gray, Zarrow shuffle. Expand index (92 more) »

Al Koran

Al Koran(1914–1972) was a British mentalist, author and inventor.

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Alain Nu

Alain Nu (born 21 August 1965) is an American mentalist, illusionist, television personality, author, and speaker.

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Alan Shaxon

Alan Shaxon (28 December 1933 – 27 October 2012) was a professional magician and a former president of The Magic Circle.

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Alex Elmsley

Alex Elmsley (2 March 1929 – 8 January 2006) was a Scottish magician and computer programmer.

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Ali Cook

Ali Cook (also credited as Alistair Cook) is an English magician and actor originating from Yorkshire.

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Ambitious card

The Ambitious Card, or Elevator Card, is a magic effect in which a playing card seems to return to the top of the deck after being placed elsewhere in the middle of the deck.

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Andi Gladwin

Andi Gladwin (May 10, 1983) is a British magician, speaker, and publisher.

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Ariann Black

Ariann Black (also spelled Arian Black earlier in her career) is a professional magician who is based in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

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Étienne-Gaspard Robert

Étienne-Gaspard Robert (15 June 1763 – 2 July 1837), often known by the stage name of "Robertson", was a prominent Belgian physicist, stage magician and influential developer of phantasmagoria.

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Barry and Stuart

Barry and Stuart (Barry Jones and Stuart MacLeod) are two Scottish BAFTA nominated magicians and comedians whose work has been seen on television and on stage around the world.

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Brian Rolè

Brian Rolè is an active international Maltese magician and illusionist.

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Burling Hull

Burling Hull (September 9, 1889 – November 1982) was an inventive magician, self-styled "the Edison of magic," specializing in mentalism and sleight of hand effects.

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Canuplin

Canuto Francia (January 28, 1904 – September 4, 1979), better known as Canuplin, was a Filipino stage performer and magician who gained fame for his impersonation of Charlie Chaplin in Filipino movies and the local bodabil circuit.

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Card manipulation

Card manipulation is the branch of magical illusion that deals with creating effects using sleight of hand techniques involving playing cards.

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Card warp

Card Warp is a card illusion that was created by magician Jeff Busby and popularized by Roy Walton.

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Cardistry

Cardistry is a name given to the performance art of card flourishing.

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Charles Cameron (magician)

Charles Wesley Cameron (31 October 1927 – 7 January 2001) was a professional magician who specialised in a style known as bizarre magic.

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Charles Jordan (magician)

Charles Thorton Jordan (1 October 1888 – 24 April 1944) was an American magician.

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Coin magic

Coin magic is the manipulating of coins to entertain audiences.

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Cold reading

Cold reading is a set of techniques used by mentalists, psychics, fortune-tellers, mediums, illusionists (readers), and scam artists to imply that the reader knows much more about the person than the reader actually does.

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Cups and balls

The cups and balls is a performance of magic with innumerable adaptations.

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Cyril Takayama

Cyril Takayama (born September 27, 1973) is an American magician of Japanese, French, and Moroccan descent.

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Dai Vernon

Dai Vernon (pronounced alternatively as DIE or as DAY as in David) (June 11, 1894 – August 21, 1992), a.k.a. The Professor, was a Canadian magician.

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Darwin Ortiz

Darwin Ortiz (born 1948) is a magician, who is an authority on gambling and card manipulation.

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Daryl (magician)

Daryl Easton (August 13, 1955 – February 24, 2017), known professionally as Daryl and born Daryl Martinez, was an American magician based in Las Vegas.

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David Blaine

David Blaine (born David Blaine White; April 4, 1973) is an American magician, illusionist and endurance artist.

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David Nixon (magician)

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David Roth

David Roth (born 1952, New York City) is an American magician widely regarded as one of the world's greatest living coin magicians.

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Dean Dill

Dean Dill was a magician and effects designer who lived and worked in Glendale, California, USA.

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Dedi

Dedi (also Djedi or Djedi of Djed-Sneferu) is the name of a fictional ancient Egyptian magician appearing in the fourth chapter of a story told in the legendary Westcar Papyrus. He is said to have worked wonders during the reign of king (pharaoh) Khufu (4th Dynasty).

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Derek Dingle

Derek Dingle (1937–2004) was an English close-up magician.

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Derren Brown

Derren Brown (born 27 February 1971) Daily Mirror.

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Detachable thumb

The Detachable Thumb (unknown originator) is a close-up illusion.

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Dominic Reyes

Dominic Reyes is a professional sleight of hand magician from England.

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Doug McKenzie (magician)

Doug McKenzie (born June 19, 1980 in Stirling, Scotland) is a magician, mentalist, magic consultant, and magic television producer based in New York City.

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Dover Publications

Dover Publications, also known as Dover Books, is an American book publisher founded in 1941 by Hayward Cirker and his wife, Blanche.

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Drummond Money-Coutts

Drummond William Thomas Money-Coutts (born 11 May 1986) is an English magician and specialist card sharp.

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Duane Laflin

Duane Laflin is a noted magician, teacher and innovator.

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Ed Marlo

Ed Marlo (born Edward Malkowski in Chicago, Illinois, October 10, 1913 – November 7, 1991) was a magician who specialized in card magic.

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Extrasensory perception

Extrasensory perception or ESP, also called sixth sense or second sight, includes claimed reception of information not gained through the recognized physical senses, but sensed with the mind.

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Fakir of Ava

Isaiah Harris Hughes (25 December 1813 – 24 May 1891), better known as the Fakir of Ava, was a 19th-century stage magician, the teacher of Harry Kellar.

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Fay Presto

Fay Presto (the stage name of Letitia Winter born Oliver Winter 17 May 1948) who is known as a magician and a member of The Inner Magic Circle.

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Floating match on card

The Floating Match on Card is a classic close-up magic effect.

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Franz Polgar

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Fred Kaps

Fred Kaps (official name Abraham Pieter Adrianus Bongers; 8 June 1926 – 23 July 1980) was a Dutch magician, famous for being the only magician to become FISM Grand Prix world champion three times.

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French drop

The French drop, also known as "Le Tourniquet", is a sleight of hand method used by magicians to vanish a small object such as a coin.

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Gérard Majax

Gérard Faier, known as Gérard Majax (April 28, 1943) is one of the most famous French illusionists.

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Geoffrey Durham

Geoffrey Durham (born 22 July 1949) is a British comedy magician and actor who was known for many years as "the Great Soprendo".

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Glorpy

Glorpy, sometimes known as the Haunted Handkerchief, is a close-up magic trick normally performed for children.

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Gregory Wilson (magician)

Gregory Wilson is an American magician and a two-time FISM award winner.

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Gustavus Katterfelto

Gustavus Katterfelto (or Katerfelto) (c. 1743-1799) was a Prussian conjurer, scientific lecturer, and quack.

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Harlan Tarbell

Harlan Eugene Tarbell (February 23, 1890 – June 16, 1960) was an American stage magician and illustrator of the early 20th century.

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Harry Lorayne

Harry Lorayne (born 1926) is an American magician and a memory-training specialist and writer who was called "The Yoda of Memory Training" by Time magazine.

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Healed and sealed

Healed and Sealed is a magic trick that was invented by the Swedish magician Anders Moden in 1997.

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Herb Zarrow

Herb Zarrow (November 4, 1925 – May 11, 2008) was an American magician influential in the profession for his inventions of unique sleight of hand and card tricks.

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Herbert L. Becker

Herbert Lawrence Becker is a former magician who also wrote a computer program described by him as "broadcasting analog signals over the internet in real time" in 2000.

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Horace Goldin

Horace Goldin (17 December 1873 – 22 April 1939) was a stage magician who was noted for his lightning fast presentation style and who achieved international fame with his versions of the sawing a woman in half illusion.

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Howie Schwarzman

Howard Schwarzman (November 20, 1927, New York City) is an American magician, card manipulator, sleight of hand expert, and trick inventor.

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Ian Saville

Ian Saville (born 30 April 1953) is an English magician whose act incorporates ventriloquism and comedy.

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Igor Kio

Igor Kio (13 March 1944 – 30 August 2006) was a Russian illusionist with the Russian Circus Association.

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J. B. Bobo

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Jacob Philadelphia

Jacob Philadelphia was a Jewish magician, physicist, mechanic, juggler, astrologer, alchemist, and Kabbalist.

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Jay Alexander

Jay Alexander (born April 10, 1968) is an American magician and comedian known as a corporate and society entertainer.

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Jay Sankey

Jay Sankey is a Canadian close-up magician and creator of magic effects.

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Jerry Sadowitz

Jerry Sadowitz (born 4 June 1961) is an American-born Scottish stand-up comic and card magician.

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Jewel Aich

Jewel Aich is a Bangladeshi magician and bansuri player.

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Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser

Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser (June 19, 1806 – March 11, 1875) was a minor employee at the financial department of the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy.

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John Carney (magician)

John Carney (born January 23, 1958 in Des Moines, Iowa) is a professional sleight of hand artist, author and comic actor.

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John Cassidy (magician)

John Cassidy is a professional comedian, magician, and balloon artist who holds several Guinness World Record speed records for balloon sculpting.

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John Hamman

Brother John Charles Hamman S.M. (September 3, 1927 – December 5, 2000) was a close-up magician and Marianist Brother.

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John Scarne

John Scarne (March 4, 1903 – July 7, 1985) was an American magician and book author who was particularly adept at playing card manipulation.

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Johnny Ace Palmer

Johnny Ace Palmer is an American close-up magician.

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Joshua Jay

Joshua Jay (born October 30, 1981) is a magician, author, and lecturer.

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Juan Tamariz

Juan Tamariz-Martel Negrón (born 18 October 1942, Madrid) known professionally as Juan Tamariz or just Tamariz is a Spanish magician.

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Juggling

Juggling is a physical skill, performed by a juggler, involving the manipulation of objects for recreation, entertainment, art or sport.

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Keith Barry

Keith Patrick Barry (born 2 October 1976) is an Irish mentalist, hypnotist, magician and activist for the elderly.

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Lance Norris

Lance Norris (born August 9, 1962) is an American actor/writer/director/stand-up comic/critic/mentalist.

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Larry Jennings

Larry Jennings (February 17, 1933 – October 17, 1997) was a magician, best known for his card techniques.

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Lennart Green

Sven Lennart Green (born 25 December 1941) is a Swedish world champion close-up/card magician, a title which he won in 1991 at the FISM convention in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Leon Mandrake

Leon Giglio (April 11, 1911 – January 27, 1993), better known by his stage name Leon Mandrake, was an Italian-American magician, mentalist, illusionist, escapologist, ventriloquist and stunt performer known worldwide as Mandrake the Magician, albeit simultaneously and unrelatedly to the comic strip character Mandrake the Magician.

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Levitation (illusion)

A levitation illusion is one in which a magician appears to defy gravity by making an object or person float in the air.

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Lewis Davenport

Lewis Davenport was a fictional character in UK soap opera Family Affairs, played by Sam Stockman from 2002 until 2004.

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Lisa Menna

Lisa Menna (born July 24, 1967) is a professional magician and activist.

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Magic (illusion)

Magic, along with its subgenres of, and sometimes referred to as illusion, stage magic or street magic is a performing art in which audiences are entertained by staged tricks or illusions of seemingly impossible feats using natural means.

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Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer, with interests also encompassing scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature—especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton.

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Matt Marcy

Matt Marcy (b. 1976, Los Angeles, California) is an American comedian-magician known for his original, comedy illusions.

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Matthias Buchinger

Matthias Buchinger (June 2, 1674 January 17, 1740), sometimes called Matthew Buckinger in English, was a German artist, magician, calligrapher, and performer who was born without hands or feet and was tall.

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Max Malini

Max Malini (born Max Katz Breit; 1873 – October 3, 1942) was a Jewish illusionist who at his peak performed for several US Presidents, had command performances at Buckingham Palace, and received gifts from monarchs across Europe and Asia.

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Mentalism

Mentalism is a performing art in which its practitioners, known as mentalists, appear to demonstrate highly developed mental or intuitive abilities.

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Michael Ammar

Michael Ammar (born June 25, 1956) is an American close-up magician.

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Michael Skinner (magician)

Michael Skinner (1941 1998) was an American magician known for his close-up magic work.

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Michael Vincent (magician)

Michael Vincent (born Michael Vincent Louis on 14 February 1964) is a British magician.

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Milbourne Christopher

Milbourne Christopher (23 March 1914 – 17 June 1984) was a prominent American illusionist, magic historian, and author.

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Neil Tobin

Neil Tobin (born July 7, 1966) is a magical and psychic entertainer, theatre producer and playwright, and a writer on related subjects.

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Orson Welles

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, radio, and film.

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Oscar Munoz (magician)

Oscar Munoz is an American magician, 1999 winner of the "Gold Cups" award from the International Brotherhood of Magicians organization.

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Palming

Palming is a technique for holding or concealing an object in the hand.

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Paul Curry

Paul Curry (1917–1986) was the vice-president of the Blue Cross Insurance Company of New York, and a famous amateur magician who became well known in the magic community for inventing highly-original card magic.

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Paul Daniels

Newton Edward Daniels (6 April 1938 – 17 March 2016), known professionally as Paul Daniels, was an English magician and television presenter.

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Paul Gertner

Paul Gertner is an American close-up magician from Pittsburgh.

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Paul Harris (magician)

Paul Tomas Harris is an American inventor, magician, and writer.

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Paul Zenon

Paul Zenon (born Paul Collins on 29 June 1964) is an English stage and TV magician, comedian, presenter, writer, actor and pundit.

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Persi Diaconis

Persi Warren Diaconis (born January 31, 1945) is an American mathematician of Greek descent and former professional magician.

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Precognition

Precognition (from the Latin prae-, "before" and cognitio, "acquiring knowledge"), also called prescience, future vision, future sight is an alleged psychic ability to see events in the future.

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Psychokinesis

Psychokinesis (from Greek ψυχή "mind" and κίνησις "movement"), or telekinesis (from τηλε- "far off" and κίνηση "movement"), is an alleged psychic ability allowing a person to influence a physical system without physical interaction. Psychokinesis experiments have historically been criticized for lack of proper controls and repeatability. There is no convincing evidence that psychokinesis is a real phenomenon, and the topic is generally regarded as pseudoscience.

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René Lavand

Héctor René Lavandera, known as René Lavand (24 September 1928 – 7 February 2015), was a magician from Argentina specialising in close-up magic.

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Retention of vision vanish

In the retention of vision vanish, the magician places a coin or small object between the fingers and the thumb of the right hand.

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Richard Jones (magician)

Richard Jones (born 21 September 1990) is a British magician and military soldier, best known for winning the tenth series of Britain's Got Talent in 2016.

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Richard Turner (magician)

Richard Edward Turner (born June 16, 1954) is an American expert card manipulator who is known for his card trick performances.

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Ricky Jay

Richard Jay Potash (born 1948), known professionally as Ricky Jay, is an American stage magician, actor, and writer.

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Rob James (magician)

Rob James (born 24 July 1978) is an English magician.

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Roy Walton

Roy Walton (born April 1932 in London) is an English card magic expert.

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S. W. Erdnase

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Scotch and soda (magic trick)

Scotch and Soda is a magic effect involving a copper coin and a silver coin which appear to transpose in the spectator's hands.

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Scott Interrante

Scott Interrante (born August 4, 1961) is an American magician who specializes in escape-artist feats and grand illusions.

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Scott Penrose

Scott Penrose (born 1969 in Essex) is an English magician and magic consultant and is the son of magician John Penrose.

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Shoot Ogawa

Shoot Ogawa (born 1975) is a magician from Tokyo, Japan who has been interested in magic from the age of 10.

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Simon Drake

Simon Drake (born Simon Alexander 1 March 1957) is an English magician based in London.

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Simon Lovell

Simon Lovell (born 1957 in Manchester) is an English comedy magician, card sharp actor, and con man.

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Sleight of hand

Sleight of hand (also known as prestidigitation or legerdemain) refers to fine motor skills when used by performing artists in different art forms to entertain or manipulate.

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Stephen Mulhern

Stephen Daniel Mulhern (born 4 April 1977 in Stratford, London) is an English presenter, entertainer, and magician, best known for presenting television programmes for ITV.

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Steve Dacri

Stephen "Steve" Robert Dacri (March 22, 1952 – February 11, 2011) was an accomplished sleight-of-hand magician who worked for nearly 30 years at his craft earning him the moniker "The Fastest Hands in the World." He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and died on February 11, 2011 from colon cancer, leaving a wife, Jan, and a son, Jesse.

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Sylvester the Jester

Daniel Sylvester Battagline, also known as Sylvester The Jester (born 1961), is an American magician, best known for playing a cartoon character who comes to life.

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Telepathy

Telepathy (from the Greek τῆλε, tele meaning "distant" and πάθος, pathos or -patheia meaning "feeling, perception, passion, affliction, experience") is the purported transmission of information from one person to another without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction.

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Teller (magician)

Teller (born Raymond Joseph Teller; February 14, 1948) is an American magician, illusionist, writer, actor, painter, and film director.

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The Best Coin Fold

The Best Coin Fold is the title of a magic trick (effect) which appeared in Jean Hugard's book, Close Up Magic, published in 1938.

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The Four Burglars

The Four Burglars is a magic effect in which the magician shows the four Jacks from a deck of cards, calling them burglars, and tells a story about them entering a house in different ways (the front door, a window, another window, and the back door) as he places one of the Jacks on the bottom of the deck, one about two thirds of the way down, one about one third of the way down, and one on top.

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Theatrical séance

A theatrical séance is an aspect of mentalism that purports to give its audiences the feeling of contacting the spirits of the dead, as might be experienced in a successful Spiritualist séance.

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Thomas Solomon

Thomas Solomon (born 1969 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American escape artist and magician.

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Thumb tip

A thumb tip is a magician's prop designed to fit over and appear to be the magician's thumb used for vanishing, producing, or switching small objects.

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Tim Ellis

Tim Ellis (born 8 May 1963) is an Australian performer, author and lecturer in the world of magic and illusion.

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Tobias Bamberg

Tobias "Theo" Leendert Bamberg (1875–1963) was a professional magician.

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Tom London (magician)

Tom London (born Thomas Webb; 11 December 1991) is a magician and hacker who is best known for his well-received performances on Season 12 of the popular talent show America's Got Talent.

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Tom Stone (magician)

Tom Stone is the stage name of Thomas Bengtsson, a Swedish magician, editor and author.

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Tommy Wonder (magician)

Tommy Wonder (November 29, 1953 – June 26, 2006) was the stage name of Jacobus Maria Bemelman, a Dutch magician who performed both close-up and stage magic.

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Tony Andruzzi

Tony Andruzzi (born May 22, 1925 in Cheyenne, Wyoming – died December 22, 1991 in Chicago, Illinois) was the name adopted by professional magician Tom S. Palmer from the age of 45 to the end of his life.

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Tony Slydini

Tony Slydini (September 1, 1901, Foggia, Italy – January 15, 1991), simply known as Slydini, was a world-renowned magician.

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Val Walker

Valentine Augustus Walker (15 February 1890 – 17 March 1969) (also known as Val A Walker and Val Enson) was an English magician, escape artist and illusion designer.

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Walter B. Gibson

Walter Brown Gibson (September 12, 1897 – December 6, 1985) was an American author and professional magician, best known for his work on the pulp fiction character The Shadow.

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Whit Haydn

Whit "Pop" Haydn (born July 19, 1949 as Whitney Wesley Hadden in Clarksville, Tennessee) is an American magician, and the winner of seven performing awards (for performances in showrooms at the Magic Castle) from the Academy of Magical Arts.

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Will Gray

Will Gray is an English magician and entertainer born in the Midlands (Leicestershire) in 1976.

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Zarrow shuffle

Zarrow shuffle is a sleight of hand technique that gives the appearance of being a normal riffle shuffle, but in fact leaves the cards in exactly the same order.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-up_magic

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