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    Conjuring (French: Séance de prestidigitation) is a 1896 French silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès, who is also the actor doing the "conjuring"...
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    pp. 241–255 Mannoni, Laurent, "[Film lithographique] da Une séance de prestidigitation di Georges Méliès", Il Cinema Ritrovato, Cineteca di Bologna,...
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  • Sleight of hand (also known as prestidigitation or legerdemain (listen) refers to fine motor skills when used by performing artists in different art forms...
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    sur un cas de polyphagie, suivi de considérations médicolégales sur la mort par suspension, lu à l'Athénée de médecine de Paris, dans sa séance générale...
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    The Vanishing Lady (illusion) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    the practice is detached from the dexterity of the operator, from prestidigitation in the literal sense. The observer becomes "the locus and producer...
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    Providence Monthly: 14. DeLuca, Sharon (September 2007). "It's Magic!". QUAD Angles: 35. Bozigian, Terri (June 2007). "Prestidigitation Plus". Your Smithfield...
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    performers, such as stage magicians, who use various techniques, e.g., prestidigitation, cold reading, and hot reading, to produce the appearance of such abilities...
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  • preservative preserve preside presidence president press pressure prestidigitation prestige presume presumption presumptuous presuppose presupposition...
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    conjuring, and he met an aristocrat by the name of Jules de Rovère, who coined the term "prestidigitation" to describe a major misdirection technique magicians...
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    later his partner. The two sold patent medicine as well as performing prestidigitation, making their act as much a medicine show as a stage show. When Prince...
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    hallucination, hysteria, neurosis and suggestion as well as "delusion, fraud, prestidigitation, and limitless credulity." Rawcliffe found possible naturalistic explanations...
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    sitting at a table. Sleight-of-hand, also known as prestidigitation ("quick fingers") or léger de main (Fr., "lightness of hand"), is the set of techniques...
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    subtitled Being a Definitive History of the Venerable Arts of Sorcery, Prestidigitation, Wizardry, Deception, & Chicanery and of the Mountebanks & Scoundrels...
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    a sociable person who enjoyed dinner parties and who was adept at prestidigitation; and, on the other hand, he gave the impression of intellectual arrogance...
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  • changes her mind as her feelings for Leonard resurface again. 81 18 "The Prestidigitation Approximation" Mark Cendrowski Story by : Bill Prady & Steve Holland...
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  • Islam and magic (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    to God.: 92  Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) brands sorcery, talismans, and prestidigitation as forbidden and illegal. He categorically states that 'All [the magician's]...
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    his patronymic real. Very quickly, in the different domains of prestidigitation (see illusionism, 2.2), Norbert Ferré will choose that of manipulation...
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    appeared in three films made by Paul and another by Méliès (D. Devant, prestidigitation, 1897). Méliès also used one of Devant’s stage acts, which involved...
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    Ambigram (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Gardner's celebration of mind" turning into "Physics, patterns and prestidigitation". In the word "ambigram", the root ambi- means "both" and is a popular...
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  • occasional nurse's dress for a uniform and no longer wears a nurse's cap. Gage and DeSoto now have the designation "Firefighter PM" after their name. Robert Fuller...
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  • and premiered on IFC.com on Tuesday, 12 April 2011. The cinematic prestidigitation of the Kwan-Scheinert team, as well as the haunting, wistful music...
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    starring Robert "Bobby" Harron "El hotel eléctrico [Obra audiovisual] / Segundo de Chomón". Filmoteca Española. Retrieved April 5, 2014. [permanent dead link]...
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  • hellish dimensions battle the entity known as the 'Great Evil Beast'. The séance is held at Wintersgate Manor, the home of Baron Winters in Georgetown, Washington...
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  • you have a picture of the hero of this film...That trick of movie prestidigitation is the novel twist of the show and is good for a laugh whenever Eddie...
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  • André Gaudreault (category Academic staff of the Université de Montréal)
    other contemporary cultural practices, in particular photography, prestidigitation and the magic lantern. André Gaudreault's work has underscored the...
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    years he had brightened the horizons of magic with his special kind of prestidigitation. Slydini was a dedicated student of magic and developed his own style...
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    Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    the part written for the pedals, and indulging in other tours de force and prestidigitation, he was prodigious, incredible, fabulous, and received gratefully...
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  • Georgia Minstrels Marius Cazeneuve's "grand soirees of prestidigitation and anti-spiritualistic seances" Buffalo Bill combination Tomasi's Grand Juvenile English...
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  • been shaved to give the impression that the singer was performing the prestidigitation herself. In April of that year he made his first television appearance...
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  • Supernormal. New Scientist. 30 June. p. 971. Ruth Brandon. (1983). Prestidigitations. New Scientist. 14 July. p. 139. Ivor Grattan-Guinness. (1985). Science...
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