Thursday, March 24, 2011

Google square Harry Houdini, the magician without a car

The extravagance of a character like Harry Houdini, the famous American illusionist who is celebrated today by the Google logo for the celebration of the 137th anniversary of his birth, are also reflected in the motor world. Getaway impossible, international tours, press coverage, movie theaters, major festivals and hundreds of initiative attempted by a man who has made history not so much juggling as show business itself.

Motors, said, players were "extravagant" in the life of Harry Houdini. Leafing through his biographies, I first noticed that Harry Houdini had never owned a car. This is despite a rich man as he lived in an era when cars were beginning to take its first steps into the world of industry.

Houdini, however, possessed a license to drive a car. The reason? The magician was great need that "piece of paper" to be able to get hold of a private airplane. With whom he came in the 'historic due to the fact that it was the first man to have raised an airplane in flight in Australia in 1910.

Certainly for a person of great international renown as Harry Houdini returned more useful to be in possession of a private airplane, not a car, travel times, in fact, were much reduced if airway routes. Happy birthday, wizards!

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