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== Wikipedia upgrade December 6 - 7  ==
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'''Joe Pecore''' is a  [[Paul Harris]] fanatic.  
We may be doing some Wikipedia maintainable today and tomorrow. The site may be going down during the time and will be unavailable. Sorry for any inconvenience. [[User:Jpecore|Joe P.]] 22:50, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
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== About me ==
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Joe Pecore, A [[Paul Harris]] fanatic.  
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[[Special:Contributions/Jpecore|Contributor]] to MagicPedia.
 
[[Special:Contributions/Jpecore|Contributor]] to MagicPedia.
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You can also email me information, changes or corrections you would like to see on MagicPedia.
 
You can also email me information, changes or corrections you would like to see on MagicPedia.
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== Pages to monitor ==
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* [http://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3AContributions&contribs=newbie&target=&namespace=&year=&month=-1 New contributors for spamming and vandalism]
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* [[Special:LinkSearch]]Check for Bad Links
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* [http://www.magician.org/resources/broken-wand IBM Broken wand]
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== Working on ==
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* Today in Magic History Android App
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** http://files.appsgeyser.com/Today%20in%20magic%20history.apk
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== Things to do (feel free to help ;) ==
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* Add more [[Template:TOTD|Featured Tips]]
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* See if this works http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Transwiki
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a British magic buff and journalist that developed escape-and-evasion gadgets for MI9 during World War II.
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Wrote "Official Secret: The Remarkable Story of Escape Aids - Their Invention, Production" (1960).
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Author and semi-pro magician published two novels about conjuring. Also wrote  Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle (1999)
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== Want List ==
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I'm looking for these magazines to complete my collection:
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* Magic Manuscript - Volume 11 Issue 3 - November / December 1989 - Cover - The Tenyo Team
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* Magic Manuscript - Volume 12 Issue 2 - September / October 1990 - Cover - Women in Magic Pt. 1
  
 
== Did you know? ==
 
== Did you know? ==
 
* The Ring in Nest of Boxes dates back to 1751?
 
* The Ring in Nest of Boxes dates back to 1751?
* The Aquarius Tube and Ribbons was first described by Claude Chandler in 1914?
 
 
* The Rising Card Effect first appeared in print in 1626?
 
* The Rising Card Effect first appeared in print in 1626?
 
* The Sympathetic Silks trick was invented by Edward Victor?
 
* The Sympathetic Silks trick was invented by Edward Victor?
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* The Wild Card was invented by Peter Kane of Manchester, and shown by him months before it was ' invented' and marketed in the U.S.A.?
 
* The Wild Card was invented by Peter Kane of Manchester, and shown by him months before it was ' invented' and marketed in the U.S.A.?
 
* David Devant invented the Dyed Handkerchief Through Paper Tube and first presented the trick in 1893?
 
* David Devant invented the Dyed Handkerchief Through Paper Tube and first presented the trick in 1893?
* Mystic Craig was using rope magnets
 
 
* A Vanishing Cane made of spring steel, was described in the July 1899 issue of Mahatma?
 
* A Vanishing Cane made of spring steel, was described in the July 1899 issue of Mahatma?
 
*Selbit was first to perform the Magic Bricks?
 
*Selbit was first to perform the Magic Bricks?
*Buatier de Kolla was the first lo produce flowers from a Cone, and Billiard Balls at the fingertips using a half shell?
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*Buatier de Kolla was the first to produce flowers from a Cone, and Billiard Balls at the fingertips using a half shell?
 
* the shell stack of coins was in the 4 Anatomie of Legerdemain 1634?
 
* the shell stack of coins was in the 4 Anatomie of Legerdemain 1634?
 
* the carbon or impression card was first described in the March 1920 'Magic Wand"?
 
* the carbon or impression card was first described in the March 1920 'Magic Wand"?
 
* David Devant invented the Dyed Handkerchiefs and first presented the trick in 1893?
 
* David Devant invented the Dyed Handkerchiefs and first presented the trick in 1893?
* Hocus Pocus is derived from the Latin " Hoc est corpus meum '?
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* That although James Wobensmith is generally credited with the 4 one band adaptation of the Afghan Bands, credit really belongs to Ted Beal, who was first to do the trick with one band and published it in Naldrett's "More Collected Magic" in 1921.  
* That although James Wobensmith is generally credited with the 4 one band adaptation of the Afghan Bands, credit really belongs to Ted Beal, who was first to do the trick with one band and published it in Naldrett's 'More Collected Magic" in 1921. The single colour-change handkerchief using a 11 esh-coloured tube with tape divider was first mentioned in 'Later Magic" (1904) and credited by Hoffmann to Ellis Stanyon. But in Robertson Keene's ' More Novel Notes and Notions" (1907), the inventor is named as James Carl (James Wakefield) and it is quite possible he had used it for some considerable time before parsing it on to Keene.
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*The single colour-change handkerchief using a flesh-coloured tube with tape divider was first mentioned in 'Later Magic" (1904) and credited by Hoffmann to Ellis Stanyon. But in Robertson Keene's "More Novel Notes and Notions" (1907), the inventor is named as James Carl (James Wakefield) and it is quite possible he had used it for some considerable time before parsing it on to Keene.
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Revision as of 15:24, 26 April 2015

Joe Pecore is a Paul Harris fanatic.

Contributor to MagicPedia.

Please feel free to add comments and ask questions on my discussion page or email me at: Special:EmailUser/Jpecore.

You can also email me information, changes or corrections you would like to see on MagicPedia.

Pages to monitor


Working on


Things to do (feel free to help ;)

Items to fix

Tests

Extensions for MagicPedia

From http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Alterego/ExtensionMatrix/AllExtensions

For mediawiki 1.21:

To research


Genii index replace

Want List

I'm looking for these magazines to complete my collection:

  • Magic Manuscript - Volume 11 Issue 3 - November / December 1989 - Cover - The Tenyo Team
  • Magic Manuscript - Volume 12 Issue 2 - September / October 1990 - Cover - Women in Magic Pt. 1

Did you know?

  • The Ring in Nest of Boxes dates back to 1751?
  • The Rising Card Effect first appeared in print in 1626?
  • The Sympathetic Silks trick was invented by Edward Victor?
  • Spring Flowers were invented by Buatier de Kolta?
  • The Vent Talking Hand was first performed in 1796?
  • A Cigarette Act was first presented in Paris by the Spanish magician, Franz-Klint, in 1916?
  • With the exception of a short description of the Pass and the Force by Guyot in 1769, Henri Decremps (1746-1826) was the first writer in any language to explain the basic card sleights?
  • The Sliding Die Box was invented by Alex Davis, an Englishman, who first performed it in the U.S.A. about 1886. The Rights were sold to Otto Mauer, a New York Dealer, who advertised it in 1897?
  • Bill Stickland published a method a Balloon Penetration?
  • The 20th Century Silks effect was first performed by David Devant, and his method later explained in Hoffmann's ' Later Magic' (1904)?
  • The Wild Card was invented by Peter Kane of Manchester, and shown by him months before it was ' invented' and marketed in the U.S.A.?
  • David Devant invented the Dyed Handkerchief Through Paper Tube and first presented the trick in 1893?
  • A Vanishing Cane made of spring steel, was described in the July 1899 issue of Mahatma?
  • Selbit was first to perform the Magic Bricks?
  • Buatier de Kolla was the first to produce flowers from a Cone, and Billiard Balls at the fingertips using a half shell?
  • the shell stack of coins was in the 4 Anatomie of Legerdemain 1634?
  • the carbon or impression card was first described in the March 1920 'Magic Wand"?
  • David Devant invented the Dyed Handkerchiefs and first presented the trick in 1893?
  • That although James Wobensmith is generally credited with the 4 one band adaptation of the Afghan Bands, credit really belongs to Ted Beal, who was first to do the trick with one band and published it in Naldrett's "More Collected Magic" in 1921.
  • The single colour-change handkerchief using a flesh-coloured tube with tape divider was first mentioned in 'Later Magic" (1904) and credited by Hoffmann to Ellis Stanyon. But in Robertson Keene's "More Novel Notes and Notions" (1907), the inventor is named as James Carl (James Wakefield) and it is quite possible he had used it for some considerable time before parsing it on to Keene.

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