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Magic books

Can anyone recommend a book that tells the history of magicians and especially some of the great acts, tricks and magicians of the past 2 centuries

gavink

garage conversion

Does anyone have a rough idea how much it would cost to covert my integral garage (24x16) into two rooms?

Sheila

Dead Sea Patches

Can Dead Sea Patches really help weight loss as claimed by Dr Atkinson?

kev_insane

Smudge

What is Smudge and how is it used?

hans.liekens

Pizza Hut

how much of the Pizza Huts in the Uk have a Ice cream factory

wduguid

Myers Rum

Where in the UK can I buy Myers Rum. It is a dark rum and used to buy it abroad. Myers is the brand name.

rekstout

I heard on the news and in the paper that we have been relying on US supplied blood plasma because we cannot use our own, owing to the the CJD risk.So why can we use whole blood when plasma is just...

nickspo

what is the origin of the phrase 'goodnight Vienna '

what is the origin of the phrase 'goodnight Vienna ' ?

pjn1970

killing horses

why is it that the horseracing establishment are so quick to put hoses down for something fairly trivial like abroken leg? if ,for example the rock of gibralter had broken its leg during its final...

Pinotage

Wingwalking - is it a euphemism?

By any standard, standing on the wing of an aeroplane in flight is a pretty esoteric and unusual hobby. Yet we get several questions a week on the subject from people who don't look at the previous...

josiemac

Vivien Leigh

When did she die?

bluenotes

a-tisket, a-tasket

I am an Austrian and couldn't manage to find out the meaning of this phrase. I looked up several dictionaries, encyclopedias and search engines - in vain. Please help me!

vittoria

unwanted e-mails

in the last few days I have started receiving unwanted e-mails, one in particular is headed 'male organ enlargement' and I am getting two a day!!! How can I make it stop?

jaimeanswer

newspapers

history of the daily mail

snaykz

Edgar Allan Poe question 2.

Why is it that in several Poe stories (or at least the versions I have read), names of certain characters are excluded from the text, to be replaced by just the initial letter? For example, from 'The...

brianwaring

cat death

how long does it take for a cat to decompose

mulberryrd

Teasmade machine

I am reading a British mystery set in the 1970's and there is a reference made to a Teasmade machine. Being an American, I haven't a clue as to what this means. Can anyone help? Thanks.