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Oct 2023
10m 23s

David Blaine, Trickless Magician

The Retrospectors
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Ten thousand spectators gathered by the side of the Thames on 19th October, 2003 to watch street magician/illusionist David Blaine come back down to Earth, having spent 44 days suspended in a perspex box in a stunt called ‘Above The Below’. It was an accomplishment almost sabotaged by the British tabloid media and general public, who had heckled him, tried t ... Show More
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