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T. Nelson Downs-the "king of coins" was not only America's most popular and famous coin manipulator, but a talented magician specializing in sleight-of-hand involving objects as varied as cards, eggs, balls, and a host of other objects. This book is not written for the beginner in conjuring, but for the advanced amateur and the professional prestidigitator who seeks to improve their skill-level to that of master magician.This book contains 125 spectacular tricks, effects and flourishes, the secrets of which, once mastered, will allow applications in modern surroundings only limited by the reader's imagination. Included in this volume are the author's own "Miser's Dream" routine refinements, the secret to his spectacular "wrist palm" and much, much more.It is a classic work is a must-have for any serious magician.This new edition has been hand-edited, completely reset, and contains all original 68 illustrations, digitally enhanced, enlarged, and reproduced to the highest quality modern standards.ContentsIntroductoryChapter I: Flourishes and Fancy Sleights with CardsChapter II: Card Tricks with Unprepared Cards and Not Requiring Sleight of HandChapter III: Card Tricks Involving Sleight of HandChapter IV: Sleight of Hand with Cards, ContinuedChapter V: Sleight of Hand with Cards (Continued)Chapter VI: Card Tricks Based On A New and Original System of Locating A Chosen CardChapter VII: Clairvoyance with CardsChapter VIII: A Series of Card Tricks Based on a New and Original SystemChapter IX: The Rising CardsChapter X: The Four Ace TrickChapter XI: Card Tricks with Apparatus and In Combination with Other ObjectsChapter XII: Fancy Flourishes with Coins, Useful Sleights, and Additions to The Miser's DreamChapter XIII: Coin Tricks with and without ApparatusChapter XIV: A Coin Act and A Coin LadderChapter XV: Tricks of The TradeChapter XVI: Tricks with EggsChapter XVII: Tricks with Balls.Chapter XVIII: Miscellaneous TricksIndex of Tricks

First published in 1903 under the title "The Destruction of the Greek Empire and the Story of the Capture of Constantinople by the Turks," this book dramatically tells the story of the 250 years preceding the fall of Constantinople and the destruction of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Turks. Drawing upon original sources and classical historians, this book describes in detail the political confluence of circumstances that led to the isolation of the city of Constantinople from Western Christianity, and the steady impoverishment of the once magnificent capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.At the same time, the ancient city, founded and named after the Roman Emperor Constantine, became increasingly threatened by the expansion of Islam and that religion's conquering of almost all of the previous territory of the Eastern Roman Empire. Finally, the Byzantine Empire was reduced to an area protected only by the 1000-year-old city walls of Constantinople. Behind these walls, the last Roman Emperor and his small band of Christian knights awaited the inevitable end.The shocking and now often ignored pivotal event of the seizure of Constantinople and its conversion into the present-day city of Istanbul is covered in full, along with its after-effects and the creation of an anti- Ottoman alliance in Europe.This new edition contains all the original maps and images and contains a new index.

The true story of the explorer and scholar after who the entire continent of "America" is named. This remarkable work starts with the early life of the Italian-born explorer and then quickly moves on to the details of his fabulous voyages on behalf of Spain and Portugal from 1499 to 1502. Drawing heavily upon the explorer's own writing and other original sources, the full story of this remarkable-yet surprisingly little-known-Pilot Major of Spain is told in an intriguing and exciting fashion. Read here of the controversy surrounding Vespucci's first voyage, his remarkably accurate maps, and the many discoveries he made that later caused scholars to name the entire new world after him as a mark of honor.