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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: may be dipped in molten metals.--Principles of heat
resistance put to practical uses: Aldini, 1829.--In
early fire-fighting.--Temperatures the body can
endure
VIII. Sword-swallowers: Cliquot, Delno Fritz, Deodota, a
razor-swallower, an umbrella-swallower, William
Dempster, John Cumming, Edith Clifford, Victorina
IX. Stone-eaters: A Silesian in Prague, 1006; Francois
Battalia, ca. 1641; Platerus' beggar boy; Father
Paulian's lithophagus of Avignon, 1760; ``The
Only One in the World,'' London, 1788; Spaniards
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