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Originally Posted by HarryT
As a matter of interest, Harry Houdini once complained to the Encyclopaedia Britannica for stating, in their article about him, that he had been born in Budapest, rather than Wisconsin, as he claimed to have been. They produced a copy of his birth certificate to prove that they were right.
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If the bio that the History Channel did on Houdini was accurate (heh), he had some help from the CIA on that.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
I guess that in Wikipedia you can be whatever you can persuade the masses that you are.
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That is their published policy, actually.