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Went to the grave with him?

1. Recollecting a story Ho told her when she was a child, she had included one sentence in his obituary -- that her father confronted a gestapo to help a Jewish friend escape.

The one line sparked interests that led her to dig deeper into the story, researching and identifying survivors.

“It was a combination of luck and just persistence,” the 57-year-old former journalist told AFP about stumbling upon her father’s rescue efforts.

“Had it not been sheer chance, it would have gone to the grave with him,” she said.

Ho was among the first of a small number of diplomatic rescuers who took “extraordinary steps at some personal risk to themselves” to safe the Jews, Gold said.

- Chinese diplomat who saved thousands during Holocaust honored, AFP, May 19, 2008.

2. Harry Houdini, the greatest escape artist of all time, has done it again!

This time from a dusty cardboard box in the back of a bedroom closet!

No restraint can hold him!

It might not measure up to his most thrilling feats, but considering that Houdini has been dead since 1926, this latest stunt as reported by the authorities yesterday had a lot of experienced conjurers marveling at their departed master.

“This is going to make news around the world,” Sidney Radner, a magician and renowned Houdini expert, said from his winter home in Palm Beach, Fla.

The Houdini in question is a polyethylene resin bust weighing 30 pounds and measuring about 30 inches tall. It had been keeping watch over Houdini’s family grave site on Cypress Hills Street in Glendale, Queens, when it mysteriously vanished on Aug. 15, 1983. The police reported then that it had been stolen, but for nearly 19 years the disappearance went unsolved.