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One of my favorite is that people named Dennis are disproportionately likely to become dentists, people named Lawrence become lawyers, because unconsciously we gravitate toward things that sound familiar, which is why I named my daughter President of the United States Brooks.

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1877: The great Lakota warrior and chief named Crazy Horse surrendered at Fort Robinson.

Then, a man named Jean-Paul Sartre wrote a book titled "Being and Nothingness."

Then we crossed the border into Syria, went to Aleppo, which, turns out, is named after Abraham.

This is a lovely book by a friend of mine named Lee Siegel, who's a professor of religion, actually, at the University of Hawaii, and he's an expert magician, and an expert on the street magic of India, which is what this book is about, "Net of Magic."

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