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Its history began in early 17th century Kyoto, where a shrine maiden named Izumo no Okuni would use the city's dry Kamo Riverbed as a stage to perform unusual dances for passerby, who found her daring parodies of Buddhist prayers both entertaining and mesmerizing.

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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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