And with the opening of Disneyland in California in 1955 (plus four more theme parks worldwide since then), viewers have been flocking to the parks to experience the magic first hand.

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As Olympic announcers called the first-leg runners onto the track, Chinese workers scrambled to hand-draw bibs with magic markers.

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And five minutes later, in a feat of Willy Wonka-like magic, he was holding that doodle in his hand.

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The title suggests Basilicata was beyond the hand of God, a place where pagan magic still existed and thrived.

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He preferred to forgo the usual props of the magic world, working only with whatever happened to be on hand.

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Mr Jolstad and his co-founder Ilya Kruglenko - who first met each other in Moscow during the 1990s while selling second-hand Australian telephones to the Russians - initially created Magic Desktop to protect their own children from getting tangled up in an unpleasant web.

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If everyone starts sending hand written thank you notes they will inevitably lose their magic.

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She waved her hand at them, a gesture practiced over centuries, and even though there was no magic in it, Blork was instantly quiet.

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Elizabeth on the other hand takes the cheap perspective by citing her own personal situation that what works for her should also like magic work for everyone else.

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