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Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

The surgeon had been warned of the contingency and got his instruments ready. Nelson was cited as saying, as he pointed to his right arm “Doctor, I want to get rid of this useless piece of flesh here”. Nelson's operation was quick and aseptic. The limb was thrown over board despite the admiral's wish to keep it.
(25 July 1797)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1988

There are 3388 births, 3954 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5741 people in 6457 places until today.

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Campo Santo

Antwerpse Steenweg, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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Saturday 17th of September 1983 (x) — Performance artist Danny Devos performs 'Now I am Death the Destroyer of Worlds - 1'.
On the Campo Santo graveyard I dug a grave. After I lay down in it Ross Cannon closed it with earth. While the audience was transported with buses to the next location of the exhibition we moved the grave to the Gele Zaal in Gent.