Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 1 September 1917

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

I repeated the text “The Lips of Osiris Ani, Triumphant, are the Lips of Anpu” with my head immersed in water. The sound was amplified by a hydrophone. AMVK read passages from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. The sound was amplified by a microphone. Behind us a film was projected with images of mouths of humans and beaks of animals.
(11 October 1985)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

There are 3347 births, 3884 deaths, 1122 murders, 492 disasters and 2018 other events about 5697 people in 6343 places until today.

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Saturday 1st of September 1917

107 years ago

Célestine Buisson, originally Lavie is murdered by serial killer Henri Désiré Landru aka Le Barbe-Bleue de Gambais at the age of 46 in l'Ermitage, Allée des Tilleuls et la Roserale, Gambais, Île-de-France, France.

To Buisson, Landru was known as Mr Fremyet. His entry in his black notebook for that day was "10Hr 15'."