Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Eernegem, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium || Vermeersch Pig Farm

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

Just before Ramirez attacked 22-year-old Maria Hernandez outside the house, shooting her in the face with a .22 caliber handgun after she pulled into the garage. She survived when the bullet ricocheted off the keys she held in her hands as she lifted them to protect herself.
(17 March 1985)

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

There are 3376 births, 3943 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2079 other events about 5732 people in 6441 places until today.

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Vermeersch Pig Farm

Zedelgemsesteenweg 64, Eernegem, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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Saturday 28th of December 2002 (x) — Performance artist Danny Devos performs 'Parels voor de Zwijnen'.
A handful spectators was led along a muddy path in the dark towards a pig stye where they can enter one by one. The pig stye is divided in partitions that hold seven pigs each, totalling about 100 pigs. At the end of the small corridor that leads through the middle of the stye a film is projected onto my naked body. From several incisions in my body blood is seeping. I hung there for about half an hour. The pigs got excited by the smell of people and blood.
Tuesday 19th of November 2002 — . The Eyes Had it: Curious pigs wondering why a performance artist wants to present one of his works in their sty.