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

Nitsch' 34. Aktion lasted two hours. The 'exhibition,' as it was also dubbed, was observed at first by about 300 students, but after the actual work on the carcass began, the number dwindled to barely half that figure. During the show, several students became ill. Some of the girls in the crowd were sobbing.
(16 October 1970)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1985

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Kalaupapa, Hawaii, United States.

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In January 1936 Damiaan's body was returned to Belgium. He was buried in Leuven. After his beatification in June 1995 the remains of his right hand were returned to Hawaii and re-interred in his original grave on Molokai.