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

During the opening of exhibitions in the Antwerp art galleries I left behind unnoticed plastic ALDI bags filled with earth from my hole between the works of other artists in the galleries.
(16 March 2006)

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

There are 3377 births, 3944 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2079 other events about 5733 people in 6441 places until today.

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar is an ongoing project since 1985 by DDV.

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Port Royal, Surrey, Jamaica.

Related events:

Saturday 7th of June 1692 (x) — Port Royal disappears into the sea in just three minutes.
A stopped pocket watch found in the harbour in 1959 indicated that it occurred around 11.43 am.
Monday 18th of November 1720 (-) — Pirate captain John Rackham is executed by hanging.
Calico Jack's body was then gibbeted on display on a very small islet at a main entrance to Port Royal.