Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Somerset, New Jersey, United States

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

A double glass door with a long piece of wood attached to both sides. Inside two benches are placed on a heap of concrete bricks. On one bench stands a fine selection of art books from the school’s library I am stretched out on the other bench. The spectators can choose to open a door and push forward the piece of wood and make the bench tumble over. At first the books go down on the floor after that I go down on the floor.
(12 December 2000)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1990

There are 3381 births, 3949 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2084 other events about 5737 people in 6449 places until today.

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Somerset, New Jersey, United States.

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Thursday 14th of September 1922 (-) — Reverend Edward Hall is shot in the head by persons unknown.
Hall was found on 16 September 1922 next to his 34-year-old lover Eleanor Reinhardt Mills who was also shot in the head three times. Mills' throat was cut and her tongue had been cut out. A pile of torn love letters was found strewn around over the bodies.