Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 6 January 2002 || Oelegem, Belgium

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

Food was often placed near MacSwiney to persuade him to give up the hunger-strike. Attempts at force-feeding MacSwiney were undertaken in the final days of his strike. On 20 October he fell into a coma. His body lay in St George's Cathedral where 30.000 people filed past it.
(25 October 1920)

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

There are 3346 births, 3884 deaths, 1122 murders, 492 disasters and 2018 other events about 5697 people in 6343 places until today.

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The Eyes Have It

Sunday 6th of January 2002

With AMVK for a winter walk near the Fortress in Fort van Oelegem, Oelegem, Antwerpen, Belgium

Love is Colder than Death