Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar
I filled golden paper bags alternately with earth from my hole and ‘Yves Klein’ blue paint, and tied them to a piece of canvas. Then I hoisted the canvas up so the bags formed a figure. I hoisted myself up upside down and pulled at a rope until I was hanging at a distance away from the canvas, let go and swirled like a projectile against the canvas which made the bags tear and the earth and the paint were mixed and spattered around.
(6 June 2009)
There are 3393 births, 3960 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5748 people in 6461 places until today.
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BirthFactDeath (+) Monday 21st of October 1833 193 years, 7 months and 25 days ago |
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 Chemist, engineer, innovator and armaments manufacturer Alfred Bernhard Nobel aka The Merchant of Death is born in Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden. |
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