Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 26 April 1912

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

I repeated the text “The Lips of Osiris Ani, Triumphant, are the Lips of Anpu” with my head immersed in water. The sound was amplified by a hydrophone. AMVK read passages from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. The sound was amplified by a microphone. Behind us a film was projected with images of mouths of humans and beaks of animals.
(11 October 1985)

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

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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BirthFactDeath (+) Friday 26th of April 1912 112 years ago
Science fiction writer Alfred Elton van Vogt is born in Edenburg, Manitoba, Canada. "Childhood was a terrible period for me. I was like a ship without anchor being swept along through darkness in a storm. Again and again I sought shelter, only to be forced out of it by something new."