Notable Last Facts
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| Author | William B. Brahms |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Nonfiction |
| Publisher | Reference Desk Press |
Publication date | 2005 |
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| Pages | 848 |
| ISBN | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
Notable Last Facts is a book published by the American librarian/writer William B. Brahms in 2004[1][2][3][4] and was the first relatively comprehensive collection of important lasts.
Summary
[edit | edit source]Although that work mainly details American culture (TV, radio, sports are almost completely American examples), and to a lesser extent with European culture (in art, music and transportation for example), some sections (Nations, Wars, Slavery, Voting, and Era & Empires for example) do have a broad international treatment. The smaller trivia books on "lasts" by Christopher Slee (cited below) have a treatment that is almost exclusively limited to the United Kingdom. Examples of "Notable Last Facts" include the last surviving participant or witness to a historic event, the last work produced by a major artist, author, performer or musician, or perhaps the last remaining example of a once-prevalent style or object, such as a type of architecture, or a make or model of an automobile, motorcycle, or airplane. Notable lasts are often used a finite demarcations of social, artistic and historical eras or periods.
References
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- ^ https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1013&context=ul_pub
- ^ Altschiller, Donald. "Notable Last Facts: A Compendium of Endings, Conclusions, Terminations, and Final Events throughout History Organized in a Single, Easy-to-Use Reference." Booklist, vol. 102, no. 6, 15 Nov. 2005, pp. 68+.