Notable Last Facts

Summary

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

References

1. Bonnette, A. E.. (October 2005). "Notable last facts: a compendium of endings, conclusions, terminations and final events throughout history". Choice.
2. Kelsey, Sigrid. (2005-12-22). "Notable Last Facts.". Reference & User Services Quarterly.
3. https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1013&context=ul_pub
4. 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+.