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| Author | William B. Brahms |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Nonfiction |
| Publisher | Reference Desk Press |
Publication date | 2004 |
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| Pages | 848 |
| ISBN | 0-9765325-0-6 |
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.
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.