Notable Last Facts: A Compendium of Endings, Conclusions, Terminations and Final Events throughout History is a ground-breaking core reference work for libraries of all kinds. More than 16,000 facts have been expertly researched and presented in an easy-to-use format. A ?Notable Last Fact? is any historically significant event, person, place or thing that marks the end of its kind or its era. It might be the last speaker of a now-extinct language, the last work of a major artist, or the last remaining example of an object. When an ending occurs, a part of our history is frozen in time. Lasts carry symbolic demarcations of our advances, failures and changes. Despite their importance, ?lasts? have long been overlooked. This book will draw comparison to other encyclopedic fact compendiums such as those on firsts, superlatives and lists; but this is the first comprehensive reference work on ?lasts? to be published. Notable Last Facts was conceived, researched, and compiled by