Notable Examples of "lasts"
- Daniel F. Bakeman, the last surviving veteran of the Revolutionary War
- Hiram Cronk, the last surviving veteran of The War of 1812
- Owen Thomas Edgar, the last surviving veteran of the Mexican-American War
- Albert Woolson, the last surviving Civil War Veteran
- John B. Salling, the last surviving Confederate States of America (U.S.) Civil War Veteran
- Jones Morgan, the last surviving Spanish-American War Veteran
- George Ives, the last surviving veteran of the Second Boer War
- Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving signer of Declaration of Independence
- Philipp von Boeselager, the last surviving member of the group that tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944
- Ishi, the last of the Yahi
- Mauritius Dodo, the last surviving dodo
- Martha, the last surviving passenger pigeon
- Benjamin, the last surviving Thylacine –
- Szczerbiec, the last surviving piece of the Polish Crown Jewels
- May 30, 1935, Babe Ruth plays in his final game
- January 2, 1971, the last tobacco advertising on American television
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Famous quotes containing the words notable, examples and/or lasts:
“Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it’s more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)