Panati's extraordinary endings of practically everything and everybody / Charles Panati.

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TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Perennial Library, c1989.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 470 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

0060159200
0060962798
9780060962791

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DDC classification:

031.02 19 PAN

Contents:

1. Death, the ultimate ending: Inhumation to cremation -- 2. Cemeteries, our last address: Graveyard to memorial park -- 3. Wills, our last wishes: Plato to W.C. Fields -- 4. Bequests & Behests of dying presidents: Washington to Hayes -- 5. Bequests & Behests of dying presidents: Garfield to L.B.J. -- 6. Capital endings: Crucifixion to lethal injection -- 7. Engineered endings: Life-span to obsolescence -- 8. Ancient extinctions: Trilobite to Mastodon -- 9. Modern extinctions: Dodo to Heath hen -- 10. Decimating disease: Bubonic plague to Spanish flu -- 11. Bygone beliefs: Bloodletting to cannibalism -- 12. Past sex practices -- His: Castration to circumcision -- 13. Past sex practices -- Hers: Sacred prostitution to chastity belt -- 14. Last agonies of historic figures: Buddha to Casanova -- 15. Final farewells of artists and writes: Pepys to Poe -- 16. Death styles of the rich and renowned: Darwin to Duncan -- 17. Last stands of Wild West legends: Calamity Jane to Buffalo Bill --

Summary: A compendium of facts and anecdotes about the demise of historic figures, diseases, beliefs, capital endings, and extinctions.

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1. Death, the ultimate ending: Inhumation to cremation -- 2. Cemeteries, our last address: Graveyard to memorial park -- 3. Wills, our last wishes: Plato to W.C. Fields -- 4. Bequests & Behests of dying presidents: Washington to Hayes -- 5. Bequests & Behests of dying presidents: Garfield to L.B.J. -- 6. Capital endings: Crucifixion to lethal injection -- 7. Engineered endings: Life-span to obsolescence -- 8. Ancient extinctions: Trilobite to Mastodon -- 9. Modern extinctions: Dodo to Heath hen -- 10. Decimating disease: Bubonic plague to Spanish flu -- 11. Bygone beliefs: Bloodletting to cannibalism -- 12. Past sex practices --
His: Castration to circumcision -- 13. Past sex practices --
Hers: Sacred prostitution to chastity belt -- 14. Last agonies of historic figures: Buddha to Casanova -- 15. Final farewells of artists and writes: Pepys to Poe -- 16. Death styles of the rich and renowned: Darwin to Duncan -- 17. Last stands of Wild West legends: Calamity Jane to Buffalo Bill --

A compendium of facts and anecdotes about the demise of historic figures, diseases, beliefs, capital endings, and extinctions.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [447]-458).

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