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  1. All the books on the list "100 Best Books of the 21st Century" from NY Times. As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

  2. Contrary to popular belief, the 21st century and the third millennium did not begin on January 1, 2000, but one year later, on New Year's Day 2001. What is the first day of the week? This may seem counterintuitive at first, but it is a consequence of a defining feature of our modern anno domini time reckoning system: There was never a year zero ...

  3. The longest annular solar eclipse of the 21st century took place on January 15, 2010, with a duration of 11 minutes and 7.8 seconds. The maximum possible duration is 12 minutes and 29 seconds. The eclipse of May 20, 2050, will be the second hybrid eclipse in the span of less than one year, the first one being on November 25, 2049.

  4. Jan 27, 2009 · In The Next 100 Years, Friedman undertakes the impossible (or improbable) challenge of forecasting world events through the 21st century. Starting with the premises that "conventional political analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination" and "common sense will be wrong," Friedman maps what he sees as the likeliest developments of ...

  5. For the purposes of this poll we have decided that a list of the greatest films of the 21st Century should include the year 2000, even though we recognise that there was no ‘Year Zero’ and ...

  6. Sep 10, 2024 · In venturing to interpret the events of the 20th century, it will be convenient to separate the years before 1945 from those that followed. The years 1900 to 1945 were dominated by the two World Wars, while those since 1945 were preoccupied by the need to avoid another major war.

  7. Jun 21, 2024 · The year 1 BC was not followed by 0, but rather by year AD 1, so we count up from the year 1 AD as in the “21st century.” Notice that we don’t speak the same way when it comes to decades. Even though the 2020s will be the 203rd decade, we don’t call it that.