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Built in the Peruvian Andes in the 15th Century, the Incan city of Machu Picchu is one of the Seven Modern Wonders of the World.
From BBC
It kind of snuck up on us—and we can perhaps be excused for that, because there has been so much going on these past few years—but as New Year’s Eve makes the turn to 2026 at midnight Wednesday, it is probably time for us to say goodbye to the notion of the new century.
The 21st century has continued to feel new for many Earthlings, those of us whose lives had one foot in the old century—the 20th, whose early years featured Model Ts and flappers and the Wright Brothers and Teddy Roosevelt—and one foot in the 21st, which arrived like a crisp blank page.
No wonder that the century in which we now live is still widely regarded as, at heart, a new one, filled with both promise and trepidation.
But the dawn of 2026 will mean that the 21st century is more than one-quarter finished.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
