One of the Best Last Lists of the Century

Another reason to celebrate on New Year's Eve: it will be 100 years before we have to read Best of the Century lists again. Here are some Worsts from this batch.

10 Greatest Inventions of the 20th Century chosen by Guinness Book of Records: Rubik's Cube, the Walkman and Tupperware made the cut; computers didn't.

Top 50 Erotic Personalities of the Millennium chosen by readers of the British Erotic Review: No. 1, Marilyn Monroe; No. 4, Margaret Thatcher.

Top 100 American Speeches of the 20th Century chosen by 137 public-speaking experts: "Checkers" speech nabs No. 6 spot, beating out...

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