Atlantic Trivia for April 30, 2026: ‘Great Men’ and Cataclysmic Events
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In his writing, the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel named most frequently three people as “world-historical individuals”: Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and what leader who was exiled to the island of St. Helena?
And by the way, did you know that St. Helena is home to the world’s oldest living land animal? His name is Jonathan, and he is a Seychelles giant tortoise that is at least 193—and very possibly several years older.
(Jonathan is not, however, the third “world-historical individual” picked by Hegel.)
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