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April 30, 2026
Today’s Atlantic Trivia: ‘Great Men’ and Cataclysmic Events
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TL;DR
- Hegel named Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and one other leader as 'world-historical individuals'.
- The third individual was exiled to the island of St. Helena, after an earlier exile to Elba.
- St. Helena is home to Jonathan, a Seychelles giant tortoise, who is at least 193 years old and possibly older.
- Jonathan is noted as the world's oldest living land animal but not one of Hegel's 'world-historical individuals'.