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Boer War memento puts years on Jonathan the tortoise
The world’s oldest living animal has been identified as Jonathan the tortoise after a photograph of him was discovered among a collection of Boer War scenes...He was about 70 when he was pictured munching grass in about 1900 with a prisoner of war in the background.
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Netherland’s oldest citizen dies
By: Polahola
Netherland’s oldest dweller, a 112 year old woman, died in the Rotterdam nursing home, Thursday. Greta Jansen-Anker was born on September 12, 1987, and have survived two World wars, have seen the first airplane flight and even man’s first step on the moon. At the age of 102, she lived independently, and have moved to a ...
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- News Source: NewKerala | 11 months agoIn the photograph taken, a tortoise can be seen nibbling grass as a Boer War prisoner and guard posed in the background. At the time the picture was taken, Jonathan was already 70-years-old, and now he has reached the age of 176, and is still fully...
- News Source: The independent | 11 months agoThe span of history a giant tortoise can live through is vividly illustrated in this remarkable picture of two of the animals on the British island colony of St Helena in the year 1900. Some of the men behind them are believed to be Afrikaners...
- News Source: Times Online | 11 months agoThe world’s oldest living animal has been identified as Jonathan the tortoise after a photograph of him was discovered among a collection of Boer War scenes...He was about 70 when he was pictured munching grass in about 1900 with a prisoner of war...
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