Beyond Comprehension: Turtle Dies at 250

Addwaita has was born in 1767! I'll say it again - 1767. This incredible animal has lived through...:

- The end of the Colonial period in America
- The first vaccine for smallpox
- The discovery of the Prime Number Theorem
- The French Revolution
- The American Revolution
- The Boston Tea Party
- The rule of Louis XVI
- The signing of the Declaration of Independence
- The Civil War
- Napoleon
- Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
- Industrialism
- The Invention of Morse Code
- Discovery of Electricity
- Invention of the Telephone
- WWI & WWII

If you really think hard and try to imagine it, you'll likely get a headache. He's watched the world rise and fall so many times - lived throuugh the dawn of modern science, seen likely dozens of caretakers and hundreds of fellow creatures be born, live full lives and die. Amazing.