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Jonathan (hatched c. 1832) [2] [3] is a Seychelles giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea hololissa), a subspecies of the Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea). His approximate age is estimated to be 192 as of 2025, making him the oldest known living land animal .
John Patrick James is an American poet, critic, and digital collagist. He is the author of The Milk Hours, selected by Henri Cole for the 2018 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize and forthcoming from Milkweed Editions. He is also the author of Chthonic, winner of the 2014 CutBank Chapbook Competition.
John James was born in 1939 in Cardiff to Lil (née O'Reilly) and Charlie James, a royal marine. He was educated by Lasalle Brothers at Saint Illtyd's College. [1] He left the college in 1957 to read Philosophy and English Literature at the University of Bristol and later undertook postgraduate studies in American Literature at the University of Keele. [2]
Many were gathered into the compilation All the Workes of John Taylor the Water Poet (London, 1630; facsimile reprint Scholar Press, Menston, Yorkshire, 1973); augmented by the Spenser Society's edition of the Works of John Taylor ... not included in the Folio edition of 1630 (5 volumes, 1870–78). Although his work was not sophisticated, he ...
The Phoenix and the Turtle was first published in 1601, as part of a collection of poems by different authors, including John Marston, George Chapman, and Ben Jonson, which was appended as a supplement to Love's Martyr, a long poem by Robert Chester printed by Richard Field for the London bookseller Edward Blount.
John James was born in Aberavon. His family were poor and his father was a steelworker who had left school at 13 to work in the tin works. John was largely self-taught, reading the entire works of Shakespeare under his bedclothes with a torch before he was 8 years old.
“Turtle Boy,” (sometimes called the “Zombie Kid”) was a cultural phenomenon. Cameos on The O’Reilly Factor and Comedy Central’s Tosh.0 further solidified his place in the zeitgeist.
John James Piatt was born on March 1, 1835, in James' Mills, Dearborn County, Indiana, to Emily (Scott) and John Bear Piatt. [1] [2] The town was later called Milton and relocated to Ohio County, Indiana. [2] The Piatts moved to Columbus, Ohio, when John James was six. [3] He attended Capital University and Kenyon College. [1]