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Is Turkey Renaming Istanbul Constantinople?
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| SEPTEMBER 4, 2009
| NICK DANFORTH
Posted on 09/08/2009 7:28:05 AM PDT by Nikas777
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posted on
09/08/2009 7:28:05 AM PDT
by
Nikas777
To: Nikas777
Why did Constantinople get the works?
To: Constitution Day
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks.
To: Nikas777
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posted on
09/08/2009 7:31:25 AM PDT
by
PugetSoundSoldier
(Indignation over the Sting of Truth is the Defense of the Indefensible)
To: Nikas777
They were talking Turkey.
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posted on
09/08/2009 7:31:49 AM PDT
by
pnh102
(Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
To: Constitution Day
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way
Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
Leni
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posted on
09/08/2009 7:34:38 AM PDT
by
MinuteGal
(Hey, Dum-Dem..........Are You Better Off Than You Were Nine Months Ago?)
To: Nikas777
Yeh ! And tell’um we want the Hi-Ya So-fee-ya back as a Christian Church Too !...LOL...
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posted on
09/08/2009 7:34:47 AM PDT
by
litehaus
(A memory tooooo long)
To: Above My Pay Grade
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam.
To: Above My Pay Grade
Evr’y gal in Constantinople
Is a Miss-stanbul, not Constantinople
So if you date in Constantinople
She’ll be waiting in Istanbul
To: A_Former_Democrat
The Four Lads,
1953
To: Eric in the Ozarks
They Might Be Giants,
1989
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posted on
09/08/2009 7:40:17 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Indeed. I heard that song sparingly while growing up in your state. I confess to cheating with Google this a.m. :)
To: A_Former_Democrat
I remember hearing it on FEN out of Tokyo in the 1950s.
To: dfwgator
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posted on
09/08/2009 7:48:39 AM PDT
by
stormer
To: dfwgator
Was that really 20 years ago?????
It boggles the mind.
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posted on
09/08/2009 7:50:10 AM PDT
by
dangerdoc
(dangerdoc (not actually dangerous any more))
To: Nikas777
Istantinople
Constanbul
Istanbulople
Conistan
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posted on
09/08/2009 7:57:13 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: Nikas777; a fool in paradise
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks!
To: MinuteGal
St. Menehould was one of the folks French explorers and mapmakers liked to name things after (probably because she had 5 sisters who were also venerated so if you needed to name something else nearby you had a handy source of names). The town of St. Menehould is located in the Argonne. The first 6 families to be settled on Manhattan Island were Wallonian ~ that is, from the Argonne. The Wallonians built the wall that became Wall street.
If you go looking for quick references on this you'll find that Henry Hudson is given credit for discovering Manhattan in 1609 - September 12, 1609 to be exact.
The French had already landed just up the coast at St. Sauveur in 1598, and had for most of the preceding century used spots from Norfolk to Boston for drying and salting fish to be shipped back to Europe.
How they missed Manhattan is a doggone good question. Earlier the Portuguese had made a permanent settlement far to the North in Labrador (taken down by the spanish about 1538), and there are another 29 permanent settlements of various quality that were set up BEFORE 1600 on the East Coast ~ and only a couple of them have been studied extensively.
Worth noting ~ by 1620 there were already 20,000 European and African settlers in what is now Maryland ~ and no one has any idea where they came from, or when they settled. Pirates had made earlier settlements up and down the coast throughout the 1500s.
How all these folks missed Manhattan........?
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posted on
09/08/2009 8:01:34 AM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: Nikas777
THIS JUST IN: New York is being renamed New Amsterdam!
To: Nikas777
“...and famously declared that Kurds were actually “mountain Turks.””
One Kurd leg is shorter than the other?
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posted on
09/08/2009 8:10:33 AM PDT
by
Buck W.
(The President of the United States IS named Schickelgruber...)
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