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To: EggsAckley
Istanbul or Constantinople?

Why did Constantinople get the works?

Is it nobody's business but the Turks?
7 posted on 05/28/2003 7:19:51 AM PDT by TheConservator (Democrates libenter quod volunt credunt)
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To: TheConservator
The Turks loved to raid, pillage, and punder (think pre-Christian Vikings). They also claimed to want to expand true Islam throughout the world and by force if necessary.
9 posted on 05/28/2003 7:23:22 AM PDT by afuturegovernor
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To: TheConservator
*humming along*
10 posted on 05/28/2003 7:23:29 AM PDT by EggsAckley ( Midnight at the Oasis)
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LOL!
That song popped into my mind as soon as I read the thread title.
13 posted on 05/28/2003 7:26:41 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: TheConservator
Every gal in Constantinople lives in Istanbul, not Constaninople.
22 posted on 05/28/2003 7:39:17 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: TheConservator
Even Old New York, was once New Amsterdam.
23 posted on 05/28/2003 7:42:48 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: TheConservator
Theose Lyrics are at this site,
along with nice music that
plays as you read them
http://www.kanyak.com/lyrics.html

Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

-Artists: The Four Lads

-peak Billboard position # 10 in 1953

-Words by Jimmy Kennedy and Music by Nat Simon

Istanbul was Constantinople

Now it's Istanbul not Constantinople

Been a long time gone

Old Constantinople's still has Turkish delight

On a moonlight night

Evr'y gal in Constantinople

Is a Miss-stanbul, not Constantinople

So if you've date in Constantinople

She'll be waiting in Istanbul

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam

Why they changed it, I can't say

(People just liked it better that way)

Take me back to Constantinople

No, you can't go back to Constantinople

Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople

Why did Constantinople get the works?

That's nobody's business but the Turks'


72 posted on 05/28/2003 11:25:05 AM PDT by John Beresford Tipton
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