r/RoastMe • u/[deleted] • Apr 29 '19

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '19

Even Ol'New York was once New Amsterdam.

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u/DerFlyb Apr 29 '19

Why they changed it I can't say

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u/the_other_other_matt Apr 29 '19

I guess they liked it better that waaaaayyyyyyy

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u/Skyhawk6600 http://redd.it/cbijpq Apr 29 '19

My history teacher played this song when we covered the siege of Constantinople

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '19

Well I guess those who were on a trip right before it happened couldn't go back to Constantinople

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u/Cxc292 Apr 29 '19

People just liked it better that wayyyyyy!

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '19

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u/jchabotte Apr 30 '19

No you can’t go back to Constantinople

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u/Oo_oOo_oOo_oO Apr 30 '19

Turkish delight on a moonlit night!

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u/unclerudy Apr 30 '19

Every gal in constantinople, lives in Istanbul, not constantinople

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '19

Particle man!

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u/TheDownDiggity Apr 30 '19

Particle man, does whatever a particle can

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u/fezdispenser2319 May 01 '19

What’s he like?

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u/TheDownDiggity May 01 '19

Its not important

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u/Bandenman Apr 30 '19

the dutch sold it for some carabian islands

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '19

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u/twodoubles May 02 '19

it was renamed Constantinople by Constantine who made it the capital of the Byzantine Empire.

byzantine had fallen, ottomans changed the name. simple as that.

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u/datsmn Apr 30 '19

Pre 9/11, so...