Even old New York was once New Amsterdam...

Sep. 11th, 2003 01:33 pm
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In Historiography today, Prof. Stenhouse was drawing a map, and indicacted Istanbul. I couldn't help it - I murmured "Constantinople?"

Across the room, two or three people started chuckling.
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