Constantinople

Other times Constantinople came up

1. It was amazing, because so many great people traveled on it. It was, you know, if you were famous or if you're a world leader, then you traveled on it. King Leopold used it to transport himself to Constantinople, where he'd arranged, made some complicated arrangements with a harem to infiltrate a harem, so he could get involved in that. The president of France traveled on it at one point.

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2. It must have been an unsuitable cousin. I think it was a cousin did not like him back. Nakamaker, so he set out that first trip to Constantinople, and actually there wasn't a full rail link to cut for six years after his first Oregon Express ran. Also the Orange Express, we have this idea of it being this beautiful, long train. That's sort of, I think the idea, because I read this fact in night trains by Andrew Martin. and he says because it went on a long journey we sort of assumed it was long but actually that first train there were only five carriages and one of them was a wagon carrying posts which helped them recoup some of their costs which is just not quite what you imagine you think of it as being you know 15 carriages long and it's got all this stuff in it's only five characters that's tiny yeah so many fewer suspects but also Agatha Christie used to take the own express a lot because her husband second husband wasn't archaeologist they'd take it to go to digs but she was apparently one time between Venice and Paris was attacked by bedbugs.

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3. How could we possibly compete with people who wash? That's the way it seems to be, because there was a guy called Ahmed Ibrahim, Ibrahim. Fadlan who was writing about the Vikings, he was from Baghdad, but he was probably in somewhere like Constantinople or whatever. He wrote that every day, they wash with the dirtiest and filthiest water there could be. They blow their nose, they spit, they do every filthy thing imaginable in that water, and then they wash with it.

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4. It wasn't about chariot racing anymore, much like football rivalries or sports rivalries today. It was just kind of people who were either blue or green running on and beating each other up. This epic moment in early Byzantine history, the Nika riots happened because of this weird sports rivalry, which was the most violent disturbance in Constantinople's history. It was the year 532. There was a massive fight between blues and greens, and the emperor was like, you're all, you're all detentioned, you know, you're all doing lines.

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