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Is Alexander The Great Still Alive?

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She used to take me for a ride up to the Mermaid because she was the one who would ask, "Is Alexander the Great still alive? And I would have to answer, "He lives and reigns, and conquers the world". "Let 's go to the me-maid", I asked very often from her. It was a small square with a fountain and a beautiful statue from white marble in the center with a shape of a mermaid. This was near the church of the Transfiguration. When we arrived at the creek, the stream that is at the height of Katsios’ Tavern, we stopped to listen to the frogs and we were laughing with their funny caws. The honeysuckle, or the khanum 's hand as they called it, "sti Poli" (in the City) And when we detected a honeysuckle in some yard she used to ask, "Do you know how they call otherwise honeysuckle, "sti Poli" (in the City of Costantinoupolis)? The khanum 's (turkish woman) hand. Please, just have a look at this flower closely, isn 't it like a little white hand"? Polis, (the City), only with the hearing of that word grandmother was touched, but tried not to show it. When the story began, I looked closely to her eyes. They became watery immediately for Vosporos, Great Pera, Agia Sophia. A thousand and one, the words for the City. Costantinoupolis, Galata Bridge (Kara Keuï), around 1900 A bridge has always had a leading role at this point. A bridge with contradictory personality. Bridges are made to connect two pieces of land, while the bridge in our history, was separating as boundary two

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