Hippodrome of Constantinople Hippodrome of Constantinople The Hippodrome of Constantinople () was a circus that was the sporting and social centre of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire. Today it is a square named "Sultanahmet Meydanı" ("Sultan Ahmet Square") in the Turkish city of Istanbul, with a few fragments of the original structure surviving. The word "hippodrome" comes from the Greek "hippos" (), horse, and "dromos" (δρόμος), path or way. For this reason, it is sometimes also called "Atmeydanı" ("Horse Square") in Turkish. Horse racing and chariot racing were popular pastimes in the ancient world and hippodromes were common features of Greek cities
The Meaning of Liff of American English v. British English spellings, though "The Deeper Meaning of Liff" contains different definitions for both the word "Glossop" and the titular word "Liff". In "The Deeper Meaning of Liff", Liff is defined as a phenomenon for which there is no word. Another edition in the series, "Afterliff", has been released, with more entries contributed by Lloyd, Jon Canter and Douglas Adams' daughter Polly. On 15 August 2013, a 30th anniversary deluxe edition was published. A German adaptation was made by Sven Böttcher under the title "Der tiefere Sinn des Labenz", published in 1992 (). The meanings are