The riot of blooms in a nearby tulip poplar became a visual touchstone for my stay.
Tulip was created between 1995-2004 and is one of five versions of the work.
Tulip bulbs were first introduced in the Netherlands in the mid-1500s and started to become cultivated in 1593.
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As a whole, we humans haven't learned much about buying low and selling high since the tulip mania.
But when all is said and done, there will be many stocks that in hindsight look like tulip-bulb stories.
You know the housing bubble, the dot-com bubble and perhaps the tulip bubble.
In the land of the tulip, "the first freedom" - freedom of speech - may be in the balance.
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At the peak of the bubble, some paid 10 times the annual income of a craftsman for a tulip bulb.
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Historical records going back to at least the 17th century Dutch tulip bulb bubble show the fallacy of such a strategy.
You see academic tulip mania: students and their parents are overvaluing a commodity for which there are cheap and plentiful substitutes.
"She was wearing a tulip dress and had violet eyes, " he recalled.
Served in a traditional Turkish tulip glass, the smoky flavoured black tea comes from an old kettle and costs as little as 1 Turkish Lira.
Mr Tulip finds, on crunching his numbers, that this is what happens.
Did grown men weep on discovering that a squirrel had noshed on a tulip bulb worth more than the value of their house?
Mr Gordon's book is among the best of its kind, and he has two very reasonable excuses for tramping through the over-familiar tulip garden.
Remembering all of this, the Dutch Royal Family upon liberation sent Ottawa thousands of tulip bulbs, a gift that continues yearly, to this day.
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Mr Chancellor is right to say that some economists have tried too hard to explain everything from the tulip mania onwards as rational behaviour.
Ms Codd said if tulip heads could not be sourced in time then a wide variety of other materials would be used for the floats.
Bubbles happened as early as 1636, when the prices paid for tulip bulbs in the Netherlands reached astronomically high levels followed by an enormous drop.
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Tulip bulbs, Beanie Babies, baseball cards, Florida real estate, internet stocks.
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Gorgeous art nouveau details, such as the sweeping wroughtiron balustrade on the central staircase, are the hallmark of the Tulip House Boutique Hotel Sleep 14.
Koons' Tulip became the second highest figure paid for a living artist, following on from Gerhard Richter's 1994 painting Abstraktes Bild, which sold in October.
Beyond the placid old Amsterdam canals, the bustling bike lanes and the quaint tulip fields, roils a furious debate about the future of the Netherlands.
After moving to America, Eero designed the ultra-groovy Tulip chair.
If we do enter a new state of euphoria for these tech stocks, just try to start telling people that this is a new tulip mania.
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New Holland says it hopes to have patio work done by early May in time for the city's annual Tulip Time Festival and Hope College's graduation.
Elza is both a talented chef and a smart business woman, good at drawing her customers back to the Tulip cafe by listening to them sympathetically.
She was more cautious in the bubble years than many recall--for instance, comparing the period to the 17th-century Dutch tulip-bulb mania in a 1999 New Yorker piece.
It all came together to lead to a dramatic spike up in prices paid for tulip bulbs in 1636 before the market completely collapsed in February 1637.
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