Tulip Mania

[purvision]

I was just thinking about this yesterday for obvious reasons and today, Wikipedia goes and highlights it.
Tulip Mania

"The Tulip Mania was a period in the Dutch Golden Age during which contract prices for bulbs of the newly-introduced tulip reached extraordinarily high levels and then suddenly collapsed. At the peak of tulip mania in February

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[anonymous]

You ever read Gregory Maguire? "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister" positions the Cinderella story in Holland and ties the fortunes of the family to Tulip Mania and the art scene of the time. It's great shit.

-Kev