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...16th century, Spanish conquistadors may have unknowingly used viruses in a primitive form of germ warfare; they apparently supplied their intended victims, the Aztecs and the Incas, with blankets taken from houses with smallpox in Europe. Viruses helped cause a fiscal crisis in 17th century Holland, where infections of tulip bulbs produced a new variety of the flower with spectacular, rippling patterns of color. The government was unable to control the resulting speculation, which threatened the economy before tulipomania, as it became known, died down...
Wolter pulled out a map of Rotterdam. "The Dutch map the devil out of that country. Look here. That's all reclaimed land. It's low country, so they have just had to create a country. See here, every drainage ditch is indicated, every wharf. The tulip areas are down here. Here are the dunes. With the changing and the reclaiming, the mapping has to be precise. They have an artistic flair...
...defense of the capital in 1941-42 against the German army, and official news conferences on issues such as foreign trade and Moscow's international youth festival have begun with statements concerning the anniversary. A commemorative ruble was minted for the occasion; Soviet horticulturists even developed a red tulip hybrid named Parade in honor of the celebration...
...slept in the Tulip Hotel in 'beautiful' downtown Cairo for $1 a night," she quipped...
...truck-tire plant from Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. for $52 million. In a ceremony to mark the occasion, Satoshi Kishimoto, a Bridgestone executive who will be the plant's general manager, greeted 200 of his new employees with a cheery "Hi, you all." After he helped plant four tulip poplars, Tennessee's state tree, to commemorate a new "era of unity," the workers erupted into a rousing ovation...