Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.
Victor Hugo

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Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
W. C. Fields

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I was born long ago
I'm the chosen on I'm the one
I've come to save the day
and I won't leave until I'm done

So that's why we got to try
you got to breathe and have some fun
though I'm not paid I play this game
and I won't stop until I'm done

But what I really want to know is
are you gonna go my way
and I got to got to know
-Lenny Kravitz

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Commercial Tulip History

1574 - Selim II of Turkey sent an order to the Sherriff of Aziz for 50,000 bulbs. There is no doubt that commercial production of this plant was in full swing in Turkey at this time if that was the size of orders they could handle.

While the first "tulipmania" was in Holland in 1634-37, a second and equally interesting one occured in Turkey during the reign of Ahmed III in 1702-20. In both countries, bulbs were sold for incredible prices and fortunes made (and lost) overnight on speculating in bulbs.

There are entire books written about these "tulipmanias" that need not be repeated in a short history.

One brief story I will pass along is that during World War Two, the Dutch Royal Family fled to Ottawa, Canada as a safe haven. When the future Queen was to be born, the Canadian government passed a law making the hospital area officially Dutch Territory so the baby girl could be born on Dutch soil. In gratitude, the family has been sending tulips to Ottawa for years now and the Ottawa Tulip Festival with its over 1 million blooms is one of the finest shows outside of Holland.

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
Ambrose Bierce

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