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Siam Tulip - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music (289 words) |
 | The Siam Tulip or Summer Tulip (Curcuma alismatifolia) is a tropical plant native to northern Thailand and Cambodia. |
 | Despite its name, it is not related to the tulip, but to the various ginger species. |
 | One of the most famous wild fields of Siam Tulips is in the Pa Hin Ngam National Park in the Chaiyaphum province of Thailand. |
| SIAM: For Google Investors, a Crash Course in the Mathematics of Bidding (2701 words) |
 | In doing so, they may have violated SEC rules requiring that companies, to avoid improperly influencing their stock price, keep the press at arm's length in the period before a public offering. |
 | For auctions of a single item, one standard method is the English auction, the "going, going, gone" system of auction houses like Sotheby's or Christie's, in which participants bid against one another and the item goes to the highest bidder. |
 | Another method is the traditional Dutch auction (not the type used by Google), which originated in the tulip markets of Holland. |