Risks of Late Eating. If you eat too close to bedtime, especially if you eat high-fat foods, you might experience bloating that can make it difficult to sleep soundly. Food before bed can also lead to discomfort if you have gastrointestinal reflux disease. Also, a late meal might make you feel less hungry in the morning.
In the mid-seventeenth century, tulips were so popular that they created the first economic bubble, known as Tulip Mania (tulipomania). As people bought up bulbs they became so expensive that they were used as money until the market in them crashed.
The importance of Spanish money in the colonies cannot be overstated. It has been estimated that half of the coins in colonial America were Spanish reales. They were used not only as coinage but also treated as a commodity, as one would use silver or gold bars. In 1645 Virginia made the Spanish real the standard currency.