While the pre-tantric demonological traditions of mothers, female
seizers and spirit beings as found in the Mahabharata, Harivamsa and early ayurvedic literature are only a few centuries younger than those alluded to in the works of the second-century BCE Plautus and Titinius--and nearly coeval with the first-century CE Ovid and Petronius's full-blown striga narratives--all of the South Asian traditions of tantric witches (dakinis, yoginis, etc.
In showing the Araucanians as finally willing to accept paternalist and ostensibly peaceful Christian incomers, Bowles gave Britons hope that among the "primitive" tribes they had lately encountered--Maoris, Aborigines, Polynesians and Melanesians--they might become revered bringers of religion and civilization, rather than reviled
seizers of slaves and loot.
51) Sturgis was healer of the
seizers (whites) prior to his marriage to Blue Grass Woman, and he tries to explain vaccinations to the Lone Eaters as a "juice, a juice that keeps them safe from this disease.
According to him, the October Revolution had a great importance for the destiny of Slavic peoples, who fought a holy war against German
seizers and won supported by the Soviet Army.
1993), there are four hypotheses to explain why plants become much more sensitive to photoinhibition at low temperatures: low temperatures can reduce photosynthetic capacity and therefore increase the probability of a surplus in stimulus of PS II; the restoration capacity of PS II is reduced at low temperatures (degradation and synthesis of protein D1 in the reaction centers seem to diminish); the capacity of the oxygen
seizers, which can provide protection against photoinhibition, decreases at low temperatures; and the ability to create zeaxanthin, which is capable of dissipating the excessive energy in the LHC II, may be inhibited at low temperatures.
Retail and wholesale prices of cocaine and heroin by country are presented in Tables 5 to 8 for 11 countries; the seven countries that are major
seizers of both cocaine and heroin (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, and the UK), plus Portugal (major cocaine
seizer) and Greece, Turkey, and Switzerland (major heroin
seizers).
