Little Men

Oo-koo-he is made from the resin of certain trees of the Myris-ticaceous genus Virola mixed with the ashes of other plants and rolled into pellets and swallowed. What was eye-catching about the description of this visionary plant preparation was that the Witoto tribe of the Upper Amazon, who alone knew the secret of making it, used it to talk to "little men" and to gain knowledge from them. 

In the same article, Kolb compares addicts to "little men who endeavor to lift themselves into greatness by wearing loud clothes or by otherwise making themselves conspicuous, when effacement would be more becoming."... 

And here we revert to the miraculous plant that we think is the Salvia divinorum, called (as we believe) in Nahuatl pipiltzintzintli, in the records of the Inquisition dating from 1700. This is obviously related to the name for the sacred mushrooms used by Marina Rosas. Dr. Aguirre Beltran translates it as the most noble Prince and relates it to Piltzintli, the young god of the tender corn. In the accounts of the visions that the Indians see after they consume the sacred food— whether seeds or mushrooms or plant— there frequently figure hombrecitos, little men, mujercitas, little women, duendes, supernatural dwarfs. ... 

PYGMAEI — Pygmies are Little Men or Subterranean Spirits. They are called also Torches and Sparks. They are said to have no parents, but are produced from the corruption of the earth, just as beetles are generated from putrid horsedung. 

Many examples of acid-base reactions can be found in cooking, such as the soda-sour cream reaction in Little Men. In addition, the unfortunate result of acid rain (the formation of which we will discuss later) is that the acid in the rain reacts with the carbonates found in limestone and marble, which causes the deterioration of statues, some of which had managed to survive without corrosion for thousands of years before the advent of the industrial age. (But before one completely condemns the industrial age, it should be remembered that the bacteria of Black Death, smallpox, and syphilis also managed to survive for thousands of years before modem technology brought them to bay.) This ability of acid rain to dissolve marble brings up another property common to all acids and bases they are corrosive. 

Treasure Island and Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson Little Women and Little Men by Louisa May Alcott... 

The Minster rises to my right. There is holy sanctuary, there, little more than two score yards away if I had spurs and cared nothing for what or who I trampled, I could be there in a few heartbeats. But the men are close about me. I have no hope of reaching it, and who knows what they might do, even so, to those nearby to prevent me ... 

Blood consists of cellular elements (red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets) as well as plasma, the fluid in which the blood cells are suspended. Normally, total circulating blood volume is about 8% of body weight (about 5 1 in women and 5.5 1 in men). Adipose tissue is relatively avascular and therefore contains little blood compared to other tissues. 

The phase of science fiction stories about little green men from Mars is hopefully over, and the question can only be are there, or were there ever, real living systems there, or can we find traces of precursors of life in the form of biomolecules ... 

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