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Rain Bird had its origins in 1933 when Glendora, California, citrus grower Orton Englehart developed the first prototype of the horizontal action impact sprinkler.This new design offered slow rotation and more efficient watering than other sprinklers of that era, features that were long sought after by local irrigators.
The Rain Bird in Native American legend was a bird who brought rain. The Rain Bird was known by coastal Native Americans as the bringer of life. The reason behind it was that Rain, or the bringer of life, brought life to the coastal Natives by watering their plants, thus giving food and water to the animals they hunted; it controls everything from the sky and is father of the sky children.
Rainbird, colloquial name given to various birds thought to sing or come before rain, including the European green woodpecker, Jamaican lizard cuckoo, Jacobin cuckoo, Pacific koel, channel-billed cuckoo, Burchell's coucal and black-faced cuckoo-shrike, as well as certain swifts whose movements are thought to signal the coming of rain
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This is a list of video games for the Apple II.The Apple II had a large user base and was a popular game development platform in the 1970s and 1980s. There is a separate list of Apple IIGS games.
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Ti Noel, thinking of Macandal, decides to transform into various animals to observe the ongoing events; he metamorphoses into a bird, a stallion, a wasp, and then an ant. He eventually becomes a goose, but is rejected by the clan of geese. He understands that being a goose does not imply that all geese are equal, so he returns to human form.
Hunting these heavenly birds, the founding man used his bow and arrow to strike a bird in mid-air. The bird fell from the sky and eventually hit the heavenly floor. The birds burst through the floor and proceeded through the clouds and towards terrestrial land below. The hunter went to the hole in the floor made by the bird and looked through.