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Rain Clox was the trade name given to a series of electromechanical irrigation controllers produced by the Rain Bird Corporation from 1962 to the late 2000s (decade), and were largely responsible for giving rise to the widespread use of automatic irrigation. The first model was the ME11AB, capable of running 11 stations on two schedules.
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.
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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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.
Since 1969 banks are required to send any $5000 bill to the Department of the Treasury for destruction. [3] Examples of the note have become valuable among collectors. In 2024, a graded example of a $5000 bill sold at auction for $144,000. [4] In 2023, an example of the $5,000 Federal Reserve Note sold at Heritage Auctions for $300,000. [5]
The yellow-billed cuckoo was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae.He placed it with all the other cuckoos in the genus Cuculus and coined the binomial name Cuculus americanus. [2]
Other names, including rain-bird, weather cock and wet bird, suggest its supposed ability to bring on rain. [24] [25] The species has been the subject of postage stamps from several countries. [26] The European green woodpecker is associated with Woodpecker Cider, an image of the bird is used on the merchandise. [27]