At Chichén Itzá, in order to obtain rain, victims were hurled into a deep natural well (cenote) together with copper, gold, and jade offerings.
During the sixth month, Etzalqualiztli, the rain priests ceremonially bathed in the lake; they imitated the cries of waterfowls and used magic "fog rattles" (ayauhchicauaztli) in order to obtain rain.
Hourly cumulated rainfall histograms obtained from rain gauges on November 4, 2011 are reported in Fig. 9 (circles 1 and 2 on the right and left, respectively).
He then obtained worldwide rain samples from the International Atomic Energy Agency, which collected samples to track radiation from bomb tests.
Figure 12 shows the hourly cumulated rain obtained from four available rain gauges near the GENO and GENU PSs and their relative positions.
Consider sending your blinds to the cleaners, or do it yourself: If your blinds are too long for the bathtub, obtain some rain gutter.
Rainfall totals for each site location were obtained from interpolated rain gauge data.
While some minerals are obtained directly from rain, nutrients are generally absorbed from the debris that collects on the supporting plants.
Thirty-six P. vulgaris nodulating bacteria (with R. etli-like 16S rRNA gene sequences) obtained from the rain forest of Los Tuxtlas in Mexico corresponded to symbiovar phaseoli on the basis of nodA gene organization [ 10] and for being unable to nodulate Leucaena plants.
Also, it is shown that augmenting the strain time-history with fictitious strain segments to close all the hysteresis loops yields the same stress strain relation as that obtained through the rain-flow counting method.
