The 260 day calendar was called Tonalpohualli and was used primarily for divinatory purposes.

In the Aztec belief system the day of a person's birth calculated in the Tonalpohualli would determine the nature of the person-each day was associated with an animal which could have a strong or weak aspect.

In the Aztec ritual calendar the Tonalpohualli Tezcatlipoca ruled the trecena 1 Ocelotl (" 1 Jaguar ")— he was also patron of the days with the name Acatl (" reed ").

The average person consumes about 24 kilograms of sugar each year ( 33. 1 kg in industrialised countries ), equivalent to over 260 food calories per person, per day.

* Coal: 18, 476, 127 short tonnes ( 16, 761, 260 metric tonnes ), of oil equivalent per day

The tonalpohualli (" day count ") consists of a cycle of 260 days, each day signified by a combination of a number from one to thirteen, and one of the twenty day signs.

It would take a full 260 days ( 13 × 20 ) for the two cycles of twenty day signs and thirteen numbers to realign and repeat the combination 1 Crocodile.

At the end of the day, the Russians drew off leaving 260 officers and 8, 000 men dead or dying on the field ; the French and British only lost 1, 700.

The flamen of Portunus performed the ritual greasing of the spear of the god Quirinus on August 17, day of the Portunalia, on the same date that the temple of Janus in the Forum Holitorium had been consecrated ( by consul Caius Duilius in 260 BC ).

This was one of a series of collaborative ventures undertaken by Renault in the late 1960s and 1970s, as the company established subsidiaries in Eastern Europe, most notably Dacia in Romania, and South America ( many of which remain active to the present day ) and forged technological cooperation agreements with Volvo and Peugeot ( for instance, for the development of the PRV V6 engine, which was used in Renault 30, Peugeot 604, and Volvo 260 in the late 1970s.

Over 260 other artifacts were recovered on the day of demolition, and many point to being part of the ancient temple.

It reaches approximately 260, 000 readers every day ( 2005 ), mainly in the counties of Hordaland and Sogn og Fjordane.

The Indians sold approximately 64, 000 acres ( 260 km² ), the present day towns of Hempstead and North Hempstead, for items worth less than $ 100 in today's market.

The factory produces 93, 600 trucks a year ( 260 trucks a day ).

* Balamoob, ' Jaguars ', Twenty ' Patrons ' of the days of the 260 day Sacred Round, the four ' Yearbearers ' of the 365 day year, the Ahauoob of the 360 day ' year ', and the K ' atun, ( Proskouriakoff 1961, Villa Rojas 1945 ).

A bird image is connected to two glyphs on speech scrolls that represent the date 3 Ajaw on the 260 day Mesoamerican calendar.

The seal leads to the conclusion that writing existed as well as a 260 day calendar during this time period.

Golden claims this scam is costing the MTA $ 260, 000 a year, and some con artists are making up to $ 800 a day executing it.

The two day event destroyed about 65 acres ( 260, 000 m² ) of city, 776 buildings, much of the financial district and caused US $ 60 million in damage.

In a 2006 interview on the day that the United States House of Representatives passed the Pledge Protection Act, Newdow told WERS-FM's David Goodman, " A few hours ago, the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States of America voted 260 to 167 to completely gut the U. S. Constitution of its separation of powers and violate numerous other clauses because they thought it was important enough to keep ' under God ' in the Pledge of Allegiance.

In the 260-day cycle 20 day names pairs with 13 day numbers, totalling a cycle of 260 days.

Orange extended the deactivation period to 260 days in 2007 but under the new regime users ' accounts and all email are deleted permanently from Orange's servers after a 30 day warning is issued.

Hearing of Bohemond's capture, Alexius I, incensed that Bohemond had broken his sacred oath made in Constantinople and kept Antioch for himself, offered to redeem the Norman commander and ransom Bohemond for 260, 000 dinars, if Ghazi Gumushtakin would hand the prisoner over to Byzantium.

He wrote about 40 masses and about 260 other sacred pieces, including motets and madrigali spirituali ( works differing only from madrigals in that they have sacred texts ).

Year 260 ( CCLX ) was a leap year starting on Sunday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

The denomination 260 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Year 260 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

The denomination 260 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

The tzolk ' in calendar combines a cycle of twenty named days with another cycle of thirteen numbers ( the trecena ), to produce 260 unique days ( i. e., 20 × 13 = 260 ).

The pre-Columbian Maya used a calculation in their own observations of eclipse cycles in which a period of three tritoses was approximated by 11960 days, based on 46 periods of their tzolk ' in calendar ( i. e. 46 × 260 days ).

The distinctive Mayan calendar used two main systems, one plotting the solar year of 360 days, which governed the planting of crops and other domestic matters ; the other called the Tzolkin of 260 days, which governed ritual use.

The Aztec calendar shares the same basic structure as the Mayan calendar, with two main cycles of 360 days and 260 days.

* 260 days — length of the Tzolk ' in, or Sacred Round, in the Mayan calendar

Today, computer programs such as BLAST are used daily to search sequences from more than 260 000 organisms, containing over 190 billion nucleotides.

A colossal amount of water used to flow over this waterfall, which measures 80 m ( 260 ft ) high and over 300 m ( 1000 ft ) wide.

Albert King and Chuck Berry also used the 260 and 261.

Verden Allen, organist with Mott the Hoople used a 260 head amp.

These sets are compatible with both the 50 Hz supply used by JR East and the 60 Hz supply used west of Karuizawa on the Nagano Shinkansen, and are limited to a maximum speed of 260 km / h.

The Barra 220 (/) Boss 260 (/) and Boss 290 (/) engines were smoother, quieter and more fuel efficient than the Ford Windsor engine used in the AU.

UCAS has a tariff system ( more commonly known as UCAS points ), which allows qualifications to be converted into points ( e. g. an A at A Level is worth 120 points ) and then added together to give a total that can be used as a requirement to get into a course ( a course may require 260 points, for example ).

Approaching downtown Dallas, the older route of US 80 used Fort Worth Avenue and Commerce Street, designated Loop 260 and Business U. S. Highway 80 in 1952.

Bond appeared on I'm a Celebrity to raise money for the Devon Air Ambulance Trust and raised £ 260, 989. 85 which the charity used to buy a state-of-the-art navigation system and to extend its helicopter flying time throughout the summer.

This begun with the DECstation 5000 Model 240, which replaced discrete components with LSI ASICs and ended with the last model, the DECstation 5000 Model 260, which used a single VLSI ASIC for much of the control logic.

The GT-A had the option of either no spoiler, the short spoiler ( as later used on the Evolution VIII 260 ) or the thunderspoiler as used on the standard Evolution VII models.

The next rimfire cartridge was the. 22 Short, developed for Smith and Wesson's first revolver, in 1857 ; it used a longer rimfire case and 4 grains ( 260 mg ) of black powder to fire a conical bullet.

The primary drilling and ' load and haul ' mining equipment used by the mine include giant ore trucks that bear about 260 ton of ore with each load.

There, at a latitude of about 15 ° N, the Sun passes through zenith twice a year, and there are 260 days between zenithal passages, and gnomons ( used generally for observing the path of the Sun and in particular zenithal passages ), were found at this and other sites.

The bibliographic standard, for example, defines 100 as the primary author of a work, 245 as the title, 260 is used for publisher information, and so on.

The 221, 260 and early 289 ( C2OZ-A and C3AE-D ) rods used an oil squirt hole to lubricate the piston pin and rings.

The special rally version of the Falcon and Comet and early AC Cobra sports cars used a high-performance version of the 260 with higher compression, hotter camshaft timing, and a four-barrel carburetor.

Chevrolet engines have been used in such cars as Toyota Supras, BMWs, RX-7s, Mazda Miatas, Jaguar sedans, Datsun 240, 260 and 280Z's, Chevrolet Corvairs, and others.