Extensive testing settled the issue – ablative shields proved to be reliable ( so much so that the initial shield thickness was safely reduced, allowing a lower total spacecraft weight ), and were easier to produce — at that time, beryllium was only produced in sufficient quantities by a single company in the U. S. — and cheaper.

* Extensive visual, textual and musical studies of American May Day customs since the first Maypole Revels were held at the Ma-Re Mount or Merrymount plantation on Massachusetts Bay in May 1627, hosted by Englishman Thomas Morton ; and, last year the state of Massachusetts ' Governor Deval Patrick proclaimed May 1 as Thomas Morton Day.

Extensive parcels of land were donated to monasteries to exempt those lands from royal taxation and to preserve them within the family.

Extensive rescue efforts were undertaken by local, state, federal, and worldwide agencies in the wake of the bombing, and substantial donations were received from across the country.

Extensive textual and pictorial sources also show that poppy cultivation and opium consumption were widespread in Safavid Iran and Moghol India.

Extensive raids were carried out all along the coast, and eventually permanent settlements were established, such as that of Dublin in 841.

Extensive modifications and upgrades were made to the original three World War II reactors, and a total of 177 underground waste tanks were built.

Extensive land reclamations in forested and marshy areas were carried out and intrastate trade as well as commerce were highly encouraged.

Extensive chronicles, of which the Chronicle of Dalimil and Chronicon Aulae Regiae ( the Zbraslav Chronicle ) are the most striking examples, and artistic prose ( e. g. Smil Flaška z Pardubic and Johannes von Saaz ) were also written.

Extensive deposits were found in Death Valley and transported out using the famous twenty-mule teams ( 1883 to 1889 ).

Lectures that Dōgen gave to his monks at his monastery, Eihei-ji, were compiled under the title Eihei Kōroku, also known as Dōgen Oshō Kōroku ( The Extensive Record of Teacher Dōgen ’ s Sayings ) in ten volumes.

Extensive Sufi and maraboutic networks were spread through the minority communities, readily available as foundations for leadership, organization, communication and indoctrination.

Extensive monastic complexes dominated English towns of any size, but most were less than half full.

Extensive burials of cat remains were found not only at Bubastis, but also at Beni Hasan and Saqqara.

Extensive 50th Anniversary Celebrations were held in 2009.

Extensive research on the productive physiology of papyrus were carried out by Jones from the 1980s onward.

Extensive pleasure gardens were built within the castle and older parts redesigned to allow visitors to enjoy the resulting views.

Extensive preparations were made by Baron Basse, to establish the new home and town in America and prepare it for his daughter's arrival in September 1807.

Extensive construction and public works were required to complete the city, this involved the flooding of a large parcel of land to form the center piece of the city, Lake Burley Griffin.

Extensive use is usually made of a diagrammatic style known as the block diagram.

Extensive reconstruction made use of iron rails and termite-proof timbers.

Extensive archaeological evidence for the chewing of coca leaves dates back at least to the sixth century A. D. Moche period, and the subsequent Inca period, based on mummies found with a supply of coca leaves, pottery depicting the characteristic cheek bulge of a coca chewer, spatulas for extracting alkali and figured bags for coca leaves and lime made from precious metals, and gold representations of coca in special gardens of the Inca in Cuzco

Extensive location filming was made in both London and Paris.

Extensive RNA processing may be an evolutionary advantage made possible by the nucleus of eukaryotes.

Extensive land reclamation and irrigation projects have made increased cultivation possible.

Extensive use of this technique was made in Fleischer's Out of the Inkwell series for the first five years of the series, which started in 1919 and starred Koko the Clown and Fitz the dog.

Extensive modern renovations and additions to the old building were made starting in 1980.

Extensive use was made of the Severn Valley Railway.

Extensive analysis of the metals indicated they were made of an odd bismuth material.

Extensive checks were made in colonial lists that no British individuals could be confused with the characters.

Extensive additions with additional rooms have been made later, adjoining the original building.

Extensive culture can be made more productive by construction of artificial ponds, use of aeration and supplementing with artificial diet.

Extensive use is made of responsories between the celebrant ( priest ) and faithful during the Mozarabic Mass, including during the Confiteor ( prayer of confession of guilt for sin ), which is quite different from that in the Roman Rite ( Tridentine or post-Tridentine ); though much of the preparatory prayers and other elements in the old Missal were borrowed from a Romano-Toledan Missal and is not originally part of the rite.

Extensive efforts have been made to clean it up since the mid-20th century.

Extensive use is made of leitmotifs for the various characters.

Extensive use of Irish bulls are made of by American Jewish humorists, from the period when large numbers of recent Jewish immigrants from Germany or Eastern Europe were present in American cities, which suggests that a similar effect produced the term " Irish bull ", which is partly contemptuous and partly homage.

Extensive redesigns were made for the M1918 model.

Extensive surveys and geological maps were made at that time.

Extensive use is made of the many smaller tributaries feeding into the Pungwe River in this portion of the Honde Valley.

Extensive test borings were made to determine the suitability of the land, and pressure tests were carried out on the material to be used in construction to determine its durability.

Extensive alterations were made to the church in 1919 due to damage caused by white ants.