Moctezuma also extended the boundaries of the Aztec empire beyond the Valley of México to the Gulf Coast, subjugating the Huastec people and Totonac peoples and thereby gaining access to exotic goods such as cocoa, rubber, cotton, fruits, feathers, and seashells.

During this exaggerated flight, the male — with his neck extended and his head feathers erect — tilts his body from horizontal to vertical, and descends slowly and springs upwards by rapidly beating his wings after alighting on the ground.

It had well-developed, vaned feathers extended from a relatively short tail ; the hands were long and slender, and had three fingers with sharp, curved claws.

A 2010 study by Corwin Sullivan and colleagues showed that, even with the wing folded as far as possible, the feathers would still have dragged along the ground if the arms were held in a neutral position, or extended forward as in a predatory strike.

Only by keeping the wings elevated, or the upper arm extended fully backward, could Microraptor have avoided damaging the wing feathers.

Closed wing coloring matches that of the body while extended wings show blue-brown, becoming chestnut on the outer flight feathers.

The feathers of a young duckling are not sufficiently developed to properly protect them for extended periods in the water and they do not produce enough preen oil to waterproof this plumage.

The act was later extended to Scotland, as a result of the Treaty of Union ( Article II ), enacted in the Acts of Union 1707 before it was ever needed.

They hear the most simple of criminal cases ( or sit when the Senior Magistrate is not in the Islands ) and they also act as the Licensing Justices who deal with alcohol-related applications, such as extended opening hours, special occasion licences, etc.

Verdi made some changes to the score for the French premiere of Le trouvère including the addition of music for the ballet in act 3 and several revisions focusing on the music of Azucena, including an extended version of the finale of act 4, to accommodate the role's singer Borghi-Mamo.

Using his trademark extreme slow motion, Viola's pieces used actors to portray the metaphorical story behind Wagner's story, seeing for example the first act as an extended ritual of purification in which the characters disrobe and wash themselves before finally plunging headlong into water together ( in Wagner's story, the two characters maintain the facade of being indifferent to each other ( necessary because Isolde is betrothed to Tristan's uncle ) before, mistakenly believing they are going to die anyway, and reveal their true feelings ).

The civil war that broke out is considered the first act of the struggle between Guelphs and Ghibellines, which later extended southwards to Italy.

The 1987 epic The Last Emperor ( recently re-released at an extended 219 minutes ) allowed Bertolucci to influence politics both through his characters and through the act of making the film itself.

Aerosmith's Steven Tyler has made scatting a part of many of the band's recordings and live shows, sometimes performing extended scat solos which work to complement extend guitar solos, act as solos themselves, even to replace forgotten lyrics.

This supplementary act extended the bonding provision ( i. e. Section 2 of the initial Embargo Act ) to those of purely domestic trades:

When the act was extended in 1902, it required " each Chinese resident to register and obtain a certificate of residence.

Provisions were later extended to the Wea, Peoria, Kaskaskia, Piankeshaw, and Western Miami tribes by act of 1889.

The act however, was extended by appropriators each fiscal year until the early 1960s.

In a continuation of the new policy, the 1890 Oklahoma organic act extended civil and criminal laws of Arkansas over the Indian Territory, and extended the laws of Nebraska over Oklahoma Territory.

Their lives were extended indefinitely by the rings, and they became Sauron's chief servants, especially during the first part of the Third Age when he was too weak to act on his own behalf.

The opera's first performance extended to four-and-a-half hours ; the final act did not begin until after midnight.

Solicitor advocates with extended rights of audience may now act as advocates at all levels of the courts.

The Treaty of Washington with the Creek in 1805 extended the state's western boundary to the Ocmulgee River, and a legislative act on June 26, 1806, added some of this additional land to both counties.

An act of Parliament in 1913 introduced preservation orders for the first time and these powers were extended in 1931.

Under Tylney, the functions of Master of the Revels gradually became extended to a general censorship of the stage, which in 1624 was put directly in the hands of the Lord Chamberlain, thus leading to the licensing act of 1737, when the role was taken over by the Examiner of the Stage, an official of the Lord Chamberlain.

In the same way, the act of shirk is extended to include such things as the notion that God possesses human-like anthropomorphic qualities as well as acts of worship or piety whose inward goal is pride, caprice, or a desire for public admiration, although public prayer is a core Islamic aspect of faith, encouraged and supported in the Quran.

Then, during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, its use was temporarily extended to include certain higher-ranking members of the imperial court, but this tradition was relatively short-lived: in later imperial history, using it to address someone other than the emperor was considered an act of sedition and was consequently highly dangerous.

This was then engrossed into an extended act, duly attested by witnesses and endorsed with a completio, or eschatocol ( docquet ).

Examples include occasions of parting from a close friend for an extended period of time, expression of gratitude for a gift or act of someone, lamentations about current events, or even as a sort of game at social gatherings.

Bus with wheelchair lift extended

In a pair lift, no more than one arm may be fully extended above the head at any time.

) But in recent centuries the word's meaning has extended to include lift producing appendages of insects, bats, pterosaurs, boomerangs, some sail boats and aircraft.

Twenty-one Douglas DC-4 airliners were converted into car ferries as the ATL-98 Carvair, a major task that included replacing the aircraft's original forward fuselage with an extended version incorporating the flight-deck above the cargo hold and a side-hinged nose door through which five cars could be loaded, one at a time, by means of a mobile, ground-based " scissor " lift.

Spoilers are devices that when extended into the airflow over a wing, disrupt the airflow and reduce the amount of lift generated.

used attraction, alignment and avoidance and extended this with a number of traits of real starlings: first, birds fly according to fixed wing aerodynamics, while rolling when turning ( thus losing lift ), second they coordinate with a limited number of interaction neighbours of 7 ( like in real starlings ), third, they try to stay above a sleeping site ( like starlings do at dawn ) and when they happen to move outwards the sleeping site, they return to it by turning, fourth, they move at relative fixed speed.

See List of chairs for an extended list of chair types, such as the bean bag chair, lift chair, papasan chair, sofa, swivel chair and throne.

The final launch weight would be 21, 000 kg, which was seen as the upper limit of what an extended Ariane 5 could lift.

Of course the best way to reduce flow around the wingtip would be to have the winglet horizontal to provide lift from the extended wing, but this approach restricts the number of hangers that the aircraft may use.

An extended abdominoplasty is a complete abdominoplasty plus a lateral thigh lift.

An circumferential abdominoplasty is an extended abdominoplasty plus a buttock lift.

The short, rounded wings provide good initial lift and are useful for short flights, though not for extended jaunts.

It was also less expensive because the caissons were now designed to be run independently, so most maintenance operations could be carried out while one caisson remained operational, thus avoiding the need to close the lift entirely for any extended period.

Very shortly before meeting the ground, the pilot changes the momentum stored in the rotor to increase lift to slow the rate of descent to a normal landing ( but without extended hovering ).

However, because of the seaplane's weight and reduced power, the S-42 circled the harbor with flaps extended to maintain lift while fuel dumping was in progress.

An extended scissor lift

An extended scissor lift

Level 1 has the dressing rooms and shops at the rear of the terrace. Level 2 has very spacious meeting rooms for Stewards, Gardaí, Drug Testing and a Press Room for post match interviews which has a stairway direct to dressing room area. The top level, accessed by lift or stairs, is made up of a Control Tower for crowd control and monitoring and there is also a spacious room overlooking the pitch for TV match analysis. The main entrance area from Lewis Rd has been extended with facilities for selling match tickets on match day. On the stand side, there are new entrance / exit stairs at the scoreboard end of the stand. New wheelchair facilities are located in the stand with lift access. There is a new seating area for substitutes / mentors in the stand adjacent to the VIP area in the middle of the stand. The pitch itself is in absolute pristine condition following a 6 months break from playing activity. All entrance areas adjacent to the new terracing have been tar-macked. The next phase of development will consist of new terracing at the scoreboard end. So it can now be said that the Kerry teams have probably the best facilities in the country, outside of Croke Park, available to them.

As part of the construction work on the Southern Sydney Freight Line, the footbridge will be extended and a third lift constructed.

The newly extended structure included, among other things, New Zealand's first lift and the grounds featured what is thought to have been the country's first tennis court.

A vehicle with a 5, 000lb capacity with the boom retracted may be able to safely lift as little as 400lb with it fully extended at a low boom angle.

The extended lift matroid L < sub > 0 </ sub >( Ω ) has for its ground set the set E < sub > 0 </ sub >, which is the union of E with an extra point e < sub > 0 </ sub >.

The lift matroid L ( Ω ) is the extended lift matroid restricted to E. The extra point acts exactly like an unbalanced loop or a half-edge, so we describe only the lift matroid.