Although Zoe refused to allow this, Harald managed to escape into the Bosphorus with two ships and some loyal followers.

With Michael IV ’ s death in December 1041, Zoe adopted Michael ’ s nephew, who was crowned as Michael V. Although he promised to respect Zoe, he promptly banished her to a monastery on Princes ' Islands on charges of attempted regicide.

Although Theodora and Zoe appeared together at meetings of the Senate, or when they gave public audiences, it was soon apparent that their joint reign was under considerable strain.

Although officially Theodora and Zoe continued to be recognised as empresses and Theodora continued to appear at all official functions, all power devolved onto her brother-in-law.

Although the emperor preferred another of his nephews, the future Michael V was advanced as heir to the throne by his other uncle John the Orphanotrophos and the Empress Zoe.

Although Zoe believed Michael would prove to be a more devoted husband than Romanos, she was sadly mistaken.

Although he promised to respect Zoe, he promptly banished her to a monastery on Principus ( one of the Princes ' Islands ) on charges of attempted regicide.

Although Theodora and Zoe appeared together at meetings of the Senate, or when they gave public audiences, it was soon apparent that their joint reign was under considerable strain.

Although he was persuaded by his councillors, chiefly the logothetes tou dromou John, to ignore the rights of Theodora and to pass the throne to the doux of Bulgaria, Nikephoros Proteuon, the elderly daughter of Constantine VIII who had ruled with her sister Zoe since 1042, was recalled from her retirement and named empress.

Although they try to have a romantic relationship, Zoe just is not attracted to Scott and ends it.

Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.

Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.

Although Faulkner was the heir in his own family to this tradition, he did not have Stark Young's inclination to romanticize and sentimentalize the planter society.

Although his tender nights were not the ones I dreamed of, nor was it for yachts, sports cars, tall drinks, and swimming pools, nor yet for money or what money buys that I burned, I too was burning and watching myself burn.

Although after much trouble he did manage to get it back, he discovered there was no trade to be had.

Although he did not attend any celebrated schools or universities, he was a master of Greek and Hebrew and could read the Bible in the original.

Although the fort was evacuated in the face of the force of Cornwallis, Morgan and his men did have a chance to take another swing at the redcoats.

Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.

Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.

Although it was a mere fragment of the victim's remains, it was enough.

Although there were only four fluids tested, it was apparent that there were two distinct types.

Although the tape was run for over 1 hr., a steady state was not reached, and it was concluded that the reason for this was that the back pressure of the manometer was built up from the material fed from between the blocks and this was available at a very slow rate.

-- Although there was some variation in results which must be attributed either to trace impurities or to variation in wall effects, the photochemical exchange in the gas phase was sufficiently reproducible so that it seemed meaningful to compare the reaction rates in different series of reaction tubes for the purpose of obtaining information on the effect of chlorine concentration and of carbon tetrachloride concentration on the reaction rate.

Although the Taylor Scale was designed as a group testing device, in this study it was individually administered by psychologically trained workers who established rapport and assisted the children in reading the items.

Although Cairo avoided Europe's stagnation during the Late Middle Ages, it could not escape the Black Death, which struck the city more than fifty times between 1348 and 1517.

Although dissatisfied with his return to Florence, Boccaccio continued to work, producing Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine ( also known as Ameto ) a mix of prose and poems, in 1341, completing the fifty canto allegorical poem Amorosa visione in 1342, and Fiammetta in 1343.

Although he was stunned by the upheaval by participants in the Annual Reminder in 1969, he later observed, " By the time of Stonewall, we had fifty to sixty gay groups in the country.

Although over fifty Roman Catholics bore closer blood relationships to Anne, the Act of Settlement 1701 prohibited Catholics from inheriting the British throne ; George was Anne's closest living Protestant relative.

Although TSR and WotC had each in turn owned the official rights to the World of Greyhawk since the first folio edition was published in 1980, the two people most responsible for its early development, Gary Gygax and Rob Kuntz, still had most of their original notes regarding the fifty levels of dungeons under Castle Greyhawk.

Although he is mentioned only briefly in Homer's Iliad, in which Hera takes Stentor's character to encourage the Greeks to fight, his name has been living in the term " stentorian " voice, meaning loud-voiced, for which he was famous: Homer said his " voice was as powerful as fifty voices of other men ".

Although the second Frederick of Sicily, he chose to call himself " Frederick III " ( being one of the rare medieval monarchs who actually used a regnal number ) — presumably because only some fifty years before, his well-known and remembered great-grandfather had reigned Sicily and also used an official ordinal: Fridericus secundus, imperator etc ..

Although married for almost fifty years, with six children, the Lynns ' marriage was reportedly rocky up to Doolittle's death in 1996.

Although SpongeBob's driver's license says his birthdate is July 14, 1986, which would make the character 13 years old at the time of the series ' " official " premiere on July 17, 1999, Hillenburg joked that he is fifty in " sponge years ".

Although often solitary or encountered in small groups, the species may form larger flocks of fifty or more birds in autumn and winter.

Although most children have passive understanding of simple commands and phrases, most fluent speakers of Tanacross are at least fifty years old.

Although, the clause still only counts " three-fifths of all slaves " for the population total of each State, just as it did in the U. S. with the Three-Fifths Compromise, " The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every fifty thousand ".

Although Finland in the long run had no chance against a country fifty times its size, the reports from the front still held out hope for Finland, anticipating a League of Nations intervention.

Although Swallow was a two classroom school for about fifty years, numbers fluctuated considerably ; in 1941, when the only extant school log begins, it was a one teacher school, and was again on many subsequent occasions.

Although it has only about fifty kilometers of track of its own, it also operates on track owned by the JR passenger railways and other companies.

Although she prevailed by a margin of fifty votes, she narrowly missed the threshold to avoid a second vote, and on 22 November 1990 she resigned.

Although the governor has gained more power in the past fifty years, the General Assembly still retains the power to remove much of that authority.

Although we went through fifty different variations, developing his character, everything came back to man-like.

Although this 3, 400 pound, nearly ten foot wide seal was created in the foundry at San Quentin, the fact that the building had appeared in the seal more than fifty years before this seal's creation in 1952 ( twelve pre-1952 examples that include the building are shown below ), that the configuration of the building on this seal is nearly identical to how it appeared in 1895, and that no structure in this form had ever existed at the prison dismiss the rumor.

Although Asimov never issued a full list of the fifty Spacer worlds, some of them can be inferred from the author's novels and short stories.

Although up to fifty percent of deafness has genetic causes, fewer than five percent of deaf people have a Deaf parent, so Deaf communities are unusual among cultural groups in that most members do not acquire their cultural identities from parents.

Although Hubbard did not name the doctor concerned, there was indeed such an attempt, by Dr. Duncan MacDougall, to measure the weight of dying patients to determine the weight of the soul, although MacDougall's experiments took place about fifty years before Hubbard's lectures, not fifteen or twenty, and are generally not regarded as having any scientific validity.

Although, as late as 1033, Ghaznavid governor Tash Farrash executed fifty Turkmen chiefs for raids into Khorasan.

Although there had been fifty " inexplicable murders " between 1863 and 1867 in Schuylkill County, progress in the investigations was slow.