Although female roles were performed by castrati in some of the papal states, this was increasingly rare ; by 1680, they had supplanted " normal " male voices in lead roles, and retained their position as primo uomo for about a hundred years ; an Italian opera not featuring at least one renowned castrato in a lead part would be doomed to fail.

Although the area around Mecca was completely barren, it was the wealthiest of the three settlements with abundant water via the renowned Zamzam Well and a position at the crossroads of major caravan routes.

Although the safari was ostensibly conducted in the name of science, it was as much a political and social event as it was a hunting excursion ; Roosevelt interacted with renowned professional hunters and land-owning families, and met many native peoples and local leaders.

Although it was not a great success at the time – selling fewer than 3, 000 copies in the United States during 1955 before going out of print – it soon went on to become a best-seller, and by the early 1960s was required reading in many schools and colleges ; the novel is currently renowned for being a popular choice of study for GCSE English Literature courses in the United Kingdom.

Although the Aphrodite of Milos is widely renowned for the mystery of her missing arms enough evidence remains to prove that the right arm of the statue was lowered across the torso with the right hand resting on her raised left knee so it would seem to hold the sliding drapery wrapped around the hips and legs in place.

Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner is also one of the greatest masters of British watercolour landscape painting.

Although renowned for his skill as a soldier, Alvarado is known also for the cruelty of his treatment of native populations, and mass murders committed in the subjugation of the native peoples of Mexico.

Although Belgian gastronomy is connected to French cuisine, some recipes were reputedly invented there as e. g. French-fried potatoes ( despite the name ), stoofkarbonnaden ( or carbonade flamande in French, a beef stew with beer, mustard and bay laurel ), speculaas ( a sort of cinnamon and ginger-flavoured cookie ), Brussels waffles ( and their variant, Belgian waffles ), waterzooi ( a broth made with chicken or fish, cream and vegetables ), endive with bechamel sauce, Brussels sprouts, Belgian pralines ( Belgium has some of the most renowned chocolate houses ), charcuterie ( deli meats ) and Paling in't groen ( river eels in a sauce of green herbs ).

Although her works never gained the lofty stature or astounding prices of some of her renowned contemporaries, today they may be found in museums and private collections worldwide.

Although older editions may serve historic and artistic uses because their companion illustrations and anatomical cross sections are renowned for their rustic and often haunting presentation, they no longer represent an up-to-date anatomical understanding.

Although the highest elevation of the Sauerland is the Langenberg ( 843 m ) near Olsberg, the much more renowned summit, which is well known for the nearby skiing facilities, its weather station and observation tower, is the slightly lower Kahler Asten ( 842 m ) near Winterberg.

Although renowned for their commercially successful 1998 single " Iris ", they have had several other notable and popular singles include " Name " from 1995's A Boy Named Goo, " Broadway ", " Black Balloon " and " Slide " from 1998's Dizzy Up The Girl, which produced five top-10 singles, and " Here Is Gone ", " Sympathy " and " Big Machine " from 2002's Gutterflower.

Although Terry-Thomas was renowned for his caddish persona, he was a gifted voice actor, with a range of accents in his repertoire.

Although they were avid art collectors, some Song scholars did not readily appreciate artworks commissioned by those painters found at shops or common marketplaces, and some of the scholars even criticized artists from renowned schools and academies.

Although she did not see her Bird Girl sculpture achieve fame, she was already a renowned sculptor whose pieces have been on display in such locations as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the White House, and the Massachusetts State House.

Although from a wealthy background, Pell was renowned in Rhode Island for his lack of pretension and his frugality.

Although both are of German heritage, Richter has no family relationship with the renowned Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter.

Although Pachelbel was renowned in his lifetime for his chamber works, Mozart employed it both for a passage in Die Zauberflöte ( 1791 ), at the moment where the three boys first appear and in the last movement of his Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488 ( 1786 ).

Although he later became renowned for his ability to occupy the crease for hours of defensive play, he was capable of playing attacking cricket.

Although Uncle Tupelo broke up before it achieved commercial success, the band is renowned for its impact on the alternative country music scene.

Although Gaurakisora dasa Babaji was renowned as a saintly person and great devotee of Krishna, he was illiterate and left no scriptural additions to the tradition of Vaishnava Theology.

Although this event never actually occurred, the author of the novel, Luo Guanzhong, altered the deaths of several renowned " Three Kingdoms " generals whom he believed deserved a much more dramatic and courageous death.

Although Prism has had only moderate success as a band, their legacy is renowned for some of its former members who went on to have success in the music industry.

Although various sources say it was first known as " sauce Isigny " ( a town in Normandy said to have been renowned for the quality of its butter ), Isabella Beeton's Household Management had recipes in the first edition ( 1861 ) for " Dutch sauce, for fish " ( p. 405 ) and its variant on the following page, " Green sauce, or Hollandaise verte ".

Although less learned and powerful than the Calaquendi and less interested in crafts than the Noldor, they were extremely gifted in music, and their voices were very fair.

Although the book shows some signs of immaturity — this was James's first serious attempt at a full-length novel — it has attracted favourable comment due to the vivid realisation of the three major characters: Roderick Hudson, superbly gifted but unstable and unreliable ; Rowland Mallet, Roderick's limited but much more mature friend and patron ; and Christina Light, one of James's most enchanting and maddening femmes fatale.

His biographer Gordon A. Craig observes that this work gave few indications of his promise as a gifted writer: " Although the theme of incest, which was to occupy Fontane on later occasions, is touched upon here, the mawkishness of the tale ... is equaled by the lameness of its plot and the inertness of the style in which it is told, and characters Clärchen and her brother are both so colorless that no one could have guessed that their creator had a future as a writer.

Although the Red Skull has no superhuman abilities, he possesses an intellect and inventive genius on the level of supervillains such as Doctor Doom, and is a highly gifted subversive strategist and political operative.

Although the audience was enthusiastic, press reports were hostile, one describing the work as " no better than that of a gifted fourteen-year-old boy.

Although rough and unpolished, he was charismatic, being gifted with natural eloquence and a powerful voice, and he knew how to work upon the emotions of the Athenian populace.

Although not an instinctive, gifted pilot Malan was an exceptional shot and a very aggressive air fighter, and above all a superb tactician who instilled the methods and techniques he had honed in 1940 into successive generations of young fighter pilots who followed him.

Although not formally trained, Collins was a gifted graphic designer and occasional composer, who sometimes assisted Heseltine.

Although he was a gifted and versatile composer capable of writing both in Baroque and Classical idioms, his eccentric personality led to numerous conflicts and lack of steady employment since about 1756.

Although Luzzaschi's keyboard music is relatively unknown today ( much of it has been lost ), contemporary accounts suggest he was both a gifted composer and performer, one of the few who could perform and compose for Nicola Vicentino's arcicembalo.

Although less talented in astronomy than Godin and a lesser mathematician than Bouguer, La Condamine was a gifted writer and popularizer.

Although repeatedly defeated by the gifted Achaean strategos Philopoemen, he nevertheless remained a serious threat to the Achaeans, who were considerably less successful against him when led by less competent generals.

Although less intellectually gifted than his father, Jones III did excel academically.

Although small school buses are also used for magnet school programs, transporting exceptionally talented and gifted students, and for routes with low volumes of riders, they are also associated in urban slang with mentally disabled riders.

Although he was moderately gifted, he wasn ’ t allowed to go to school.

Although best known as a photographer, Lartigue was a capable if not especially gifted painter and showed in the official salons in Paris and in the south of France from 1922 on.

Although they are gifted academically, the IHP students had plenty of problems in their personal lives, and Mr. Moore not only is there to listen, he shows an unswerving ability to get the students to solve their own problems while making it seem like they came up with the answers on their own.

Although named in a letter from Albany to Cardinal Accolti, Cardinal Protector for Scotland in Rome, Albany actually gave the commendatorship to the Earl of Lennox who in turn sold or gifted his right to it to Stewart who then borrowed from money lenders in Paris to purchase the confirming papal bulls.

Although a prodigiously gifted driver who early in his career won the admiration of senior competitors such as Raymond Sommer and Louis Chiron, he never made a full commitment to racing.

" Although she was a gifted actress and she remained one of Britain's most highly respected thespians, her association with Ibsen kept producers from considering her for other roles and limited her acting career.

Although Patton was popular as an academic, a theologian, and a public speaker, he was not a gifted administrator.

Although Kennedy was not a gifted skater, he compensated with a fierce determination and tireless hard work.

Although being one of the most gifted violinists ever, he did not gain worldwide attention.