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 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 renowned as a gifted pianist, she is barely a fringe member of New Orleans society.

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 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 he is perfectly willing to cooperate with Scotland Yard, Holmes has nothing but contempt for the intelligence and mentality of the police.

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 it does not follow the metrical rules for a blues to be sung, the phrases themselves carry a blues feeling.

Although the laws of the various states, in general, specify the situs of property, i.e., residence or domicile of the owner, or location of the property, the exceptions regarding boats, airplanes, mobile homes, etc., seem to add to the uncertainty of the proper origination point for assessment.

Although a similar situs for tangible property is mentioned in the statute, this is cancelled out by the provision that definite kinds of property `` and all other tangible property '' situated or being in any town is taxable where the property is situated.

Although there are many sound reasons for adopting uniform and coordinated fiscal years in Rhode Island, there are also certain difficulties encountered.

Although the need for outside trained manpower exists in every newly developing nation, the readiness to receive such manpower, or to receive it from the United States will vary from country to country.

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 the impact of these increases on our industry's shipments will be gradual, on balance I look for another good increase in shipments in the coming year, to at least $6 billion.

Although lacking absolute verisimilitude, they supply the ear and the imagination with all necessary materials for re-creation of the original.

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 the Af calculation is obvious by analogy with that for gravitational field and osmotic pressure, it is interesting to confirm it by a method which can be generalized to include related effects.

-- 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 standard deviation values on which spread of the lines is based are relatively larger for those centers which begin to ossify early ( Table 1 ), there are considerable differences in this value between centers having the closely timed Onsets.

Although biopsies have shown structural changes in some of the reported cases of steroid-induced weakness, this case provides the only example known to us in which necropsy afforded the opportunity for extensive study of multiple muscle groups.

Although we are still far from a complete understanding of these problems, as a first approximation, it is suggested that alterations in the hypothalamic balance with consequent changes in the hypothalamic-cortical discharges account for major changes in behavior seen in various moods and states of emotions in man and beast under physiological circumstances, in experimental and clinical neurosis, and as the result of psychopharmacological agents.

Although the government was probably prepared for elections by mid-1958, the first decision was no doubt made more difficult as party strife multiplied.

Although the elections were for local officials, it was not necessary to conduct the elections so as to prevent parties from publicly identifying their candidates.

Although it is in some ways comparable to a voluntary sale of assets for cash, to which section 203 quite clearly applies, the courts and Treasury have held that acquiring corporations in several types of non-taxable reorganizations may sue for refund of taxes paid by transferors.

Although no national norms exist for the social development of children, the teacher can find a great deal of information concerning types of social behavior normally displayed by children at various age levels.

Although wanted by the sheriff for killing an old man named Asher Jones, the warrant for his arrest had never been served.