Although the companies merged under the banner of Herald Media, Inc., the suburban papers maintained their distinct editorial and marketing identity.

Although some physical events such as the Great Plague of London and the Great Fire of London continued to encourage belief in " the end of the world " ruled by carnal human beings ; the doctrine of the sect either died out, or became merged in a milder form of Millenarianism.

Although originally associated with adult feasting and drinking, since the Victorian era, Father Christmas has gradually merged with the pre-modern gift giver St Nicholas ( Dutch Sinterklaas, hence Santa Claus ) and associated folklore.

Although Sudovian and Yotvingian were separate dialects of the same language, Sudovian and Yotvingian merged as a common dialect in the 10th century when the two nations created a Federation together with the Denowe – Dainavians.

Although madrigals were initially dramatic settings of unrequited-love poetry or mythological stories in Italy, they were imported into England and merged with the more dancelike balletto, celebrating carefree songs of the seasons, or eating and drinking.

Although hinted at in Foundation's Edge, this book was the first book of the series that merged it with Asimov's Robot series.

Although Ventura underwent SEAL training, the UDTs merged with the SEALs in 1983, eight years after Ventura left the Navy.

Although the Nephites and Lamanite groups are said to have merged for a while in, the Nephites were never considered a majority in the Book of Mormon.

Although the American South was the larger conference, the merged league retained the Sun Belt name.

Although Hull was the oldest and most central of the merged cities, the name Gatineau was chosen for the new city.

Although Hull was the oldest and most central of the merged cities, the name Gatineau was chosen for the new city.

Although the hospital's current buildings date from the 20th century, the Hospital de Sant Pau was founded in 1401 when six small medieval hospitals merged.

Although consisting of historically separate towns ( except Hoornes-Rijnsoever ) that still today maintain separate identities, the towns have more or less grown together and merged into a single conurbation.

Although he is not featured in the live dramas, his role and Makiko Endo often merged with Sakurako Sanjou.

Although a combined national park project was discussed soon after reunification by both states it was another twelve years before the parks were merged.

Although Nash and Hudson merged along with Studebaker and Packard joining, the four-way merger Mason hoped for did not materialize.

Although Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee had about 52, 000 men at the end of July, the Confederate government merged the Department of East Tennessee, under Maj. Gen. Simon B. Buckner, into Bragg's Department of Tennessee, which added 17, 800 men to Bragg's army, but also extended his command responsibilities northward to the Knoxville area.

Although 1 exists near the Gatehouse, the others now only run from 16 to 24, with some buildings having been merged to the point where the entrances for 25 and 26 now frame windows, not doorways.

Although the weekly Beezer and Topper had merged, the two comics ' annuals ( The Beezer Book and The Topper Book ) remained separate publications.

Although other communities were merged in 1993 and 2009, the nuclear program has maintained a legally distinct nature from the European Union.

Although the company was merged with another in 1931 to form Electric and Musical Industries Limited ( EMI ), the company title as " The Gramophone Company Limited " continued in use in the UK into the 1970s, for instance on sleeves and labels of records ( such as The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, vinyl copies of which bear the copyright notice "© 1973 The Gramophone Company, Ltd .").

Although technically advanced, Benelli motorcycles of the 1980s were plagued by problems, and the production was finally stopped in 1988 when the company was merged into Moto Guzzi to create " Guzzi Benelli Moto S. p. A .", and the production plants in Pesaro were sold.

* Although Cranbrook School for Boys and Kingswood School Cranbrook merged in 1985 to become a single co-ed institution, the school reflects in many ways its history as separate, single-sex entities.

Although it began as a faction within the Republican Party in 1915, the NPL merged with the Democratic Party of North Dakota in 1956.

Although the party recovered somewhat in subsequent elections, it remained the smallest party in the House of Commons until it disbanded itself permanently in 2004, and merged with the Canadian Alliance to form the Conservative Party of Canada.

Although the county seat is still in Somerville, the population of Oakland has far surpassed that of Somerville because of the influx of people working in Shelby County seeking more affordable housing.

Although the Twins won 91 games, six more than in their championship season, the team would finish a distant second in the American League West, 13 games behind the Oakland Athletics.

Although G-funk was birthed in Los Angeles, the popular sub-genre drew a large amount of influence from the earlier Bay Area-based sound known as Mobb music of the mid to late 80s pioneered by legendary Oakland rappers like Too Short.

Although only about three miles ( 5 km ) in length, the replacement freeway cost over $ 1. 2 billion, for several reasons: it crossed over and under the elevated BART line to San Francisco ; it squeezed between a post office, the West Oakland BART station, the Port of Oakland, a rail yard, and a sewage treatment plant ; it occupied an entirely new right-of-way, which required the acquisition of large amounts of valuable industrial real estate near the Port of Oakland ; and of course, it had to be earthquake-proof.

Although Andersen pitched well down the stretch in 1990 ( allowing three runs in 22 innings of relief ), and helped the Red Sox win the AL East division title on the last day of the season, Boston was swept in the American League Championship Series by Oakland, then lost Andersen to free agency.

Although Logan moved to Oakland, California in 1913, he continued business activity in the Santa Cruz area, building a new store in 1915.

Although he had given up two of Toronto's three runs in the previous inning, the Oakland closer was still fearsome.

Although the Panthers acquired a fairly loyal following and won the first USFL title in 1983, the USFL's decision to move from the spring to the fall led Taubman to merge his team with the Oakland Invaders for the 1985 season, with himself as majority owner of the Invaders.

Although principally a museum of cultural art objects and antiquities today, the British Museum was founded as a " universal museum ".

Although BJU never reapplied for federal tax-exempt status, and it continues to pay federal taxes, a number of its ancillaries, including Bob Jones Academy and the BJU Museum & Gallery, are tax-exempt entities.

Although it is not recognized as such by the U. S Government, it opened in February 2006 as the Atchison County Historical Museum in Atchison, Kansas.

Although founded as late as 1946, academic activity had taken place at Bergen Museum as far back as 1825.

Although historical records of sea otter in the San Juan Islands are sparse, there is a sea otter specimen collected in 1897 in the " Strait of Fuca " in the National Museum of Natural History.

Although the proliferation of costumes is of twentieth-century origin, the occasional use of costumes dates back almost to the date of casting, the oldest costume on display in the City Museum being of seventeenth-century origin.

Although it was presented to the world in 1965 with an accompanying scholarly book written by British Museum and Yale University librarians, historians of geography and medieval document specialists began to suspect that it might be a fake as soon as photographs of it became available, and chemical analyses have identified one of the major ink ingredients as a 20th-century artificial pigment.

Although the amulet now resides in the Museum of Somerset, analysis by Liverpool University in 2008 using inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy demonstrated that it was a hoax, as the silver within it dated to the 19th century or later.

Although almost all of his work depicted women in bondage, he also produced some series of female dominant images, and a few male bondage images, some of which are now displayed at the Leather Archives and Museum in Chicago.

Although Jiang has been seldom seen in public since giving up his last official title in 2004, he was with Hu Jintao on stage at a ceremony celebrating the 80th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army, and toured the Military Museum of the Chinese Peoples Revolution with Li Peng, Zhu Rongji, and other former senior officials.

Although the Science Fiction Museum as a permanent collection was de-installed in March 2011, a new exhibit named " Icons of Science Fiction " is scheduled to open in June 2012.

Although not achieved during his lifetime, the 1959 creation of the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo was a vindication of this passion for art and a demonstration of the foresight which benefits his countrymen and others.

Although highly regarded by some scholars, Minakata sometimes experienced discrimination because of his ethnicity, the cause for his frequent reckless behaviors leading up to the departure from the British Museum in December 1898.

Although the wall was opened in November 1989 and the checkpoint booth removed on June 22, 1990, the checkpoint remained an official crossing for foreigners and diplomats until German reunification during October 1990 when the guard house was removed ; it is now on display in the open-air museum of the Allied Museum in Berlin-Zehlendorf.

Although Beebe and Barton performed no dives in 1933, their work gathered a large amount of publicity when the Bathysphere was displayed in a special exhibit for the American Museum of Natural History, and later at the Century of Progress World's Fair in Chicago, where they shared the fair's Hall of Science with Auguste Piccard.

Although his story is dubious because there is no such convent, he did see, at the least, the fragments now in the British Museum because the fragments can be matched to his drawings.

Although the exhibit was " radically reduced " and criticized by the New York Times as " the most diminished display in Smithsonian history ," the Air and Space Museum placed the forward fuselage of the Enola Gay and other items on display as part of a non-political historical exhibition.

Although the festival only takes place once a year, the magnificent floats are on display year-round at the Gion Festival Float Museum in Kuma Town, Hita City.

Although hunting in the area was enjoyed by sportsmen both before and after Hearst's ownership, Hearst did not allow any hunting on his property, and the California State Military Museum has concluded that The Hacienda was not built as a hunting lodge.

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 the shawls dropped out of fashion in the 1870s, the Paisley pattern remains an important symbol of the town: the Paisley Museum maintains a significant collection of the original shawls in this design and it has been used, for example, in the modern logo of Renfrewshire Council, the local authority.

Although it is smaller than many villages, Bishop's Castle has plenty of facilities for residents and tourists, coffee houses, cafés and restaurants, the House on Crutches, a museum of country life, and the Rail & Transport Museum, the two micro-breweries, the old cattle market in the centre of the town, for example.

Although the story is set in 1862, Arthur Denison mentions Tyrannosaurus Rex ; however, Henry Fairfield Osborn, president of the American Museum of Natural History, named Tyrannosaurus Rex in 1905, long after the events in Dinotopia are supposed to take place, although it is possible that the Dinotopians were the first to discover Tyrannosaurus and coincidentally gave it the same name.

Although this phenomenon is not as common today as it was in the 1970s, Canadian films do still sometimes cast famous foreign actors: Michael Caine starred in the 2003 film The Statement, Helena Bonham Carter played the lead role in 1996's Margaret's Museum and Olivia Newton-John has a starring role in the forthcoming Score: A Hockey Musical.