Despite the excitement being caused by the trial and sentence of John Brown, Rhode Islanders turned their attention to the state elections.

Despite being able to crawl on land, many of these prehistoric tetrapodomorph fish still spent most of their time in the water.

Despite being quite religious, he was also interested in mathematics and science, and sometimes is claimed to have contradicted the teachings of the Church in favour of scientific theories.

* 1388 – Despite being outnumbered 16 to 1, forces of the Old Swiss Confederacy are victorious over the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Näfels.

Despite being outscored over the season, the Diamondbacks posted the best record in the NL with 90 wins and 72 losses.

Despite being at one time a defender of metaphysical realism, Hilary Putnam later abandoned this view in favor of a position he termed " internal realism ".

Despite being epileptic, Charles achieved respect both as a commander and as a reformer of the Austrian army.

Despite being younger than the other contenders, Ahmad Shah had several overriding factors in his favor.

Despite this, there were also several superstar hitters, the most famous being Honus Wagner, held to be one of the greatest shortstops to ever play the game, and Detroit's Ty Cobb, the " Georgia Peach.

Despite being offered the chance to remain as ruler of Bavaria ( under strict terms of an alliance with Austria ), the Elector left his country and family in order to continue the war against the Allies from the Spanish Netherlands where he still held the post of governor-general.

Despite being short on cash at times, he often refused money that his friends offered him out of their own pockets.

Despite strenuous efforts, Captain Hood's isolated ship came under heavy fire and was unable to cut off the trailing Justice as the French survivors escaped seawards, Zealous being struck by a number of French shot and losing one man killed.

Despite the term blitzkrieg being coined by journalists during the Invasion of Poland of 1939, historians Mathew Cooper and J. P Harris generally hold that German operations during it were more consistent with more traditional methods.

Despite fox hunting being banned by the Hunting Act in 2004, Boxing Day remains the biggest hunt of the year for most hunts in the UK by use of scent drag trails instead of live quarry.

Despite being predominantly peaceful in nature, the revolution was not without violent clashes between security forces and protesters, with at least 846 people killed and 6, 000 injured.

Despite being attached to the curse, Colavito said that he never placed a curse on the Indians but that the trade was prompted by a salary dispute with Lane.

Despite being well out of playoff contention the Cubs went 24 – 13 under Quade, the best record in baseball during that 37 game stretch and was hired as manager on October 19.

Despite being extensively hunted, the coyote is one of the few medium-to large-sized animals that has enlarged its range since human encroachment began.

Despite swimming being a part of imperial education, Caligula could not swim.

Despite being a Methodist, he made reference to the Buddha in his diary, and encouraged the establishment of a Buddhist political party under Master Taixu.

" Despite being significantly more advanced than its predecessors, the Armstrong gun was rejected soon after its integration, in favor of the muzzle-loading pieces that had been in use before.

Despite being one of Mather's most well-known works, many have openly criticized it, labeling it as hard to follow and understand, and poorly paced and organized.

Despite its being a non-metric unit, a number of metric countries have used this unit for its limited range of application.

Despite these complaints, Clement is generally not considered a heretic in the Catholic Church, but such concerns about his orthodoxy led to him being removed from the Roman martyrology in 1586, and he is not revered as a saint in contemporary Roman Catholicism.

Despite not being natural persons, corporations are recognized by the law to have rights and responsibilities like natural persons (" people ").

Despite reports that there had been an influx of arms in the weeks leading up to the election and reports of some ' disturbances during campaigning ' - including attacks on the presidential palace and the Interior Ministry by as-yet-unidentified gunmen-European monitors labelled the election as " calm and organized ".

Despite the best efforts of all of the men and boys in the room, who one by one attempt to calm him, Dink continually wails, " I want the Champ!

Despite its usually calm conditions, Folly Beach has gained prominence as one of the more popular surf spots along the East Coast.

Despite a public image of unflappable calm, Macmillan was by nature nervous and highly strung.

Despite the relative calm on land, on the high seas the war was very real indeed.

Despite her nervous collapse over the last five months, she was calm and dignified and both women won mild posthumous approval for their behaviour.

Despite Horton's impassioned pleas, he could not calm the mob.

Despite a unsettled start, when he surrendered a two-run home run to Orlando Cepeda in a three-run first inning, Lolich remained calm and proceeded to pitch eight scoreless innings, as the Tigers scored two runs in the fourth inning, then went ahead in the seventh inning, when Al Kaline hit a bases loaded single to drive in two runs.

Despite Isaacs ' screen celebrity as Lucius Malfoy, he maintains a relatively modest, " calm, sedate and suburban " life, which he prefers to the " hideously compromised lives " of the more rich and famous: " I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives.

Despite his distrust of Seward, throughout 1861 Lyons maintained a “ calm and measured ” diplomacy that contributed to a peaceful resolution to the Trent crisis.

Despite the doctor's alarm and decision that they had to be removed, Edd was very calm and wondered whether getting rid of them was a bad idea.

Despite these highly dramatic claims, the universal correlation of high alpha density to a subjective experience of calm cannot be assumed.

Despite calls by Spies for the workers to remain calm, gunfire erupted as police fired on the crowd.

" Despite his attempts to stay calm no matter how badly he is treated, Banner inevitably finds himself in dangerous situations that trigger his transformations into the Hulk.

Despite their close brush with death, they appear completely calm and relaxed as if nothing has happened.

Despite its very calm and quiet look, this river is the cause of many deaths every year.

Despite this tough image, according to his second wife and widow Susan Rescorla in her book, Touched by a Hero, music was " so central " to Rick's life that he sang to his troops in Vietnam to calm them – something he would later employ during 9 / 11.

Despite the best efforts of rescue personnel and witnesses, who shouted and created signs instructing people to remain calm, 40 individuals jumped to escape the conditions inside and in failed attempts to grasp unreachable fire ladders.

Despite its name, it is described as a " three-storey castellated house ", and lacks many fortified features, standing as it does on low ground and constructed at a time of relative national calm.

Despite his traumatic childhood Hip Flask is shown to be a calm, kind and friendly individual, unlike many of the other Elephantmen who display a great deal of bitterness.

In an interview she said of her grandmother: " Despite painful diseases she wore a smile on her face all the time, and remained calm and brave while suffering the Cultural Revolution.