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 an extensive manhunt and an ongoing FBI investigation, the perpetrator has never been located or positively identified.

Despite Lansing not being a designated county seat, many county offices and courts are still located within downtown Lansing, including the Ingham County Department of Human Services and the county circuit court.

Despite marketing claims and popular misconceptions, the Florida resort is not located within Orlando city limits and is actually located about southwest of downtown Orlando within southwestern Orange County, with the remainder in adjacent Osceola County.

Despite being physically located in the Town of Groton, the name New London became associated with the Navy Yard.

Despite the fact that Switzerland covers only 14 % of the Alps total area ( 192, 753 km² ), many alpine four-thousanders ( 48 of 82 ) are located in the Swiss Alps and the remaining few are within 20 km of the country's border.

Despite being located close to the equator, Bujumbura is not nearly as warm as one might expect due to its altitude.

Despite the generally high precipitation, the weather is less cloudy than in the adjacent Kuril Islands that are one of the least sunny places in the world, since the city is located behind a peninsula to the north that blocks some of the fog from the Oyashio Current.

Despite these and a number of other recent improvements the ground remains one of the poorest in League Two and talks are still ongoing with a view to a permanent move to a new stadium located in Church, a small town bordering Accrington.

Despite the limited land mass, there has also been a tendency for place names to be repeated ; there are, for instance, two islands named " Long Island ", three bays known as " Long Bay " and the town of St. George is located within the parish of St. George on the island of St. George ( each known as St. George's ), whereas Bermuda's capital, the City of Hamilton, lies in Pembroke Parish, not Hamilton Parish, on the largest island, " Main Island ", which itself is sometimes called " Bermuda " ( or " Great Bermuda ").

Despite the league's name only its four South Division teams are actually based in Texas ; the four North Division teams are located in surrounding states of Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri.

Despite its name, Tyler County does not contain the city of Tyler, Texas ; the latter is located approximately 140 miles to the north in Smith County.

Despite its small population, the county is home to two community colleges – Cisco College and Ranger College, located in their respective towns.

Despite the county's name, the state capital city of Lincoln is not located in or near Lincoln County.

Despite being titled the The Royal Norwegian Honorary Consulate in Barrow-in-Furness, one of the numerous consulates of Norway is actually located on the outskirts of Ulverston.

Despite the city's name, it has no beachfront ; rather, it is located across the Intracoastal Waterway from the oceanfront municipalities of Ocean Ridge and Briny Breezes.

Despite the largest population in Valley County, McCall lost the bid for county seat in 1917 to the more centrally located town of Cascade.

Despite the shared name, it is not the county seat of Elkhart County ; that position is held by the city of Goshen, located about southeast of Elkhart.

Despite its separation from Tisbury, the original settlement of the town is still located in West Tisbury.

Despite being the county seat, many county offices and courtrooms are located in Lansing.

Despite the Turnpike's southern end being in the township, Exit 1 is officially located in neighboring Carneys Point Township.

Despite being located in an otherwise arid region, its extremely high elevation (; one of the highest in the U. S .) allows for a relatively mild summer that makes it a popular tourist attraction in West Texas and New Mexico.

Despite this variation in town government, the majority of Holbrook is located within the Town of Islip and completely within the Sachem School District, which is independent of town borders.

Despite its name, Alnmouth Station is located at the western end of the village of Hipsburn, near to the hamlet of Bilton.

Despite being strategically located at the intersection of two major highways ( especially U. S. 69, a major transportation artery in the region ), Atoka is struggling to create a town attractive to both new business and new residents.