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 political corruption and regional instability, Kyrgyzstan is ranked 44th on the Ease of doing Business Index.

Despite some continued systematic problems, Poland has made a large economic progress over the last decade, and now is ranked 20-th worldwide in terms of the GDP.

Despite finishing with a 6 – 10 record in the 2005 – 2006 season, the Eagles ranked second in the NFL in merchandise sales, and single-game tickets for the next season were sold out minutes after phone and Internet lines opened.

Despite these concerns, DVDs for reality shows have sold briskly ; Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, The Amazing Race, Project Runway, and America's Next Top Model have all ranked in the top DVDs sold on Amazon. com, and in the mid-2000s, DVDs of The Simple Life outranked scripted shows like The O. C.

Despite his comparatively short career, Koufax's 2, 396 career strikeouts ranked 7th in history as of his retirement, trailing only Warren Spahn ( 2, 583 ) among left-handers.

Despite their negative comments for Waluigi, GameDaily ranked him in the 10th slot on GameDaily's top 10 Nintendo characters that deserve their own games list ; the site explained that " he gets the shaft worse than Luigi, and should at least get his own puzzle game ".

Despite the small size of the Hall, an VIII has been put on the river for many years, the self-proclaimed ' Benet's Bisons '; in recent years, it has had a good record of winning ' blades ', the trophy awarded for ' bumping ' ( rowing past teams ranked above ) every day in a regatta.

Despite being ranked within the world's top 16, Krajicek just missed out on the seedings for the tournament, but when seventh seed ( and world number two ) Thomas Muster pulled out shortly before the tournament due to an injury, Krajicek was given Muster's place in the draw.

Despite performing in what is considered a " niche " genre, this duo was ranked as one of the top 20 bands on the original MP3. com.

Despite the relatively small size of the school, the hockey team is often ranked quite highly nationally, although it has been over 50 years since the Tigers last won an NCAA title.

Despite the comparative brevity of his career, in 1998, he was ranked number 25 on The Hockey News list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players.

* Despite having what amounted to only half a career, in, he ranked Number 85 on The Sporting News list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players, and was nominated as a finalist for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team.

Despite playing very little in the fall, Capriati became ranked Number One on October 15.

Despite the loss, Dokic's run to the final ensured that for the first time since October 2004, she will be ranked in the Top 50 – at world no.

Despite the fact that it is still the highest ranked Russian university according to the three international rankings mentioned above ( with the nearest Russian competitor being Saint Petersburg State University that scored 300-400th ), the university was consistently placed outside top 5 nationally in 2010-2011 by Forbes and Ria Novosti / HSE., with both ratings based on data set collected by GU VSHE from Russian Unified State Exam scores averaged per all students and faculties of university.

Despite refurbishing, the overall cost of his flat i. e. ' Staying away from main home ' during the last 8 years was never higher than 166th out of 647 MPs whilst his 2008-2009 costs were ranked 467.

Despite this, he was ranked 23rd of the 100 greatest French, 17 years after his death.

Despite lacking any formal schooling beyond elementary school, he was ranked 2nd in the Forbes list of Taiwan's Richest.

Despite this, the club were ranked at 200 in the IIHF ' top 250 ' club rankings at the end of the 2008 / 2009 season, being the only current EPIHL club listed.

Despite being told as a teenager of his congenital heart condition, he persevered, and by 1977 he was ranked third among all marathoners in the world by Track and Field News.

Despite going into the tournament as one of Sweden's key players ( in the corresponding NHL season, he was third among Swedish players in points despite missing 19 games ), he ranked seventh among team forwards in total ice time.

Despite the fact that the Braves finished the season in fifth place, Torre ranked fifth in voting for the National League Most Valuable Player Award.

Despite the Red Sox ' seventh place finish, Ferrell ranked twelfth in voting for the American League Most Valuable Player Award.

Despite not participating in the Olympics, Track & Field News magazine ranked him number one in the world in the 800 meters for 1996.