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 its unpopularity, the Rump was a link with the old constitution, and helped to settle England down and make it secure after the biggest upheaval in its history.

Despite a brief delay caused by a mechanical problem early in the first act, the performance was an unqualified success, and the play went on to become one of the year's biggest West End successes.

Despite these revelations, Nixon's campaign was never seriously jeopardized, and on November 7, the President was re-elected in one of the biggest landslides in American political history.

Despite this, Le Havre became the location of one of the biggest Replacement Depots, or " Repple Depples " in the European Theatre of operations in WWII.

Despite this support among sectors of the upper classes, his overwhelming victory was above all due to the support of the biggest class in France: the peasants.

Despite several innovations in broadcasting and the creation of one of television's biggest stars of the 1950s, the network never found itself on solid financial ground.

Despite an over $ 100 million budget, the film earned only $ 7. 6 million in its opening weekend, leading the Los Angeles Times to call it " one of the year's biggest flops ".

Despite all of this, Skull's biggest move would be his plot to remove Rogers from the position of Captain America and replace him with a jingoist named John Walker.

Despite the physical and political constraints, three of the churches became the biggest timber-framed religious buildings in Europe due to pioneering constructional and architectural solutions.

Despite Lane's resignation, Friday Night Football proved a huge success for Channel Nine, in no small part due to the presence of, in his own words, " the biggest name on the Nine Network ", McGuire himself.

Despite the mixed response from critics, the film was a commercial success, earning $ 532 million worldwide, making it one of the biggest hits of 2005.

Despite her inability to fully promote " Fairytale "-an upbeat pop song produced by Barry Blue-the single reached # 13 in the UK and was also Dana's biggest international success since " All Kinds of Everything ".

Despite the self-described " disastrous " interview with composer Nobuo Uematsu and sound programmer Minoru Akao, in which he claimed to only want the job as a " stepping stone " in his career and admitted that he had never played many of Square's biggest games, such as the Final Fantasy series, Mitsuda was offered a position on the company's sound team in April 1992.

Despite some positive reviews, the movie was the biggest animated box office bomb in cinema history, losing over 120 million dollars.

Despite the success of Steel Sky, it was Revolution's next game that they would become best known for, and which would have both the biggest critical and commercial success.

Despite their recent ups and downs, PSG and OM remain, along with Saint-Étienne, the only French clubs with a truly nationwide, faithful and passionate fan base, giving the country's biggest match a special atmosphere.

Despite all the controversy surrounding Jackson during that period, he was indisputably the biggest star of the 1980s.

Despite being a gory remake of a classic made by a controversial, non-mainstream director, the film was a huge commercial success, the biggest of Cronenberg's career, and was the top-grossing film in the United States for two weeks, earning a total domestic gross of $ 40, 456, 565.

Despite the many negative reviews, the book was favored among some critics but perhaps its biggest fan was Oprah Winfrey, who endorsed the book on her show.

Despite the fact that PKU launched its official BBS later on, Wei Ming station, YTHT still managed to burgeon into one of the best and biggest BBS systems in the education network in China with more than 300, 000 users, mainly students and well-educated professionals.

There were rumours before the match that Brazil might prefer Romania to progress than World Champions England ; Despite beating them 1 – 0 in their previous match in Guadalajara, the South American giants still viewed England as one of their biggest obstacles to tournament victory.

Despite the " dust whirl " side stripes and Twister decals, Rallye road wheels, dual racing mirrors, twin hood scoops, flat-black hood paint with strobe stripes, and plaid cloth-and-vinyl trim interior available in four colors, the biggest engine available was the V8.

Despite all the hype surrounding Bart-Williams ' move to Malta, he did not live up to the billing and the signing resulted in one of the biggest flops the club had ever experienced.