Despite its prominence in the industry, the grape is a relatively new variety, the product of a chance crossing between Cabernet franc and Sauvignon blanc during the 17th century in southwestern France.

Despite the fact that the fictional town is supposed to be in New England, one may see a train, clearly marked New Jersey Transit, crossing through Waverly Place in one of the scenes.

Despite the recommendation of his superiors at Army Headquarters in Lagos that he wait for the bridge, which had been blown up by the retreating Biafran forces, to be rebuilt, he insisted on a riverine crossing.

Despite the condition of his troops, Arnold immediately began to gather boats to make a crossing.

Despite the use of only one arm, Virgil was hired by the Southern Pacific Railroad to guard its tracks in Colton's famous " battle of the crossing ".

Despite crossing the Atlantic in 55 days ( a record not broken until 2010, albeit by a team of four rowers ) the Police Gazette never paid the men the promised prize money.

Despite suffering from fever, he travelled to the coast on a number of occasions to witness storms breaking on the shore, and a visit to artists in England afforded further opportunity to study the elements while crossing the English Channel.

Despite his aquatic physiology, Namaki has never been to the other side of the ocean, afraid to attempt the crossing because of the frequent storms and the dangerous marine predators.

Despite having abandoned the bridge the previous year, saying he favoured a tunnel crossing at Silvertown, Johnson resurrected the project, renamed Gallions Reach, as a lower capacity crossing that could start as a ferry service, but which could be upgraded to a fixed link later.

Despite the budget overruns and delays, reportedly it was only after shooting was finished that the filmmakers discovered they had neglected to film Cole Trickle's car crossing the finish line at Daytona.

Despite interruptions due to openings for passing shipping traffic ( the Delaware River is navigable as far as Van Sciver Lake near Bristol, Pennsylvania ), it serves as a lower-cost alternative to the six-lane, high-span Betsy Ross Bridge, which charges $ 5 for the westward crossing.

Despite an expanded fleet of large and modern ships eventually capable of as many as 90 one-way trips each day, the lengthy crossing suffered delays due to heavy traffic and inclement weather.

Despite the progress, there were plans to sever the route with a low-level crossing by the proposed M66 motorway in 1979, and to build a supermarket on it at Sowerby Bridge in 1980, both of which were met with opposition.

Despite being very tired after weeks of crossing extremely hard terrain, many of the British and Americans anticipated a relatively easy victory — or even for the French to abandon the fort upon their approach.

Despite being booked after 31 minutes, he was a central figure in Italy's second goal that was scored by Marco Tardelli and single-handedly created Italy's third goal by breaking down the right side from the half-way line and crossing to Alessandro Altobelli to score from the top of the box after 81 minutes.

Despite the relatively short crossing, it became the busiest ferry service in Nova Scotia, carrying hundreds of thousands of vacationers and residents every year until its replacement in 2008 by the newly built vessel Torquil MacLean.

Despite the fact that Richelieu died while the two were en route to Paris, de Breche convinced Pallavicino to continue the journey, and as they were crossing one of the bridges at Orange in the neighborhood of Avignon, a papal enclave within France, there de Breche betrayed him to the local papal authorities.

Despite the presence of these predators, by far the greatest risk you will face while crossing any river is the strong current.

Despite the spread of built areas, much of the county is given over to agriculture.

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 its proximity to Albany the county has remained relatively rural.

Despite their efforts, 20 % of the mosquito species that carry the virus in the county are infected.

Despite remaining a Democratic stronghold, In the 2008 Presidential election John McCain carried the county with 69 % of the vote.

Despite multiple seats being displayed on some maps, the formal county seat is Taunton ; Fall River and New Bedford are not county seats, but there are some courthouses and other county-operated facilities in those two places.

Despite political turmoil and cattle rustling, the county population grew to 6, 534 by 1890.

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

Despite the hardships, in 1934 all downtown buildings in the county seat were in use, and a few additional businesses opened even as the depression continued.

Despite the connectivity, oftentimes the " north of Broad " and " south of Broad " populations of the county find each other at odds over county-wide issues dealing with growth management.

Despite all this, Forest County has become the fastest growing county in the state of Pennsylvania by percent, growing over 38 % from 2000-2008.

Despite being overwhelmingly Democratic in registration and the Democrats holding the commissioner majority and all row offices, Cambria is a swing county in statewide elections, with all four statewide winners carrying it in 2008.

Despite being close to Evansville and experiencing a large growth of population in the central areas, Gibson County still remains a largely rural county with half of the ten townships having populations less than 2, 000.

Despite this uplift, the county mostly consisted of poor sharecroppers and tenant farmers.

* Despite its relative small size, Columbia was once the county seat of Henry County ( before the county was divided to form Houston county.

Despite Pulaski County being one of the few counties in Arkansas that is not a " dry " county, as it allows the sales of beer and liquor, the municipal limits of Jacksonville are " dry ", as it does not allow the sales of alcohol in stores.

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 being in a dry county ( Graves ), sales by the drink in restaurants of the city limits of Mayfield seating at least 100 diners and at the Mayfield Golf & Country Club are allowed.

Despite its name, it is not an incorporated city ; however, it is the county seat of McCreary County.

Despite this regional organization, some bus and tram routes operated by STIB / MIVB go beyond the regional border, and some bus routes operated by TEC or De Lijn transport passengers from the Flemish or Walloon regions to the capital city.

Despite opposing the United States in favour of the Sandanistas on the country's northern border, stern warnings against the US Bay of Pigs invasion, along with repelling Nicaraguan dictator Somoza's invasion after turning to the Organization of American States, and border disputes with Nicaragua, Costa Rica has held firmly to its belief against ever having a military.

Despite strong economic and cultural ties with Thailand, parts of the border shared by the two countries are indefinite.

Despite border ( both territorial and nautical ) tensions and the forced migration of 270, 000 Rohingya Muslims from Buddhist Burma in 1978, relations with Bangladesh have generally been cordial, albeit tense at times.

Despite the occasional recurrence of a border conflict over Lete Island in the Niger River, Benin and Niger, both former French subjects of French West Africa, relations are close.

Despite his youth, Osman II soon sought to assert himself as a ruler, and after securing the empire's eastern border by signing a peace treaty ( treaty of Serav ) with Safavid Iran, he personally led the Ottoman invasion of Poland during the Moldavian Magnate Wars.

Despite this, Amanullah grew increasingly disillusioned with the Soviets, especially as he witnessed the widening oppression of his fellow Muslims across the border.

Despite the tribute and a negotiation between Laoshang Chanyu ( r. 174 – 160 BCE ) and Emperor Wen ( r. 180 – 157 BCE ) to reopen border markets, many of the Chanyu's Xiongnu subordinates chose not to obey the treaty and periodically raided Han territories south of the Great Wall for additional goods.

Despite Asser's comment that the dyke ran " from sea to sea ", it is now thought that the original structure only covered about two-thirds of the length of the border: in the north it ends near Llanfynydd, less than five miles ( 8 km ) from the coast, while in the south it stops at Rushock Hill, near Kington in Herefordshire, less than fifty miles ( 80 km ) from the Bristol Channel.

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 these definitions, Portugal's border with Spain remains a unresolved territorial dispute between the two countries.

Despite the law, around Halloween and New Year's Eve a large amount of fireworks are set off, many smuggled across the border from Northern Ireland.

Despite having massed forces along the border, Charles ' military attentions were distracted by the problems in Gascony and he eventually chose to settle the rebellion peacefully through the Peace of Arques in 1326, in which Louis was only indirectly involved.

Despite having no jurisdiction on American soil Brock sent a party across the border in pursuit and the men were captured.

Despite Robert's further condemnations of his border lords, all the signs were that Robert backed the growing successful Scottish militancy following Edward III's death in 1377.

Despite the decline, there still exist over 3, 000 maquiladoras along the 2, 000 mile-long United States – Mexico border, providing employment for approximately one million workers, and importing more than $ 51 billion in supplies into Mexico.

Despite often being deployed in the reconnaissance role, SASR units inflicted at least 20 kills on Indonesian forces in a series of ambushes and contacts, on both sides of the border.

Despite the fact that the Italian border is less than 20 km away and that Ajdovščina was under Italian administration from 1918 to 1945 as a commune of the Province of Gorizia ( as Aidussina ), except during the period between 1924 and 1927, when the Province of Gorizia was abolished and annexed to the Province of Udine during Italian rule ( 1918 – 1943, nominally lasted to 1945 ), the style of the town does not resemble that of a typical Italian town.

Despite their chances of progression being written off by press on both sides of the Anglo-Scottish border, Celtic defeated Liverpool 3 – 1 on aggregate with Larsson scoring the opener in a 1 – 1 1st leg draw followed by a 2 – 0 Celtic victory at Anfield.

* Despite UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's reassurances in early March that the plight of the hundreds of thousands of internal refugees has not been forgotten by the international community, the UN withholds its aid to refugees stranded on the border with neighbouring Tajikistan later in the month.

Despite its extensive territory, its northern border was frequently subject to harassment by the Xiongnu and other northern nomadic peoples.

Despite not asking the return of territory, the Chinese did ask the USSR to formally ( publicly ) acknowledge that said border, established with the Treaty of Aigun ( 1858 ) and the Convention of Peking ( 1860 ), was a historic Russian injustice against China ; the Soviet government ignored the matter.

Despite occasional proclamations from Yuldeshev, and rumours of a re-emergence under the name the Islamic Movement of Turkestan ( IMT ), there is no reliable evidence indicating that the IMU / IMT remains an operational force in Central Asia outside of the Afghanistan / Pakistan border region.