Despite having the capability to support sound chips in cartridges, almost no 7800 cartridges feature POKEY hardware for enhanced sound.

Despite having no experience with women, their other signature traits are a shared obsession with sex, and their tendency to chuckle and giggle whenever they hear words or phrases that can even remotely be construed as sexual or scatological.

Despite having lost the test series to South Africa by game three, the Lions won the final test.

Despite his ferocious reputation though, there are no verified accounts of his ever having murdered or harmed those he held captive.

Despite having a simple architecture, Berkeley DB supports many advanced database features such as ACID transactions, fine-grained locking, hot backups and replication.

Despite its faintness, Capricornus has one of the oldest mythological associations, having been consistently represented as a hybrid of a goat and a fish since the Middle Bronze Age.

" Despite having the quote presented to a notable organisation, it has also appeared in books such as " The Most Stupid Words Ever Spoken " as it is deemed by some Westerners as a prime example of a lack of understanding of foreign culinary traditions in the Western world.

Despite both forces having similar numbers, the Japanese were easily defeated due to the Ming cannon.

Despite having a tremendous chronology, their use was not at all consistent or unchanging.

Despite opinion that such a voyage was impossible and his having retired, Slocum rebuilt a derelict sloop Spray and sailed her single-handed around the world.

Despite having the stronger army, Carinus held the weaker position.

Despite having no debris shields, the spacecraft survived the comet passage intact.

Despite having invented much of the technology of software, Dijkstra eschewed the use of computers in his own work for many decades.

Despite not having a civil ensign, the EU's Fishery Inspection teams display a blue and yellow pennant.

Despite the efficacy of epilepsy surgery, some patients decide not to undergo surgery owing to fear or the uncertainty of having a brain operation.

Despite popular lore, it seems unlikely that he reached Cape Horn or the eponymous Drake Passage, because his descriptions do not fit the first and his shipmates denied having seen an open sea.

Despite having " lost " its Soviet periphery, Russia has 9 time zones, stretching slightly over half the world's longitude.

Despite having direct access to Hitler, Heydrich's loyalty to Himmler remained firm.

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 having the go-ahead runs on base, Smith was able to escape the inning without any further damage.

Despite having just turned 21, Cronje was made captain of Orange Free State for the 1990-91 season.

Despite this, the office was not legally hereditary, and the heir could not title himself " Emperor " without having been personally elected.

Despite having defeated Prussia at the Battle of Langensalza, the city of Hanover became a Prussian provincial capital.

Despite having interest rates down near zero for a long period of time, the Quantitative easing strategy did not succeed in stopping price deflation.

Despite Valenti's two-year marriage to Johnson's personal secretary, the investigation focused on rumors that he was having a gay relationship with a commercial photographer friend.

Despite briefly toying with the name " rational Mesmerism ", Braid ultimately emphasised his approach's uniqueness, carrying out informal experiments throughout his career to refute the arguments invoking supernatural practices, and demonstrate instead the role of ordinary physiological and psychological processes such as suggestion and focused attention in producing the observed effects.

Despite being omitted or just mentioned briefly in most history books, the 1, 400 year-long Buddhist period has a foundational importance in the history of the Maldives.

Despite this, the weapon went unused in World War I until February 26, 1915, when it was briefly used against the French outside Verdun.

Despite the wars, Neustria and Austrasia re-united briefly on a few occasions, the first time under Clotaire I during his reign from 558 to 562.

Despite its remote location, the school has been involved in state and national activities, hosting the military's " Operation Arctic Care " outreach health program in 2002, and briefly becoming involved with reporting for CNN Student Bureau that same year.

Despite briefly exciting the market, the study was perceived as merely a public relations exercise to disguise the fact that MDC was struggling under intense pressure from Boeing and Airbus.

Despite being isolated, and inhabited briefly, and infrequently, Burhou has a long history.

Despite their rapidly growing popularity, Noel briefly left Oasis in 1994 during their first American tour.

Despite the title, this is primarily about treaps and skip lists ; randomized binary search trees are mentioned only briefly.

Despite the work's apparently devotional nature it contained satirical material which gave offence to the London civic authorities and Nashe was briefly imprisoned in Newgate.

Despite the airline's strong history at Portland, serving the Jetport in the past with aircraft as large as the Boeing 727 and 757, Delta briefly downgraded flights subcontracting to smaller aircraft operated by Delta Connection on Bombardier CRJ series.

Despite the Cambridge Union Society's never having been a students ' union in the modern sense, it did briefly affiliate to the UK's National Union of Students in 1924.

Despite the difficulties of the text, Ryders bawdiness drew attention, and it briefly became a New York Times bestseller.

Despite a month – long hunt that briefly gained national attention, the Beast of Busco was never found.

Despite briefly affected operations, preventing replacement parts from being shipped until at least the end of August of that year., the new facility enabled improvements in service efficiency.

) Despite devoting whole books to ephemeral or in some cases non-existent usurpers, there are no independent biographies of the Emperors Quintillus and Florian, whose reigns are merely briefly noted towards the end of the biographies of their respective predecessors, Claudius Gothicus and Tacitus.

Despite suffering the injury, Gough bowled on briefly, taking the wicket of culprit McLaren.

Despite briefly being locked out of Boothferry Park by bailiffs and facing the possibility of liquidation, Hull qualified for the Third Division play-offs in the 2000 – 01 season, losing in the semi-finals to Leyton Orient.

Despite his ideological differences, he did not join the dissidents who briefly left the party in 2001-02 to protest the leadership of Stockwell Day.

Despite their combined efforts, events play out exactly as they did in Red Son # 2, with Batman imprisoning Superman briefly under red sun lamps, and detonating the bomb in his intestine upon his escape.

Despite his status as a key political leader of the Ohio Republican Party from the 1880s through the first decade of the 20th Century, Daugherty was himself only briefly a statewide elected politician, serving just two terms in the Ohio General Assembly, working closely during the last two years with Governor William McKinley.

Despite these periods of relative inactivity, the fort did manage to play a small role in the American Civil War, briefly acting as a prison for three Confederate political prisoners.

Despite his name, X-Man was only briefly a member of the X-Men, both in the Age of Apocalypse reality and in the regular reality.

Despite a glimpse into the future, which showed an adult Starwoman married to Albert Rothstein ( a. k. a. fellow JSA member Atom Smasher ), Courtney briefly dates another JSA member, Captain Marvel, who in his true identity of Billy Batson is the same age as her.