Despite a brief spell at a traditional preparatory school at the age of seven for one year, ` Abdu ' l-Bahá received no formal education.

Despite his lack of capital, Newson was determined to be successful and in 1841, at the age of 29, he moved his family and devoted wife again, this time back to Suffolk, where he bought a barley and coal merchants business in Snape, constructing a fine range of buildings for malting barley.

Despite the age of this concept, file managers based on Norton Commander are actively developed, and dozens of implementations exist for DOS, Unix, and Microsoft Windows.

Despite the age gap the two had a close relationship until her suicide in 1987.

Despite these hindrances, his aim ( and that of his collaborator John Dryden ) was to establish serious opera in England, but these hopes ended with Purcell's early death at the age of 36.

Despite his age, Louis is in perfect physical condition but is bored.

Despite his having died at the age of 32, Richard is often depicted as being considerably older: Basil Rathbone, in the Tower of London, and Peter Cook were both 46 when they played him, Laurence Olivier was 47 ( in his 1955 film ), Vincent Price was 51, Ian McKellen was 56 as was Pacino in his 1996 film ( although Pacino was 39 when he played him on Broadway in 1979, and Olivier was 37 when he played him on stage in 1944 ).

Despite the difference in distance, projecting Rigel's path through space for its expected age brings it close to the nebula.

Despite his age, he was uncommonly energetic, and throughout some two decades pursued settlement and church endeavors, always engaged in controversy and confrontation with Bay Colony leaders.

Despite their eighteen year age difference, the couple fell in love and married on October 2.

Despite his lack of significant family connections or success in office, he achieved praetorship in either 39 or 40, at the youngest age permitted ( 30 ), during a period of political upheaval in the organisation of elections.

Despite dropping out of high school at the age of sixteen to join the army, Disney was rejected for being underage.

Despite his advanced age, he himself hauled most of his 32, 000 books a quarter of a mile to their new home, using his wheelbarrow.

Despite his age and bulk, Grace continued to play minor cricket for several years after his retirement from the first-class version.

Despite its age, it is still considered an excellent commentary on simple but high quality code.

Despite his bloodline in that age when people died young and younger, the orphaned Conrad grew up poor by the standards of the nobility and was raised by Burchard, Bishop of Worms.

Despite concerns that Sullivan at nearly 12 years of age was too old to give much service as a treble before his voice broke, he was accepted and soon became a soloist and, by 1856, was promoted to " first boy ".

Despite the name, the skeleton is that of a young man who lived about 33, 000 years ago at the end of the Upper Paleolithic Period ( old stone age ).

Despite the prominence of early modern intellectual historians ( those studying the age from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment ), the intellectual history of the modern period has also been the locus of intense and creative output on both sides of the Atlantic.

" Despite his fragile nature, Crane was a precocious child who taught himself to read before the age of four.

Despite its age, it was only recently incorporated into the London Underground network, being transferred from British Rail ownership in 1994.

Despite the fact that Mary was tall for her age ( eventually reaching, making her almost a giant in the sixteenth century ) and fluent in speech, while Francis was abnormally short and stuttered, Henry II commented that " from the very first day they met, my son and she got on as well together as if they had known each other for a long time ".

Despite its age, JSP is still in use and is supported by diagramming tools such as Microsoft's Visio and CASE tools such as Jackson Workbench

Despite this " culture shock ," Kal-L endures and is given a new lease on life by being deposited back to the early days of the modern heroic age of the post-Crisis Earth.

Despite the age of these marches, the history it holds and its performance in the United States, they are generally not thought of as " typical American march music.

Despite the excitement being caused by the trial and sentence of John Brown, Rhode Islanders turned their attention to the state elections.

Despite the revivalists ' various political views and different opinions regarding the nature of authentic folk music, they all shared an understanding of Americanism that grounded the nation's identity in cultural pluralism and political democracy " By the end of the 1930s they along with the musicians and others had turned American folk music into a social movement.

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

Despite their work, Nintendo turned them down, saying they had no interest in expanding to the PC market, and that Mario games were to remain exclusive to Nintendo consoles.

" Despite Whedon's intentions of not making Buffy about overcoming issues, he said Willow's exploration of her sexuality " turned out to be one of the most important things we've done on the show ".

Despite close links to the American colonies ( and the material aid provided the continental rebels in the form of a hundred barrels of stolen gunpowder ), Bermudian privateers turned as aggressively on American shipping during the American War of Independence.

Despite strong sentiments in support of the rebels, especially in the early stages, Bermudian privateers turned as aggressively on American shipping during the American War of Independence.

Despite the poor financial performance, 1962 turned out to be the busiest year in Silver City's 16-year history.

Despite his strong long running image as a face, the Canadian Hart was turned heel in an anti-USA gimmick, while Steve Austin became cheered by fans despite efforts to design him as the ultimate heel, making him a tweener.

Despite a childhood dream to play for the Oakland Raiders, he turned down the scholarships on the advice of his mother, who argued that football players had shorter careers.

Despite Richie and Eddie seemingly being killed at the end of series three ( something which also happened in the episode " Hole ", only for them to reappear unharmed in the following episode ), a fourth series was written but turned down by the BBC, and several of their live shows as well as Guest House Paradiso have been written and performed since then.

Despite threats of reprisal, however, 80 percent of the Muslim electorate turned out to vote in September, and of these 96 percent approved the constitution.

Despite failing to qualify for the Champions League, Rosenborg had enjoyed another great season and it looked like Hareide's beginning reforms were paying off, but 2003 turned out to be his one and only season at the club as he accepted an offer to lead the Norwegian national team in December of that year.

Despite his explorations, the various Australian governments at the time turned their respective backs on his achievements once they had been completed, and refused to patronise any further exploits or give him much in the way of financial reward.

" Despite the heavy influence of theorist Fredy Perlman, Moore later turned to theorists of language and subjectivity, such as Julia Kristeva, Friedrich Nietzsche and Max Stirner.

Despite the exhibitions, history, number of artists and global sweep of the artistamp movement, the medium had long been ignored by major institutions and derided by the arts establishment: before his death in 1989, Bidner attempted to donate his definitive collection to several major Canadian institutions but was turned down by every one.

Despite some small glitches — for example, it turned out that the konnyaku powder mixed in the paper to prevent counterfeiting made the bills a delicacy for rats — the run was largely successful.

Despite the best that has been done by everyone – the gallant fighting of the military and naval forces, the diligence and assiduity of Our servants of the State, and the devoted service of Our one hundred million people – the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage, while the general trends of the world have all turned against her interest.

Despite an unsuccessful showing at E3 1997 and low expectations among the gaming media, GoldenEye 007 turned out to be both a critical and a commercial success.

In the late 1990s, during the release of her album Bathhouse Betty, Midler commented on her time performing there, " Despite the way things turned out the AIDS crisis, I'm still proud of those days.

Despite his progressive views ( he was an admirer of the Bismarckian German social laws ), his conservative political thinking turned him into a leading opponent of Eleftherios Venizelos.

Despite registering the most successful season in its franchise, the Sun's roster was turned upside down in the offseason, but that didn't mean the team was bereft of talent.

Despite this, Mr. Bœuf ( turned into a rhinoceros ) arrives and destroys the staircase that leads out of the office, trapping all the workers and their boss, Mr. Papillion, inside.

Despite the audience roaring with laughter ( and Hackett's own belief that the actual answer was Sweden ), the answer turned out to be correct.

Despite that, the New Deal gradually wound down and by 1939 the president had turned his attention towards foreign policy.