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 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.

Despite the legend of his divorce and remarriage, Amram was also held to have been entirely sinless throughout his life, and was rewarded for this by his corpse remaining without any signs of decay.

Amalric was pious and attended mass every day, although he also " is said to have absconded himself without restraint to the sins of the flesh and to have seduced married women …" Despite his piety he taxed the clergy, which they naturally opposed.

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 its difficulty of learning, this method remains popular in Chinese communities that use traditional Chinese characters, such as Hong Kong and Taiwan ; it is also the first method that allowed users to enter more than a hundred Chinese characters per minute.

" 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 his high profile as one of the world's most popular and recognizable superheroes, Rogers also has a broad understanding of the espionage community, largely through his ongoing relationship with S. H. I. E. L. D.

Despite its rare use, Italian orthography allows the circumflex accent ( î ) too, in two cases: it can be found in old literary context ( roughly up to 19th century ) to signal a syncope ( fêro → fecero, they did ), or in modern Italian to signal the contraction of ″- ii ″ due to the plural ending-i whereas the root ends with another-i ; e. g., s. demonio, p. demonii → demonî ; in this case the circumflex also signals that the word intended is not demoni, plural of " demone " by shifting the accent ( demònî, " devils "; dèmoni, " demons ").

Despite proclaiming high clinical standards for himself to gather information ' by means of expert analysis of individual cases ', he would also draw on the reported observations of officials not trained in psychiatry.

Despite its arid climate, the island is also home to a surprisingly large insect fauna.

Despite its location in the tropics and the many micro climates found within the country, Guatemala City ’ s elevation and the resulting moderating influence of the higher altitude enable it to enjoy a subtropical highland climate ( Köppen Cwb ), though depending on location, it also borders on a tropical savanna climate ( Köppen Aw ).

Despite all this, the film is also one of the most widely seen Godzilla films in the United States — it was popular in its initial theatrical release, largely due to an aggressive marketing campaign, including elaborate posters of the two title monsters battling atop New York City's World Trade Center towers, presumably to capitalize on the hype surrounding the Dino De Laurentiis remake of King Kong, which used a similar image for its own poster.

Despite a request from the Burritos that the remnants of their publicity budget be diverted to promotion of the single, it also flopped.

Despite this naval defeat, it was on the ground that this war would be won, Napoleon inflicted the Austrian and Russian Empires one of their greatest defeats at Austerlitz ( also known as the " Battle of the Three Emperors " on 2 December 1805 ), destroying the Third Coalition.

Despite this preference for Anglophone works, he also read a number of French novels, such as General Dourakine, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later.

Despite the losses, the Manufactory served as a playground of innovation, both in turning a large amount of cotton, but also developing the water-powered milling structure used in Slater's Mill.

Despite this black mark, Tycho also began corresponding with Kepler, starting with a harsh but legitimate critique of Kepler's system ; among a host of objections, Tycho took issue with the use of inaccurate numerical data taken from Copernicus.

Despite his market innovations, he always sought more income, not only through related work as an art dealer and auctioneer but also by speculating in tulips and real estate.

Despite being one of the founders of Cominform, he was also the first ( and the only successful ) Cominform member to defy Soviet hegemony.

Despite this incident, the 1983 season was also notable for some transitional changes.

Despite his success, Macbeth, also aware of this part of the prophecy, remains uneasy.

Despite the success of these musicals, Hollywood also produced a series of musical flops in the late 1960s and early 1970s which appeared to seriously misjudge public taste.

Despite the title of his book, he also considered macrobiotics a science aimed at prolonging and perfecting life.

Despite his low opinion of painting, Michelangelo also created two of the most influential works in fresco in the history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling and The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.

Despite the crackdown by Interpol on traffic and illicit manufacture of temazepam, the country has also become a major exporter of illicit temazepam of the " jelly " variety, trafficking it to the United Kingdom and other European nations.