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 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 this setback, PML continued to track along a course of “ practical libertarianism ” that seeks to bridge the gap between ideology and politics.

Despite the growth achieved by the Peruvian economy, the poverty gap has widened between the upper and lower classes.

Despite recent improvements, there are still difficulties in using density functional theory to properly describe intermolecular interactions, especially van der Waals forces ( dispersion ); charge transfer excitations ; transition states, global potential energy surfaces and some other strongly correlated systems ; and in calculations of the band gap in semiconductors.

Despite the unpopularity of the 1718 quarter guinea it was considered necessary to produce this coin again, to the same size and weight as before, to fill the gap between the low-denomination silver coins and the larger gold coins.

Despite the age gap, the couple had a happy marriage.

Despite the age gap, the two soon became very close, Elizabeth dubbing him her " frog " on account of a frog-shaped earring he had given her.

Despite the young threshold for marriage a large age gap between the spouses was opposed.

Despite all the largesse, test scores in the magnet schools did not rise ; the black-white gap did not diminish ; and there was less, not greater, integration.

Despite the Blue Dogs ' differing degrees of economic and social conservatism, they claim they generally work to promote positions within the House of Representatives that bridge the gap between right-wing and left-wing politics.

Despite this success, Lafferty left the magazine after only two years following various disagreements including the editorial direction on a cover story on Desperate Housewives, and a perceived generation gap towards third-wave feminists and grunge, a genre that Lafferty had trashed as being oppositional to feminism.

Despite openings into the lagoon being permanently closed by anti-submarine nets, the German U-boat U-183 torpedoed the tanker British Loyalty in March 1944 ( she had been previously torpedoed and sunk at Diego Suarez ); it was an impressive long-range shot from outside the atoll through a gap in the anti-torpedo nets.

Despite the lack of advanced training facilities, Ze ' evi continued training in his local club and steadily closed the gap to world class level, and began competing abroad.

Despite the strong cultural differences and the large gap between a literary work and animation, the series was close to the original in many ways, from the didactic scientific explanations to the emphasis on the usefulness of brains as opposed to brawn.

Despite the Ferraris being way ahead, Fittipaldi would not give up the chase, carving down a gap of over ten seconds.

Despite the ever increasing age gap between his car and the majority of the rest of the field, Bob Gerard's meticulous preparation of his cars, and his emphasis on increasing their reliability, meant that he often finished a race much higher in the placings than expected.

Despite openings into the lagoon being permanently closed by anti-submarine nets, the German U-boat U-183 torpedoed the tanker British Loyalty in March 1944 ( she had been previously torpedoed and sunk at Diego Suarez ); it was an impressive long-range shot from outside the atoll through a gap in the anti-torpedo nets.

Despite significant research being conducted on desert tortoises and disease, there is still a considerable knowledge gap in understanding how disease affects desert tortoise population dynamics.

Despite the overall improvement of world health, there still has not been any decrease in the health gap between the affluent and the impoverished.

Despite the gap between the disbanding of the Continental Marines and the current organization, the United States Marine Corps celebrates November 10, 1775 as its birthday.

Despite the gap between the disbanding of the Continental Marines and the establishment of the United States Marine Corps, Marines worldwide celebrate 10 November 1775 as the official birthday.

Despite being referred to as Commissioner in an earlier issue of 52, which covers the gap between Infinite Crisis and One Year Later and a later issue having a brief shot a welcome back party thrown for Gordon, it was not revealed there what happened to Akins.

Despite his good numbers in the minors, he was just a mediocre hitter in the Major Leagues with good gap power ( resulting in lots of doubles ) and above-average defense at first base.