Despite the church's firm stand against blues music and the sinful world which revolved around it, House became attracted to it and taught himself guitar in his mid 20s, after moving back to the Clarksdale area, inspired by the work of Willie Wilson.

Despite this, 1960 was a year of unrest in South Vietnam, with pro-democracy demonstrations inspired by the South Korean student uprising that year and a failed military coup in November.

Despite being an agnostic, he wrote some inspired and imposing Christian choral music.

Despite that, Look Into the Future still retains some of the experimental approach and sound of the debut, especially in the title track and " I'm Gonna Leave You ", the latter of which some claim inspired the main riff in the famous Kansas song " Carry on Wayward Son ".

Despite the critics ’ mixed reactions, she became quite popular for her distinct style and inspired many visual artists, such as Antoine Bourdelle, Auguste Rodin, and Abraham Walkowitz, to create works based on her.

Despite the doubts of many including the papal legate Adhemar of Le Puy, the discovery of the Holy Lance of Antioch inspired the starving Crusaders to break the siege and secure the city.

Despite its comedic tone, the show sometimes involved serious subjects, such as son Theo's experiences dealing with dyslexia, inspired by Cosby's son Ennis, who was also dyslexic.

Despite these limitations, the system was seen as very useful, and ran for many years and inspired the creation of many other bulletin board systems.

Despite the ease with which Catesby seems to have inspired his fellow conspirators, that it was he and not Fawkes ( today most often associated with 5 November ) who devised what became known as the Gunpowder Plot, has largely been forgotten.

Despite their lasting influence on modern music, the band has attempted to disassociate themselves with many of the bands they inspired.

Despite the battle's small numbers, the American victory inspired rebels in the colonies.

Despite the number of important posts that he held during his career, Sandwich's incompetence and corruptness inspired the suggestion that his epitaph should read: " Seldom has any man held so many offices and accomplished so little.

Despite Broken Sword: The Serpent's Curse failing to meet the $ 1 million ' stretch goal ', Revolution Software announced that the success of its crowdfunding campaign had inspired it to begin work on Beneath a Steel Sky 2.

Despite this, the album inspired a number of imitators, and the lo-fi sound and emotional honesty of Phair's lyrics were frequently cited by critics as outstanding qualities.

Despite this film's failure, in 2009, a haunted house inspired by the climax of this film (" Chucky's Fun House ") was featured in Halloween Horror Nights and the film was nominated for two Saturn Awards.

Despite the European influence, the Gran Turismo Hawk drew on American influences, too ; the roofline was heavily inspired by the Ford Thunderbird, with thick C-pillars.

Despite poor reception, Nevelson's works at this time explored both figurative abstracts inspired by Cubism and the exploitative and experimental influence of Surrealism.

Despite the fact that this property is not unique to the word — one study of 5, 411 one-syllable English words found 80 words with no rhymes — the lack of rhyme for orange has garnered significant attention, and inspired many humorous verses.

Despite the nature and intensity of its work and the fact that it sees itself as advocating a new type of communism inspired by but still separate from the old, the party has remained small throughout its history, staying relatively stable at an estimated few thousand active members, and neither gaining nor losing significant numbers along the way.

Despite its failure, López's expedition inspired other filibusters to attack Latin American countries throughout the 1850s, most notably William Walker's invasions of Central America in 1855-1860.

Despite her ambivalence to his feelings for her, Janáček was inspired by her to create the lead characters of three of his operas ; Katya in Katya Kabanová, the vixen in The Cunning Little Vixen and Emilia Marty in The Makropulos Affair.

Despite the widely attributed meaning of this name to " Nonstop beats ", Dembo's childhood friends and especially his young brother believes that The name " Barura " could have been inspired from the mountain in Buhera called Barura Mountain, since his mother hailed from that area.

One unreferenced source redacted here offers the opinion that " Despite his numerous books and leading position after World War II, Ritter is almost forgotten in German historiography today, while Fischer's works inspired a new generation of younger German historians.

Despite the classical sources that inspired his anthropological interests, Pekić decided to project his new vision into the future and thus avoid the restrictions of the ‘ historical models ’, which he had inevitably had to confront in his earlier remakes of ancient myths.

Despite an estimated loss of 300 lives over the course of four days, nonviolent protesters continued to return to Bamako each day demanding the resignation of the dictatorial president and the implementation of democratic policies.

Despite their practice of blending with dominant groups in order to avoid persecution and because the Druze religion doesn't endorse separatist sentiments, urging the Druze to blend with the communities they reside in, nevertheless the Druze have had a history of brave resistance to occupying powers, and they have at times enjoyed more freedom than most other groups living in the Levant.

Despite considerable congressional resistance, presidential and popular pressure led to a November 1993 agreement brokered by the Catholic Church between the administration and Congress.

Despite victories at Dupplin Moor and Halidon Hill, in the face of tough Scottish resistance led by Sir Andrew Murray, the son of Wallace's comrade in arms, successive attempts to secure Balliol on the throne failed.

Despite some insignificant resistance, especially at Durrës, Italy invaded Albania on 7 April 1939 and took control of the country, with the Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini proclaiming Italy's figurehead King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy as King of Albania.

Despite some stubborn resistance by some patriots, especially at Durrës, the Italians made short work of the Albanians.

Despite the arguments " in favor of an adaptive immune response in s-IBM, a purely autoimmune hypothesis for s-IBM is untenable because of the disease's resistance to most immunotherapy.

Despite the common belief that Edison did not use mathematics, analysis of his notebooks reveal that he was an astute user of mathematical analysis conducted by his assistants such as Francis Robbins Upton, for example, determining the critical parameters of his electric lighting system including lamp resistance by an analysis of Ohm's Law, Joule's Law and economics.

Despite the trappings of institutional change, the first years of independence saw more resistance than acceptance of the institutional changes required for democratic reform to take hold.

Despite their resistance to pro-slavery laws, several states made free blacks unwelcome.

Despite Finnish resistance, a peace treaty was signed in March 1940, wherein Finland ceded some key territory to the Soviet Union, including the Karelian Isthmus, containing Finland's second-largest city, Viipuri, and the critical defensive structure of the Mannerheim Line.

Despite the resistance of Danylo of Halych, Batu Khan managed to take two of his principal cities, Halych and Volodymyr-Volynskyi.

Despite its resistance, because of which the population of Xanthus was decimated, Lycia became part of the Persian Empire.

Despite being almost completely destroyed during an RAF bombing raid on 5 January 1945, the town of Royan wasn't liberated by the French resistance until April of the same year.

Despite this submission, resistance continued to erupt for several years.

Despite some resistance from American Indian tribes such as the Shawnee, in 1775 Boone blazed his Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap in the Appalachian Mountains from North Carolina and Tennessee into Kentucky.

Despite the fact that Sextus Pompeius was controlling Sicily and Domitius Ahenobarbus still commanded the republican fleet, the republican resistance had been definitively crushed at Philippi.

Despite their mission army of 14, 000, the Jesuits submitted without resistance.

'" Despite the initial resistance to the new music and quasi-psychedelic direction, My War would later be cited as a formative influence on grunge.

Despite these new fortifications, the Ommerschans was captured without any resistance when the Catholic bishops Bernhard von Galen of Münster and Maximilian Henry of Cologne invaded in 1672, the so-called rampjaar ( or disaster year ) that started the Franco-Dutch War.

Despite the initial opposition of some patriarchates and sees, over time the resistance dwindled away and ultimately Palamist doctrine became accepted throughout the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Despite this, resistance to the English led by William Wallace and Andrew Moray had emerged in the name of King John Balliol.

Despite their territorial gains following the Paris Peace Conference, the Greeks still hoped to achieve the Megali Idea and annex Constantinople and larger areas of Ottoman Asia Minor ; they therefore invaded Anatolia beyond Smyrna and sought to take Ankara, with the aim of destroying the Turkish resistance led by Mustafa Kemal ( later known as Atatürk ).

Despite fierce resistance in places, the Germans were forced back from the West Wall during February, and a series of Allied offensives, rolling from north to south, drove across the Rhineland towards the great river.

Despite the courageous resistance, the royal family were overwhelmed and decimated.