Despite a hard-fought battle throughout the Mid-1990s by local politicians to have the decommissioned and mothballed USS Missouri, already in the Bremerton Navy Yard, stay in Bremerton as a museum ship and tourist attraction, Secretary of the Navy John H. Dalton, awarded the ship to the Pearl Harbor Naval Base, HI in 1998.

Despite her own faults, she consistently shows King Friday when he is wrong about something and frequently goes to extremes ( such as physically moving her museum or modifying a comet ) to do so.

Despite initial criticisms of the perceived Disneyfication of the museum, its enormous costs, unique architecture, and unfinished exhibits from many quarters ( including the Conservative government of Brian Mulroney ), the museum soon became a major tourist attraction and was embraced by different political factions as a national symbol of " a pluralistic, multicultural society.

( See ECCC Court Report January 2011 ) Despite the disturbing images it contains, the museum is visited by large parties of Cambodian school children.

Despite modern traffic a hundred feet or so above it, however, the island is a commemorative otter sanctuary and houses a museum dedicated to Maxwell.

Despite an improved offer of £ 400, 000 per year from Preston and Lancashire councils, the trustees voted to move the museum to the Urbis exhibition centre in Manchester.

Despite the fact that the new museum was home to a variety of collections beyond the friezes ( For example: a famous reconstruction of the Ishtar Gate of ancient Babylon ), the city's inhabitants decided to name it the Pergamon Museum for the friezes and reconstruction of the west front of the altar.

Despite this setback, the museum continued to raise funds and eventually opened up a new building.

Despite this setback, the museum continued to raise funds and eventually opened up a new building.

Despite a leaning toward anthropological and cultural collections, the museum is also home to a newly opened ( July 2006 ) aquarium and one of the most varied collections of taxidermy in the northern hemisphere.

Despite requests from Franks close family, the medal was not put into a museum.

Despite a lack of formal training in paleontology, he started collecting fossils at an early age, and created a museum in his home town.

Despite this, the museum won the support of collectors, critics, and the public through its exhibitions that examine the relationship of art to the human condition rather than to the canon of art history.

Despite the struggles, the museum attracted an annual attendance of about 20, 000 people and it was able to amass a $ 30m endowment in a little more than five years, rivaling that of the Guggenheim Museum.

Despite being found in fragile pieces, they were both reconstructed and are on display at the on-site museum.

Despite its confining name " museum " on its website, the Hangaram Art Museum is more close to a gallery complex of art work.

Despite the efforts of Bekryashev and other museum employees, some of the buildings were destroyed by the authorities.

Despite the lack of centralized decision making, ant colonies exhibit complex behavior and have even been able to demonstrate the ability to solve geometric problems.

Despite lack of eyes, blindfish do not exhibit nyctophilia.

Despite the tendency to associate hearing voices, or otherwise hallucinating, and psychosis with schizophrenia or other psychiatric illnesses, it is crucial to take into consideration that even if a person does exhibit psychotic features, they do not necessarily suffer from a psychiatric disorder on its own.

Despite the lack of centralized decision making, ant colonies exhibit complex behaviour and have even been able to demonstrate the ability to solve geometric problems.

Despite their physical and cognitive deficits, individuals with Williams syndrome exhibit impressive social and verbal abilities.

Despite the short time he was a king, he was issued an official jade seal ( 玉璽 yù xǐ ), which is an exhibit in the Hong Kong Museum of History ( 香港歷史博物館 ).

Despite microenvironmental variation, Pachypodium are always succulent and always exhibit pachycaul trunks.

Despite the success of the Chicago show, Kertesz did not gain another exhibit until 1962, when his photographs were shown at Long Island University.

Despite the historic practice of lumping the entire Delphinus genus into a single species, these widely distributed dolphins exhibit a wide variety of size, shape and colour.

Despite the bitter disagreements on design and engines, the 247 was still a remarkable achievement and was Boeing's showcase exhibit at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair.

Despite their high salaries and opulent lifestyles, they live in constant comparison with those who have more than them, and therefore exhibit lives characterized by high spending, severe anxiety, and countless opportunities and temptations to cheat.

Despite his later success, Romney was never invited to join the Royal Academy ( formed 1768 ), though he was asked, urged even, to exhibit there-nor did he ever apply to join.

Despite attracting controversy, the exhibit won her the Turner Prize for 1993.

Despite this difference in the source of failure between software and hardware — software does not wear out — some in the software reliability engineering community believe statistical models used in hardware reliability are nevertheless useful as a measure of software reliability, describing what we experience with software: the longer software is run, the higher the probability that it will eventually be used in an untested manner and exhibit a latent defect that results in a failure ( Shooman 1987 ), ( Musa 2005 ), ( Denney 2005 ).

Despite the fact that they exhibit a rest period after blooming, Miltonia always need to be watered, and more abundantly during active growth and blooming.

Despite being nearly the same size as the nearby Sindbad crater, Shahryar does not exhibit a dome-like structure on its floor, suggesting it has not undergone significant viscous relaxation.

Despite moving out of it central location, the Fair gained record attendance in some years, well justifying the extra exhibit area and parking.

Despite this, it is often reported that they do not generally harass loaches, such as Chromobotia macracanthus, and may even exhibit schooling behavior with them.

Despite the structural homology between these two proteins, dendrotoxins do not appear to exhibit any measurable inhibitory protease activity like BPTI.

Despite having no rods or cones, the patients continued to exhibit circadian photoentrainment, circadian behavioural patterns, melatonin suppression, and pupil reactions, with peak spectral sensitivities to environmental and experimental light matching that for the melanopsin photopigment.

Despite their far ranging birds also exhibit philopatry, breeding in their natal colony even if they travel to other colonies.

Despite the retreat of US and UN forces after several deaths due to local hostilities mainly led by Aidid, the introduction of a powerful military force opened the transportation routes, enabling the provision of supplies and ended the famine quickly.

Despite an all-star cast ( including Neve Campbell and Matthew Modine ) and the pedigree of Miller's script, Spacey's decision to lure Altman to the stage proved disastrous: after a fraught rehearsal period, the play opened to a critical panning, and closed after only a few weeks.

Despite finishing with a 6 – 10 record in the 2005 – 2006 season, the Eagles ranked second in the NFL in merchandise sales, and single-game tickets for the next season were sold out minutes after phone and Internet lines opened.

Despite prolonged negotiations, King was unable to attract the Progressives into his government, but once Parliament opened, he relied on their support to defeat non-confidence motions from the Conservatives.

Despite the ongoing debate about the dome's future use, the dome opened again during December 2003 for the Winter Wonderland 2003 experience.

Despite neither side obtaining a clear victory, Otto II felt his honor was sufficiently restored and opened peace negotiations with the French King.

Despite this setback, the name Parnall was to reappear when George Geach Parnall formed a new company, George Parnall & Co. Ltd. with a handful of previous employees and opened the Coliseum Works in Park Row, Bristol in 1921.

Despite a series of small eruptions that spread thin layers of ash across both Whakapapa and Turoa ski areas, the ski fields opened for the 1996 season.

Despite the failure of Mickey Mantle's Country Cookin ' restaurants in the early 1970s, Mickey Mantle's Restaurant & Sports Bar opened in New York at 42 Central Park South ( 59th Street ) in 1988.

Despite painting 10, 000 works rated of ' national importance ' by the British Museum he had only £ 12 cash in his possession ( having never opened a bank account ), and owed £ 2 million to various creditors.

Despite the introduction of the Norwegian cyclone model just after World War I, the United States did not formally analyze fronts on surface analyses until late 1942, when the WBAN Analysis Center opened in downtown Washington, D. C ..

Despite the hardships, in 1934 all downtown buildings in the county seat were in use, and a few additional businesses opened even as the depression continued.

Despite this economic downturn, Cookstown's Council constructed its modern town hall in 1953 ( now demolished and replaced by the Buranavon Theatre ) and the Daintyfit clothing factory on Burn Road was opened.

Despite shortages in manpower and material, the Fair opened in July 1822.

Despite this opposition, the plans were approved by the borough of Tinton Falls in 2007 and the Jersey Shore Premium Outlets opened in November 2008.

Despite some considerable local opposition, the park was formally opened on Saturday 7 August 1869.

Despite being officially opened in 1961, Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport had actually been in use since August 20, 1960.

Despite his libertarian leanings, Davíð also supported the Reykjavik City Theatre, in particular the building of a new theatre house which was opened in 1989.

Despite this fighting formal war wasn't declared in Europe until 1756 and opened with a French attack on Minorca, the loss of which was blamed on Admiral John Byng who was court-martialled and executed.

Despite its problems, the film opened to mixed reviews, but still became a notorious failure at the box office.

Despite this setback, the Red Dogs management built a good team, which opened its history in memorable fashion.

( Despite its location, the new station was called Pimlico ; it opened on 27 March 1858.

Despite damage caused by storms and unexpected costs from the city of Toronto, the company survived and opened its first show in its new location on October 23, 2009.

Despite opposition, the project proceeded, and the new Martin Luther King, Jr. Library opened on-time and on-budget in 2003.