Despite four years of use by the incarcerees, the site also retains evidence of the ranches and of the town of Manzanar, as well as artifacts from the days of the Owens Valley Paiute settlement.

Despite its importance as a geological site, the crater is not protected as a national monument, a status that would require federal ownership.

Despite these events occurring on the same day, Prince's attorney has called it pure coincidence and stated that the site did not close due to the trademark dispute.

Despite the economic recession of the late 2000s, the Tri-Cities area continued to maintain steady growth and a stable economic climate due in large part to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 which directed funding and jobs to the Hanford site and its various cleanup efforts.

Despite this tragedy, Ponce has continued to be a hub of political activity on the island, being the founding site of several major political parties.

Despite their negative comments for Waluigi, GameDaily ranked him in the 10th slot on GameDaily's top 10 Nintendo characters that deserve their own games list ; the site explained that " he gets the shaft worse than Luigi, and should at least get his own puzzle game ".

Despite early attempts such as Brenan's in 1949, the site remained undiscovered throughout the Francoist era.

Despite originally being selected as the site for both the University of Idaho and Ricks College ( now BYU-Idaho ), according to a USA Today article, Idaho Falls is now the largest city in the United States without a traditional college.

Despite some ugly threats and several demonstrations against the project, Morgan College was allowed to be constructed at the new site and later expand.

Despite being from the Atlantic Ocean, Matawan was the site of three shark attacks on July 12, 1916, in Matawan Creek, causing two deaths.

Despite these strategic advantages, the large city in the area would become Wenatchee, just seven miles upriver from the site of present-day Rock Island.

Despite this, the name Savoy was retained by the site.

Despite fulfilling all the necessary railway procedures, the fire trains sometimes arrive at the site faster than the road vehicles, bringing more water supply to tackle the fire.

Despite the huge amount of buildings and artists involved with the BAT ( over 50, 000 buildings have been uploaded to the SimCity3000Unlimited web site at EA. com ), some feel that it has not gained the cult-status the SCURK has.

Despite the insecure gorge, there have been no accidents at the site, but there have been suicides and suicide attempts.

Despite the scholarly consensus that ancient Dilmun encompasses three modern locations: ( 1 ) the eastern littoral of Arabia from the vicinity of modern Kuwait to Bahrain ; ( 2 ) the island of Bahrain ; ( 3 ) the island of Failaka east of Kuwait, few have taken into account the radically different geography of the basin represented by the Persian Gulf before its reflooding as sea levels rose about 6000 BCE ; the earliest known site is Qal ' at al-Bahrain which is dated no earlier than c. 2200 BC according to Flemming Hojlund.

" Despite this, a quantity of apparently Romano-British pottery has been unearthed on the site, as has a Roman-style drawstring leather purse containing ten low denomination Roman coins, dating between the reigns of Tetricus I ( 270-272 CE ) and Constantius II ( 337-361 ).

Despite the rebranding of MacCentral, a cadre of loyal readers continued to maintain a presence in the MacCentral Forum, a community that remained in operation without being prominently linked to from anywhere on Macworld's primary site.

Despite the destruction the Olympic festival continued to be held at the site until the last Olympiad in 393 AD, after which a decree from the Christian emperor, Theodosius I implemented a ban.

Despite the worldwide reputation of the produce of the Stocksbridge works, Corus reduced the works to a satellite site for the Rotherham ( Aldwarke ) works ( also CES ).

Despite its location far from any urban center, the site attracts about one million visitors per year.

Despite having observed ribosomes ( the major components of the protein synthesis machinery ) in dendrites as early as the 1960s, prevailing wisdom was that the cell body was the predominant site of protein synthesis in neurons.

But the official site of the band stated: " Despite untrustworthy websites announcing Westlife dates for a 2012 tour, there is no definite tour plan.

Despite its Puritan origins, Stratford was the site of the first Anglican church in Connecticut, founded in 1707 and ministered by the Rev.

Despite efforts over the next 20 years to advance the project, no progress was made and the site was transferred to the city of Dublin in 1974.

Despite this growth, the military still does not receive sufficient funds for modernization.

Despite the failure of this derivation, the equilibrium constant for a reaction is indeed a constant, independent of the activities of the various species involved, though it does depend on temperature as observed by the van't Hoff equation.

Despite this uncertainty in defining borders, it does have some important overall characteristics.

Despite the lack of complexity, there does seem to be forethought and skill in making these tools and should be considered such.

Despite this opinion among researchers, evidence has accumulated that supports the existence of complex biological effects of weaker non-thermal electromagnetic fields, ( including weak ELF magnetic fields, although the latter does not strictly qualify as EM radiation < ref >), and modulated RF and microwave fields.

Despite the name, an oxidation reaction does not necessarily need to involve oxygen.

Despite this, the equilibrium theory of phase transformations does not entirely hold for glass, and hence the glass transition cannot be classed as one of the classical equilibrium phase transformations in solids.

Despite Australian rules football's huge popularity in the state of Tasmania, the state does not have a team in the Australian Football League.

Despite the fact that Argentina was never the main destination for Irish emigrants it does form part of the Irish diaspora.

Despite this fancifulness, however, Ivanhoe does make some prescient historical points.

Despite public or media opinion, national studies have indicated that severe mental illness does not independently predict future violent behavior, on average, and is not a leading cause of violence in society.

Despite this unusual and seemingly energetically unfavorable mechanism, such transport does not require ATP.

Despite having no ocean or deep draft river ports, Niger does operate a ports authority.

Despite the importance of the office of prime minister, the constitution does not mention the office by name.

Despite their height, however, the mountain system does not create a major barrier between the northern and the southern portions of the Meseta Central because several passes permit road and railroad transportation to the northwest and the northeast.

Despite its name, an urban legend does not necessarily originate in an urban area.

Despite the advantages of indoor tracks, outdoor velodromes are more common, as an outdoor venue does not require a building, making it more affordable, especially when new.

Despite these advantages in speed, XyWrite does not have as many features as Word or OpenOffice. org.

Despite her world famous role, Smith is rarely recognized in public, which she does not mind, saying " it's wonderful to be in the midst of all this hype about the show, and people enjoying the show so much, and to be totally a fly on the wall ; people never recognise me solely from my voice.

Mazzini, in turn, described Marx as " a destructive spirit whose heart was filled with hatred rather than love of mankind " and declared that " Despite the communist egalitarianism which preaches he is the absolute ruler of his party, admittedly he does everything himself but he is also the only one to give orders and he tolerates no opposition.

Despite perceived differences between Eastern and Western philosophy, some of Heidegger's later work, particularly " A Dialogue on Language between a Japanese and an Inquirer ", does show an interest in initiating such a dialogue.

Despite opium tincture being an " unapproved drug " as discussed above, a search of FDA's website does not reveal any efforts at this time to ban opium tincture or restrict its use ; in fact, the FDA has a web page devoted to patient and practitioner education about opium tincture.

Despite the massive loss of natural habitat in Australia over the last 200 years, it is adaptable and capable of living in surprisingly small patches of remnant bush, particularly if it does not have to cross large expanses of cleared land to reach them.

Despite gnuplot's name, it is not part of or related to the GNU Project, nor does it use the GNU General Public License, hence the decision to use a lowercase ' g '.

Despite the name, the grandfather paradox does not exclusively regard the impossibility of one's own birth.