Surprisingly, considering the later French distaste for castrati they certainly existed in France at this time also, being known of in Paris, Orléans, Picardy and Normandy, though they were not abundant: the King of France himself had difficulty in obtaining them.

Surprisingly, Convoy was the highest-grossing picture of Peckinpah's career, notching $ 46. 5 million at the box office.

( Surprisingly, a 1914 model turned a lap in practice at Indy in 1949, yet it failed to qualify.

Surprisingly the first use of a radio interferometer for an astronomical observation was carried out by Payne-Scott, Pawsey and Lindsay McCready on 26 January 1946 using a SINGLE converted radar antenna ( broadside array ) at 200 MHz near Sydney, Australia.

Surprisingly, this innovation in the string design is useful even for off-string yo-yo play, in which the yo-yo is not attached to the string at all.

Surprisingly, the price of the company's stock shares barely went down at first, following these two negative, or " bearish ," events.

Surprisingly, though, he enrolled at Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico in San Germán, with plans to study medicine.

Surprisingly, instead of being shocked at being sucked up by the ship, Gloria is merely annoyed by the encounter, commenting " who is going to pay for my dry cleaning?

Surprisingly, he retired at that point with a record of 24 wins and just two losses.

Surprisingly close, but Debye is correct at low temperatures whereas Einstein is not.

Surprisingly only one NZR Baldwin product is operational, a class Wd 2-6-4 tank locomotive operating at the Ferrymead railway in Christchurch, the remains of a WMR 2-6-2 N, NZR 4-6-0 Ub, and two NZR 2-6-2 Wb tank locomotives are in the early stages of restoration.

Surprisingly, the rather conservative company went ahead and launched the car into the marketplace at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1968, in order to make better use of the M100 engine production facilities.

Surprisingly ( for the Magpyr family, at least ) the old-fashioned ways to defeat vampires that they thought themselves protected against start to work again.

Surprisingly, the only significant support which he gathered came from the Zaporizhian Sich, which, though at odds with the Hetman in the past, considered him and the nobility he represented a lesser evil compared with the Tsar.

Surprisingly, Riddick never achieved much success at the USA National Championships during his career-his best was fourth in the 100 m ( in 1974, 1977, 1978 and 1979 ) and fifth in the 200 m ( in 1977 and 1979 ).

Surprisingly 2nd on the grid at the noted power circuit was the McLaren-TAG Porsche of World Champion Alain Prost, despite being almost slower than the Benettons on Monza's long straights.

Surprisingly, in the heart of this diverse Chinese community is the most important temple for Singaporean Indians, the Sri Mariamman Hindu Tamil Temple, and the Indian mosques, Al-Abrar Mosque at Telok Ayer Street and Jamae Mosque at Mosque Street, as well as the Fukien Thian Hock Keng Chinese Temple of 1830 to 1842.

Surprisingly, both de Surville and Cook were navigating New Zealand waters at the same time, the only Europeans to do so since Abel Tasman, a century earlier.

Surprisingly, the suffragists were very subdued at the announcement of this victory.

Surprisingly, at that time the band had no name and not even when the band recruited lead vocalist Junaid Jamshed, an engineering student from Lahore at that time.

Surprisingly, for such an innovation being broadcast into listeners homes late at night, the telephone and postal feedback on the programme was overwhelmingly positive-a tribute to Bob's broadcasting skills.

Surprisingly, Mark isn't angry at all, and sees that they can help for the greater good.

Surprisingly, the NDP suffered an embarrassing defeat at the hands of independent candidates, who secured more than half of the 444 seats up for election versus the NDP's 39 percent.

Surprisingly, the decision was taken to start in the middle, with a section of the main line and the branch to Tiverton.

Surprisingly, this encourages the team so much that they start winning match after match.

Surprisingly this is very close to the calculation of the founding given by Rome's first native historical writer, Quintus Fabius Pictor, who wrote that Rome was founded in the first year of the eighth Olympiad, 747 BC ( Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Book 1, ch.

Surprisingly, this key character was not introduced until the first show of their seventh year on the air, 4 / 15 / 41.

Surprisingly, a 43 year old Witherspoon resurfaced in 2001, knocking out the usually durable prospect David Bostice in one round, outpointing Cuban southpaw contender Eliecer Castillo and huge Syrian Ahmed Abdin, before his revival was ended by hard hitting heavyweight Lou Savarese who stopped him in five rounds.

Surprisingly, the Swans won most of their remaining games that year ( six of their last ten ), and the fans soon let it be known who they wanted as coach by reviving the famous " ROOOOS " call.

Surprisingly enough it appears that Sweyn was pardoned, despite his crimes, the following year ( 1050 ), and restored to his office.

Surprisingly, he never faced eventual winner Greg Raymer throughout the entire tournament.

Surprisingly, in light of his batting prowess, a routine army test revealed that Bradman had poor eyesight.

Surprisingly, in the light of this announcement, Bradman led the South Australian team in a full programme of matches that season.

Surprisingly for a pro-conqueror text, William's Gesta Guillelmi was an apparent failure in Norman England with no known copied manuscripts produced, this has led to some scholars theorizing that William ended his days in political disgrace Compelling links can be made between William of Poitiers and Duke William's rebellious son Robert, this could explain why Orderic stated that William was unable to finish his history as he was ' prevented by unfavourable circumstances ', however this remains speculation.

Surprisingly, Eärnil did not share the views of most of his subjects and he attempted to renew contact between the estranged kingdoms, even sending a great force led by his son Eärnur to try to defend Arthedain when the Witch-king was preparing a final assault against it.

Surprisingly, a group of victims ' families called Mothers of Beslan led by Susanna Dudiyeva, has shown sympathy for Kulayev, promising to seek an appeal on his behalf given his honesty and cooperation during the trial ; one went so far as to pledge to send any compensation money she received to Kulayev's children, though there is otherwise no mention of his having children.

Surprisingly, it was not recognition of the risk of this self-experimentation that led to its extinction, but rather the advent of instrumentation capable of exacting physical characterization of compounds ( particularly spectrometers with infrared, ultraviolet, NMR and mass selectivity ).

Surprisingly, this information was never published by Hitachi.

Surprisingly enough, they can learn to do this well before the age of two by listening only to the voices of adults around them who have voices much different from their own, and even though the laryngeal movements causing these phonetic differentiations are deep in the throat and not visible to them.

Surprisingly, the Village of Los Osos has a bigger population by roughly 4 thousand residents.

Surprisingly since 1950, Weld County has been hit by the most tornadoes of any county in the United States.

Surprisingly, neither the band, nor their guitarist and chief songwriter Ron Elliott, were overtly influenced by folk music.

Surprisingly, this amazing piece of engineering was subcontracted out to two illiterate brothers, the Medhailes, and was built by a workforce composed mainly of women.

" Surprisingly, it is largely neglected by marketing textbooks, although not by the popular exponents of corporate strategy — indeed, it was perhaps the main theme of the book by Peters and Waterman, in the form of their " Superordinate Goals.

Surprisingly, the first solution to this flaw was published by software utility company Connectix, whose 1991 product MODE32 reinitialized the Memory Manager and repeated early parts of the Mac boot process, allowing the system to boot into 32-bit mode and enabling the use of all the RAM in the machine.

Surprisingly, just before impact, several of the deployed rockets are destroyed by the missiles of the Quintans, undermining the symmetry of the implosion which causes fragments of the moon to be thrown clear, some impacting the planet's surface.

When the master tape is played, it turns out that Ryder, despite being hailed by Wilson as " the greatest poet since Yeats ", was unable to write any lyrics ( or, as implied in a cutaway segment called " The Life and Surprisingly Strange Adventures of Ryderson Crusoe, refused to write them ; " Why the fuck should I?!

" Surprisingly, Herger did not immediately distance himself from the remark then and there, but, instead, after the constituent's lengthy comment, responded by saying, " Amen.

Surprisingly, any computation that can be performed by this sort of machine can also be performed by an ordinary Turing machine, although the latter may be slower or require a larger total region of its tape.

Surprisingly, the authorities ignore repeated calls by experts to construct such roads around, instead of through, the forests, which in this way would no longer threaten the animal and plant life.

Surprisingly, Walter ( who is being chased by Gnasher ) wins.

Surprisingly, in 2006, the bodies of fourteen Germans killed during the fighting were discovered in a mass grave near the town by a local medical student, and exhumed.

Surprisingly, Dorothy " destroys " the Witch by throwing a pail of water on her, causing her to melt.