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.

In describing the list to readers, Paul MacInnes from British newspaper The Guardian wrote, " Surprisingly enough for an American magazine, the top 10 is fair jam-packed with Yanks ," though he also noted three exceptions in the top 10.

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

Surprisingly, God will supposedly consider, for example, someone's woe filled thoughts for the suffering of mankind as a prayer for help toward them even though one or both are " unbelievers ".

Surprisingly the merger was finally approved in 1970 even though a challenge occurred in the Supreme Court, which reversed the result of the 1904 Northern Securities ruling.

Surprisingly, he held only 13 catches though he was still one of the best leg slip fielders in the game, but he continued to provide the occasional good innings and made his highest score to date of 80 not out among 4 half-centuries and a season's total of 809 runs.

Surprisingly, though most ships on both sides were damaged, and some severely, no ships from either battle line were lost.

Surprisingly, duck meat is rarely found on menus in West Bengal even though the birds are common in the many ponds and lakes.

Surprisingly, even though she resembles a diminutive 15-year-old or perhaps younger, her real age is 21 ; her physical development was stunted due to her " standstills ", in the same way that they affect Kei.

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 though, the Fort didn't finish bottom that season with the unfortunate honour this time going to Nairn County.

Surprisingly though, it was Mare Winningham who actually went on to receive an Oscar nomination ( as well as an Independent Spirit Award and Screen Actors Guild nomination ) as Best Supporting Actress, while Leigh was controversially overlooked by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, much to the disappointment of critics and fans.

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, though USC dropped initially in the polls, they worked their way back up to the No. 3 spot by the final week of the season.

" In a DVD review of the first season, David B. Grelck gave the episode a rating of 3½ / 5 and commented: " Surprisingly, this early episode has a lot of the zest of the later shows, despite fairly odd looking art and a very Walter Matthau voice for Homer, still has some laughs ".

Surprisingly, given the work of scholars over the decades such as W. E. B Dubois (

Surprisingly, the maximum was of 38 ° C before 1910 ; and minima of-5 ° C, which has increased to-2 ° C.

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

Surprisingly, he found that the very first folder reached the target in just four days and took only two intermediate acquaintances.

Surprisingly, the officer did not kill Szpilman, but instead after finding out that he was a pianist, asked Szpilman to play for him on a piano they had found.

Surprisingly, Poseidon's name is found with greater frequency than that of Zeus, and is commonly linked ( often in a secondary role ) with Demeter.

Surprisingly, approximately 80 percent of the air-dropped sensors were found to be operational after delivery.

Surprisingly no clear water could be found in the satellite image.

Surprisingly the White-winged Duck is also found the central Sumatra province of Riau, specifically in the peatland acacia plantations of a large pulp and paper company.

Surprisingly, he even found support among some voters who had favored Logan four years earlier.

Surprisingly, Flynn hits a single, and Blake follows with a double ( Flynn reaching third on the play ).

Surprisingly, Cook never sighted the largest island, Rarotonga, and the only island that he personally set foot on was tiny, uninhabited Palmerston Atoll.

Surprisingly from a modern perspective, little was made of the war crime status of her actions ; as discussed below, the German authorities instead justified prosecution merely on the basis of the German law and the interests of the German state.

Surprisingly, Thomson did not send Joule a copy of his paper but when Joule eventually read it he wrote to Thomson on 6 October, claiming that his studies had demonstrated conversion of heat into work but that he was planning further experiments.

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, the town of Tobyhanna, Tobyhanna Lake, the Tobyhanna Army Depot, and the Tobyhanna State Park are all located well within the boundaries of Coolbaugh Township, which adjoins Tobyhanna Township on the north.

Surprisingly, “ Hip Hug-Her ” was the first single released with Jones on a Hammond B-3 organ, the instrument he is most known for playing ( he played a Hammond M-3 on all of the earlier recordings, including " Green Onions ").

Surprisingly, she also had some pop chart success in 1960 with " Serenata " on Roulette and a couple of residual tracks from her Mercury contract, " Eternally " and " You're My Baby ".

Surprisingly, the village records omit any mention this event, and the parish register of 1645 makes absolutely no mention to the battle, with the vicar only recording one birth in the parish on the day of the battle.

Surprisingly, despite predictable tail winds that blow up the Himalayas ( in the same direction of travel as the geese ), bar-headed geese spurn these winds, waiting for them to die down overnight, when they then undertake the greatest rates of climbing flight ever recorded for a bird, and sustain these climbs rates for hours on end.

Surprisingly it was her last Top 40 Pop hit, but Manchester continued to place singles on the Adult Contemporary charts throughout the 1980s.

Surprisingly, most went on to become best sellers and some even set new standards for games of their genres.

Surprisingly they are not officially called holidays and are not so marked in calendars, but for most people, are not working days, and in practice they differ from official holidays only in that most shops are open on those days from early morning till noon.

( Surprisingly, it was issued in the US on Liberty with a modified cover.

Surprisingly, in 2007 the IIHS reported that in real life situations, the 2001-2004 Chevrolet Astro recorded during calendar years 2002-2005 the least number of killed drivers of all passenger vehicles in the United States, as calculated per every million units on the road.

Surprisingly, this Pacific species has wandered to western Europe as a rare vagrant on a number of occasions, and has interbred with the Sandwich Tern in France ; there is also one record from Cape Town, South Africa in January 2006, the first record for Africa.

Surprisingly, I wasn't too cold, except around where my mouth held on to my regulator, and that instantly froze and became numb.

Surprisingly, the Canadian Mathematical Society did not invite James Rickards to the 2010 Canadian IMO team, making him the first student in over a decade to have placed 2nd on the CMO, but not to have been announced a member of the IMO team.

Surprisingly, in the 1997 leadership election, Gorman deserted right-winger John Redwood because she believed that he was " a bad-mannered, insensitive snob whose remarks on single mothers were a disaster ".