Though very interested in the American Civil War and Mathew Brady ’ s battlefield photographs, Hopper made only two historical pictures.

" Brady Frank describes the mixed feelings that critics have in regards to The Life of Samuel Johnson when he says, " Though Boswell is the world's greatest, critics have consistently patronized Boswell the man.

Though Koechner, who usually writes and improvises his material, had no involvement with the screenplay, he complimented director Tom Brady for taking " great care to make it as smart as he could ," adding that it's a sports comedy rather than a spoof.

Though both the Brady Games strategy guide's subway map and the printed map that comes with the collector's edition show the various subway lines using different colors as in real life, the player does not need to transfer to different lines in the game to get to the various stations.

Though his inner thoughts cringed at it, he forced himself to think back, recreating the scene in which Mae claimed to have caught him molesting the child.

Though the FA Cup is the oldest domestic football competition in the world, its trophy is not the oldest ; that title is claimed by the Youdan Cup.

Though he reputedly claimed that as a vaudevillian he was " hopelessly average ," it was merely a wisecrack.

Though Philby claimed publicly in January 1988 that he did not regret his decisions, and that he missed nothing about England except some friends, Colman's mustard, and Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce, his KGB-appointed wife Rufina later described Philby as " disappointed in many ways " by what he found in Moscow.

Though these regions are in practice administered by their respective claimants, neither India nor Pakistan has formally recognised the accession of the areas claimed by the other.

Though Ichijō already had an empress, a daughter of Michitaka, he claimed there were two types of empresshood and therefore it was legal for an emperor to have two empresses at the same time.

Though it is claimed the focus is not on " inputs ", OBE is criticised for being used to justify increased funding requirements, increased graduation and testing requirements, and additional preparation, homework, and continuing education time spent by students, parents and teachers in supporting learning.

Though Mary claimed that Sonny's drug use caused the accident, the autopsy performed by the Douglas County Coroner showed no indication of any substances or alcohol.

Though she employed only women and claimed to hate the male gender, Darcy had an intense, incestuous love for her brother David.

Though Time and its magazines claimed a higher tone, it was the Warner Bros. film and music units which provided the profits.

Though there were no further kings in Aegina, the kings of Epirus claimed descent from Peleus in the historic period.

Though Stürmer insisted that he was writing on behalf of himself and not in an official capacity as the Chancellor's advisor, many left-wing intellectuals claimed that Stürmer's essay also expressed Kohl's views.

Though the family was working class, it was not as impoverished as London's later accounts claimed.

Though their experiments identified both the positron and the neutron, they failed to interpret the significance of the results and the discoveries were later claimed by Carl David Anderson and James Chadwick respectively.

Though Hopper claimed that he didn ’ t consciously embed psychological meaning in his paintings, he was deeply interested in Freud and the power of the subconscious mind.

Though the King claimed in his memoirs that it was the fear of a civil war that motivated his actions, it would seem that he received some ' alternative ' advice, possibly from the archconservative Salandra as well as General Armando Diaz, that it would be better to do a deal with Mussolini.

Though he was not actually defeated, his death in the pass, while on his way back to Toledo, occurred in circumstances which showed that no man could be what he claimed to be — " king of the men of the two religions.

Though the purpose of Eden's visit was anti-German rather than anti-Soviet, Molotov assumed otherwise and in a series of conversations with the Italian Ambassador Augusto Rosso, Molotov claimed that the Soviet Union would soon be faced with an Anglo-Turkish invasion of the Crimea.

Though movie director George Lucas may claim American Graffiti was his youth in Modesto, thousands of Valley teenagers claimed " Van Nuys Blvd cruise night " as a vital teenage right of passage.

Though the Syrian government claimed periodically that it used its influence to restrain the rhetoric and activities of Palestinian groups, Meshaal freely traveled around Damascus and the Syrian government allowed Meshaal's use of the Syrian Ministry of Information as the venue for press conferences.

Though disputed, the Federal Highway Administration has claimed the section of I-70 through Glenwood Canyon, completed in 1992, was the last piece of the Interstate Highway system, as originally planned, to open to traffic.

Though their territory had been claimed by Spain since the early 16th century, they would have relatively little contact with Europeans until 1769, when, as part of an effort to colonize Alta California, an exploration party led by Don Gaspar de Portolà learned of the existence of San Francisco Bay.

Though most civic leaders and journalists had been optimistic -– one reporter claimed " almost every indicator of economic, population, and civic growth points to the fact that Moline's potential for growth is greater than ever.

Though Swan had beaten him to this goal, Edison obtained patents in America for a fairly direct copy of the Swan light, and started an advertising campaign that claimed that he was the real inventor.

Though there are no longer any supporters of the " Pan Giorgionismus " which a century ago claimed for Giorgione nearly every painting of the time that at all resembles his manner, there are still, as then, exclusive critics who reduce to half a dozen the list of extant pictures which they will admit to be actually by this master.

Though several configurations have been tried, particularly in the early experimental days of tank development, a standard, mature design configuration has since emerged to a generally accepted pattern.

Though no records exist of this design being built during Leonardo's lifetime, contemporary enthusiasts have reconstructed it.

Though it typically may be expected that operational requirements are automatically met by a DBMS, in fact it is not so in most of the cases: To be met substantial work of design and tuning is typically needed by database administrators.

Though containing some Egyptian and French neo-Classicist features, the design was basically a huge Greek temple in the Doric style, loosely modelled on the Parthenon in Athens, though raised up on an enormous geometric plinth and flanked by numerous obelisks ( the Egyptian element ).

Though the SVG Specification primarily focuses on vector graphics markup language, its design includes the basic capabilities of a page description language ( PDL ), like Adobe's PDF.

Though Lupis ' original design had been rope guided, torpedoes were not wire-guided until the 1960s.

Though the Booch " cloud " notation was dropped, the Booch capability to specify lower-level design detail was embraced.

Though the decline of the Roman Empire was the main subject which Zosimus selected, it was perhaps his ambition to imitate Polybius which led him to introduce various matters connected with Persian, Grecian, and Macedonian history, which are not very intimately connected with his main design.

Though he originally rode at Stratton Mountain, Vermont, his home mountain is now Okemo, VT. Ross helps with the design of the Superpipe and also helped design the RossCross Family Terrain Park.

( Though ISC used Daisy workstations running Daisy DNIX to design the machines that would run DIAB's DNIX, there was negligible confusion internally as the drafting and layout staff rarely talked to the software staff.

Though Liberty BASIC has its share of limitations in its design for advanced programming, it makes a credible and very usable introductory integrated development environment, IDE, for moderate to advanced users of Windows and OS / 2.

Though the performances were in English, of which Berlioz knew virtually none, he was still able to grasp the grandeur and sublimnity of Shakespeare's language along with the richness of the plays ' dramatic design.

Though the structure was never built, its design was engraved and circulated widely in professional circles.

Though Topps un-retired the # 7 in 2006, the number is reserved for cards of Mantle, remade with each year's design.

Though the outward appearance of the engine is the same as before, new quality control techniques employ better alloying and casting, better engineering tolerances, and better paint and chrome while retaining the advantage of continuity with the inherently balanced design of a horizontally opposed flat twin engine with roller bearings in a solid frame.

Though U. S. Route 101 remains a major coastal north – south link along the Pacific coast north of San Francisco, it has been replaced in overall importance for transport through the West Coast states by Interstate 5, which is more modern in its physical design, goes through more major cities, and has more direct routing due to significantly easier geography over much of the route.

* The books Illium and Olympos by Dan Simmons refer to numerous vision and information functions that have been become incorporated into the human body through design ( Though the humans in question have no knowledge of these functions, rediscovering them as the story progresses ).

Though Ellicott made revisions to the original plans, including changes to some street patterns, L ' Enfant is still credited with the overall design of the city.

Though many residents opposed it at the time, in 1967 two large multi-occupancy buildings of brutalist architectural design were built on the lakefront to create an opportunity for comfortable apartment dwelling in a municipality where previously only free-standing single-family housing existed.

Though no architect is known to have designed Mount Vernon, some attribute the design to John Ariss ( 1725 – 1799 ), a prominent Virginia architect who designed Paynes Church in Fairfax County ( now destroyed ) and likely Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia.

Though less flexible than a modular design, normalization made the instrument more portable and easier to use.

Though similar in appearance to the original design, it is nevertheless a contemporary performance bicycle and features advanced design and components.

Though Rand was a recluse in his creative process, doing the vast majority of the design load despite having a large staff at varying points in his career, he was very interested in producing books of theory to illuminate his philosophies.