Though the Astros were poised to close out the series in Game Five in Houston, Brad Lidge gave up a monstrous two-out three-run home run to Albert Pujols, forcing the series to a sixth game in St. Louis, where the Astros clinched a World Series appearance.

Though a congregation of bishops assembled at Paris in December 1761 recommended no action, Louis XV of France ( 1715 – 74 ) promulgated a royal order permitting the Society to remain in the kingdom, with the proviso that certain essentially liberalising changes in their institution satisfy the Parlement with a French Jesuit vicar-general who should be independent of the general in Rome.

Though St. Louis ' defense did not give up a touchdown to the Patriots, kicker Adam Vinateri made a 37-yard field goal to increase New England's lead to 17 – 3.

Though he had offers from the St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Yankees while he was still in high school, his mother thought he was too young to leave home, so he signed up with the local minor league club, the San Diego Padres.

Though Louis was partly educated in Vienna and became co-regent of his brother Rudolf I in Upper Bavaria in 1301 with the support of his Habsburg mother Matilda and her brother King Albert I, he quarrelled with the Habsburgs from 1307 over possessions in Lower Bavaria.

Though it is not as powerful as it once was under Louis XIV and it no longer reigns in its native country of France, it is by no means extinct, and the House of Bourbon has survived to the present-day world of republics.

Though Louis performed his role beyond all expectations, and did his best to defend the interests of his subjects, this was exactly the reason why Napoleon decided that the Netherlands could no longer be denied the blessings of being reunited with his Empire, though over the objections of Louis.

Though St. Louis shag is still often danced to swing music, Carolina shag is more closely associated with a variant of rhythm and blues known as " beach music ".

Though the older brother, Napoleon, had intended for the younger brother to be little more than a French governor of Holland, Louis took his duties as the King seriously, calling himself Koning Lodewijk I ( adopting the Dutch form of his name ), attempting to learn the Dutch language, and trying hard to be a responsible, independent ruler of Holland.

Though a furious Constance accuses Philip of abandoning Arthur, Louis and Blanche are married.

Though the film won the Critics ' Award at the Berlin Film Festival it never saw popular release due to complications in securing the music rights for the 22 songs on the soundtrack, which included such big names as Dinah Washington, Paul Robeson, Louis Armstrong and Earth, Wind and Fire.

Though he was technically the Emperor's feudal vassal, John had been able to ignore Emperor Louis IV's summons to join him in his intended invasion of Lombardy ( 1327 ).

Though he had had many children by Frederuna, it was his son by Eadgifu who would eventually be crowned in 936 as Louis IV of France.

Though not fully completed, it was brought to a playable stage by Easter 2010 and had its inaugural performance ( the Gloria of Louis Vierne's Messe Solennelle ) at the Easter Vigil service on 3 April 2010.

Though the East St. Louis strike continued in an orderly fashion, across the river there were isolated incidents of violence.

Though Louis rose, he was badly dazed for the remainder of the fight and Schmeling subsequently delivered the finest performance of his career.

Though married four times, Louis discreetly enjoyed the company of both African-American and European-American women, including Lena Horne, Sonja Henie and Lana Turner.

They have been introduced to Grand Cayman, Puerto Rico, Texas, Florida, Hawaii, and the United States Virgin Islands .< ref name =" wildblue "> Though the species is not native to Martinique, a small wild colony of released or escaped Green Iguanas endures at historic Fort Saint Louis.

Though he was not declared incapacitated, a regent's council ( Archduke Louis, Count Kolowrat and Prince Metternich ) steered the government.

Though jazz had long since achieved some limited popularity, it was Louis Armstrong who became one of the first popular stars and a major force in the development of jazz, along with his friend pianist Earl Hines.

Though a welcome sight at first, Frankie turns his gun on Charlie and Louis, stating that " Sal isn't happy " and that Charlie has " screwed up final straw big ".

Though he had to prepare his defence arguments in a short amount of time, his brilliance shone through in a first draft that, although moving, Louis rejected as too rhetorical, saying, " I do not want to play on their ( the Convention's ) feelings ".

Though best known and honored for baseball work, Caray also called Missouri Tigers football as well as St. Louis Billikens, Boston Celtics and St. Louis Hawks basketball in the 1950s and ' 60s.

Though he did go on to win the race, it is statistically, and by Armstrong's own admission, his weakest Tour from his seven-year period of dominance over the race.

Though Fox's work has now been to some extent revised, it remains a vital record of stretches of the Dyke that still existed between 1926 and 1928, when his three field surveys took place, but that are now destroyed.

Though he retired from Harvard's presidency in 1909, Eliot lived until 1926.

Though he thereafter resigned his cabinet post, Massey was still included in the Canadian delegation to the 1926 Imperial Conference, where was drafted the Balfour Declaration that would ultimately lead to vast constitutional changes in the role of the monarch and his viceroys throughout the former empire.

Though Briand was defeated by Raymond Poincaré in 1926, Painlevé continued in office.

Archeologists Neil Price and Magnus Alkarp are among those who dispute the 1926 interpretation: " Though still maintained today in school textbooks and elsewhere, this conclusion is clearly erroneous as the postholes can be shown stratigraphically to belong to several different phases of construction.

Though natives of the Gobi have long told tales of the olgoi-khorkhoi, the creature first came to Western attention as a result of Professor Roy Chapman Andrews's 1926 book On the Trail of Ancient Man.

Though the partnership came to an end in 1926, with Westinghouse buying out Edison's interest in KYW, Insull's interest in broadcasting did not stop there.

Though it was part of the original 1926 numbering plan, it was deleted within 10 years.

Though it had been around since 1917, Cheerwine first became a registered trademark in 1926.

Though the rest of the company returned to Russia in 1926, she stayed to pursue career in the United States.

Though Herbert Hoover and Charles Evans Hughes campaigned for his opponent, in the December 1926 special election Walsh won the right to complete the remaining two years of Lodge's term, defeating William Morgan Butler, a friend of Coolidge and head of the Republican National Committee.

Though he had found steady work since arriving in California, Williams had a short period in 1926 where there were no roles for him ; he then went to work as an immigration officer.

Though the club has been in existence since 1926 it was in 1954 that the old orchard of Ham House was converted in to a polo ground for the club.

Though the animation industry did not begin until the arrival of the Wan brothers in 1926.

Though limited in resources, the band began recording and producing songs within Shinoda ’ s makeshift bedroom studio in 1996, resulting in a 4-track demo tape.

Though opera patronage has decreased in the last century in favor of other arts and media ( such as musicals, cinema, radio, television and recordings ), mass media and the advent of recording have supported the popularity of many famous singers including Maria Callas, Enrico Caruso, Kirsten Flagstad, Mario Del Monaco, Risë Stevens, Alfredo Kraus, Franco Corelli, Montserrat Caballé, Joan Sutherland, Birgit Nilsson, Nellie Melba, Rosa Ponselle, Beniamino Gigli, Jussi Björling, Feodor Chaliapin, and " The Three Tenors " ( Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and José Carreras ).

Though most survived only briefly, perhaps recording a small-label single or two, others set off new trends.

Though Edison's recording technology was better than Berliner's, there were commercial advantages to a disc system since the disc could be easily mass produced by molding and stamping and it required less storage space for a collection of recordings.

Though the recording was deemed too controversial and ultimately omitted from the show, Mayhew praised the experience, calling it " the most interesting thing I ever did ".

Though they provide superior picture quality through countless playbacks, Laserdiscs were always overshadowed by VHS because of their high price and lack of recording abilities.

Though as the production of Fantasia developed, the setup used for The Sorcerer's Apprentice was abandoned for different multi-channel recording arrangements.

Though receiving mixed reviews, the band described the album as " diverse ", " experimental " and " spontaneous " and that the writing and recording process was " very different " as the band were working under pressure.

Though It failed commercially and fame was still elusive, the band continued to seek commercial success even to the point of recording a single, " Everybody's Problem "/" There Was ".

Though Love and Erlandson had authorized Schemel's replacement, Love stated in 2011 that Beinhorn was notorious for replacing drummers during recording, and referred to him as " a Nazi ".

" Though he was a pioneer in musical film, his star honors him as a recording artist.

Though he had few performances of his music, and the BBC, the International Society for Contemporary Music ( ISCM ) Festival and the publishers Boosey & Hawkes all turned down the Concerto for Double String Orchestra ( later to be one of his most popular works ), a private recording of the First Piano Sonata by Phyllis Sellick attracted favourable reviews.

Though it began touring and recording modestly in the 1960s and early 1970s under the batons of a young Zubin Mehta and Franz-Paul Decker, the MSO became a household name under the directorship of Charles Dutoit, who became music director in 1977 after the brief tenure and jolting departure of Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos.

Though her powerful voice and disposition are not captured on her recordings ( due to her recording exclusively for Paramount, which was known for worse-than-normal recording techniques and among the industry's poorest shellac quality ), the other characteristics are present, and most evident on her early recordings, Bo-weevil Blues and Moonshine Blues.

Though it is unclear as to the level of their participation in " Let's Dance The Screw ", the ' real ' Crystals definitely began recording again under their own name in 1963.

Though the original blend sequences from the original album remained the same, Sasha and Digweed re-created the album using Apple G4 laptops in order to create, what they considered, a better quality version of the original mix, with recording techniques simply not available in 1994, as well as the advantage of crystal clear audio, and spatial separation of frequencies within the song, making it sound more dynamic.

Though there are several other types of digital recorder still in use, hard disk systems are rapidly becoming the preferred method for studio recording.

" Though still a member through the recording of the album, Grotberg left the band before the Smile tour, and was replaced by Jen Gunderman.

Though the government had expected Bantu Radio to play folk music, African music had developed into numerous pop genres, and the nascent recording studios used radio to push their pop stars.

Though magnetic tape has not been universally replaced as a recording medium, the advantages of non-linear editing ( NLE ) and recording have resulted in digital systems largely superseding tape.

Though the debut is regarded as a landmark recording, The Crypt was arguably even more important in establishing the droning, long-form music that would come to characterize AMM.

Though not as popular a recording center as before, Muscle Shoals continues to be an important contributor to American popular music and is home to a number of the world's most successful songwriters, musicians and producers.