Though better known as a painter of frescoes, Tassi also painted some canvases, which include Arrival of the Queen of Sheba before Solomon ( c. 1610 ) and Entry of Taddeo Barberini from the Porta del Popolo ( 1632 ).

Though DeMille completed the film, it proved to be his last, for he never fully recovered, and died on January 21, 1959 of heart failure.

Though their flesh has died and rotted away, their minds still live on within their skeletons, which communicate telepathically.

Though Farmer died in 1839, his efforts led to the creation of the New England Historic Genealogical Society ( NEHGS ), one of New England's oldest and most prominent organizations dedicated to the preservation of public records.

Though the Indian music craze soon died down among mainstream audiences, die hard fans and immigrants continued the fusion.

Though initially successful, Julian was mortally wounded in battle and died shortly after.

Though Sanjō was a nephew of Michinaga ( the mother of Sanjō was another sister of Michinaga ; she had died already in Sanjō's childhood and he was relatively less influenced by his maternal line ).

Though Oxford died in 1604 before approximately 12 of the plays were written according to the generally-accepted chronology, Oxfordians say that regular publication of new, " newly augmented ", and " corrected " Shakespeare plays stopped with Oxford's death in 1604, and they interpret certain written references to Shakespeare between 1604 and 1616 to mean that the writer was dead.

Though his earliest publications date from his mid-twenties, Valéry did not become a full-time writer until 1920, when the man for whom he worked as private secretary, a former chief executive of the Havas news agency, Edouard Lebey, died of Parkinson's disease.

Though he died owing money, his novels continued to sell and the debts encumbering his estate were eventually discharged.

Though born into a wealthy slave-owning family, Jefferson had many financial problems, and died deeply in debt.

Though his early reception in the city seems to have been lukewarm, Procopius won favor quickly by using propaganda to his advantage: he sealed off the city to outside reports and began spreading rumors that Valentinian had died ; he began minting coinage flaunting his connections to the Constantinian dynasty ; and he further exploited dynastic claims by using the widow and daughter of Constantius II to act as showpieces for his regime.

Though Jobst had the greater support among the electors, he died on January 18, 1411, clearing the way for Sigismund's election as king and later Holy Roman Emperor.

Though King Wu died just a few years after the Battle of Muye, the Duke of Zhou assisted the young and inexperienced King Cheng in consolidating power for the Ji line: he managed a war against rebellious Zhou princes in the eastern lowlands ( allied with feudal rulers and Shang remnants ); formulated the Mandate of Heaven doctrine to counter Shang claims to a divine right of rule ; founded Chengzhou as an eastern capital ; and set up the fengjian " feudal " system designed to maintain Zhou authority as it expanded its rule over a larger amount of territory.

" Though he suffered all his life from the condition spondyloarthritis, Karel Čapek died of double pneumonia on December 25, 1938 shortly after part of Czechoslovakia was annexed by Nazi Germany following the so-called Munich Agreement.

Though Nobel wrote several wills during his lifetime, the last was written a little over a year before he died, and signed at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris on 27 November 1895.

Though Kerr, who died in 1991, continues to be reviled in some quarters, Whitlam and Fraser later reconciled.

Though Mistinguett never married, she had a son, Léopoldo João de Lima e Silva, by Brazilian diplomat Leopoldo de Lima e Silva ( died 1931 ); the latter was a grandson of the Duke of Caxias.

Though William Barbee died shortly after establishing himself and his family in North Carolina, one of his eight children, Christopher Barbee, became an important contributor to his father ’ s adopted community and to the fledgling University of North Carolina.

Though Stephen died before being able to return to Rome, Agnes ' help was instrumental in letting Hildebrand depose the Antipope and with Agnes ' support replace him by the Bishop of Florence, Nicholas II.

Though he died in Padua, he was born and raised in a wealthy family in Lisbon.

Though initially crops sprouted quickly and lushly, they just as quickly wilted and died seemingly without reason.

Though he died from rheumatic heart disease in Hamburg, while shooting interiors on The Lovers of Montparnasse, Ophüls was buried in Le Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

Though gravely injured, he survived the immediate explosion, but he died of his wounds a few hours later.

Though the school died in 1883, the town streets still bear the names of several well-known 19th-century Baptists: Judson and Hasseltine ( after Adoniram Judson and his wife, Ann Hasseltine Judson ), Wayland ( after Francis Wayland, president of Brown University in Rhode Island ), Wade ( after missionary Jonathan Wade ) and Boardman ( after missionary George Boardman, whose widow, Sarah Hall Boardman became Judson's second wife ).

Though notably, while Athenians tended to refer to metics by their name and deme of residence ( the same democratic scheme used for citizens ), on their tombstones freeborn metics who died in Athens preferred to name the cities from which they had come and of which they were citizens still.

Though the work was written for the di Medici family in order to perhaps influence them to free him from exile, Machiavelli supported the Republic of Florence rather than the oligarchy of the di Medici family.

Though there is no explicit record of this, it is usually assumed that Sappho returned from exile at some point and that she spent most of her life in Lesbos.

Though Lepidus eventually fell out of political favor and was sent into exile as Augustus consolidated power, he retained the priestly office until his death in 13 BC, at which point Augustus was selected to succeed him and given the right to appoint other pontifices.

Though many Palestinians still were opposed to compromising on the principle of defeating Israel by armed struggle, the existing groups could not channel their desires, as many of them were led by the elite among the exile population, who were detached from the reality of the refugee camps, be they in the West Bank and Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, or Jordan.

Though born in exile, he and his family held the ranks of princes and princesses of the blood and the title of " Serene Highness ".

Though released once again several years later, he was never officially rehabilitated and remained in exile in Magadan where he died in 1994.

Though rejecting the ultra-minimalist position that places the composition of the Bible in the Persian or Greek period, i. e., after the return from the Babylonian exile, he argues that much of the Bible was written from the seventh through the 5th century BCE Notwithstanding his dismissal of the literal approach to Biblical history, Finkelstein believes that ' New archaeological discoveries should not erode one's sense of tradition and identity '.

Though the bulk of his confiscated estates were lost beyond recall, he did not share the angry resentment of most of the returning émigrés, from whose company and intrigues he had held himself aloof during his long Russian exile.

Though it was generally believed that he had died in prison, popular legend had spoken of the young prince being spirited away from his prison and living in exile.

" Quoique Steinbock eût vingt-neuf ans, il paraissait, comme certains blonds, avoir cinq ou six ans de moins ... cette jeunesse ... avait cédé sous les fatigues et les misères de l ' exil " (" Though Steinbock was nine-and-twenty, like many fair men, he looked five or six years younger ... his youth ... had faded under the fatigue and stress of life in exile ".

Though he is given a job similar to what he has left behind in the city — a murder investigation — Wilson's exile to the wintry countryside marks the beginning of his journey of redemption.

Though he lived in exile for many decades, Beti's life reveals an unflagging commitment to improvement of his home country.

Though initially stating that he intended to remain in Panama, Delvalle soon went into the exile in the US.

Though it was vaulted over by 1524, the ambitious projects of its sculpture and the intervention of events, such as the temporary exile of the Medici ( 1527 ), the death of Giulio, now Pope Clement VII and the permanent departure of Michelangelo for Rome in 1534, meant that Michelangelo never finished it.

Though this did not happen, Coddington managed to resist union with Providence until 1647 when representatives of the four towns ultimately met and adopted the Williams patent of 1643.