Though Nobel remained unmarried, his biographers note that he had at least three loves.

Though Gondwana was still intact in the beginning of the Cretaceous, it broke up as South America, Antarctica and Australia rifted away from Africa ( though India and Madagascar remained attached to each other ); thus, the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans were newly formed.

Though there remained a nominal Zhou king until 256 BC, he was largely a figurehead and held little real power.

Though the rest of the original Barlow family were killed off, Ken has remained the constant link throughout the entire series of Coronation Street.

Though devastated by the loss, at fifty-five years of age, Beaux remained highly productive.

Though Alexander and his successor, John XXIII, gained widespread support, especially at the cost of the Avignon pope, the schism remained, now involving not two but three claimants: Gregory XII at Rome, Benedict XIII at Avignon and John XXIII.

Though he remained firmly neutral, each side accused him of siding with the other, perhaps because of his neutrality.

Though their influence declined, the clan remained close advisors to the succeeding Emperors.

Though most banks were sold to foreign investors, the largest bank, National Savings Bank ( OTP ), remained Hungarian-owned.

Though it remained popular with mass audiences, late 17th-century Restoration critics saw Hamlet as primitive and disapproved of its lack of unity and decorum.

Though Davis remained in bed, he was stable for the next two weeks, but took a turn for the worse in early December.

Though many delegates emerged in the East subservient to Justinian, many, especially the Monophysites, remained unsatisfied ; all the more bitter for him because during his last years he took an even greater interest in theological matters.

Though Berry only made a partial recovery, he remained a high-profile example for patients with traumatic brain injury.

Though his name was then a household word ( as was " existentialism " during the tumultuous 1960s ), Sartre remained a simple man with few possessions, actively committed to causes until the end of his life, such as the May 1968 strikes in Paris during the summer of 1968 during which he was arrested for civil disobedience.

Though the British rewarded John Harrison for his marine chronometer in 1773, chronometers remained very expensive and the lunar distance method continued to be used for decades.

Though the stratification of food services in Beijing was no longer effected by imperial laws, the structure more or less remained despite continuous weakening due to the financial background of the local clientele.

Though the duchy's territory officially became an integral part of the Netherlands by the 1867 Treaty of London, the text passage remained unchanged when the Deutschlandlied was declared the national anthem of the Weimar Republic in 1922.

Though cognitive scholars have made some attempts to take on board the idea that different languages have evolved radically different concepts and conceptual metaphors, they have on the whole remained tied up in the somewhat reductive concept of worldview which derives from the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.

Though this regulation was replaced by a constitution () in 1936, the changes to the government structure remained superficial, and Curaçao continued to be ruled as a colony.

Though Breton admired Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp and courted them to join the movement, they remained peripheral.

Though not as dynamic as the previous year, Dallas ' offense remained incredibly efficient.

Though the people of Venice generally remained orthodox Roman Catholics, the state of Venice was notable for its freedom from religious fanaticism and it enacted not a single execution for religious heresy during the Counter-Reformation.

Though Kamakura Bakufu took over the police force and ruled Eastern Japan, the authority of Emperor and retired Emperors remained.

Though he had remained in seclusion himself, Cyprian now censured all laxity toward the lapsed, refused absolution to them except in case of mortal sickness, and desired to postpone the question of their re-admission to the Church to quieter times.

Though the tomb of Aeacus remained in a shrine enclosure in the most conspicuous part of the port city, a quadrangular enclosure of white marble sculpted with bas-reliefs, in the form in which Pausanias saw it, with the tumulus of Phocus nearby, there was no temenos of Peleus at Aegina.

Though influential in their own right, these strands of research have not been given much attention in the debate surrounding linguistic relativity, which has tended to center on the American paradigm exemplified by Sapir and Whorf.

Though it is sometimes said to be a word in the Delaware languages for this area, like much of the toponymy involving languages in the Algonquian linguistic group, there is some confusion about the meaning and history of the name.

Though the Indians soon became, and remain, a majority on the island, their own linguistic fragmentation and alienation from the English-and French-speaking white elite led them to take up Mauritian Creole as their main lingua franca.

Though there is little historical evidence available to support the argument that the Saurashtrians lived in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat in Western India, folklore, and recent linguistic and genetic researches have been able to establish, that this region was indeed once the habitat of the Saurashtrians.

Though the subject of an ongoing linguistic and grammatical debate for being a bizarre form of a suffixed noun affixed with a second suffix, the term nonetheless gained wide if not universal currency among students and professors, that even a secondary publication was named " The Wesleyanian " and the term has been used repeatedly to refer to its community in a number of publications, speeches and even in official documents.

Though Goropius had admirers ( among them Abraham Ortelius and Richard Hakluyt ), his etymologies have been considered " linguistic chauvinism ," and Leibniz coined the term " goropism " to mean " absurd etymology.

Though yet confined to a few notaries and dignitaries of the emperors, such poetry shows for the first time uniform linguistic traits and a richness in vocabulary far exceeding that of the Sicilian dialect ( s ) by which it was inspired.

Though it may exist in either literate or illiterate societies, it assumes a role of true cultural importance only in the latter.

Though details of genealogy differ from one ancient author to another, the cultural significance of the mythic theme, that the descendants of Heracles, exiled after his death, returned after some generations in order to reclaim land that their ancestors had held in Mycenaean Greece, was to assert the primal legitimacy of a traditional ruling clan that traced its origin, thus its legitimacy, to Heracles.

Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience about topics ranging from government and business organizations to cultural aspects of society such as arts and entertainment.

Though cultural features, language, clothing, and customs vary enormously from one tribe to another, there are certain elements which are encountered frequently and shared by many tribes.

Though today an Arabic-speaking people, that aspect constitutes for Egyptians a cultural dimension of their identity, not a necessary attribute of or prop for their national political being.

Though the descriptive words at polar opposites may vary, often in popular biaxial spectra the axes are split between cultural issues and economic issues, each scaling from some form of individualism ( or government for the freedom of the individual ) to some form of communitarianism ( or government for the welfare of the community ).

Though by no means a unified movement with a set of shared axioms or methodologies, Post-structuralism emphasizes the ways in which different aspects of a cultural order, from its most banal material details to its most abstract theoretical exponents, determine one another ( rather than espousing a series of strict, uni-directional, cause and effect relationships – see Reductionism – or resorting to Epiphenomenalism ).

Though the terminology originates with the Japanese publishers, cultural differences with the West mean that labelling in English tends to vary wildly, with the types often confused and mis-applied.

Though at first an enthusiastic champion of Wagner's music, Nietzsche ultimately became hostile, viewing the festival and its revellers as symptom of cultural decay and bourgeois decadence — an event which led him to turn his eye upon the moral values esteemed by society as a whole-" Nietzsche clearly preferred to see Bayreuth fail than succeed by mirroring a society gone wrong.

Though many of the masterworks have been dispersed, the cultural value of Mantua is nonetheless outstanding, with many of Mantua's patrician and ecclesiastical buildings being uniquely important examples of Italian architecture.

Though 97 % of Argentina's population self-identify as of European descent to this day a high level of multiculturalism remains a feature of Argentina's culture, allowing foreign festivals and holidays ( e. g. Saint Patrick's Day ), supporting all kinds of art or cultural expression from ethnic groups, as well as their diffusion through an important multicultural presence in the media ; for instance it is not uncommon to find newspapers or radio programs in English, German, Italian or French in Argentina.

Though many have religious origins, others involve seasonal change or have some cultural significance.

Though the capital of the Southern Dynasties kingdoms was ( almost by definition ) Jiankang, in the location of modern Nanjing, in the province of Jiangsu ; nevertheless, the Zhejiang area was home to the major metropolis and cultural center of Hangzhou, formerly known as Qiantang, but renamed in 589.

Though a relatively new city, Harper Woods has played a role in the cultural history of Metro Detroit.

Though the festivals are put on by various organizations unrelated to each other, and so are officially separate events, they are regarded by many visitors as part of the same event ; and together they form the largest annual cultural festival in the world.

Though Isan is a multi-ethnic region containing a mixture of Lao, Vietnamese, Cham, Mon, Khmer, and other Tai groups, Central Thais ' perceived threat of Lao cultural and political dominance in the Isan region resulted in various Thaification policies being enacted to finally integrate the multi-ethnic Isan people into Thailand.

Though the city's exact location is not certain, it presently lies in the Munshiganj District of Bangladesh, and continues to be celebrated as an early center of Buddhist cultural, academic, and political life.

Though Bohlin had run her campaign with a focus on limiting alcohol and outlawing traditional Swedish snuff, Hägglund stated in a speech two weeks after the elections that he wanted to " prohibit the prohibitions " and spoke about the difference between the values of the " people of reality " and the left-wing cultural elite.

" Though Hunter does not dispute the accuracy of the quotes, he has denied accusations of racism, insisting that he was merely making a cultural distinction between African-American and Latino players.

Though these are prominent examples, varying degrees of the doctrine of responsibility assumption have formed a minor theme more broadly within the United States cultural landscape since the 1960s counterculture.

Though it was marked by continual strife, Stephen's long reign brought considerable cultural development ; many churches and monasteries were erected by Stephen himself ; some of which, including Voroneț, are now part of UNESCO's World Heritage sites.

Though there is overwhelming evidence of cultural connections informing folk traditions about the past, objective analysis of folk archaeology — in anthropological terms of their cultural contexts and the cultural needs they respond to — have been comparatively few.

Though a huge portion of the population died during the war, Pskov has since struggled to regain its traditional position as a major industrial and cultural center of Western Russia.