Though accounts of their birth are varied, they are sometimes said to have been born from an egg, along with their twin sisters Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra.

Though her sisters Unity and Diana were well-known British supporters of Hitler and her father was described as being " one of nature's fascists ," Jessica ( always known as " Decca ") renounced her privileged background at an early age and became an adherent of communism.

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Though not as influential as her sisters, she had some power as abbess ; a charter from 1157 survives in which she donated land to the Knights Hospitaller.

Though Betsey had two brothers, she and her two sisters became well known in the social world as the " Cushing Sisters ", heralded for their charm and beauty from their debutante days onward.

Though she had removed herself from a leadership position, her presence could still be felt and she attempted to help her sisters retain the spirit which had characterized the Congrégation from the start.

Though it is mentioned by the sisters that Dracula does not love, nor has he ever loved them, the count himself claims he once loved them in the past.

Though he had four sisters, Nanovo was the only son of former Senator Apakuki Nanovo and Bulou Salaseini Lele.

Though they would produce some very memorable and lasting songs, Arlen and Mercer were not given strong material to work on.

Though Catherine was vexed at the number of French officers streaming to the Turkish standard, there were several under her own, such as the Prince De Nassau ; ;

Though, taken individually, the big rooms were, or seemed to be, square, the apartment as a whole formed a triangle.

Though the spread of this type of decoration in the Aegean has not yet been precisely determined, it seems to appear first in the Cyclades, which were among the leading exporters of pottery throughout the century.

Though the makeshift airports were ready, the York State Guard flyers proved unable to keep any kind of mail schedule.

Though they are often heard clairaudiently, as if a voice were speaking them, in other cases they are apprehended visually as symbols: a slope to signify the name `` Hill '', for instance.

Though the proportions were always important in Greek art, the appeal of the Greek sculptures eludes any explanation by proportion alone.

Though the prokaryotic cyanobacteria ( commonly referred to as blue-green algae ) were traditionally included as " algae " in older textbooks, many modern sources regard this as outdated as they are now considered to be bacteria.

Though a world championship match between Karpov and Fischer was highly anticipated, those hopes were never realised.

Though simple and compound walls were often used, Great Houses were primarily constructed of core-and-veneer walls: two parallel load-bearing walls comprising dressed, flat sandstone blocks bound in clay mortar were erected.

Though the resolution is historically significant, Hideaki Uemura, professor at Keisen University in Tokyo and a specialist in indigenous peoples ' rights, commented that the motion is " weak in the sense of recognizing historical facts " as the Ainu were " forced " to become Japanese in the first place.

Though there might be blocs of opinion, sometimes enduring, on important matters, there were no political parties and likewise no government or opposition ( as in the Westminster system ).

Though Antlia was technically visible to ancient Greek astronomers, its stars were too faint to have been included in any constellations.

Though from vastly different backgrounds, within three months Patrick Brontë and Maria Branwell were married on 29 December 1812.

Though most of the early Waldorf schools were teacher-founded, the schools today are usually initiated and later supported by an active parent community.

Though the marriage was annulled, Nin and Pole continued to live together as if they were married, up until her death in 1977.

Though a law-breaker, he gave the public what they were denied by strident, self-appointed arbiters of morality.

Though there were few initial changes to the service, usage increased and the network became profitable.

Though the anticipated benefits to traffic flow were not as large as hoped, pedestrian injuries dropped dramatically and foot traffic increased in the designated areas ; the project was popular with both residents and businesses.

Though there was much argument in the past, it is now generally accepted that brochs were roofed, probably with a conical timber framed roof covered with a locally sourced thatch.

Though witnesses against them were numerous, the evidence cited was nearly all hearsay or outright fabrications.

" Though apparent to very few historians at the time, these defeats were the beginning of the decline of Europe as the center of world politics.

Though some trade restrictions were lifted on the north to alleviate economic isolation for the Turkish Cypriots, further negotiations have not been a priority.

Though he was destined to be a strongly counter-reforming emperor, Alexander had little prospect of succeeding to the throne during the first two decades of his life, as he had an elder brother, Nicolas, who seemed of robust constitution.

Though by this time opposition to images was strongly entrenched in Judaism and Islam, attribution of the impetus toward an iconoclastic movement in Eastern Orthodoxy to Muslims or Jews " seems to have been highly exaggerated, both by contemporaries and by modern scholars ".

Though sharing the same goal as Madison, most other delegates reacted strongly against such an extreme change to the status quo.

Though this usually goes unacknowledged, Optimality Theory was strongly influenced by Natural Phonology ; both view phonology in terms of constraints on speakers and their production, though these constraints are formalized in very different ways.

Though actual unemployment numbers were not officially counted, the country was affected especially strongly in the North Island.

Though strongly in favour of the extension of individual legal rights, he opposed the idea of natural law and natural rights, calling them " nonsense upon stilts ".

Though the Church's practices and approach to the sacraments became strongly influenced by those of continental reformers, it nevertheless retained episcopal church structure.

Though Middleton's approach was strongly patriotic, the Privy Council shut down the play after nine performances on the complaint of the Spanish ambassador.

Though he could be droll and flippant about social and political matters, he always was serious about art and often invited public controversy and debate to argue for his strongly held theories.

Though Boniface's letter praises Æthelbald's faith and alms-giving, its criticisms have strongly coloured subsequent opinion of Æthelbald.

Though its immediate genesis is unclear, the legend of Prester John drew strongly from earlier accounts of the Orient and of Westerners ' travels there.

Though the now strongly conservative Calles thought he could control him, it quickly became clear Cárdenas would not accept a subordinate role like his predecessors did.

Though strongly supported initially by Dobzhansky, it was downgraded later as results from ecological genetics were obtained.

Though Dodd Darin, Sandra Dee, and Blauner responded enthusiastically to Spacey's work and the film was strongly promoted by the studio, Beyond the Sea received mixed-to-poor reviews upon wide release, and box office results were disappointing.

Though originally reported to be based strongly on the Ford Evos concept car, the development of the Fusion based on the Evos indicates that, while the Mustang is expected to borrow some styling from the concept, it will not rely as heavily upon it and there has been no indication from Ford whether it will share the global platform with the Fusion and Ford Mondeo or sit upon a modified version of its current platform.

Though a moderate reformer, he strongly disapproved of the rebellion of 1837 – 1838.

Though his appointment had been strongly opposed by the orthodox party, De Wette soon won for himself great influence both in the university and among the people generally.

Though this community ostensibly had much in common with Gypsies both communities strongly resisted any such comparison, and surviving boat people feel deeply insulted if described as ' water gypsies '.

Though they are rare, based on the occurrence of repunit primes and probable primes, it is conjectured strongly that there are infinitely many unique primes.

Though most people meet their dates at social organizations, in their daily life, or are introduced through friends or relatives, commercial dating agencies emerged strongly, but discreetly, in the Western world after World War II, mostly catering for the 25 – 44 age group.

Though influenced strongly by the Soviet Union, Kádár enacted a policy slightly contrary to that of Moscow, for example, allowing considerably large private plots for farmers of collective farms.

( Though Qutb was in favor of " social justice ", he strongly disapproved of socialism-even of " Islamic socialism "-seeing it as compromise with jahiliyya.

Though much more variegated than some commentaries would seem to suggest, British idealism was generally marked by several broad tendencies: a belief in an Absolute ( a single all-encompassing reality that in some sense formed a coherent and all-inclusive system ); the assignment of a high place to reason as both the faculty by which the Absolute's structure is grasped and as that structure itself ; and a fundamental unwillingness to accept a dichotomy between thought and object, reality consisting of thought-and-object together in a strongly coherent unity.

Though this decline was not found to be strongly related to performance, this evidence is a starting point in making these connections between decay and neural imaging.