It dramatises the Persian response to news of their military defeat at the Battle of Salamis ( 480 BC ), which was a decisive episode in the Greco – Persian Wars ; as such, the play is also notable for being the only extant Greek tragedy that is based on contemporary events.

This scene dramatises the " desert at the end of time " setting, but is not quite consistent with the detail that we are later told that Rorden had never seen the stars until Alvin shows him the outside.

Published not long after the canonization of Joan of Arc by the Roman Catholic Church, the play dramatises what is known of her life based on the substantial records of her trial.

Edward & Mrs. Simpson is a seven-part British television series that dramatises the events leading to the 1936 abdication of King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, who gave up his throne to marry the twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson.

* Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time ( 1995 ) – the genius in question was John Harrison, who spent decades trying to convince the British Admiralty of the accuracy of his naval timepieces and their use in determining longitude when at sea in order to win the longitude prize.

For example, it is a context in which the question " Who is your favorite composer?

The Genus III edition of the popular board game Trivial Pursuit had a question that asked " Who wins in the Japanese version of King Kong vs.

Michael (), also occasionally Micheal, is a given name that comes from the ( Mikha ' el ), derived from the question מי כאל ( mi k ' ʔel ) meaning " Who is like God?

The anthropologist Lawrence Babb in an article about Sathya Sai Baba asks the question " Who is a saint?

: The core question of Buddhist practice, after all, is the psychological one of “ Who am I ?” Investigating this question requires exploration of the entire wheel.

Milo Minderbinder ’ s maxim “ What ’ s good for M & M Enterprises is good for the country ” alludes to former president of General Motors Charles Erwin Wilson ’ s statement before the Senate “ What ’ s good for General Motors is good for the country .” The question of “ Who promoted Major Major ?” alludes to Joseph McCarthy ’ s questioning of the promotion of Major Peress, an army dentist who refused to sign loyalty oaths.

" The next witnesses called were witnesses concerned with the question that now followed -- the obscure and terrible question: Who Poisoned Her?

Who, in fact, ever raised a question as to his divinity against Antinous?

And if someone were to think of other resemblances between Opportunity and Hermes, he might also ask the proverbial question: " Who makes the thief?

The takeover by Communists of the world's most populous nation was seen in the West as a great strategic loss, prompting the popular question at the time, " Who lost China?

The most famous example may be the so-called Zebra Puzzle, which asks the question Who Owned the Zebra ?.

In this context, the first baseman is named " Who "; thus, the utterance " Who's on first " is ambiguous between the question (" which person is the first baseman?

Sheldon gets confused when Amy tries to explain this, since he thinks that she is asking him the question " Who?

In a questionnaire to win in 20 seconds, host Rove McManus asked his usual question, " Who would you turn gay for ?".

* The Self and I: Identity and the question " Who am I " in the Gurdjieff Work, Dimitri Peretzi, 2011, ISBN 978-960-99708-1-5

The new Queen possesses a mirror, an animate object that answers any question, to whom she often asks: " Magic mirror on the wall / Who is the fairest of them all?

* Paralleling the stepmother's question of her magic mirror, the Indian epic poem Padmavat ( 1540 ) includes the line: " Who is more beautiful, I or Padmavati ?, Queen Nagamati asks to her new parrot, and it gives a displeasing reply ...";

The " minor agreements "— the word " minor " is not intended to be belittling — are those points where Matthew and Luke agree against Mark ( for example, the mocking question at the beating of Jesus, " Who is it that struck you?

In 2004 listeners nominated candidates for a peerage, in 2005 the question was set of ' Who Runs Britain?

He lobbied Israeli politicians to pass legislation in accordance with Jewish religious law on the question " Who is a Jew?

During the meeting, Parnell had challenged Gladstone's intervention with the question, " Who is the master of the party?

It is a question which New Englanders long ago put out of their minds.

As a word of caution, we should be aware that in actual practice no message is purely one of the four types, question, command, statement, or exclamation.

If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.

There is no socially existential answer to the question.

With regard to the change we are examining, the question is, at what point does the change become irreversible??

Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.

and the question before these meetings was, here is a man of international reputation and proved earning power ; ;

Carl thought the question over slowly and answered: `` I know a starving man who is fed never remembers all the pangs of his starvation, I know that ''.

But there is no question of a visa.

It is not a question of truth or falsity ; ;

Now the basic question to be asked in this situation is what motivates the manipulators, that is, what are their values??

If it proclaims that the best is yet to be, it always arouses, at least in the young, either a suspicious question or perhaps the exclamation of the Negro youth who saw on a tombstone the inscription, `` I am not dead but sleeping ''.

But exactly how far it will go toward improving conditions is another question because there is so much that needs doing.

But whether the murder of El Benefactor in Ciudad Trujillo means freedom for the people of the Caribbean fiefdom is a question that cannot now be answered.

The main question raised by the incident is how much longer will UN bury its head in the sand on the Congo problem instead of facing the bitter fact that it has no solution in present terms??

The question left by the election is whether West Germany veers slightly toward more firmness or more flexibility.

the Army, Navy and Air Force, among others, may question Secretary Freeman's claim that the high estate of United States agriculture is the `` strongest deterrent '' to the spread of communism.

A recent study on radiation exposure by the AEC's division of biology and medicine stated: `` The question of the biological effect of ( radiation ) doses is not considered '' herein.

`` The President says '', the translator came in, `` that the reason he asked you where you were going is because he hoped you would be visiting other areas in Southeast Asia, and that everywhere you went, you would seek the answer to your question.

It is another question whether `` they '' -- or a single general, off in a corner of China, secure for a few ( galvanizing??

There is even some question whether the U.S. can any longer defend itself against an initiative by the Left.

The big question is whether, in the name of a restored Chinese-Soviet solidarity, the Chinese will choose to persuade the Albanians to present their humble apologies to Khrushchev -- or get rid of Enver Hoxa.