Much of the story line revolves around various parties attacking or repairing ansibles, and around the internal politics of ISC ( InterStellar Communications ), which holds a monopoly on the ansible technology.

* A Sign in Space — The idea that the galaxy slowly revolves becomes a story about a being who is desperate to leave behind some unique sign of his existence.

The story of Kid Icarus revolves around protagonist Pit's quest for three sacred treasures, which he must equip to rescue the Grecian fantasy world Angel Land and its ruler, the goddess Palutena.

" The story revolves around a five-year old boy, Sousuke, and the Princess goldfish, Ponyo, who wants to become human.

The story takes place in Yokohama and revolves around Umi Komatsuzaki, a high school student who is forced to fend for herself when her sailor father goes missing from the seaside town.

The opening sequence of the story revolves around a war between the planets Garissa and Omuta, both of which claim ownership of a tremendously valuable set of asteroids called the Dorados.

The story revolves around the use of a type of polywater to make people controllable and incapable of independent thought or action.

The story revolves around the knight Sir Gawain granting to Dame Ragnell, his new bride, what is purported to be wanted most by women: sovereignty.

The story revolves around the real-life guild of Meistersinger ( Master Singers ), an association of amateur poets and musicians, mostly from the middle class and often master craftsmen in their main professions.

The Death Egg is built as a destructive superweapon ; the story revolves around destroying this object.

The story revolves around the British plan to buy the Suez Canal and the efforts of two spies to stop it.

Its tragic story revolves around the licentious Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed court jester Rigoletto, and Rigoletto's beautiful daughter Gilda.

The story revolves around the rescue of Tam Lin by his true love from the Queen of the Fairies.

The story revolves around the lost planet Shada, on which the Time Lords built a prison for defeated would-be conquerors of the universe.

The story revolves around four characters: Dr. Aziz, his British friend Mr. Cyril Fielding, Mrs. Moore, and Miss Adela Quested.

The story revolves around a husband-and-wife acting team.

The story revolves around one of these pampered artists, who sometimes find themselves uninspired, due to the lack of major conflicts in society.

The story revolves around the relationship between a young artist, who has taken the name Chibiabos Elgreco Winnegan, and the man he calls " Grandpa Winnegan " ( actually his mother's great-great-grandfather ), who hides inside the apartments that " Chib " shares with his mother in the community of Ellay.

Much of the story revolves around the theme of crime fiction, as written by Dorothy L. Sayers ( Lord Merridew = Lord Peter Wimsey ) or Agatha Christie, whose photo is included on Wyke's wall, and how it relates to real-life criminal investigations.

The titular story of Volume 2 of Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima's manga comic Lone Wolf and Cub revolves around Linji's saying " if you meet a buddha, kill the buddha ," in which the protagonist must overcome his self to assassinate a living buddha.

It is also notable that the very existence of Hermine in the novel is never confirmed ; the manuscript left in Harry Haller's room reflects a story that completely revolves around his personal experiences.

The majority of his background story revolves around the guilt he has felt towards people he's tortured in the past.

* The German fantasy thriller Der Sommer des Samurai (" Summer of the Samurai ") uses the story of Ōishi Yoshio and his ronin to add to the plot's mysticism, which revolves around the recovery of Yoshio's katana forged by Muramasa, which was stolen by a band of dishonest German industrialists.

The story revolves around a femme fatale who entraps a husband and commits several crimes motivated by her insane jealousy.

A story goes that a certain Herr Feuchtwanger of St. Louis, around 1883 served his sausages ( grilled ) and mustard to his fancy customers.

The story got around that he had refused to join the new party because he feared he would not be able to keep his Hamilton seat at a general election ; local Scottish National Party supporters nicknamed him " Chicken George ".

The new designs also featured a dynamic set of titles for the channel ; the globe would begin spinning from where the main story was taking place, while the headline scrolled around in a ribbon ; this was occasionally replaced by the BBC News logo.

Chaplin built a story around the idea of walking a tightrope while besieged by monkeys, which became the film's " climactic incident ", and turned The Tramp into the accidental star of a circus.

The first account of this story is to be found in Risdon's Survey of Devon which was completed in around 1632:

In an interview around the film's DVD release in 2001, Elwes said, " The studio didn't know how to sell itas an adventure, fantasy, comedy or love story, it had to rely on word of mouth ".

In both the book and movie 2001, astronaut and scientist David Bowman is on a mission to track the source of an alien artifact found on the moon, which leads to a moon around the planet Jupiter ( in the novel, Saturn ); the story takes place in the year 2001.

As the story follows, he must defeat the evil powers around him that keep growing.

Many gags centre around how easily he is manipulated by his executive producer, the most typical case being when Mike refuses to present a story and then is convinced to run it by an appeal to his supposed fearlessness or journalistic integrity.

" George Fenneman, his radio and TV announcer, good-natured foil, and lifelong friend, often related a story in subsequent years of one of his final visits to Groucho's home: When the time came to end the visit, Fenneman lifted Groucho from his wheelchair, put his arms around his torso, and began to " walk " the frail comedian backwards across the room toward his bed.

The " primeval history " has a symmetrical structure hinged around chapter 6 – 9, the flood story, with the events before the flood mirrored by the events after.

A legend grew around the fateful IBM-DRI meeting ( encouraged by Gates and various journalists ), suggesting that Kildall had irresponsibly taken the day off for a recreational flight, and he tired of constantly having to refute that story.

Another story involved Jon going away on a business trip around Christmas time, leaving Garfield a week's worth of food ( it was more like 11 second's worth of food ) which he devoured instantly, so Garfield leaves his house and gets locked out.

Some villas such as Great Casterton in Rutland and Hucclecote in Gloucestershire had new mosaic floors laid around this time, suggesting that economic problems may have been limited and patchy, although many suffered some decay before being abandoned in the 5th century ; the story of Saint Patrick indicates that villas were still occupied until at least 430.

This theme is also explored in the Doctor Who story The Dæmons in 1971, where the local superstitions around a landmark known as The Devil's Hump prove to be based on reality, as aliens from the planet Dæmos have been affecting man's progress over the millennia and the Hump actually contains a spacecraft.

Each story takes a scientific " fact " ( though sometimes a falsehood by today's understanding ), and builds an imaginative story around it.

Different accounts on how " Please, Please, Please " came together vary, one story from Etta James stated that during her first meeting with Brown in Macon, Brown " used to carry around an old tattered napkin with him, because Little Richard had written the words, ' please, please, please ' on it and James was determined to make a song out of it ...".

In one story he is able to activate a force field around Latveria which prevents anybody leaving, though apparently it can be a defense against nuclear attack.

* Wells Tower's short story, " Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned ," is centred around a Viking raid on Lindisfarne.

Hadrianus Junius, otherwise known as Adriaen de Jonghe, wrote this story around 1567 in his book Batavia, published only in 1588, and was quoted by Cornelis de Bie.

He had a very successful exhibition of paintings at the Calmann Gallery in London in 1938 and his first book, the self-illustrated children's pirate romance Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor ( based on a story he had written around 1936 ) was first published in 1939 by Country Life.