In 1817 San Martín, a Latin American-born former officer in the Spanish military, directed 5,000 men in a dramatic crossing of the Andes and struck at a point in Chile where loyalist forces had not expected an invasion.
Just as George Washington's dramatic crossing of the Delaware river on the night of Dec. 25 26, 1776 is often represented inaccurately in later paintings, Caesar's crossing was also likely dramatized for effect.
The great migration – the annual 2,800km circuit of millions of wildebeest and zebra traversing Tanzania's Serengeti National Park and Kenya's Masai Mara – is one of the world's more spectacular shows, especially in autumn, when the herds make their dramatic crossing of the Mara River in the Serengeti's north.
He had represented himself, often demonstrating the dramatic cross-examinations and pleading oratory that were his trademarks in his prime.
More than 35 witnesses testified at the trial, which was highlighted by combative, dramatic cross-examination between Coleen Balbert, an assistant district attorney, and the officers.
The artists featured are a dramatic cross-section of some of the greatest names ever to have graced galleries' walls, everyone from David Hockney to Vincent van Gogh, Constable and Rembrandt.
Recently, in response to several dramatic cross-border takeover battles and the urge to protect national champions, individual European countries have begun to view defensive maneuvers with less skepticism.
Pier Luigi Luisi not only reproduces this dramatic, cross-cultural dialogue, in which world-class scientists, philosophers, and Buddhist scholars develop a holistic approach to the scientific exploration of reality, but also adds scientific background to their presentations, as well as supplementary discussions with prominent participants and attendees.
But every successful program about the law has managed to skip lightly over the yawning abysses of real legal life, emphasizing the dramatic cross-examination, the cunning killer, the corrupt D.A. or, in those real-life courtroom shows, judges who fulminate over the stupid or venal actions of those who appear before them.
In a lengthy and, at times, dramatic cross-examination before the Leveson inquiry, the editor of Rupert Murdoch's main title apologised to Mr Justice Eady, who turned down an anonymity injunction sought in 2009 by the victim of the hacking – an anonymous police blogger known as NightJack.
We've seen the movies: the long nights of preparation, the dramatic cross-examinations, the soaring rhetoric.
