Damocles is a character who appears in a (likely apocryphal) anecdote commonly referred to as "the sword of Damocles", an allusion to the imminent and...
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Damocles in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Damocles was a legendary Greek figure. Damocles may also refer to: 5335 Damocles, an asteroid Damocles (video...
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Damocles in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Sword of Damocles is a symbolic sword from the Greek parable about the fictional courtier Damocles....
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The Damocles is a 3rd generation targeting pod, modular, eye-safe laser, high performance pod selected by the French Air Force for its attack fighter aircraft...
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Operation Damocles was a covert campaign of the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad in August 1962 which targeted German scientists and technicians, formerly...
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(5335) Damocles /ˈdæməkliːz/, provisional designation 1991 DA, is a centaur and the namesake of the damocloids, a group of minor planets which may be inactive...
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Damocles is a genus of chondrichthyan from the Mississippian age Bear Gulch Limestone of Montana and the city of Armagh, Northern Ireland. Two species...
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The Darkroom of Damocles (Dutch: De donkere kamer van Damokles) is a war novel by the Dutch writer Willem Frederik Hermans, published in 1958. An immediate...
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Alexei, Karl, and Hilde, all of whom are also Damocles employees. Duncan Vizla, "The Black Kaiser", is a Damocles employee nearing mandatory retirement on...
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"Sword of Damocles" is a song by Rufus Wainwright, released in October 2018. Wainwright made the song available for purchase after a premiere performance...
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The Sword of Damocles is widely misattributed as the name of the first AR (or VR) display prototype. According to Ivan Sutherland, this was merely a joke...
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Damocles is a video game developed by Novagen in 1990. It is the second game in the Mercenary series. Once again, the player is stranded on a planet, Eris...
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The Sword of Damocles is a 1920 British silent drama film directed by George Ridgwell and starring Jose Collins, H.V. Esmond and Claude Fleming. Jose Collins...
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Mercenary (video game) (section Damocles)
two sequels: Damocles and Mercenary III: The Dion Crisis. Having crash-landed on the planet Targ (en route to the Gamma System of Damocles), the player's...
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show (soundtrack) (redirect from The Sword of Damocles (Rocky Horror song))
soundtrack release omits two songs sung in the film: Rocky's "The Sword of Damocles" and the Frank-N-Furter-led "Planet, Schmanet, Janet" (often referred to...
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Indohya damocles is a species of pseudoscorpion in the Hyidae family. It is endemic to Australia. It was described in 2007 by arachnologists Mark Harvey...
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Damocles Point (69°39′S 69°21′W / 69.650°S 69.350°W / -69.650; -69.350) is a headland on the east coast of Alexander Island, 3 nautical miles (6 km)...
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Eternals (comics) (redirect from Damocles Foundation)
World War II, some Eternals allied with humans and Deviants to form the Damocles Foundation, which tried to create a new breed of superhuman to rule Earth...
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Magic and Loss (redirect from Sword of Damocles Externally)
(Lou Reed, Mike Rathke) – 4:23 "Magician - Internally" – 6:23 "Sword of Damocles - Externally" – 3:42 "Goodby Mass - In a Chapel Bodily Termination" – 4:25...
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Damocles is a 1982 role-playing game adventure published by Timeline for The Morrow Project. Damocles is the second adventure scenario that was published...
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and Warbird, and destroys the building using a blast from a space base, Damocles, which is shaped like a giant sword, but when Wasp talks of the murders...
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Amauris damocles, the small monk, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia...
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Oroxylum indicum (redirect from Tree of Damocles)
tree, oroxylum, Indian trumpet flower, broken bones, scythe tree, tree of Damocles, or midnight horror It can reach a height of 18 metres (59 ft). Various...
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famous works are The House of Refuge (novella, 1952), The Darkroom of Damocles (novel, 1958), and Beyond Sleep (novel, 1966). After World War II, Hermans...
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but the Sword of Damocles will work. The trio travels to Greece, where they can enter the Underworld to retrieve the Sword of Damocles. On the way, they...
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damocloid. Notes: † inner-grazer. 944 Hidalgo † 2060 Chiron 5145 Pholus 5335 Damocles 8405 Asbolus (15504) 1999 RG33 20461 Dioretsa 31824 Elatus 32532 Thereus...
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(1989) Amiga, Atari ST Damocles: Mercenary II (1990) Amiga, Atari ST Damocles: Mission Disk 1 (1991) Amiga, Atari ST Damocles: Mission Disk 2 (1991) Amiga...
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member of the Damocles Foundation. He is able to sedate others with a touch. Veeg – Also known as Veerg, he is a member of the Damocles Foundation. Veeg...
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display (HUD), navigational forward-looking IR system NAVFLIR and the Damocles targeting pod. The aircraft carries missile approach warning sensor (MAWS)...
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Notes: † inner-grazer; ‡ outer-grazer 2060 Chiron † 5145 Pholus 5335 Damocles 7066 Nessus 8405 Asbolus 10199 Chariklo † 10370 Hylonome ‡ 20461 Dioretsa...
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