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The American band Trivium released a song called "Like a Sword Over Damocles" on their 2021 album In the Court of the Dragon. The sword of Damocles is an oft-used symbol in modern hip hop, an allusion used to impart the threat "kingly" rappers face of being deposed as the best of the best.
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 name for the mechanical system that supported and tracked (using attached wires) the actual HMD below it. [ 1 ]
The original soundtrack release omits two songs sung in the film: Rocky (Trevor White)'s "The Sword of Damocles" and the Frank-N-Furter -led "Planet, Schmanet, Janet" (often referred to as "Wise Up, Janet Weiss"). Also omitted was "Once in a While", which was filmed but later cut.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 independent [6] [7] musical comedy horror film produced by Lou Adler and Michael White, directed by Jim Sharman, and distributed by 20th Century Fox. The screenplay was written by Sharman and Richard O'Brien , who also played the supporting role Riff Raff.
Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer said the Media Bill puts ‘protection of our free press’ at its core.
The Tusculan Disputations is the locus classicus of the legend of the Sword of Damocles, [16] as well as of the sole mention of cultura animi as an agricultural metaphor for human culture. [17] [18] Cicero also mentions disapprovingly Amafinius, one of the first Latin writers on philosophy in Rome.
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