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sphinx
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n.
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(Sphinx) Greek Mythol.
a winged monster of Thebes, having a woman's head and a lion's body. It propounded a riddle about the three ages of man, killing those who failed to solve it, until Oedipus was successful, whereupon the Sphinx committed suicide.
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(the Sphinx)
an ancient Egyptian stone figure having a lion's body and a human or animal head, esp. the huge statue near the Pyramids at Giza.
∎ (usu. sphinx)
an enigmatic or inscrutable person.
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(also sphinx moth) another term for hawk moth.
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Sphinx seductiveness.(books about the Great Sphinx at Giza)(Bibliography)
Magazine article from: ForeWord; 7/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Olivia Temple, assert that the Sphinx was originally a monument to...Willis Goth Regier in Book of the Sphinx (University of Nebraska Press...2) excavates the ubiquity of Sphinxes from the Great Sphinx to the Oedipal Sphinx of Greece...
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Sphinx finds awards open new doors.(Sphinx Organization)
Magazine article from: Crain's Detroit Business; 4/17/2006; 700+ words
; ...business and recent national accolades, the Sphinx Organization hopes it's earned the credentials...American and Latino youths and its annual Sphinx Competition held in Ann Arbor and Detroit...Dworkin said. Last summer, he and Sphinx received one of eight Distinguished Service...
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The Sphinx: Mythical Beasts of the Middle East, Part 3.
Magazine article from: World and I; 2/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; The Great Sphinx at Giza has exerted a powerful hold over...Appealing to our sense of mystery, the Sphinx continues to beguile and fascinate us...adventurers, and tourists. The Great Sphinx looks old and worn. Yet, nothing has...
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Sphinx announces first clinical trials, new collaborative agreement
Newspaper article from: BT Catalyst; 8/1/1992; 700+ words
; Sphinx Pharmaceuticals Corp. of Durham, N.C...Louis. In the Phase I clinical study, Sphinx's lead compound for the treatment of psoriasis...Love, director of corporate development at Sphinx. Psoriasis is a chronic and debilitating...
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AILING SPHINX RETURNS TO GLORY
Newspaper article from: The Columbian; 3/12/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...prince fell asleep in the sands by the Sphinx’s head and dreamed that the...million later, Egypt has again repaired the Sphinx, using the same type of limestone and...though no date has been set. “The Sphinx is a symbol of the whole nation...
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Sphinx' age stirs heated debate
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/23/1991; ; 700+ words
; The great Sphinx of Egypt, one of the world's most famous...controversial conclusions by saying that the Sphinx shows signs of extensive weathering apparently...plain, Schoch said. This redating of the Sphinx would make it by far the oldest monument...
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Restored Sphinx faces new era
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 1/4/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...GIZA PLATEAU, Egypt The newly restored Sphinx has neither the nose nor the beard that...Islamic mystic damaged the face of the Sphinx in the 9th century. So Egyptian antiquity...outside Cairo: "We would have another Sphinx. The Great Sphinx of Giza is a ruin...
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Shape tells all: how a sphinx looks can tell you a lot about its history.
Magazine article from: Dig; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; The Great Sphinx was one of the first sphinxes ever made. The only other sphinx found so far that might be...What a Find! Kings used sphinxes in a variety of ways. Tutankhamun...himself represented as a sphinx on many of the objects found...
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Pulling strings; Sphinx Organization founder works to build $20M endowment.(News)(Aaron Dworkin)(Sphinx Organization )
Magazine article from: Crain's Detroit Business; 1/24/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...budget hasn't kept the Detroit-based Sphinx Organization from making a national impact...but to expand them. Toward that end, Sphinx has its first gift of $100,000 from...campaign as it prepares for its eighth annual Sphinx Competition, an event that draws amateur...
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The Restoration of the Sphinx
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 4/23/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...10-year effort to restore the Great Sphinx of Giza. With its human face and a body...and number one tourist attraction. The Sphinx has some powerful enemies, however...from Cairo. DALE GAVLAK, REPORTER: The Sphinx is one of the world's oldest statutes...
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The Sphinx
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
The Sphinx T he Sphinx at Giza faces due east and is referred to in some Egyptian hieroglyphics...sets — an image that comes to life when looking out from the Sphinx to the pyramids of Cheops and Cephren at sunset on the summer solstice...
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Sphinx
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
...Oedipus's answer, the Sphinx killed herself. pharaoh...type of figure called a sphinx, which had a lion's body...of the pharaoh. Egyptian sphinxes, which guarded temples...were unrelated to the Greek Sphinx. See also .
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sphinx
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...heads. Thousands of sphinxes were built in ancient...most famous is the Great Sphinx at Giza, a colossal figure...Wonders of the World . Sphinxes, however, were not peculiar...mythology and art the Sphinx was a winged monster with...
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Khafre, Great Sphinx of
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Khafre, Great Sphinx of Monumental statue of the sphinx at Giza , Egypt. Its name derives from the pharaoh whose...part of and whose portrait is said to be represented by the sphinx's face. The symbolism of its part human, part animal...
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Sphinx, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Sphinx, The, poem by Emerson , first published in The Dial (1841) and collected...x2010; and three‐stress lines, it tells of a poet meeting the Sphinx and solving the riddle of the all‐inclusive divine spirit...
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