Sphinx

About Sphinx
A sphinx is a mythical creature with the head of a human, the body of a lion, and the wings of an eagle.
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Around Napoleon's time when they turned up, just the head of the Sphinx was sticking out of the sand. There are photographs from around that time period where just the head of the Sphinx is sticking out.
from No Such Thing As A Sleepover With Lions, 2017-02-17 at 00:25:15 ยท read transcript
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Then underneath one of the Sphinxas, you can see a little sign that says the shrapnel holes that you can see in here are little holes that were made as a result of nighttime bombing in 1917 over London, and the bombs hit a tram, and it shot off metal and so on into it. So you can actually go up to the Sphinx and put your finger through a bomb hole in the...
No Such Thing As A Sleepover With Lions, 2017-02-17 ยท listen
One of them, actually, we have mentioned before, I should fess up. We it's called the North American Walnut Sphinx Caterpillar. It's not a walnut. It's not a Sphinx, but it's it screams like a bird, which is the way it avoids predators. Weird Nelly Furtado version of that. It's like it makes the alarm call that a bird would make if it had seen a bird of prey.
430: No Such Thing As The Assistant Honcho, 2022-06-10 ยท listen
I'm here with Anna Chisinski, Andrew Hunter-Murie, and James Harkin, and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days. In a particular order, here we go. Starting with you, Andy. My fact is that archaeologists have just dug up in the... the middle of the desert, an enormous Sphinx statue. It is believed to be anywhere up to 95 years old. I think you're going to have to explain.
No Such Thing As Cleopatra Movie Trivia, 2018-01-06 ยท listen
He nicked it, basically. Then when he went to London, he got all dressed up, put the butterfly on his jacket. He went to, Cafe Royal and like hung out with all of his friends and was like, I've got Oscar World's butterfly copies and now everyone can see his massive genitalia on the Sphinx, right? Then they're now not there. The rumor is that two angry ladies who are walking in the cemetery just got some rocks and bashed it off because they didn't like it.
No Such Thing As A Criminal In A Fabulous Hat, 2018-04-27 ยท listen
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