Images included views of the pyramids (e.g. Cheops or the Sphinx) and the cities (e.g. Suez or Alexandria), as well of Egyptians going about their daily lives (e.g. a teacher and pupils, men by the Nile, or women at home).
Also, the angel found her a spot on a hill in Wisła, where in 1931 the Pilch family completed a spacious villa called “Sfinks” (Sphinx).
Contemporaries seem to have disagreed over Wilding's capacity for expression: Rossetti's assistant Henry Treffry Dunn said of her that she was "... without any variety of expression. She sat like a Sphinx, waiting to be questioned, and with always a vague reply in return... But she had a deep well of affection within her seemingly placid exterior."
The Bucegi Sphinx is another rock formation in the same area, named for its sphinx-like appearance.
Lion Island, named for its profile's resemblance to a Sphinx from some viewpoints, is located at the entrance of Broken Bay.
The rock is said to resemble, variously, a woman at prayer, a giant baby, or the Sphinx.
His studies of the Sphinx have contributed to the controversial debate regarding a possible older dating of the monument.
Calderhead was notoriously shy of the media, earning the nickname "The Sphinx of Stamford Bridge".
In various affairs the royals faced, Beel's taciturn way of acting on behalf of the monarchy and his prudent pulling the strings behind the scene as Vice President of the Dutch Council of State gave him the nickname 'The Sphinx'.
After her stage debut, Bogaert joined the company at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier and then worked with Louis Jouvet at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées where she played the role of The Sphinx in Jean Cocteau's The Infernal Machine.
The buildings have been given names chosen by the students, based on mythical creatures: Phoenix, Pegasus, Gryphon, Sphinx, Dragon and Unicorn.
In general, Timchenko is interested in characters – whether it is Ophelia, the Sphinx, Infantas, Pontius Pilate, or a dwarf, – and is said to be an empathetic participant of the story rather than a distant story-teller.
Perth Modern embraced a new motto, Savoir C’est Pouvoir (Knowledge is Power), and the Sphinx, representing knowledge and wisdom, was adopted as the school emblem.
Sphinogolipids were originally discovered in 1884 by John Louis William Thudichum who named them after the Sphinx of Greek mythology in reference to the unresolved riddle of their function.
During this time, it occasionally went under the name of "The Sphinx", an alternative title for the "Anchor Puzzle" sets.
The game is notable for showing scenic fly-bys of famous structures (for examples the Sphinx, the Pantheon, Saint Basil's Cathedral, a Mayan temple, and others) rendered in realtime.
The Oedipodea, attributed to Cinaethon: told the story of Oedipus' solution to the Sphinx's riddle, and presumably of his incestuous marriage to his mother Epicaste or Jocasta.
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The original Batteries were C Battery, F (Sphinx) Battery, and G Battery (Mercers Troop), drawn from independent commands in India and equipped with the Ordnance QF 25 pounder.
According to Abbas Milani's book 'The Persian Sphinx', he was the mentor of the Prime Minister Amir-Abbas Hoveida.
It is also larval and adult food plant for the rustic sphinx moth (Manduca rustica).
When the mummy throws a statue of the Sphinx at a glass pane, the glass shatters prior to being hit.
After all three escape von Doom's clutches, they travel to Giza, because the Claw can only be completed at the Sphinx.
This is the western branch of Line 3, this phase will connect Attaba Station with the already existing Gamal Abdel Nasser Station through Emad El-Din Street with a new station built in between, it will then continue on its way onto Maspero (New Station) and run under both branches of the Nile passing through Zamalek island and ending at Sphinx Square Station.
Interest in his work abroad led to performances of his play The Sphinx Mother, a modern Oedipus, at the Salzburg Festival in 1972, and Lilith, a comedy of surrealist images, at the Schauspielhaus, Vienna in 1979.
Such bosses include Medusa, a large Pharaoh's head, a flying Sphinx, a Hindu God statue, a giant fire-breathing winged-rock monster and a Hydra.
They frequently collaborated on commissions, the most notable one being the granite Sphinx (1873) that resides in Mount Auburn Cemetery.
The lyrics are, as is typical for early Roxy Music lyrics, intellectual references, including The Sphinx, Mona Lisa, Lolita and Guernica.
Amphonyx duponchel (Duponchel's Sphinx), a moth of the Sphingidae family, named after Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel
In 1920 Cyril Beaumont, for whom he had produced designs for booklets on the Russian ballet (L'Oiseau de Feu, The Three Cornered Hat, Thamar and Impressions of the Russian Ballet, all 1919) and two limited editions (Eclogues, a Book of Poems 1919 and The Smile of the Sphinx 1920), asked him to produce colour wood engravings for an edition of W.W. Gibson's Home for his Beaumont Press.
Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval, in "Message of the Sphinx" stated that American archeologists and the Egyptian government had blocked investigations around the Sphinx, including attempts to locate any underground cavities.
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Stel Pavlou places the Hall of Records under the Sphinx in the Atlantis adventure novel Decipher, 2001.
These, however, are surely direct, if run-down, descendants of the sphinxes on a gold beaker from Amlash .
Stewart began his writing at Alabama A&M University where he was Editor-in-Chief to the Sphinx Magazine, a national publication for Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. for two years.
Vansleb travelled extensively in Egypt during the next 12 months, making a journey as far down as Sohag, and produced one of the earliest accounts of Upper Egypt: documenting the land, the people (especially the Coptic community), and pharaonic monuments such as the Giza pyramids, the Sphinx and the pyramids of Hawara, as well as Coptic monuments, including the White Monastery.
Sphinx Head is a site of conspicuous cliffs up to 67 metres high, about 16 km SSW of Low Point.
He is honorary chairman of the Vlaams Economisch Verbond (VOKA), member of the Supervisory Board of Campina Melkunie n.v., of Koninklijke Sphinx Gustavsberg n.v. and of De Eik Beheer b.v. (Nijmegen).
Picking up on the latter name, the school's athletic teams are called The Pharaohs, the mascot is a Pharaoh, the yearbook is The Sphinx, and the student newspaper is The Scroll.
The Sphinx: Mike Murtoch, a master safe-cracker turned teleporting cat burglar with the supernatural aid of an ancient Egyptian amulet and a pair of mystic sapphires.
The long boulevard leading to the ceremonial site, flanked by 600 sphinxes, was likely built under Nectanebo I.
The Calista recognizer that was used was derived from Sphinx-3.
Recent studies by German climatologists Rudolph Kuper and Stefan Kröpelin, of the University of Cologne suggest the change from a wet to a much drier climate may have occurred as much as 500 years later than currently thought, coming to an end, they contend, around 3,500-1,500 B.C. Egyptologist Mark Lehner believes this climate change may have been responsible for the severe weathering found on the Sphinx and other sites of the 4th Dynasty.
The Message of the Sphinx (Keeper of Genesis in the United Kingdom) was a book written by Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval in 1996 which argued that the creation of the Sphinx and Pyramids can be pushed back as far as 10,500 BC using astronomical data.
Passages from Paul Éluard's Capitale de la Douleur were sampled on the song 'Your Pretty Sphinx Voice' from the 1965 Jean-Luc Godard film Alphaville.
This transmitter is part of the SPHINX Radar System supplied by Thales Defence Deutschland GmbH in Kiel.
A quay in front of the Academy of Arts building, adorned with two authentic sphinxes of Pharaoh Amenhotep III brought in 1832 from Thebes, Egypt, was designed by Konstantin Thon and built in 1832-1834.
Any country developing thermonuclear weapons has its own Z machine, but those not using water lines had long rising pulses (for example 800ns in the Sphinx, the French machine at Gramat).