Halifax was founded in 1749 with the arrival of HMS Sphinx and thirteen transport ships that brought 2, 500 British settlers to Nova Scotia.

The Sphinx was founded as a senior class society in 1885 by 14 male students of the class of 1886.

* Le Sphinx, a Paris brothel founded in 1931

The Sphinx Club became one of the first minority-owned nightclubs in the United States when it opened in 1946, founded by Charles Phillip Tilghman, a local businessman.

His Wrestlers ( 1875 ) and Fan and Dagger ( 1882 ; a defiant Spanish woman ) were in the Luxembourg, and other pictures of importance are The Beheading of St John the Baptist ( 1877 ), The Sphinx ( 1883 ), Acis and Galatea ( 1885 ), Old Woman and Child ( 1886 ) and In the Bull Slaughter-House.

Cairo is also associated with Ancient Egypt due to its proximity to the ancient cities of Memphis, Giza and Fustat which are nearby to the Great Sphinx and the pyramids of Giza.

Guarded by the Large Sphinx ( c. 2000 BC ), the collection is housed in more than 20 rooms.

* December 26 – The Great Sphinx of Giza is unearthed at the start of a complete excavation.

Atalanta can also be summoned if the player's city is attacked by a Sphinx or four Harpies.

* Sa ' im al-Dahr is hanged for blowing the nose off the Sphinx.

* The Caress ( 1896 ), by the Belgian symbolist painter Fernand Khnopff ( 1858 – 1921 ), is a representation of the myth of Oedipus and the Sphinx and portrays a creature with a woman's head and a cheetah's body ( often misidentified as a leopard's ).

It is seen as a French answer to Born Free ( 1960 ), whose author, Joy Adamson, produced a cheetah biography of her own, The Spotted Sphinx ( 1969 ).

* c. 690 BC-664 BC — Sphinx of Taharqa, from Temple T, Kawa, Nubia, is made.

* c. 2613 BC – 2494 BC: The Great Sphinx at Giza is built.

On the middle of her helmet is placed a likeness of the Sphinx ... and on either side of the helmet are griffins in relief.

This is a walk going by the Sphinx Memorial commemorating the fallen A. I. F comrades of Pte.

Today a lead Sphinx designed by the celebrated sculptor John Cheere is positioned on a plinth in this room, together with one of the famous Arundel marbles which originally was inset into the base of an obelisk within the gardens and dates from the 3rd century BC.

For example, Sam Loyd devised the problem: " Construct a game which ends with black delivering discovered checkmate on move four " ( published in Le Sphinx, 1866 ; the solution is 1. f3 e5 2. Kf2 h5 3. Kg3 h4 + 4. Kg4 d5 #); while all White moves are unique ( see Beauty in chess problems below ), the Black ones aren't. Black mating on move 5 by change to knight.

* 1937 The Sphinx Observatory is opened.

* 1950 The dome is installed on the Sphinx Observatory.

* 1996 The covered observation deck at the Sphinx Observatory is opened.

A possible part of the necropolis of Khufu is the famous Great Sphinx of Giza.

Some of the egyptologists also credit him with the building of the Great Sphinx, but this is highly disputed.

The Great Sphinx of Giza (, ), commonly referred to as the Sphinx, is a limestone statue of a reclining or couchant sphinx ( a mythical creature with a lion's body and a human head ) that stands on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, Egypt.

The Great Sphinx is one of the world's largest and oldest statues but basic facts about it, such as when it was built, and by whom, are still debated.

It is not known by what name the creators called their statue, as the Great Sphinx does not appear in any known inscription of the Old Kingdom, and there are no inscriptions anywhere describing its construction or its original purpose.

" Taking all things into consideration, it seems that we must give the credit of erecting this, the world's most wonderful statue, to Khafre, but always with this reservation: that there is not one single contemporary inscription which connects the Sphinx with Khafre ; so, sound as it may appear, we must treat the evidence as circumstantial, until such time as a lucky turn of the spade of the excavator will reveal to the world a definite reference to the erection of the Sphinx.

" This marvelous object Great Sphinx was in existence in the days of Khafre, or Khephren, and it is probable that it is a very great deal older than his reign and that it dates from the end of the archaic period 2686 BC | 2686 BC.

At Cornell, he was elected to the Sphinx Head Society, the oldest senior honor society at the University.

However, the Sphinx is the oldest continuously operating all-male secret society in the country.

He was also elected to Cornell's oldest senior honor society, the Sphinx Head Society.

:: Keen returns to Earth only to find the Vorticon mothership hovering above with its deadly X-14 Tantalus Ray cannons locked on to eight of Earth's greatest landmarks: Big Ben ( London ), the Sphinx ( Cairo ), the Sydney Opera House ( Sydney ), the Statue of Liberty ( New York ), the Eiffel Tower ( Paris ), the Colosseum ( Rome ), St Basil's Cathedral ( Moscow ), and the White House ( Washington D. C .).

* Sphinx Head, a secret senior honor society at Cornell University

The senior members of the Sphinx continue to select a small number of male students of the junior class during Winter Carnival Weekend in a process known as " tapping.

* Sphinx ( senior society ), a secret society at Dartmouth College

* Sphinx Senior Society, a senior society at the University of Pennsylvania

The Grand Krewes of Memphi, Osiris, RaMet and Sphinx are “ old-line ” Grand Krewes and were all started in the 1930 ’ s as the original secret societies of the Memphis Cotton Carnival.

Romanian Sphinx ( Romania ) | Sphinx situated on the plateau of Bucegi Mountains at 2, 216 m. altitude, measures 8 meters in height and 12 meters in width

The Sphinx Observatory at the Jungfraujoch in the Swiss Alps ; high altitude observatories are less affected by the atmosphere.

File: Sphinx Darius Louvre. jpg | Winged sphinx from the palace of Darius the Great at Susa.

Oedipus and the Sphinx, one of his first symbolist paintings, was exhibited at the Salon of 1864.

He found that the king of the city ( Laius ) had been recently killed and that the city was at the mercy of the Sphinx.

The Great Sphinx of Giza against Khafre's Pyramid at the Giza pyramid complex

The park contains many kilometres of graded walking trails to the park's major features like the First Pyramid, Second Pyramid, The Sphinx, Turtle Rock, Underground Creek, the Eye of the Needle and Mount Norman-the highest point in the park at 1267 metres.

Questions such as individual spirituality, faith as a " vital lie ", and the problem of a double personality were at the center of La esfinge ( The Sphinx ) ( 1898 ), and La verdad ( Truth ), ( 1899 ).

Despite conflicting evidence and viewpoints over the years, the traditional view held by modern Egyptology at large remains that the Great Sphinx was built in approximately 2500 BC by the pharaoh Khafra, the builder of the Second Pyramid at Giza.

Dobrev also notes, like Stadelmann and others, that the causeway connecting Khafre's pyramid to the temples was built around the Sphinx suggesting it was already in existence at the time.

In the New Kingdom, the Sphinx became more specifically associated with the god Hor-em-akhet ( Hellenized: Harmachis ) or Horus at the Horizon, which represented the pharaoh in his role as the Shesep-ankh ( English: Living Image ) of the god Atum.

The Sphinx was the first symbol adopted by the fraternity at the time of inception.

The peak was known to the British as " Hill 971 " and they mistakenly applied the name for a lesser ridge to the main range ( Sarı Bayır, meaning " Yellow Slope ", which ended at the imposing bluff above Anzac Cove known as " The Sphinx ").

He studied at the Boston Latin School ( graduated in 1968 ), received a Bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1972 where he was selected to serve in the Sphinx Senior Society.

Thutmose's most celebrated accomplishment was the restoration of the Sphinx at Giza and subsequent commission of the Dream Stele.

In 2006, as part of the Norwegian Ibsen anniversary festival, Peer Gynt was set at the foot of the Great Sphinx of Giza near Cairo, Egypt ( an important location in the original play ).

Honor was born on October 1, 3961 AD ( 1859 PD ), at Craggy Hollow ( the municipal suburb community of the Harrington family home ), County Duvalier, in the Duchy of Shadow Vale on the planet Sphinx, in the Manticore binary star system.

Lion Island, named for its profile's resemblance to a Sphinx from some viewpoints, is located at the entrance of Broken Bay.

Adolf Guyer-Zeller first thought of the idea of a tunnel in 1893 and at that point he had planned to have 7 stations inside the tunnel before reaching what is now the Sphinx.