To: ClearCase_guy
"Ever wonder how the Sphinx lost its nose? Muslims." I always heard the Nazis shot the nose off that critter. Well, Nazis, Islamonutballs, same thing.
16 posted on
07/17/2011 7:45:11 PM PDT by
West Texas Chuck
(Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. That should be a convenience store, not a Government Agency.)
To: West Texas Chuck
There is also a common belief that Napoleon’s soldiers did the deed — but sketches from the 1730’s show the nose missing by then, so we can’t blame the French. The consensus seems to be a particular iconoclastic Muslim who was furious that the locals were treating the sphinx as an idol, so he disfigured it.
19 posted on
07/17/2011 7:51:34 PM PDT by
ClearCase_guy
(The USSR spent itself into bankruptcy and collapsed -- and aren't we on the same path now?)
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