Nice segue. Didn’t Napoleon’s men shoot the nose off of the Sphinx? And is it true or not that they did this so that the Sphinx would align with Paris?
It was Rick's idea, he said, "we'll always have the Sphinx' nose."
The nose probably was broken off by weathering, but the other version of the modern despot story is that the Turks shot it off. Neither one is true, as far as anyone actually knows. If it was human vandalism, it probably took place during the destruction of pagan shrines and such.