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The great libraries and the ingenious systems that support them are the sphinxes of early twentieth century information systems—magnificent, monolithic and obsolete.
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The scene is flanked by two sphinxes which are separated from it by a band of lotus blossoms and palmettes.
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In the 1990s four new sphinxes were located on the roof.
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During the orientalising period, such tripods were frequently decorated with figural protomes, in the shape of griffins, sphinxes and other fantastic creatures.
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He is fueled by contradictory impulses, represented by the black and white sphinxes that pull his chariot.
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The top of the plaque shows a pair of sphinxes flanking a lotus blossom and framed by two date palms.
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The images of fantastic animals, (griffins, sphinxes, winged animals, and beasts with human heads) were depicted in their works with a distinctive style.
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The second rower's shield depicts a flaming altar with four sphinxes, a coiling serpent and an open eye that looks downwards.
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Opposite the entrance, there are a set of 21 steps, ascending a stepped pyramid shaped garden and surmounted by two sphinxes.
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The fifth frieze shows sphinxes and griffins flanking lotus blossom and palmettes ornaments and panthers and lions attacking bulls, a boar, and a deer.
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Recently six life-size limestone sculptures were discovered, of which two represented sphinxes and four represented lions in a crouching position.
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Flanking each column are two sphinxes (four in total) lying on his stomach and covered with claft.
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There were originally four sphinxes on the roof, but they had to be removed after some 30 years because of bad quality.
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There is a stylized window with prison bars between the sphinxes.
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Other elements include sphinxes, snakes, and celestial mosaics.
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Here, the fantastical sphinx, herself a freak of nature, becomes the emblem of good design, abstract and laden with symbolic meaning.
An avenue of colossal sphinxes leads from the temple to the palace portico.
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The sphinxes appear as living women and attack the thief, whose head turns immediately into a donkey's head.
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The portico preceding the facade houses two sphinxes in red granite, coming from a pre-existing pagan temple.
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The backs and interior perimeters of the shells show animal, human, and floral motifs, while the interiors typically show recumbent sphinxes.
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The space remaining between the sphinxes and the caves is planted with cypress trees.
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The upper and lower terraces are linked by flights of steps with sphinxes flanking each flight.
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Generally the role of sphinxes is associated with architectural structures such as royal tombs or religious temples.
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Sphinx's index format generally supports up to 256 fields.
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Two sphinxes, which had previously guarded the building, were removed for these new works.
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Thus, despite their very different body-plans the sphinx moths have a number of striking convergences with humming-birds.
The sphinx: a limit-periodic tiling of the plane.
Beyond the first tower, the first courtyard appears with two human headed sphinxes accompanied by two statues of the pharaoh himself which originally stand on both sides of the passageway.
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The sphinx, however, remains a mystery.
The sphinx emerges time and again as a metaphor for the intertwined "riddles" of design and politics, the ways in which design is invested with meaning.
The staircase is flanked by two sphinxes.
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A vulture and sundisk symbol was located in the entablature directly above the columns, and the front entrance was flanked by sphinxes covered in polychromatic terracotta and two obelisks.
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The base is decorated with sphinxes.
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There are bridges designed in various styles with such decorations as statues, lamplights, lions, horses, sphinxes and griffins, and there are modern styles lacking any decor.
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I want to know whether he intends to maintain his sphinx-like proclivities.
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The sphinx in front of the park will have sunglasses added to it.
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The exhibition consisted of a giant female sphinx, measuring approximately 80-feet long by 40-feet high, and several life-size child-like figures, dubbed attendants.
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The performance featured a giant sphinx on the stage.
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The sphinx is a traditional intelligence symbol and indicates observation, wisdom and discreet silence.
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Sphinx is forced to face five other government operatives in a battle of life and death.
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The image of the sphinx appeared when the rock, having an 8 m height and a 12 m width, was watched from a certain angle.
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The flowers open in the evening instead of the day due to pollination by sphinx moths, which are active at night.
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Another aperiodic tiling, the sphinx tiling, is like the rhombille tiling based on the hexagonal lattice.
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They received praise, and were entitled to wear buttons and other equipment decorated with a sphinx.
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Sphinx may act as a negative regulator of target genes.
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The riders are confronted with a two-bodied sphinx with a floral crown and an archaic smile.
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Another riddle is the original cultic and symbolic function of the sphinx.
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The sphinx, a traditional military intelligence symbol, indicates observation, wisdom and discreet silence.
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Others, like the sphinx, are asymmetrical and exist in two distinct forms related by mirror-reflection.
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Sphinx is used as main engine to manage the search.
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Sphinx featured feasibility of continuous-speech, speaker-independent large-vocabulary recognition, the possibility of which was in dispute at the time (1986).
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The sphinx hexiamond is the only known self-replicating pentagon.
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Also in this sector is a large sphinx monolith, discovered in the 19th century.
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The sphinx is representative of the intelligence mission.
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Three mythic animals, a lion, a sphinx and a bull with a human head, are depicted each on a ground line.
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The sphinx is located in the north and below the pyramids.
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A scroll underneath the sphinx bears the unit's abbreviated title.
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Possibly he has a griffin or a sphinx on a leash held in his left hand.
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The petals bear spurs that attract the plant's pollinators, the sphinx moths.
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The college's original 1960 seal had a sphinx on it, and a later logo featured a pyramid.
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Sphinx moths are valuable to insect collectors, who may pose a threat to these small populations.
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An example is the sphinx tiling, an aperiodic tiling formed by a pentagonal rep-tile.
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To the left of the entryway, is an angel, on the right of the entry stands a sphinx.
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Sphinx blennies inhabit shallow, rocky waters in the littoral zone, with sunlight exposure.
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Sacuanjoche flowers are most fragrant at night in order to lure sphinx moths to pollinate them.
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Here, too, the sphinx serves a protective function.
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Sphinx does not talk throughout the entire game, leaving us very little knowledge of his personality.
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Sphinx is able to save him and in return is rewarded with the crown.
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A 14 m tall column topped by a sphinx was at the northeast side of the sanctuary.
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The flowers are pollinated at night by large sphinx moths.
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Sphinx is a mythical creature with the body of a lion, most often with a human head and sometimes with wings.
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Sphinx 2 code has also been incorporated into a number of commercial products.
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Sphinx 2 focuses on real-time recognition suitable for spoken language applications.
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The sphinx hexiamond (illustrated above) is rep-4 and rep-9, and is the only known self-replicating pentagon.
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The capital has animal figures like lions, elephants, a sphinx and tigers.
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There were two versions of the medal, the first were the ones issued during 1882 which had 1882 engraved below the sphinx.
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The sphinx was made by covering a polystyrene core with machine-cut blocks of white sugar, which were then further cut by hand and smoothed with a sugar slurry.
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In commemoration of this event, the damage remains unrepaired to this day and is clearly visible in the form of shrapnel holes and gouges on the right-hand sphinx.
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The sphinx is therefore a rep-tile.
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A sphinx can be dissected into four or nine copies of itself, some of them mirror images, and repeating this process leads to a non-periodic tiling of the plane.
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Sphinx was not received well by critics.
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The path was frequently decorated with sphinx statues and punctuated by barque stations, where the priests carrying the festival barque could set it down to rest during the procession.
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Crypt of the sphinx. 2.
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E23 for the "sphinx", the reclining lion.
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I had a tutorial about orthopaedic surgery in the shadow of the sphinxes paw.
The only place where this has been left is on the wing supports of the sphinx.
The sphinx moves once again from margin to the center, and she is transformed in the process.
With her proud stance and broad wings, she is the formal and ideological inverse of the sphinx.
The technique for the oxen and the sphinx was a variation on the bas-relief one.
Eventually, it is reduced to "shattered" masonry, lying between the paws of the implacable sphinx.
In politics, as in art, the sphinx is a force of nature that must be overcome.
The further translation of the sphinx motif across media creates a network of reciprocal meaning that unites these images.
The sphinx is the crux of this formulation, forcing the artist to examine the place of individual observation in artistic creation.
Composers have to be aware of this: a sphinx guards the entrance of every human domain, of every specific discipline.
The contingency of meaning created by intermediality thus reflects back upon his earlier treatments of the sphinx.
The only others like this in reasonably regular use are sphinx and sphincter.
The only other words like this in reasonably regular use are sphinx and sphincter.
Rather, as a sign of "unanswered problems," the sphinx brings socialism into the polite drawing room.
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