I’ve been doing a lot of reading about the British Empire the past few months, and considering the implications of its almost spontaneous collapse during the decades after WWII. This was written November, 2013, but I find it’s still worth a chuckle today. Old Jules
This reblog is only a portion of the original piece. If you want to read the entire blog entry you can read it here: Why shooting the nose off the Sphinx was a good thing
Hi readers.
A lot of you probably think the world would have been just as good a place if Napoleon’s troops hadn’t shot the nose off the Sphinx practicing with artillery in 1799. You might even think if they’d just stayed home in France and shot the noses off every Frenchman they could catch the world would be better off?
In the interest of science, Napoleon’s troops couldn’t know what would happen up there without shooting some artillery at it to find out. Same as Hiroshima and Nagasaki later on. Theories are worthless unless they’re tested.
Well, you’d be wrong. Napoleon’s troops did just the right thing blowing off the nose of Sphinx.
Keep in mind, these were Frenchmen. All they knew how to do at that point was try to take the heads off whatever got in the way. But they saved the Sphinx. If they’d left it alone…
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So Far From Heaven 
There’s at least another colorful story about the nose of the Sphinx.
https://www.woot.com/blog/post/the-debunker-did-napoleons-soldiers-shoot-off-the-sphinxs-nose
Interesting if true. Gracias, Old Jules