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Sphinx’s riddle yellow sombrero, white shirt and trousers, and a red kerchief. To date there have been 46 cartoons made either starring or featuring this character. Sphinx’s riddle – (библ.) загадка сфинкса; очень трудная загадка, проблема In Greek mythology, the Sphinx is said to have guarded the entrance to the Greek city of Thebes, and to have asked a riddle of travelers to allow them passage. If the traveler failed to solve the riddle, then the Sphinx killed them. And if the traveler answered the riddle correctly, then the Sphinx would destroy herself. The exact riddle asked by the Sphinx was not specified by early tellers of the stories, and was not standardized as the one given below until late in Greek history. The riddle: What goes on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening? The Sphinx strangled and devoured anyone unable to answer. Oedipus solved the riddle by answering: Man – who crawls on all fours as a baby, then walks on two feet as an adult, and then walks with a cane in old age. Bested at last, the tale continues, the Sphinx then threw herself from her high rock and died. Thus Oedipus can be recognized as a threshold figure, helping effect the transition between the old religious practices, represented by the death of the Sphinx, and the rise of the new, Olympian gods. Spinning Jenny/jenny – (ист.) прядильная машина «Дженни» A device used in the textile industry, where Jenny is possibly a corruption of engine. James Hargreaves was a weaver living in Lancashire. It is claimed that one day his daughter Jenny accidentally knocked over the family spinning wheel. The spindle continued to revolve and it gave Hargreaves the idea that a whole line of spindles could be worked off one wheel. In 1764 Hargreaves built what became known as the Spinning-Jenny. The machine used eight spindles onto which the thread was spun from a corresponding set of rovings. By turning a single wheel, the 154