| UNESCO's INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE |
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| PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS |
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| The sericulture of China made UNESCO's list along with the skill of making this resulting fabric |
silk
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| Read at Clinton's inauguration, her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" contains the line "lost in the gloom of dust and ages" |
Angelou
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| Between Tarrytown & Nyack, New York lies a watery section of river known as the Tappan this |
the Zee
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| Roderick, Madeline & their place itself don't make it to the end; after all, it is "The Fall of" this |
the House of Usher
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| Walk the Moon recounts a night at the disco: "I said, 'you're holding back', she said" this title |
"Shut Up And Dance" with me
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| At her wedding to FDR in 1905, Eleanor was given away by this uncle, who happened to be president at the time |
Theodore Roosevelt
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| Argentina & Uruguay were recognized for this dance developed in Buenos Aires & Montevideo |
the tango
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| His second inaugural marked the first time African Americans had been included in the inaugural parade |
(Kelly: Who is Obama?)
Lincoln
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| "Every kiss begins with" this jeweler |
Kay
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| After a bad Hessian session, this schoolmaster is never seen in Sleepy Hollow again |
(Ichabod) Crane
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| Migos & this Canadian teamed up on the 2018 hit "Walk It Talk It" |
Drake
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| Castells, or human towers, are created by amateur groups at festivals in this Spanish region that includes Barcelona & Tarragona |
Catalonia
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| FDR's 1st inaugural gave us this 10-word statement, a "firm belief" about "nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror" |
(Jake: What is "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"?)
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"
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| This word precedes "England Slept" in a 1940 book by JFK |
Why
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| Frank Stockton leaves it up to you--"Which came out of the opened door--the lady or" this? |
the tiger
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| Vanessa Carlton was nominated for 3 Grammys for her song that said, "You know I'd walk" this far to "just see you tonight" |
a thousand miles
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| At the time of his 1914 assassination, Franz Ferdinand was heir to the throne occupied by this man, his uncle |
Franz Joseph
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| In 2022 UNESCO honored this long French loaf of bread, the most popular kind eaten in France year round |
a baguette
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| His nearly 8,500-word address is by far the longest ever; he should have saved his energy |
William Henry Harrison
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| The poem Amanda Gorman read at the U.N. General Assembly was titled "An Ode We" this |
Owe
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| A "Scrivener" hired to copy legal documents, he's an early advocate of quiet quitting, then quits life itself |
Bartleby
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| According to the Bangles, "Slide your feet up the street, bend your back, shift your arm, then you pull it back" to do this |
walk like an Egyptian
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| Real name Ivan, he's the bitter, aging title character of a Chekhov play |
Uncle Vanya
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| UNESCO referred to the duduk as Armenia's equivalent of this Western reed instrument |
(Jake: What's a clarinet?)
an oboe
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| He, his wife & 9-year-old daughter were the first first family to walk all the way from the Capitol to the White House |
the Carters
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| It's a term for the seat of authority of a bishop |
a see
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| A Bierce last line--"Peyton Farquhar was dead; his body... swung gently... beneath the timbers of" this title structure |
(Ken: That's from "An Occurrence at [*]".)
Owl Creek Bridge
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| Oddly, the official video for this '80s Katrina & The Waves hit showed the band strolling through a misty London in heavy coats |
"Walking On Sunshine"
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| In a letter to Tacitus, this man wrote of his elder uncle's death at Vesuvius from "some gross and noxious vapor" |
(Ken: That is correct; about his uncle [*] the Elder.)
Pliny
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