THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
The second paragraph declares that the creator endows people with certain unalienable rights & then lists these 3
life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness
The Taj Mahal features one large & 4 smaller these in the "onion" style
dome
This adjective means complicated & difficult to find your way through, like confronting an ancient Cretan maze
labyrinthine
No, the Titanic's fate wasn't due to a curse involving a priestess of Amen-Ra or any of these tightly wrapped types
a mummy
A national historic park has a collection of these from Tlingit history, including the Cormorant Memorial one
totem
Language condemning the British practice of this "execrable commerce" was removed despite objections
slavery
Greek for "high city", it rises some 500 feet above Athens
the Acropolis
From Greek for "making of words", this, meaning imitative of sound, might make you hiss
onomatopoeia
Despite what you've heard, the traditional throwing of this at the end of a wedding will not harm birds or their tummies
rice
Their poles are thought to relate to the ancient practice of bloodletting, with red symbolizing blood & white, bandages
barbers
About 2 weeks after Pearl Harbor, the Declaration was hidden away at this Kentucky facility, where it remained until late 1944
Fort Knox
The dining room at this home of a president is serviced by a dumbwaiter & a revolving door for presenting food
Monticello
A copy of an ancient Grecian urn, or how a species propagates
a reproduction
Science has never substantiated the existence of this fanciful beast that attacks livestock & has a name meaning "goat sucker"
a chupacabra
Part of George Costanza's heritage, it's symbolized by an aluminum pole
Festivus
The Declaration drew direct inspiration from ideas in this colony's Declaration of Rights
Virginia
Its name is Quechua for "old peak"
Machu Picchu
A Northerner in the South during Reconstruction might be labeled this, for the satchel he carried
a carpetbagger
This Ukrainian president wasn't seen on video in a strange costume doing a belly dance; that rumor's been debunked
Zelenskyy
Term for a type of TV programming where a strong show "supports" a weaker preceding or following show
tentpole
The document was influenced by this English thinker's tenet that govt. gets its powers from "the consent of the people"
John Locke
Built in the 17th & 18th centuries, the Schönbrunn Palace was the summer home of this dynasty for nearly two centuries
Habsburg
This 12-letter synonym for sleepwalker sounds a lot fancier
somnambulist
This Baltimore Sun writer's completely fictitious history of the bathtub from 1917 was believed by many, much to his mischievous delight
Mencken
This legendary Ukrainian pole vaulter was the first to clear 20 feet
Sergey Bubka