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Intangible cultural heritage
Intangible cultural heritage (ICH), or living heritage, covers traditions, knowledge, and skills communities recognize as their heritage. Defined by UNESCO's 2003 Convention (adopted 17 October 2003; 185 states parties as of June 2026), spanning five domains and UNESCO lists.
Intarsia (knitting)
Intarsia (knitting): a colorwork technique using a separate bobbin of yarn for each color block, with no floats and twisted color changes, unlike stranded Fair Isle knitting; worked flat for large isolated motifs.
International availability of McDonald's products
International availability of McDonald's products: how the chain sells a standardized core menu, like the Big Mac, in over 100 countries while adapting items such as India's McAloo Tikki and Japan's Teriyaki Burger to local tastes, religion, and sourcing.
International Coffee Day
International Coffee Day, marked 1 October, began as an ICO campaign in 2015 and became a UN observance by General Assembly resolution 80/248 in March 2026, celebrating coffee and its 25 million farming households.
International Day of Peace
International Day of Peace, a UN observance on 21 September established by Resolution 36/67 in 1981 and fixed by Resolution 55/282 in 2001, observed as a 24-hour global ceasefire and non-violence day.
International Honor Quilt
International Honor Quilt (IHQ), also called International Quilting Bee: a 1980 feminist art project by Judy Chicago of 542 triangular quilt panels honoring women, made by 750 makers from 12 countries, held at the University of Louisville's Hite Art Institute since 2013.
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), US-Canadian women's garment union founded 1900, largest in its industry, peak 450,802 members in 1957; merged with ACTWU into UNITE in 1995.
International Museum of Ceramics (Faenza)
The International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza is an Italian museum of ceramics from every age and continent, founded in 1908 and housed in the former convent of San Maglorio.
International Nurses Day
International Nurses Day (IND), held every 12 May on Florence Nightingale's birthday, is led by the International Council of Nurses with an annual themed report; 2020 was the WHO International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife.
International Quilt Festival
The International Quilt Festival is a large annual quilt show held each fall in Houston, Texas since 1975, featuring over 1,400 quilts, 500 vendor booths, and about 275 classes.
International Talk Like a Pirate Day
Talk Like a Pirate Day is a parodic holiday held each September 19, encouraging people to speak like pirates in phrases such as "Ahoy, matey!"
International Tea Day
International Tea Day (国际茶日), a UN observance on 21 May since resolution A/RES/74/241 (2019), led by FAO to honor tea's rural development role; also a separate 15 December tea-worker observance since 2005.
International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation
The International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation (ITGLWF) was a Brussels-based global union federation founded in 1970 from the ITGWF-ISLWF merger, claiming up to 10 million members, and dissolved in 2012 into IndustriALL Global Union.
Inti Raymi
Inti Raymi, the Quechua "Festival of the Sun," is an Andean solstice festival honoring the Inca sun god Inti, staged every June 24 in Cusco, Peru.
Intimate parts in Islam
Intimate parts in Islam ('awrah, عورة) are the body parts Islamic law requires covering in prayer and before others. Boundaries differ by school: men navel to knee; free women all but face and hands; slave women historically like men.
Inuit clothing
Inuit clothing: traditional Arctic dress of caribou and sealskin, layered fur-in/fur-out, hollow-haired caribou insulation, sinew-sewn waterproof seams, amauti baby parkas, kamiit boots, and modern fur-trimmed fabric parkas.
Inuit cuisine
Inuit cuisine, the food culture of Inuit across Greenland, Canada, and Alaska, centers on country foods (seal, whale, caribou, fish), raw meat for vitamin C, food-sharing networks, and a post-contact shift toward market foods with nutrient and contaminant trade-offs.
Inuksuk
Inuksuk (Inuktitut ᐃᓄᒃᓱᒃ, plural inuksuit; also inukshuk) is a stone landmark built by Inuit and other Arctic peoples, meaning "that which acts in the capacity of a human"; used for navigation, caribou drives, and memorials, and now a symbol of Nunavut and Canada.
Inverted Jenny
The Inverted Jenny (Scott C3a) is a 1918 US 24-cent airmail stamp with a blue Curtiss JN-4 biplane printed upside down; one sheet of 100 exists, bought by Robey for $24 in 1918, with position 49 selling for $2,006,000 in 2023.
IQOS
IQOS is a heat-not-burn tobacco device by Philip Morris International that heats cigarette-sized tobacco sticks to about 482 degrees Fahrenheit without burning them, first launched in Japan in 2014.
Iranian cuisine
Iranian cuisine, also known as Persian cuisine, is the culinary tradition of Iran, whose national dish, chelow kabab, pairs rice with grilled meat and favors sour, herb flavors.
Ireland Baldwin
Ireland Basinger Baldwin, American fashion model and actress, daughter of Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger; signed with IMG Models and Two Management in 2013, later DT Model Management; Rampage and Sisley campaigns.
Irezumi (入れ墨)
Irezumi (入れ墨), also called horimono or shisei, is traditional Japanese tattooing: hand-poked tebori body suits with dragon, koi, and Suikoden motifs, shaped by Edo punitive marks, the 1872–1948 ban, and yakuza association.
Irina Shayk (Ирина Валерьевна Шайхлисламова)
Irina Shayk (Ирина Валерьевна Шайхлисламова), Russian model and actress born 1986 in Yemanzhelinsk; first Russian on the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover (2011), face of Intimissimi, Megara in Hercules (2014), mother of Lea with Bradley Cooper.
Iris Mittenaere
Iris Mittenaere Druart, born 1993 in Lille, is a French TV presenter and former dental surgery student who was Miss France 2016 and Miss Universe 2016, the second French winner after 1953, later hosting Ninja Warrior and writing Toujours y croire.
Irish coffee
Irish coffee (Caife Gaelach) is a hot cocktail of coffee, Irish whiskey, sugar, and floated lightly whipped cream, invented by Joe Sheridan at Foynes, Ireland, in the early 1940s and introduced to America at San Francisco's Buena Vista Cafe on November 10, 1952.
Irish cuisine
Irish cuisine: national cooking of Ireland built on dairy, grass-fed beef and lamb, pork, potato, seafood and soda bread; from pre-potato cereal-and-milk diet through the Famine to the modern food revival.
Irish whiskey
Irish whiskey, uisce beatha Éireannach, is whiskey distilled and aged at least three years on the island of Ireland, known for triple distillation and the single pot still style; exports reached about €930 million in 2025 with the USA as top market.
Irn-Bru
Irn-Bru, also IRN-BRU, is Scotland's iconic orange carbonated soft drink, launched as Iron Brew by A.G. Barr in Falkirk on 15 April 1901, renamed in 1947, made from a secret 32-flavour recipe and the slogan 'Made in Scotland from Girders'.
Iron Chef America
Iron Chef America: Food Network cooking-competition series (2005-2018), second US adaptation of Fuji TV's Iron Chef, following Iron Chef USA (2001). Iron Chefs Flay, Batali, Morimoto, Cora, Symon, Garces, Forgione, Zakarian; Alton Brown commentator, Mark Dacascos Chairman, secret-ingredient one-hour battles.