Cultural Heritage

Cultural heritage is the legacy of physical artefacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations. Cultural heritage includes tangible culture (such as buildings, monuments, landscapes, books, works of art, and artefacts), intangible culture (such as folklore, traditions, language, and knowledge), and natural heritage (including culturally significant landscapes, and biodiversity).

The deliberate act of keeping cultural heritage from the present for the future is known as p
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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
Alma and How She Got Her Name
Eyes that Kiss in the Corners
Watercress
Uses of Heritage
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
The Joy Luck Club
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Now you might remember the professor on the television show Gilligan’s Island. A really smart guy. He powered the island, developed a coconut clock, installed a plumbing and water system. He just never got around to fixing the boat. Brian was effective in just the same way.
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