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
Middlesex
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
Alma and How She Got Her Name
Eyes that Kiss in the Corners
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
Watercress
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Uses of Heritage
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Decoded
Elizabeth Street

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Harry F. MacDonald, Magic Alex and the Secret History of Rock and Roll

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Harry F. MacDonald, Magic Alex and the Secret History of Rock and Roll

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