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

Tahir Shah
My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.
Tahir Shah, In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams

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

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