In the past, a great library was the result of librarians functioning as guardians of culture, tending and caring, selecting and recommending works that maintained and nurtured a cultural heritage.
During the two-day seminar the specialists in three main fields, i.e. archaeology, protection, and museum work, which are interconnected directly, participated in studying matters of protecting and using petroglyphs as a cultural heritage embodiment.
Sledge described the operation generously: the rooms teeming to the scrolled plaster ceilings with bud-heavy green stalks, the floor cabled with sprinklers, the walls lined with foil reflectors to maximize the ripening effects of the solar-spectrum lamps, the stereo chattering NPR talk radio to cover the drone of the daytime light banks, and classical music to give the plants a cultural heritage through the cool damp night.
Different cultures from Spain, Latin America and the Philippines met here during the colonial era and created a remarkable cultural heritage.
Falconry forms the basis of a wider cultural heritage, including traditional dress, food, songs, music, poetry and dance, sustained by the communities and clubs that practise it.
Falconry forms the basis of a wider cultural heritage, including traditional dress, food, songs, music, poetry and dance, all of which are sustained by the communities and clubs that practise it.
The relationship as it exists now is catching up with this reality, even if differences between the U.S. and Britain are obscured by a gauze of nostalgia and the deceptive fraternity borne of language and a shared cultural heritage.
It also has a great cultural heritage and its spectacular vistas and dynamic seas have inspired many great British novelists such as Thomas Hardy and Ian McEwan, who even chose one of Dorset's beaches, Chesil Beach, as the title for one of his most celebrated novels.
Culture is a basic need, and cultural heritage a symbolic necessity that gives meaning to human lives connecting past, present and future.
Mr Copson also said that the poll showed that people in Britain primarily viewed Christianity as a matter of history and cultural heritage rather than as a matter of religion.
Slaves transcended oppression and bequeathed to the world a boundlessly rich cultural heritage.
In October 2011, the ruins were placed on the World Monuments Fund's Watch List, a catalogue of cultural heritage sites around the globe which are in danger.
"This was a very tall structure, bigger than Big Ben, in open countryside against the Chiltern Hills, an area of outstanding natural beauty, surrounded by small villages and conservation areas with a lot of cultural heritage and listed buildings, " he said.
The project, composed of four phases, is to conduct a series of pilot Intangible Cultural Heritage inventory-making activities on a grassroots level in six Sub-Saharan African countries, namely Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Uganda, Swaziland and Zambia.
Deliberations will consider especially community involvement in the preservation of cultural heritage, youth engagement and heritage education with a view to ensuring the sustainable development of cultural heritage worldwide.
Through the project, it is expected that national authorities together with communities would be able to devise cost-effective tools and methodologies to inventory Intangible Cultural Heritage which may serve in the future as a model for nation-wide Intangible Cultural Heritage inventorying exercises.
Since ratifying the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2003, the Cambodian government has demonstrated a strong commitment to define its intangible cultural heritage and to preserve it for the future generation.
Now, she's released a debut album called Jidka: The Line, which draws on her musical and cultural heritage as a Somali exile.
The launching ceremony was followed by a panel discussion on cultural heritage and disaster management.
And increased contact highlights points of difference as much as a shared ethnic and cultural heritage.
The international geosciences programme (IGCP) project 567 on earthquake archaeology is intended to demonstrate that archaeological evidence can make a valuable contribution to long-term seismic-hazard assessments in earthquake-prone regions where there is a long and lasting cultural heritage.
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The Tuscan countryside has a rich cultural and artistic heritage, crisscrossed with vineyards producing delicious Chianti, Brunello di Montalcino and super Tuscans, and anchored by classic vistas of olive and cypress trees framing red-tiled church roofs, all within easy reach of Florence and Rome.
Hence, in the frame of the overall enlargement process of the European Union, A River's Dream intends to promote folk music, an intangible cultural heritage, as a means of reconciliation, regional and cross-border cooperation and, a vehicle of cultural identity and diversity as well as of mutual understanding.
More broadly, explains festival director Salem Al Mazrouei, it is also a way of preserving aspects of Bedouin cultural heritage that might otherwise be lost in a rapidly modernizing country.
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It is a proud symbol of the cultural heritage of the craftspeople, their city and the nation.
Cultural heritage is a reference full of values helping to restore a sense of normality and enabling people to move forward.
The fabled city includes ancient tombs and wooden structures dating to the 15th century, a major part of its cultural heritage.
You come from a country of multi-cultural heritage, but not Lebanon, not Beirut, not Byblos, not the land of the free, the home of the brave.
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The indigenous groups in Cambodia have a rich tangible and intangible cultural heritage, but their traditions are endangered due to widespread poverty and lack of resources.
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