"They were designated primarily for their cultural and social history, " said Tara Kelly, executive director of the Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts.

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If the Titanic has gripped our imagination so forcefully for the past century, it must be because of something bigger than any fact of social or political or cultural history.

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Chinese shadow puppetry also passes on information such as cultural history, social beliefs, oral traditions and local customs.

UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

Through the festival, Qiang traditions distilling history and cultural information are renewed and diffused, and social behaviours are reinforced, the community expressing respect and worship towards all creatures, the motherland and their ancestors.

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Volume I of the General History of the Caribbean relates to the history of the origins of the earliest Caribbean peoples, and analyses their various political, social, cultural and economic organizations over time, in and around the Caribbean region.

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