The 150th year of a heritage railway line has been marked in a special royal ceremony.
If this means the loss of indigenous languages, it also means the loss of thousands of year's worth of culture, heritage and tradition.
In her address, the Director-General called for a year of renewal for World Heritage.
"It's a sad day for UNESCO, and a painful symbol to see the initiator of the Nubia Campaign pass away on the same year as the 40th anniversary of World Heritage, only a few months after the death of Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, " said the Director-General.
English Heritage numbers rose 15, 000 last year to 998, 000 - a rise of 4% compared to the year before, and National Heritage from 3.6 to 3.8 million over the same period - a jump of 5%.
We are celebrating this year the 40th anniversary of our World Heritage Convention, which embodies this vision.
Now, however, like many other fashion names of Chinese heritage, 52-year-old Vivienne Tam has her sights set on a much larger and ideally more appreciative home base.
To Mercedes's surprise, for instance, the group has been drawn to the brand's 125-year heritage, and so a number of its ads since have played up images of its 1950s roadsters and other vintage Mercedes.
After the success of this workshop, the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts, in close collaboration with UNESCO Phnom Penh Office, will organize two national workshops this coming year on community-based inventorying of intangible cultural heritage and preparing nominations for the intangible heritage list.
The 40-year-old company is steeped in a heritage of security (some would say paranoia).
Presentation of Oralidad, a publication for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage of Latin America and the Caribbean, its 17th issue devoted to the International Year for People of African Descent.
The Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage numbers 24 representatives of States Parties to the Convention, elected for a four-year term.
The opponents say the development would also hurt the heritage and landscape of the 700-year-old market town.
The trust relies on selling Antarctic stamps and gifts from the shop to the 15, 000 visitors who arrive aboard cruise ships each year, in order to fund up to half of their heritage work.
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For 2002, proclaimed United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage, UNESCO has chosen the themes of reconciliation and development as the focus of its activities, which will be presented at UN headquarters in New York today by UNESCO's Assistant Director-General for Culture, Mounir Bouchenaki.
The money is coming from the organisation's Year of Natural Scotland Fund, which is supported by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH).
The Moscow Arts Theatre celebrates its centenary this year: its heritage has been transmitted through an unbroken relay of actors trained by the company school in Stanislavsky's Method.
The ancient city centre, with its Roman, Gothic and Renaissance slices, is a Unesco World Heritage site, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors a year to its narrow streets.
Although this might seem suspiciously of-the-moment, given the number of designers currently mining Americana heritage, for the 33-year-old Minnesota native, the frontier-meets-luxe look is a natural fit.
It will reopen next year after decades of decay as a multi-purpose venue incorporating a restaurant, heritage centre and luxury accommodation.
With the medieval citadel at its heart, the Unesco World Heritage Site used to draw thousands of tourists to Aleppo every year.
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Defensive backs Nadir Barnwell of Piscataway High, Anthony Cioffi of Jonathan Drayton, Bryant Gross-Armiento of American Heritage in Florida, Delon Stephenson, who spent last year at Milford Academy, and T.
The council hopes to submit a Heritage Lottery Fund bid for the scheme by the end of the year.
Again, though, there are no infallible formulas: "Dozens of new characters are introduced by comic-book publishers each year, " says Heritage's Mr. Jaster.
The Word Heritage Committee meets once a year to implement the convention defining the kind of natural of cultural sites that can be considered for the prestigious list.
All States Parties must present the World Heritage Committee with a Tentative List of sites they intend to nominate one year before nominations are submitted.
The housing, regeneration and heritage department will take the biggest hit next year, losing 4.9% of its budget.
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Canterbury Cathedral World Heritage Site is giving visitors a rare opportunity to see some of its 800 year old stained glass up close.
Heritage brokered the T. bataar on behalf of a thirty-seven-year-old bone hunter named Eric Prokopi, who lives in Florida, a great state for fossils.
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