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Heritage

 
Wikipedia: Heritage

Heritage refers to something which is inherited from one's ancestors. It has several different senses, including:

  • Natural heritage, a nation's inheritance of fauna and flora, geology, landscape and landforms, and other natural resources
  • Cultural heritage, the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society
  • Tradition, customs and practices inherited from ancestors
  • Virtual Heritage, an ICT work dealing with cultural heritage
  • Inheritance of physical goods after the death of an individual
  • Heredity, biological inheritance of physical characteristics
  • Birthright, something inherited due to the place, time, or circumstances of someone's birth
  • Industrial heritage, the monuments from the industrial culture
  • Kinship, the relationship between entities that share a genealogical origin

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