Heritage

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

• Natural heritage, a nation's fauna and flora, natural resources, and landscape
• 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
• 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

It is also:

• Heritage (Doctor Who), a novel in the BBC Books series
• The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank located in Washington, D.C.
• Heritage Day, various meanings
• Heritage Guitars, a boutique guitar manufacturer, separated from Gibson
• Heritage New Hampshire, a museum companion to the New Hampshire theme park Story Land
• Heritage Records (Australia), a 1960s Australian record label
• The Heritage, a golf event
• The Heritage (film), a 1978 Danish film
• The Heritage at Millennium Park, a skyscraper in Chicago
• Heritage (Armenia), a pro-Western political party in Armenia
• Heritage Party (Zambia), a political party in Zambia
• Heritage, vintage light rail urban train operation

[edit] See also

• UNESCO World Heritage Site
• Heritage College
• Heritage Christian University
• English Heritage
• Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador
• Heritage tourism
• Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata
• Heritage Fleet
• Heritage Foods
• Heritage High School

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