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2 unusual facts about Heritage


Héritage

Created in the second half of the 1970s to open on original locations, the Héritage banner eventually began to replace some Provigo/Dominion locations in the 1980s after Dominion Stores entirely withdrew from Quebec.

Heritage: The Young Concubine

Heritage: The Young Concubine (歲月河山:我家的女人) is a 1980 Hong Kong TV drama by RTHK starring Leslie Cheung.


Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003

Ban Ban Springs - First place put on Queensland's Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Register

Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area

The management authority for the Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area is the Looking for Lincoln Heritage Coalition and follows Lincoln's life from his birth and childhood, to his early life and career, to the Lincoln–Douglas debates of 1858.

Aliwan Fiesta

Aliwan Fiesta, which began in 2003, aims to showcase the different Filipino cultures and heritage not only to the people in Metro Manila but also to the rest of the world.

Archaeology in Ontario

Acts such as the Ontario Heritage Act and Environmental Assessment Act provide the major legal documents that protect heritage and cultural resources.

Australian heritage law

Australian heritage laws exist at the national (Commonwealth) level, and at each of Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia state levels.

Bertha of Kent

The present St Martin's at Canterbury continues in the same building as the oldest church in the English-speaking world and is part of the Canterbury World Heritage site.

Bonner, Australian Capital Territory

'Horse Park' homestead which has been nominated for the ACT Heritage Register is situated a kilometre west in the suburb of Jacka.

Canada Place

The Heritage Horns, formerly known as the 12 O'clock Horn, sound the first four notes of O Canada every day at noon and can be heard throughout Downtown Vancouver and beyond.

Château de Villemolin

The marriage in 1538 of Barbe de Bascoing, heir of Villemolin, to Etienne de Certaines, brought Villemolin into the heritage of the Certaines (known in Nivernais since 1296 and holding fiefs, among others, near Cervon) who still occupy it.

Chromolithe

Thus, work like that of Patrice Warrener's can be seen as a restoration of heritage buildings.

Clark Amendment

Visiting The Heritage Foundation on October 5, 1989, the ultimate beneficiary of the Clark Amendment's repeal, Jonas Savimbi's UNITA, praised the Heritage Foundation for its critical role in advocating the repeal of the amendment.

Crespo, Entre Ríos

The town's German heritage is reflected in the annual beer festival, based on the Oktoberfest but held in January.

Cumberland Presbytery

History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Kentucky to 1988, by Matthew H. Gore, Joint Heritage Committee of Covenant and Cumberland Presbyteries.

Dago Creek

The name derives from the numerous Sicilian fishermen who would anchor in the protected waters during closed fishing periods and collectively celebrate their heritage with plenty of food and wine.

Doryanthes excelsa

Doryanthes excelsa has also inspired the naming of Doryanthes, the journal of history and heritage for Southern Sydney founded by Dharawal historian Les Bursill.

Frank S. Welsh

Since 1972, Welsh has consulted on the research and restoration of original finishes and colors on over 1,600 restoration projects, which include World Heritage Sites and many national landmarks such as Independence Hall, Monticello, Colonial Williamsburg, and Grand Central Terminal.

Glebe Park, Canberra

A community campaign to save the trees resulted in a park being proclaimed in 1983 and heritage listing by the National Trust of Australia (ACT) and the Australian Heritage Commission.

Hartley, New South Wales

Hartley's sister villages, Little Hartley and Hartley Vale, still survive as residential villages with a heritage of their own.

Heritage Park Aquatic Center

Heritage Park Aquatic Center is an aquatics venue located in Irvine, California, United States.

Horomona Horo

Horo was mentored by the late Dr Hirini Melbourne and Dr Richard Nunns and was the winner of the inaugural Dynasty Heritage Concerto Competition in 2001.

Human rights in South Korea

When Hines Ward, who is of mixed Korean and African American heritage, earned MVP honors in Super Bowl XL, it sparked a debate in Korean society about the treatment mixed children receive.

Indy Sagu

His sound is also strongly influenced by his personal life experiences and his Sikh heritage.

Inveraray

The Inverarary Maritime Heritage Museum is based on the iron sailing ship Arctic Penguin, moored at the pier, along with the Clyde puffers VIC 72, Eilean Eisdeal, renamed Vital Spark, and VIC27 Auld Reekie, renamed Maggie.

Jack Winerock

He has recorded the Sonatas of Alexander Reinagle (teacher of George Washington's children) for the Musical Heritage Society and the Concerto for Piano and Winds by Igor Stravinsky for Golden Crest Records.

John Heyer

In these early years he worked on such feature films as Heritage, Thoroughbred, White Death in which Zane Grey appeared, and Forty Thousand Horsemen.

John William Boone

The John William Boone Heritage Foundation was founded to preserve the history of Blind Boone and to elaborate the important role Missouri played in the development of Ragtime and early Jazz music.

KFAQ

From the 1970s until May 2002, the station was also known for its country music heritage, as well as being nationally famous for western swing music, harboring such musicians as Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, Johnnie Lee Wills and disc jockey Billy Parker, who has won awards as country music disc jockey of the year.

Marcia Theophilo

The Amazon rainforest is the topic of Marcia's life and work: its river, people, myths, the animal and plant life, and the effort and persistence to save The Amazon's natural and cultural heritage.

Michael Succow

After 1990, Succow did consulting work in a number of former Warsaw Pact countries as well as in Central Asia and East Asia resulting in the designation of nature reservations (including a number of UNESCO world nature heritage sites) in Kamchatka, the Lena river delta, Karelia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Georgia, Russia and Belarus.

Minnekirken

Minnekirken serves as a reminder of a neighborhood heritage long past in which Scandinavians played a significant part.

MV Cape Pine

Cape Pine is still afloat, having been sold to the Maritime Heritage Society in Vancouver, and is in operation as a private pleasure boat and charter boat out of Pender Harbour, British Columbia, Canada.

National Union of Mineworkers headquarters

In his 2010 book A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, Owen Hatherley cites as ironic the fact that the NUM headquarters is more sympathetic to the history of Sheffield than anything constructed by New Labour, despite the latter's professed concern for "heritage".

Obi Ndefo

Obi Ndefo is an American of Nigerian heritage, an actor best known as Bodie Wells on the television drama Dawson's Creek.

Phyllis Lambert

In 1975, she founded the heritage preservation group Heritage Montreal.

Puffing Billy

Puffing Billy Railway, a narrow-gauge heritage tourist railway near Melbourne, Australia

Quanjude

One possible influencing factor may be that Melbourne's former Lord Mayor (Mr John So) is of Chinese heritage and Melbourne (and Australia) has a large overseas Chinese population.

Rover P6

In 1993, the collection then moved to its new home, The British Motor Industry Heritage Trust site at Gaydon, now known as the Heritage Motor Centre.

St Piran's Day

Dan Rogerson MP said of the 2012 event "The aim is to increase understanding of Cornwall’s Celtic heritage and culture in order to inform future debates on devolution, identity and government policy... and we are aiming to go bigger and better next year."

Stationary steam engine

This series reproduces some 1,500 images from the Steam Engine Record made by George Watkins between 1930 and 1980, which is now in the Watkins Collection at English Heritage's National Monuments Record at Swindon, Wilts.

Szilvia Freire

She is of mixed Hungarian and Portuguese heritage; her mother is Hungarian and her father was born in Mozambique to Portuguese parents.

Toronto Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory

Sir John Henry Lefroy, a pioneer in the study of terrestrial magnetism served as director of the magnetic observatory from 1842 to 1853; In 1960, the Ontario Heritage Foundation, Ministry of Citizenship and Culture erected a Provincial Military Plaque in his honour on the University of Toronto campus.

Toronto Public Library

Notable special collections include The Arthur Conan Doyle Collection, The Merril Collection of Science Fiction, The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books, and The Rita Cox Black and Caribbean Heritage Collection.

Trams in Alexandria

The price of a single Tram Al Ramlh ride is uniformly L.E. 0.25, except on the single-car touristic heritage tram that runs from Boulkly to Mhatat al-Ramlh, for which fare is L.E. 1.

University of Mary

The two apartments are named after the Benedictine heritage sites Subiaco (women's) and Monte Cassino (men's).

Waddesdon Manor

Michael Hall and John Bigelow Taylor, Waddesdon Manor: The Heritage of a Rothschild House (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2002) ISBN 0-8109-0507-8

Witley Court

The largest, the Perseus and Andromeda Fountain, has been restored to working order by English Heritage.

WLR

Willandra Lakes Region, a World Heritage Site in New South Wales, Australia

Woodville Railway Station, New Zealand

Woodville is occasionally either a waypoint or a destination for excursion passenger trains operated by local rail heritage organisations such as Mainline Steam and Steam Incorporated.

York Capitals

The team's name refers to the city's colonial heritage, with the Continental Congress having completed the final draft of the Articles of Confederation while it met in York during ten months of the Revolutionary War.

Yuriko Doi

Japanese-born and trained in the classical theater styles of Noh and Kyogen, Doi brought this heritage to the West in the 1960s, founding Theatre of Yugen in 1978.


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