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  2. List of Intangible Cultural Heritage elements in Spain

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    Name Year No. Description [a]; Centre for traditional culture – school museum of Pusol pedagogic project 2009 00306 "This innovative education project has two overall goals: to promote value-based education by integrating the local cultural and natural heritage within the curriculum, and to contribute to the preservation of Elche's heritage by means of education, training and direct actions."

  3. Culture of Spain - Wikipedia

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    Spanish literature is the name given to the literary works written in Spain throughout time, and those by Spanish authors worldwide. Due to historic, geographic, and generational diversity, Spanish literature has a great number of influences and is very diverse. Some major movements can be identified within it. [example needed]

  4. Spanish art - Wikipedia

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    Spanish art was particularly influenced by France and Italy during the Baroque and Neoclassical periods, but Spanish art has often had very distinctive characteristics, partly explained by the Moorish heritage in Spain (especially in Andalusia), and through the political and cultural climate in Spain during the Counter-Reformation and the ...

  5. Peristalsis - Wikipedia

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    A time-space diagram of a peristaltic wave after a water swallow. High-pressure values are red, zero pressure is blue-green. The ridge in the upper part of the picture is the high pressure of the upper esophageal sphincter which only opens for a short time to let water pass.

  6. Pachuco - Wikipedia

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    They spoke caló, their own language, a cool jive of half-English, half-Spanish rhythms ... Out of the zoot-suiter experience came lowrider cars and culture, clothes, music, tag names, and, again, its own graffiti language." [7] Pachucos were perceived as alien to both Mexican and Anglo-American culture–a distinctly Chicano figure. In Mexico ...

  7. Milagro (votive) - Wikipedia

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    Milagros come in a variety of shapes and dimensions and are fabricated from many different materials, depending on local customs. For example, they might be nearly flat or fully three-dimensional; and they can be constructed from gold, silver, tin, lead, wood, bone, or wax. In Spanish, the word milagro literally means miracle or surprise.

  8. Santo (art) - Wikipedia

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    The santero culture in the Philippines is widely prevalent among Filipino Catholics, having been influenced by centuries of Spain colonial rule and various forms of folk Catholicism. The earliest recorded vested santo in the Philippines is the Santo Niño de Cebu , a baptismal gift given by Ferdinand Magellan to Rajah Humabon 's consort in 1521.

  9. Culturalism - Wikipedia

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    "All images of the world are relative." "It is false to oppose nature and culture or to subordinate culture to nature." "Value is the most general category of the description of reality." Znaniecki's philosophy of culturalism laid the foundation for his larger theoretical system, based around another concept of his, "humanistic coefficient."