birthplace
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Millions visit Plymouth, Mass., to see the birthplace of American self-government.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
It said the site was also "the birthplace of future UK science pioneers", as it welcomed "more than 25,000 schoolchildren every year".
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Austria will formally open a new police station on Wednesday in Adolf Hitler's former house, in the hope of deterring today's ascendant far-right extremists from making the pilgrimage to the Nazi dictator's birthplace.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
The city was the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, in which Britain led the world through the dynamism of its capitalist system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Little is known about his youth, but it seems that Archimedes was born around 287 BC in Samos, Pythagoras’s birthplace.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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But Fifa said investigators obtained original birth certificates of the grandparents, which showed that they were born in countries like Argentina and Spain - all corresponding with the players' birthplaces.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025
That pattern matches a practice ethnographers call patrilocality, in which men stay put while women leave their birthplaces to find mates, a pattern also seen in ancient European farmers, among others.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 24, 2024
In the icy regions of their birthplaces, where planets receive little warming radiation from the star, the sub-Neptunes should indeed have sizes missing from the observed distribution.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 9, 2024
Each year, hordes of them surge from the ocean into Canada’s rivers and streams, swimming back to their birthplaces to spawn.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 30, 2023
There were millions of other Americans who had left their birthplaces in search of a dream.
From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie
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