birthplace
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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
This fundamental contradiction—Shanghai as the birthplace of Chinese communism and also the center of the country’s capitalist development—lies at the heart of Michael Dillon’s “Shanghai: The Story of China’s Most Dynamic City.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Domino's Pizza closed its last outlets in Italy - the birthplace of pizza - in 2022 after facing stiff competition from local restaurants since it opened there seven years earlier.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
By solving it, he helped the city become the birthplace of skyscrapers despite terrain that could not have been less suited to the role.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Fifa investigators said the grandparents' original birth certificates showed they had been born in countries like Argentina and Spain - all corresponding with the players' birthplaces.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026
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
