birthplace
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The flame is lit during a ceremony at Olympia, the birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games, using a mirror and light from the sun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
But “A Nation of Artists” demonstrates that Philadelphia, sometimes called “the birthplace of America,” is a cradle of American art, too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
In 1986 Dolly Parton opened Dollywood, a theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, near her birthplace.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
This is the birthplace of Millicent and Eliza May Drayden, whom Ms. Daanje has loosely modeled on Charlotte and Emily Brontë.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
That is as far north as the lower parts of Alaska, or the Shetland Islands of Scotland, birthplace of the famously brave and rugged Shetland ponies.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
Africa, Asia, and North America have all been proposed as possible birthplaces.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
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
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
Does the history of technology depend on nothing more than accidents of the birthplaces of a few inventors?
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
