birthplace

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The region became the birthplace of the Chicano civil rights movement that included the East L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

How appropriate that the April 23-25 draft will be held for the first time in Pittsburgh, birthplace of the Steel Curtain.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

Once a classic American success story—he came from a family of striving Italian immigrants who ran Perry’s Grill on North Street in Endicott, N.Y.—Luciano’s life ended in Endicott, the birthplace of IBM.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

Algeria is the birthplace of the fifth-century St Augustine and the pope belongs to the Augustinian order, which was founded in the 13th century.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

I seem to remember that small cities in ancient Greece quarreled bitterly over which was the birthplace of Homer.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck