birthplace

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Burslem is the birthplace of the late Motorhead frontman Lemmy, while another famous singer grew up here.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

In nine years since she relocated to Ghana, she has only returned to her birthplace in the United States once.

From Barron's • Mar. 10, 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

By the 1920s, when Holmes was in the prime of his career, geology had slipped out of fashion–physics was the new excitement of the age–and had become severely underfunded, particularly in Britain, its spiritual birthplace.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson