birthplace
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At the other extreme, she becomes artist-in-residence of the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, where she will serve as pianist, conductor and curator in Beethoven’s birthplace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 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
Deraa is widely seen as the birthplace of the uprising against Assad's rule.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 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
However, Virginia’s legacy as the birthplace of humanity’s first step into the heavens would have to compete with the notoriety it was gaining as the country’s most intransigent foe of integrated schools.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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
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
