birthplace
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The city is the birthplace of the modern hot air balloon, dating back to 1967 when the Bristol Belle was built and flown in the area.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
In June, the company signed an agreement to explore a field in Lake Maracaibo, the birthplace of Venezuela's oil industry.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
“We have beaten England! England, the birthplace of giants!” he shouted into his mic in Norwegian.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Not only is it a lower-cost part of the country compared to the birthplace of semiconductors in Silicon Valley, but engineers are less likely to be poached from far away, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 3, 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
The answer lies in a process called "radial migration" -- stars gradually moving outward from their birthplaces by interacting with spiral waves in the Galaxy.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2026
However, Prof Lorente’s team whittled the candidates down to eight possible birthplaces, in Spain, Portugal and Italy.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2024
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
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
