birthplace

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It is also the birthplace of St Augustine, and Leo XIV is the first pontiff from the order to follow his teachings.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

His vision for hip-hop transformed the Bronx borough into "the birthplace of a culture that now reaches every corner of the world", said Reverend Dr Kurtis Blow Walker, the executive director of Hip Hop Alliance.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 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

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

But she missed it more than her birthplace of New Orleans, and definitely more than Alaska, where she’d died back in 1942.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan