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

The town was also the birthplace of French revolutionary Georges Jacques Danton.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 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

The JPL Spacecraft Assembly Facility, known as the "clean room," was the little-known birthplace of the most famous spacecraft in Mars exploration history.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir