birthplace
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Paramount Skydance Chief Executive David Ellison faces a pivotal decision: Should he uproot his Hollywood studio — the birthplace of such film classics as “Sunset Boulevard,” “The Godfather” and “Beverly Hills Cop”?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
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
Millions visit Plymouth, Mass., to see the birthplace of American self-government.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
It said the site was also "the birthplace of future UK science pioneers", as it welcomed "more than 25,000 schoolchildren every year".
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
At least, she thought, she had one new piece of information: Mia’s birthplace, listed as Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, on the birth certificate next to Mia Warren.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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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
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
Campaigners have bid to give the birthplaces of The Beatles registered status and get official recognition for "where it all started".
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2023
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
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