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
In 1986 Dolly Parton opened Dollywood, a theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, near her birthplace.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 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
Even with a few lampposts dotting the streets, I can’t see the breadth and depth of this city that is my birthplace, that is now my home.
From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi
Fifa investigators said the grandparents' original birth certificates showed they had been born in countries like Argentina and Spain - all corresponding with the players' birthplaces.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026
Some, including the Indus River basin, are also regarded as birthplaces of human civilization.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 31, 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
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
