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I wondered whether my own family history – great-grandparents born during the Irish famine, a grandmother who was traumatised by her war experiences in the 1920s – could have made me more genetically predisposed to PTSD?

From BBC

The actress and singer was born to Nigerian parents who immigrated to the UK in their early 20s.

From BBC

Some of the websites that were being born out of the dot-com boom were considered slop, recalls Paul Chan, founder of AI operating system Decidr.

From MarketWatch

Curling was born in Scotland in the early 16th century but grew up centuries later on the Canadian prairies, where the severe weather, rural landscape and boredom provided fertile ground.

From Los Angeles Times

The five identical sisters, born in Ontario at the height of the Great Depression in 1934, were the first known quintuplets to survive past infancy.

From BBC