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Others joked that a protest about commodity futures was distinctly on brand for the University of Chicago, the birthplace of the Chicago School of economics.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Leica makes its lenses and assembles most of its cameras—including all its flagship M-series—in two factories, one in Portugal and another at its birthplace in Wetzlar, a hilltop village of half-timbered houses north of Frankfurt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

In the birthplace of Venezuela's oil industry, thick black crude seeps through cracks in the earth, and the air is heavy with the smell of gas, leaving visitors dizzy.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 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

Perhaps the hard flat light of the West was blotting out his birthplace.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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

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