Today it is most well known as the birthplace of wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
It is unsurprising, perhaps, that in many ways this is the birthplace of Switzerland.
The city is the birthplace of the opera composer Giacomo Puccini, and churches host nightly concerts.
The Middle East is the birthplace of Christianity and is home to around 12 million Christians.
In Saskatchewan, the birthplace of Canadian medicare, the premier, Roy Romanow, also faces an election soon.
Thirty-seven houses will be restored, including 9, Madryn Street, the birthplace of Beatle Ringo Starr.
Yet fittingly, in the birthplace of Adam Smith economic arguments seem to weigh heaviest.
Blum wanted to see the birthplace of the Internet and came about as close is physically possible.
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Plas Wilmot, the Shropshire birthplace of World War I poet Wilfred Owen, has been granted listed status.
Venues promoting the city as the birthplace of The Beatles will join with attractions in Elvis' hometown.
Historians agree that the most likely source for the bracket is the birthplace of modern athletics: England.
The effect of this practice is especially palpable in the region that was the birthplace of Christianity.
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Attacks by Islamist militants in the eastern city of Benghazi, the birthplace of the revolution, are also on the rise.
Already a nursing association has chosen Hastings for its convention because it is the birthplace of Kool-Aid.
The Ionians also met annually on the island of Delos, the legendary birthplace of Apollo, their patron deity.
Blow the horn on this week's escape and you'll get your rhythm back in the birthplace of jazz.
Robert Samuels emigrated from the birthplace of whisky, Scotland, to Kentucky that year and immediately began making whisky.
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It is also the birthplace of Silicon Valley--and thus of the electronics revolution.
The collection was presented within the walls of the 15th Century palace, the birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots.
Greece, birthplace of the Olympics and home of ancient relics and honeymoon hideaway isles, is noteworthy for another reason.
Funicello moved with her family from her birthplace of Utica, New York, to Los Angeles when she was 4.
Constantin Delivanis has taken a fascinating voyage from his birthplace of Alexandria, Egypt to the heart of Silicon Valley.
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The city is the birthplace of Taliban leader Mullah Omar and has been the scene of several attacks recently.
"We're really watching the birthplace of Manhattan happen and I think that is a pretty dynamic environment, " Griffith said.
In a region that was the birthplace of three world religions, intolerance can lead only to suffering and stagnation.
The modern city bears little resemblance to the birthplace of the prophet Muhammad.
Hit the I-40 (west bound) to Memphis, birthplace of rock 'n' roll.
In 2011 Ravisankar won a spot in the Y Combinator school for startups (birthplace of Dropbox and Airbnb) .
"The American West is often considered the birthplace of America, where Americans were distinct from their European counterparts, " says Searles.
U.S. Special Operations teams in Yemen, birthplace of Osama bin Laden's father, already play an expansive role in the country.
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