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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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.
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.
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.
"The American West is often considered the birthplace of America, where Americans were distinct from their European counterparts, " says Searles.
Meanwhile in India, the birthplace of Sikhism, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he was "shocked and saddened" by the shooting.
The Carron Fish Bar in Stonehaven, in Aberdeenshire, claims to be the birthplace of the recipe almost two decades ago.
Then keep your eyes on Greece, the birthplace of democracy, as it slides into a war of all against all.
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In medieval times Kosovo was the centre of the Serbian Empire, and Serbs regard it as the birthplace of their nation.
Africa has been the birthplace of many in the science field including many doctors who are treating patients in the west.
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Tunisia is the birthplace of the Arab Spring, a series of revolutions that swept across northern African and the Middle East.
C. and is said to be the birthplace of Abraham -- a prominent figure in the Islamic, Jewish and Christian faiths.
California has always been the birthplace of fads in America from surf music to clothes and accessories sold on Rodeo Drive.
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