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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Muslims are expected to make at least one pilgrimage to Mecca, Muhammad's birthplace .
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Walden Pond has been called the birthplace of modern environmentalism.
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We visited Elvis' birthplace in Tupelo, Mississippi.
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We visited the birthplace of Lenin in Ulyanovsk.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both men no doubt were vexed by the unorthodoxy of their own birthplaces.
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Cataloguing the birthplaces of proteins will be a giant step towards solving the mysteries of human biology.
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Dallas is the birthplace of the computer chip, the chicken fajita and the frozen margarita.
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He has yet to prove, though, that this patch is the real McCoy, the birthplace of a hot-spot plume.
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In November it also became the birthplace of Rolling Stone magazine.
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There even was debate over his birthplace .