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He has forgotten his birth-name, his birth-place, and even the year in which he was born, if he ever knew it.
Boing Boing 2009
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This is a fitting birth-place as this story of a group of 1920s Antarctic explorers could quite easily be a spin-off of Lovecraft's At The Mountain's of Madness (1936).
REVIEW: The Best Horror Of The Year, Volume 2 edited by Ellen Datlow 2010
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Pall Mall, [11] and having made a sentimental visit to the birth-place of Newton, at Woolsthorp, I was to be represented venerating the spot and the orchard where that great man first conceived by the falling of an apple the theory of gravitation, in its application to the motions of the heavenly bodies.
Letter 178 2009
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Table Book, it being his wish that a view which he sent of the little cottage at Honington should appear in that very curious work [1] The birth-place of
Letter 413 2009
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It is a new Ground Zero for disarmament, the birth-place of the Central Asian nuclear weapon-free zone.
Jim Luce: Ground-Breaking Speech by Ban Ki-moon on Eve of NPT Review 2010
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He has forgotten his birth-name, his birth-place, and even the year in which he was born, if he ever knew it.
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About 2,000 light-years away, in the constellation of Cygnus (the Swan), lies Sharpless 2-106 (after Stewart Sharpless who put the catalog together in 1959), the birth-place of a star cluster-to-be.
Gemini's New Filters Reveal the Beauty of Star Birth | Universe Today 2010
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India is also the birth-place of the mulligatawny soup, a British concoction whose name derives from the Tamilian term for "pepper water".
Archive 2007-06-01 Nupur 2007
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While others crawl on the level ground, by the sides of lakes and streams, ours are the steep hollows of the inaccessible mountains, the birth-place of the desert springs.
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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Of my sweet birth-place, and the old church-tower,
2006 » June 2006
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