Sentence examples for birthplace about from inspiring English sources

Regardless of birthplace, about 33 percent of Puerto Rican families lived below the poverty line, compared with 29 percent of Dominicans and 27 percent of Mexicans.

On the house's grounds are several other historic buildings that were moved to the site, including Hawthorne's birthplace (about 1740), the Hathaway House (1682), and the Retire Beckett House (1655).

Russian tanks had already burst out of South Ossetia into Georgian-held territory and occupied Gori, Stalin's birthplace, about an hour north of Tbilisi.

His birthplace was about as far from the sea as it is possible to be in England.

Where you're "from" is less about birthplace and more about cultural identity; as an expat student your cultural identity ends up being difficult to categorise.

Bassiano was the birthplace, in about 1450, of the most famous scholar printer of the Renaissance, Aldus Manutius.

One interesting region is Dracula's birthplace, written about by Nicholas Wood in his article "In Transylvania, a Count Invites You to His Castle" (Aug. 27, 2006).

The village forgot Mormonism, Not until 1915 did the Chruch of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints make any move toward establishing itself in its birthplace Tells about the work of Elder Willard Bean who was the chosen instrument in reviving Mormonism in Palmyra.

Here, "the glory of Taiwan," as Wu is now known in his birthplace, talks about his return to Taipei, where change is in the air but the old ways aren't forgotten.

Birthplace of Volodya — About a half-day past Novosibirsk, we passed close by a town called Yashkino.

Smith, like Arnold, was a Tennessee small-town boy, sharing his birthplace of Maynardville, about 20 miles north of Knoxville, with the earlier country music star Roy Acuff.