Balmain and the central Queensland town of Barcaldine are claimed as the "birthplaces" of the ALP.
These mothers have a rate of nine babies born with serious problems per 1,000 home births, compared with five per 1,000 for all other birthplaces.
Russell Shorto's "Amsterdam" traces the evolution of the Enlightenment in a city that was one of its birthplaces, and analyses how Amsterdam has been wrestling with its ideas ever since.Mr Shorto, an American who has lived in the Dutch capital for six years, sprinkles the book with personal anecdotes that illustrate how history suffuses the present.
The Doppler effect (think passing police sirens) changes the frequency of light received from these receding objects in a redward direction.Spitzer's other mission, examining the circumstellar nebulae that are the birthplaces of planets, also plays to its strengths.
"Gunsmoke" means much less to young people than it once did, and visits have levelled off at 100,000 a year.Laying claimIn the best traditions of pilgrim promotion everywhere, several mid-western small towns have neatly handled the problem of characters without birthplaces or films set in a familiar nowhere.
Those brands are not always commercial products: the grand tour takes in the birthplaces of world-famous people, the seats of globally renowned institutions and as in Cambridge sites linked to well-known literary works.A sketch map of the Chinese grand tour must begin in France, the country seen as offering all the essential European virtues: history, romance, luxury and quality.
Last year, fewer tourists than usual went to Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, one of the birthplaces of the blues, and this was widely blamed on the fact that nearby Tunica is awash in cheap liquor and discounted motel rooms.
THE bare slipways of Harland & Wolff's shipyards in Belfast and the echoing halls of the Longbridge car plant in Birmingham were once the largest of their kind in the world, the birthplaces of, respectively, the Titanic and the Austin Healey sports car.
Memphis is one of the birthplaces of blues music and is associated particularly with composer W.C. Handy, who immortalized the city's Beale Street in one of his songs.
The Greenfield valley at Holywell was one of the birthplaces of the Industrial Revolution, and rich coal deposits along the River Dee gave rise to an iron and steel industry and to shipbuilding during the 19th century.
Many people left their birthplaces in Vermont to pursue opportunities in the opening West or in urban centres of the Northeast.
