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Sourced using AI1942–1945 · Wilmington, North Carolina
Read record →Sourced using AI1890s · Rio de Janeiro
Read record →Sourced using AI13 October 1917 · Fátima, Portugal
Read record →Sourced using AI1967 · Antofagasta, Chile
Read record →Sourced using AI1958 · Antofagasta, Antofagasta Region
Read record →Sourced using AI1985 · Kandy
Read record →Sourced using AI2009 · Maui, Hawaii
Read record →Sourced using AI1927–1941 · Zhoukoudian, Beijing Municipality
Read record →Sourced using AI1980 · Honolulu, Hawaii
Read record →Sourced using AI2017–2021 · Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI2003 · Alamogordo, New Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI1991 · Japan; exact locations vary
Read record →Sourced using AIProbably 2nd–3rd century CE; major later commentarial transmission · China
Read record →Sourced using AI1978 · Carbondale and surrounding southern Illinois
Read record →Sourced using AILong-duration tradition; documented ethnographically in the 20th century and continuing · Garifuna communities in Belize, Honduras, Guatemala, and Nicaragua
Read record →Sourced using AI1947–1951 · Darwin, Northern Territory
Read record →Sourced using AI2022–2024 · Goa
Read record →Sourced using AI1986 · Soviet Union, locations disputed
Read record →Sourced using AI1843 · Maritime settings in German Romantic opera
Read record →Sourced using AI2008 · Dhaka, Bangladesh
Read record →Sourced using AI2013 · Kenneth Kaunda International Airport, Lusaka
Read record →Sourced using AIJuly 1952 · Boston, Massachusetts
Read record →Sourced using AISeptember 27–October 1989 · Voronezh, Voronezh Oblast
Read record →Sourced using AIClassical Tamil epic; modern South Asian comparisons made in the early 20th century · Tamil literary tradition, South India and Sri Lanka
Read record →Sourced using AI1920s · Key West, Florida
Read record →Sourced using AI1957–1961 · Orcadas Base, Laurie Island, South Orkney Islands
Read record →Sourced using AI1995 · Mexico City, Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI1970 · Illinois
Read record →Sourced using AI19th century–present · Lake Victoria and surrounding East African shores
Read record →Sourced using AINovember–December 1896 · Omaha, Nebraska
Read record →Sourced using AI1978 · Bangkok metropolitan area
Read record →Sourced using AI2013 · Oranjestad, Aruba
Read record →Sourced using AI1852 · Tehran, Iran
Read record →Sourced using AI2002 · KwaZulu-Natal / Durban airspace
Read record →Sourced using AIMedieval preservation of older Norse mythic material; Prose Edda c. 1220 CE · Norse mythic cosmos
Read record →Sourced using AIc. 1220 BCE · Deir el-Medina, Egypt
Read record →Sourced using AI1968 · North Bay, Ontario
Read record →Sourced using AI2007–2011 (follow-up period; individual dates to verify) · Belgium
Read record →Sourced using AI2022 · Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Read record →Sourced using AI1992 · India
Read record →Sourced using AI1959 · Örebro, Närke
Read record →Sourced using AI2014 · Kemerovo Oblast, Siberia
Read record →Sourced using AI1968–1994 · Bayside, Queens, New York
Read record →Sourced using AIReported from the late 19th century onward · Min Min, near Boulia, Queensland
Read record →Sourced using AIEarly 1940s · Sweden, Finland and neighboring Nordic regions
Read record →Sourced using AI1971 · Piney Woods region, Mississippi
Read record →Sourced using AI19 May 1986 · Brazilian air-defense and aviation frequencies
Read record →Sourced using AIMay 1943 · Attu Island, Alaska
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