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Sourced using AI1908 · Maceió, Alagoas
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Read record →Sourced using AILate antiquity–15th century · Mediterranean and western Europe
Read record →Sourced using AI1987-11-05 · Phoenix and southern Arizona
Read record →Sourced using AI2018 · Montreal area, Quebec
Read record →Sourced using AIApproximately 26,000–33,000 years ago claimed; chronology highly disputed · Zacatecas
Read record →Sourced using AI1973 · Budapest and central Hungary
Read record →Sourced using AI1971–1980s; later popularized in 2013 · Harrisville, Rhode Island
Read record →Sourced using AI2015 · Venice or northern Adriatic airspace, Italy
Read record →Sourced using AI1974–1976 · Suffolk, England
Read record →Sourced using AI2002 · New York City, New York
Read record →Sourced using AI1997 · Falkville, Alabama, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1972 · Lima–Callao
Read record →Sourced using AI1994 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Read record →Sourced using AI1977 · New York City, New York, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1935; continued in-period circulation · Brazil
Read record →Sourced using AI1950s–1960s · Atlantic Canada airspace and coastal approaches
Read record →Sourced using AIAncient text with multiple compositional layers, roughly 3rd century BCE–1st century CE; Ge'ez transmission later · Ancient Jewish and Ethiopian Christian textual traditions
Read record →Sourced using AIPrecolonial tradition–present · KwaZulu-Natal and eastern South Africa, especially waterfall regions
Read record →Sourced using AI1998 · Phuket
Read record →Sourced using AI2002–2006 · Mendoza and nearby Cuyo localities
Read record →Sourced using AI1982 · Metro Manila
Read record →Sourced using AI1961–1969 · Brooklyn, New York, United States
Read record →Sourced using AIc. 7400–6000 BCE · Konya Plain
Read record →Sourced using AI2019 (exact date to verify) · Guayaquil / José Joaquín de Olmedo Airport area
Read record →Sourced using AI1944–1945 · Chengdu area and routes over western China
Read record →Sourced using AIc. 1211–1214 · Western Europe; examples drawn from several regions
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s circulation · Central Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AIJuly–September 1934 · Loch Ness, Scotland
Read record →Sourced using AI1979 (month uncertain) · Nicosia area
Read record →Sourced using AI1999 · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2009 · Flagstaff, Arizona
Read record →Sourced using AI1909 · Helsinki and southern Finland
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s apparition tradition · Washington, D.C.
Read record →Sourced using AIEarly 16th century; memoir composed in Chaghatay Turkish · Central Asia, Kabul and North India
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 onward scholarship · Prague
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 onward translations and scholarship · Tibetan Buddhist tradition in Himalayan South Asia
Read record →Sourced using AI1974 · Přimda and Tachov District, Czechoslovakia
Read record →Sourced using AI2004 · Salt Lake City, Utah
Read record →Sourced using AI1861–1864 editions · Guatemala; publication in Paris
Read record →Sourced using AI1857 · Guatemala; K’iche’ Maya textual tradition
Read record →Sourced using AINovember 1896 · San Diego, California, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI11 October 1492 · At sea west of the Bahamas, traditionally near Guanahani
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s cultural reports · Washington, D.C.
Read record →Sourced using AI1925–1939 · London, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1557 · Coastal Brazil
Read record →Sourced using AI2023 · Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Read record →Sourced using AI1880s (exact year uncertain) · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
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