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Read record →Sourced using AI1954 · San Diego and coastal Southern California
Read record →Sourced using AI1980 · Vientiane, Laos
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Read record →Sourced using AI2021 (exact date to verify) · Recife airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1964 · Florianópolis, Santa Catarina
Read record →Sourced using AI1985–1986 · Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport, Pennsylvania
Read record →Sourced using AI1963 · Lisbon-Portela Airport, Lisbon
Read record →Sourced using AIArabic text known from medieval manuscripts; translated or compiled around the 9th–10th century · Iraq, especially the Sawād in traditional attribution
Read record →Sourced using AI2023 · Curitiba, Paraná
Read record →Sourced using AI1951–1959 · Rungwe District, southern Tanganyika
Read record →Sourced using AI1530s text and manuscript; post-2010 research · Berlin
Read record →Sourced using AIMedieval literary tradition, especially from the late twelfth and fourteenth centuries · France and broader Western Europe
Read record →Sourced using AIPre-Hispanic tradition recorded in colonial Nahua sources · Central Mexico; documented in codices and post-Conquest texts
Read record →Sourced using AI19th-century origins attributed to Somdet To; modern collecting culture · Bangkok, Thailand
Read record →Sourced using AI1977–1981 · Cork Airport, County Cork, Ireland
Read record →Sourced using AI1966 · Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Read record →Sourced using AINineteenth-century tradition; documented in twentieth-century films and popular culture · Phra Khanong, Bangkok
Read record →Sourced using AI1930s, exact year uncertain · Dalian (Dairen), Liaoning
Read record →Sourced using AISeptember 1977 · Riga and Latvia
Read record →Sourced using AI1949 · Brazil
Read record →Sourced using AI1979 · Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Read record →Sourced using AI1949 · New Zealand
Read record →Sourced using AINineteenth-century antecedents; popularized later · Kasai region and neighboring parts of Central Africa
Read record →Sourced using AI6 June 1761 · Havana
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s · British Columbia coast and Strait of Georgia
Read record →Sourced using AI1936–1946 · Atlantic Ocean and Long Beach, California
Read record →Sourced using AI15 July 2019 · Off the coast of San Diego, California
Read record →Sourced using AI1913 · Several locations in Ireland, including Cork-area reports
Read record →Sourced using AI1950s · Fort Yukon, Alaska
Read record →Sourced using AI1955–1960 · Kariba Gorge, Zambezi River
Read record →Sourced using AI1899; later published in Kwaidan 1904 · Tokyo, Japan, in Hearn’s literary setting
Read record →Sourced using AI2020 · Sedona, Arizona
Read record →Sourced using AI1989–1990 · Zagreb and northern Croatia
Read record →Sourced using AI2022 · Antananarivo, Analamanga
Read record →Sourced using AIApril 1897 · Cheyenne, Wyoming
Read record →Sourced using AIApril 1897 · Cincinnati, Ohio
Read record →Sourced using AI1990 · Genk, Limburg
Read record →Sourced using AIMahabharata sub-narrative; epic compilation and redaction across the first millennium BCE and CE · Forest and serpent-associated spaces in the Mahabharata’s Nalopākhyāna
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 · Geelong, Victoria
Read record →Sourced using AIK’iche’ narrative recorded in the colonial period; surviving transcription usually dated to the 18th century · K’iche’ region, highland Guatemala
Read record →Sourced using AIEarly first century CE · Mount Parnassus and the mythic Greek world
Read record →Sourced using AI2013 · Curitiba, Paraná
Read record →Sourced using AIEntered modern collections in the 19th or early 20th century; claimed pre-Columbian attribution disputed · British Museum collection, London; alleged Mexican origin
Read record →Sourced using AI1513 CE, early modern artifact using earlier materials · Ottoman naval and cartographic context
Read record →Sourced using AI1947–1969 · Dominican Republic and Hispaniola borderlands
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