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Sourced using AIRoman imperial period; later medieval and modern traditions · Baalbek, Beqaa Valley
Read record →Sourced using AIJuly 1952 · Mexico City
Read record →Sourced using AI1857 · East Asia
Read record →Sourced using AI2012 · Guadalajara, Jalisco
Read record →Sourced using AI2017–2021 · Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
Read record →Sourced using AI1949–1951; major publication 1954 · North Yorkshire, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1914–1917 · Weddell Sea and Elephant Island region
Read record →Sourced using AISanskrit compilation probably medieval; Persian adaptations by the 14th century · South Asia, with later Persianate circulation
Read record →Sourced using AI1958 · Taiwan Strait, exact vessel or shore locality to establish
Read record →Sourced using AI1953 · RAF Honiley, Warwickshire
Read record →Sourced using AI2007–2010 · Bucharest, Romania
Read record →Sourced using AINineteenth-century reports · Bay of Chaleur, New Brunswick and Quebec
Read record →Sourced using AI2010s–2020s reporting · Jatinga, Dima Hasao district, Assam
Read record →Sourced using AI1957 · Albacete, Spain
Read record →Sourced using AI1944–1945 · Luxembourg and adjacent front
Read record →Sourced using AI2004 · Dunedin, Otago
Read record →Sourced using AI12 September 1952 · Flatwoods, Braxton County, West Virginia
Read record →Sourced using AI1989 · Madras/Chennai airport area
Read record →Sourced using AI2019 · Taipei and northern Taiwan
Read record →Sourced using AI1942 · San Francisco Bay, California
Read record →Sourced using AI1994 · Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
Read record →Sourced using AI1910 · Buenos Aires and other Argentine cities
Read record →Sourced using AI1953 · Tucson, Arizona
Read record →Sourced using AI1930s–1946 · Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil
Read record →Sourced using AI1528–1536; published 1542 · Gulf Coast and interior of present-day Texas and northern Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI2024, exact date to verify · Near Recife, Pernambuco
Read record →Sourced using AI1979 · Albuquerque, New Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 · Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI1904–1946 hotel-operating period · Medlow Bath, New South Wales
Read record →Sourced using AI2018 · Northern California
Read record →Sourced using AI1561 · Fürth or the wider Nuremberg region, Holy Roman Empire
Read record →Sourced using AI1998 · North Sea offshore routes, Norway or disputed offshore location
Read record →Sourced using AINovember 1957 · Silpho Moor, near Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1947 · Kingston, Jamaica
Read record →Sourced using AI1950s · Panama Canal Zone and Panama City
Read record →Sourced using AI1 December 1987 · Ilkley Moor, West Yorkshire
Read record →Sourced using AI1957 · Bermuda
Read record →Sourced using AI2017–2021 · Cairo airspace, Egypt
Read record →Sourced using AI1952 · Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia
Read record →Sourced using AI17 October 1954 · Near Châteauroux Air Base, Indre
Read record →Sourced using AITraditional Inuit accounts; modern children’s and scholarly treatments · Arctic shorelines, cracks, and sea ice
Read record →Sourced using AI2002 · Longyearbyen, Svalbard
Read record →Sourced using AI1940s–1960s; postwar revivals continued into the 1960s · Biak and neighboring islands, western New Guinea
Read record →Sourced using AI1958 · Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia
Read record →Sourced using AI1966 · Various locations, New Zealand
Read record →Sourced using AIMedieval Latin text, probably 13th–14th century · Latin Christian Europe
Read record →Sourced using AI1965 · Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
Read record →Sourced using AI2008–2011 · Varna, Bulgaria
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