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Sourced using AI1875 · Pacific coast near British Columbia
Read record →Sourced using AIMarch–June 1945 · Kobe area
Read record →Sourced using AI2002 · Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Read record →Sourced using AI1973–1976 · Asunción and Central Department
Read record →Sourced using AIṚgvedic references; epic and Purāṇic elaboration · South Asian Sanskrit literary traditions
Read record →Sourced using AI2000–2009 · India
Read record →Sourced using AIColonial-era landscape; haunting reports mainly modern and anecdotal · Kurseong, Darjeeling district, West Bengal
Read record →Sourced using AI1957–1961 · Savannah, Georgia
Read record →Sourced using AIAfter 1919, with interwar commemorative traditions · Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, Punjab
Read record →Sourced using AI2000 · Peterborough, England
Read record →Sourced using AIScottish Gaelic and Hebridean tradition · The Minch between mainland Scotland and the Outer Hebrides
Read record →Sourced using AI1970–1989 · Ayabe and Kameoka, Japan
Read record →Sourced using AI1977–1978 · Manaus, Amazonas
Read record →Sourced using AI1997 · Beijing
Read record →Sourced using AI2022 · Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia
Read record →Sourced using AI1958–1960 · Shennongjia and neighboring counties, Hubei, China
Read record →Sourced using AIReportedly collected from 1940 onward · Acámbaro, Guanajuato, Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI1880s–1890s · Chalais-Meudon
Read record →Sourced using AI2015 · Sør Rondane Mountains, Queen Maud Land
Read record →Sourced using AI2021 · Constanța, Dobruja
Read record →Sourced using AI1950 · Toronto, Ontario
Read record →Sourced using AI2015 · Dunedin, New Zealand
Read record →Sourced using AI23 April 2007 · Near Alderney, Channel Islands
Read record →Sourced using AI1950s · Durban and Pinetown, Natal
Read record →Sourced using AINovember 1896 · Oakland, California
Read record →Sourced using AI1975 (exact date uncertain) · Colombo, Sri Lanka
Read record →Sourced using AIFirst staged 1825; attributed to Tsuruya Nanboku IV · Yotsuya, Edo, present-day Tokyo
Read record →Sourced using AI1988–1990 · Provo and Orem, Utah
Read record →Sourced using AIPleistocene to historic periods; major occupation evidence from roughly 100,000 BCE onward · Raisen district, Madhya Pradesh
Read record →Sourced using AI1920 · North Caucasus
Read record →Sourced using AI2014–2015 · Off the eastern coast of the United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1965 · Washington State
Read record →Sourced using AI2013; renewed analysis 2017 onward · Near Rafael Hernández Airport, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
Read record →Sourced using AI1998–2000 · Sierra de Guadarrama, Madrid region
Read record →Sourced using AI1980–1989 · Jerusalem
Read record →Sourced using AI217 BCE; reported in Livy’s account of the Second Punic War · Arpi, Apulia
Read record →Sourced using AI1987–1991, exact date to verify · Recife, Pernambuco
Read record →Sourced using AINineteenth-century ethnographic and folkloric documentation · Egypt and the Levant
Read record →Sourced using AI2015 · Grand Rapids, Michigan
Read record →Sourced using AI1994 · Walvis Bay
Read record →Sourced using AI1979 · Greenland airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2009 · Munger, Bihar, India
Read record →Sourced using AI2022–2024 · Ulaanbaatar
Read record →Sourced using AIMedieval to modern tradition · Tower of London, London, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s circulation · Balete Drive, Quezon City
Read record →Sourced using AI1868–1869 and subsequent Meiji remembrance · Northern Japan, especially Aomori and Hakkōda
Read record →Sourced using AI1983 · El Paso, Texas
Read record →Sourced using AI1973–1974 · Cognac, Charente
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