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Sourced using AIFirst millennium BCE onward; origins and diffusion debated · Iranian Plateau and wider Middle East and North Africa
Read record →Sourced using AIApril 1897 · Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1965 · Hanko and Gulf of Finland
Read record →Sourced using AI1948 · Osaka
Read record →Sourced using AI2001 · Mersin, Turkey
Read record →Sourced using AI1989–1990 · Ponta Grossa, Paraná
Read record →Sourced using AI15th century, before 1505 · Cairo and Mamluk scholarly networks
Read record →Sourced using AI2000 · Chelyabinsk Oblast
Read record →Sourced using AI2022–2023, date uncertain · Mérida International Airport area, Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI1941–1942 · Buenos Aires Province Atlantic coast
Read record →Sourced using AI1956 · Taiwan Strait and Taiwan
Read record →Sourced using AIPostwar Penang religious and tourism narratives, 1947–1969 · Air Itam, Penang
Read record →Sourced using AI2006 · Phoenix, Arizona
Read record →Sourced using AI2010–2011 · New Delhi, Delhi
Read record →Sourced using AI2009 (exact date to verify) · Puerto Rico airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1920–1929 · Guatemala City and surrounding highlands
Read record →Sourced using AIEleventh century CE · Constantinople; Byzantine intellectual milieu
Read record →Sourced using AI2023 · Algeria
Read record →Sourced using AI1970–1982 · Jerusalem and Jewish mystical textual traditions
Read record →Sourced using AI1985–1986 · Presidente Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Airport, Punta Arenas
Read record →Sourced using AI2007 · Frankfurt am Main area
Read record →Sourced using AI1950 · Jan Mayen
Read record →Sourced using AI1974 · RAF Boulmer, Northumberland, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1957 · Brno, South Moravia
Read record →Sourced using AI2013 · Hessdalen Valley, Trøndelag
Read record →Sourced using AIOctober–November 1973 · Jackson County and coastal Mississippi
Read record →Sourced using AI1965 · Sarajevo and Bosnia
Read record →Sourced using AI1965 · Japan and United States
Read record →Sourced using AIMid-16th century colonial compilation · Central Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI1830s–1880s · New Orleans, Louisiana
Read record →Sourced using AI2009 · RAF Valley and Anglesey, Wales
Read record →Sourced using AI2012–2013 · London Luton Airport approaches, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1868–1870 · KwaZulu-Natal
Read record →Sourced using AI1641–1642 · Kevelaer, North Rhine-Westphalia
Read record →Sourced using AI1988–1991 · Montego Bay, Jamaica
Read record →Sourced using AI1868 · Aksum, Tigray
Read record →Sourced using AI19th century, exact year uncertain · Salvador, Bahia
Read record →Sourced using AI9 December 1874 · French Algeria and the Mediterranean
Read record →Sourced using AI2022–2024 · Fort Wayne, Indiana
Read record →Sourced using AI1979 · Lexington, Kentucky
Read record →Sourced using AI26 December 1980 and following nights · RAF Woodbridge and Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1980 · Aalborg, North Jutland
Read record →Sourced using AI1965 · Southampton Airport/Eastleigh, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1889–1894 · Britain and Europe
Read record →Sourced using AI2018–2022 · Petén, northern Guatemala
Read record →Sourced using AI1967 · Fairbanks, Alaska
Read record →Sourced using AI1152–1165 · Schönau Abbey, Nassau
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 onward · Aotearoa New Zealand
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