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Sourced using AINovember–December 1896 · Oakland and San Francisco, California
Read record →Sourced using AIAugust–September 2017 · Houston region, Texas, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI17th–19th centuries · Beijing, China
Read record →Sourced using AIEpic and Puranic tradition; textual witnesses before 1800 · India and South Asian mythic geography
Read record →Sourced using AISecond to fourth centuries CE · Roman baths at Bath, Somerset, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 · Springfield, Massachusetts
Read record →Sourced using AI1982–1986, date uncertain · Culiacán, Sinaloa
Read record →Sourced using AI2017–2021 · Inner Mongolia, China
Read record →Sourced using AI2002–2006, exact date to verify · St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Read record →Sourced using AI13 October 1917 · Fátima
Read record →Sourced using AINineteenth-century · Atlas Mountains and North African interior
Read record →Sourced using AI1987 · Near Alaska / Pacific Northwest air routes
Read record →Sourced using AIReported in twentieth-century guidebooks and oral tradition; castle built 1666–1679 · Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town
Read record →Sourced using AI1997–2001 (date uncertain) · Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 · San Juan
Read record →Sourced using AIDecember 2024 · New Haven County, Connecticut
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2009 · Edinburgh, Scotland
Read record →Sourced using AI1983–1988 · Peñablanca, Villa Alemana, Valparaíso Region
Read record →Sourced using AIModern Kenyan folklore; crater formed in late Quaternary · Nakuru County
Read record →Sourced using AI1981 · Sept-Îles, Quebec
Read record →Sourced using AI2018 · Manaus, Amazonas
Read record →Sourced using AI2004–2009 · Aceh, Indonesia
Read record →Sourced using AIColonial manuscript tradition; pre-Columbian narrative background · K’iche’ Maya region, Guatemala
Read record →Sourced using AI19 September 1976 · Tehran and northern Iran
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2009 tourism and media accounts · Bhangarh, Alwar district, Rajasthan
Read record →Sourced using AI1947–1951 · Fort Worth, Texas
Read record →Sourced using AIJanuary 5, 2009 · Cedar Knolls, New Jersey
Read record →Sourced using AIMedieval Irish manuscript tradition preserving earlier mythic material · Ireland, especially Ulster-cycle narrative settings
Read record →Sourced using AI1947–1969 · Pohnpei, Caroline Islands
Read record →Sourced using AI1969–1971 · Elko County, Nevada
Read record →Sourced using AI2020 · Saudi Arabia, locality to be established
Read record →Sourced using AINineteenth-century lumber-camp tradition; exact date disputed · Dungarvon River, New Brunswick
Read record →Sourced using AI1950 · Sweden
Read record →Sourced using AI1951 · London, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1930s · Spitsbergen, Svalbard
Read record →Sourced using AI1978–1980 · Cincinnati, Ohio and Northern Kentucky
Read record →Sourced using AI1994 · Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Read record →Sourced using AI1943 · Kursk salient
Read record →Sourced using AI1947 · Chile; locations vary
Read record →Sourced using AI2012 · Fairbanks, Alaska
Read record →Sourced using AI1911 · Delhi, India
Read record →Sourced using AI1993 case; discussed in publications after 2010 · Belgrave, Victoria
Read record →Sourced using AI1992 · Anchorage, Alaska
Read record →Sourced using AI1954–1956 · Bologna and Imola, Emilia-Romagna
Read record →Sourced using AI1985 · Coventry, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1978–1980 · Córdoba and the Sierras de Córdoba
Read record →Sourced using AI2016 · Kuwait
Read record →Sourced using AI1784 · Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
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